Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look alike contest to a fucking drag queen.
Charlie Chaplin once failed to even place at a Charlie Chaplin impersonator contest.
Hugh Jackman went to comic con as Wolverine, only 2 people noticed him and one told him he was too tall.
Christopher
Reeve use to go to a restaurant in costume when filming Superman. When
he went in the Superman costume he was mobbed by people all the time.
When he went in the Clark Kent costume no one realized he was
Christopher Reeve.
Games with customization need to make it easier to sexualize male characters its not enough to have a shirtless option he needs a fat rack and body hair and more body fat and the shorts options need to define the ass cheeks and lets not forget the b[armored guards grab me and forcibly remove me from the stage]
Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?
They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.
Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?
So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.
And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn’t compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn’t sell.
And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at… putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.
If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn’t have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that’s what they did.
I don’t know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.
Roomba kept crying because she couldn’t find her spring toy and uh. Well, she had a good reason for it.
spring
She’s blind, she makes a lot of different sounds, and her poor social skills mean she tries to groom any other cat she bumps into. She doesn’t bump into furniture or walls anymore but she used to. Whenever she bumped into something, she’d just turn around and keep going.
Ima say it bone finders that dig up pet graves are FUCKING HORRIBLE AND I ONLY WISH THE WORST FOR THEM.
I saw a post about a girl who was heart broken just fucking inconsolable because someone dug up her fucking dog’s grave and took her dog’s corpse..
Now before you ask “ oh maybe it was an animal?”
Nope, all the rocks were moved off the grave put in a pile near the grave and there was shovel marks in the dirt and the hole was just empty…
Update more info: she had buried the family dog in their favorite fishing spot, a spot she’d been going to with her dog and grandpa since childhood. The same spot they scattered her grandpa’s ashes.. the dogs grave and memorial stone was next to the grandpa’s memorials stone….. The grandpa’s memorial stone was also knocked over along with the dogs memorial stone OnO
I can’t imagine the pain of finding out the pet you loved was ripped from it’s resting place, you have no place to mourn and no idea where they are or what someone is doing with them.
What’s sad is there is a lot of stories like this and it’s just heart breaking.
{ that doesn’t even go over people stealing dead people’s bones.. }
i have a brain problem that prevents me from understanding people who need so much specifically newly-released TV shows that they’re upset by the prospect of going a few months without new ones being produced
like they could stop making video games and books today and I wouldn’t notice until sometime in 2026. honestly if they’d stop making new video games for a while that’d be kinda convenient. everyone take a break and let me catch up. I still haven’t even played Persona 5.
find me in 2029 going “you guys heard about this red plumber dude? little bastard just loves to jump lol. anyway it sounds weird, I know, but I’m kinda getting into it”
if you see a suspicious looking ford explorer and can’t tell if it’s an undercover cop or not, look for the roof rails
these mfs
police model explorers don’t have them, the roof will be completely smooth other than possibly a fin or antenna at the back
i’ve found it to be the quickest and easiest way to tell, once you know what you’re looking for
In addition to that, here are some things I look for when identifying the secret police:
- can you see through the windows? SP have very darkly tinted windows, but if you can catch the light correctly you’ll see they have the bars separating the back seat from the front. sometimes the extreme tint is an indicator by itself.
- does it have an odd addition to the driver side mirror? SP have hidden lights on their vehicles.
- does it have any markings? check if it has stickers, dealership tags, or anything that can identify it. if you find something, youre in the clear! if its generic plates and nothing else its another indication of SP.
- does it have extra brake lights? can you see additional unlit lights? those are the police lights.
- this one is for up close, but the driver will be in uniform if they’re SP.
Stay safe folks.
do other countries not have unmarked cop cars?
Other countries do not
I don’t think people understand how fucked up undercover cop cars are- they were MEANT for sting operations, they were meant for undercover missions for like illegal firearm and drug busts. They were not supposed to be used for civillians!! The whole point was to disguise them so that during bust missions they could pull up without alerting the perpetrators who were doing heavily illegal stuff but were too good at concealing it. Literally for undercover missions.
And then everyone got greedy because they realized regular civilians are less likely to do speeding while next to visible cop cars and INSTEAD OF BEING OK WITH THAT, because it, you know, keeps people safer when they slow down and respect speeding laws, they decided to use the undercover cars to catch more people speeding for more speeding tickets and more money for the police.
For all of you lucky enough not to deal with this, imagine living in a world where any car can be an undercover cop. Imagine the fear you would feel especially as a person of colour.
Then arm the cops with military grade weapons who use them on peaceful protestors. Imagine living in a world like that next time you want to fucking judge us for something we have no control over.
Think our country is shit? Want to judge us for not changing? Newsflash, you don’t have to live with it like we do and watch as our efforts to change it go nowhere.
