>> ^Farhad2000:

Americans will invent it?
Hahahahah!


Why is that funny?
Some good ones, in chronological order:
Suspension Bridge,Refrigeration,Morse code
Steam Shovel, Vulcanized Rubber, Motorcycle,
Phonograph, Cash Register, Solar Cell,
Photographic Film, Skyscrapers, Radio,
Zipper, Tractor, FINALLY coming to the 20th century...
Air conditioning, Airplane, AC plugs and sockets,
Supermarket, Liquid Fuel Rocket, Frozen Food,
Particle Accelerators, FM, Digital Computer
, Microwave Oven, Transistor,
Mobile Phone, Supersonic Aircraft, Video Games,
Cable TV, CPR, HDD,
Industrial Robots, Videotape, LASER,
Carbon Fiber, Weather Satellites, GPS,
Heart Transplant, Cordless Phones, CDs,
Airbags, Lunar Module, WAN, PCs,
Microprocessors, Floppy Disks, Email,
Digital Cameras, Ethernet, MRI,
BBS, Internet (not WWW), Space Telescope,
DVRs, Composite Aircraft...whew that was fun. Thanks for egging me on, troll, and if you use any of the above, thank an American!

Well at least he got it right about Left 4 Dead 2, or at least how I view it.

Seriously, where is Half-Life 2 Ep 3? It's not like Left 4 Dead 1 was getting old and stale, and of course there is that much cheaper (and more fun) bit of Team Fortress 2.

I know Valve wont hear me over the sound of the cash register, however.

>> ^Raaagh:
also, what music is this?
I hope its him singing.


"While My Cash Register Gently Weeps"

A woman is shopping in the local supermarket. She loads her basket with some single-serving yogourts, frozen mini pizzas, a single apple and a small box of cookies.

As she unloads her items at the cash register to pay, a man standing behind her in line watches her place the items on the belt and states with assurance, "You must be single."

The woman says, "That's right. How on Earth did you know?"

He replies, "Because you're fucking ugly."

Why should the market for gold be any more stable than oil, or copper, or an hour at the cash register?

What you get with a shackled currency is incentivized environmental destruction, and little else. Why not, when faced with deflationary pressures, incentivize whatever would most quickly reemploy, or at least cushion the landing of, those who lost their jobs?

It's tough on the savers, but I prefer traders to savers anyhow. Besides, that's why we have social security.

I, too, stopped watching The Simpsons long ago... but I was carefully watching to see what the cash register panel said like the rest of ya.

Let me vent a tiny bit, not about politics, but about people in general.. I work in a Starbucks, but one in a Target store. I am trained by Starbucks, I serve Starbucks, and I have a Starbucks district manager who comes to check on my store at least once a month. But I am employed by Target, and Target is the store that sets the rules for *my* Starbucks.

Target Starbucks are usually not part of any of the Starbucks special offers. Target Starbucks was not part of this 'vote and we will give you a free coffee' thing. But people came by and asked if they get a free coffee from us. They argues with us. My team lead said we'd rather give them a free coffee and have people happy with us, than having them curse at us and go elsewhere to get their free coffee.

Yes, most people were nice this morning. They said 'Thank you so much!' and 'You are so nice!' when we gave them their coffee. But what gets me are the people who are NEVER happy! We say 'A free tall coffee', and they say 'Oh, I want the new gingerbread twist for free!' . They say 'Oh, I don't drink coffee, can I just get a hot chocolate instead?'

And we have to say 'sorry, no'. It isn't that we want to be mean to people! It isn't that we are not giving away free stuff, especially when we are not even part of the program. But coffee isn't that expensive, and we want to make people happy! But we can't be making free whatever drinks to everybody! Why are there so many people who still aren't happy? So many people who just want to argue with you and get a free special latte instead of a coffee?

Maybe you think I am being ridiculous, and overly sensitive. But I get so many people who think that *I* personally make the coffee cost so much that they think it is OK to scream at me when I just want to charge what my cash register is set to charge!

If you don't want to pay $1.65 for your regular cup of coffee, please feel free to go elsewhere. I am not setting the price myself. If you don't want to have a free cup of coffee today, always served with a smile, but want something fancier instead, please go somewhere else.

I am being as nice as I can, and I understand that you might have a bad day, but don't take it out on me! I am doing a great job! And then I go home at night and cry because people are mean.

Just go vote! It shouldn't be about a free coffee, and please be nice to your barista!

With a little sleight of hand, swapping a twenty for a ten from her left pant pocket out of view of the security camera, then ringing it up as a ten, then transferring the twenty to some hiding place when she walked out of the room, there's no way they could catch her by auditing the cash register, looking at the security tapes, or strip-searching her. You can't be 100% sure that she wasn't short changing the cop. Penn and Teller could easily pull it off. The cop probably saw it as resisting arrest. Common sense: If you don't wanna get pepper-sprayed by a cop, don't be yelling "fuck da po-lice" and resisting arrest. He used excessive force, but it was totally predictable and avoidable on the part of the cashier.

Huh? The fact that you credit the "oil men in the White House" proves to us where your beef is. It's the governments fault we don't have alternative fuel options, right?

Who are you to say that the oil companies can't make a lot of money? The government makes more money per gallon at the pump than the oil companies who drill, refine, and transport it make. Who is making ridiculous profits?


Explain to me again how the free market doesn't dictate the price of a barrel of gasoline?


>> ^rougy:
Gas companies may not have a monopoly, but they do have a cabal.
And they can, and will, use their obscene profits to undermine any and every effort to shift our energy dollars away from their cash registers.
In the past eight years the oil companies, thanks to the oil men in the White House, have seen both their profits skyrocket and their tax burden lighten.
The free market had little or nothing to do with that.
The "fixed market" did.

Gas companies may not have a monopoly, but they do have a cabal.

And they can, and will, use their obscene profits to undermine any and every effort to shift our energy dollars away from their cash registers.

In the past eight years the oil companies, thanks to the oil men in the White House, have seen both their profits skyrocket and their tax burden lighten.

The free market had little or nothing to do with that.

The "fixed market" did.

Well it's good to hear from you, and I'm glad that you'll be back to sifting on a regular basis soon.

See you real soon, amigo.

John

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I've been too goddamn busy working at a moving company for 40+ hours a week to get my internet video fix during the week and it's made me cranky, I constantly crack jokes there about how I'm going to have to go home and beat my dog to relieve the stress that job instills in me.

Nah, I kinda like it, it's a job where I can talk and laugh with my coworkers or listen to my iPod as I work, which beats the hell out of standing silently at a cash register anytime you're not putting on your biggest fake smile and spouting out a cheesy-ass one cent greeting to a customer.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm definitely a people person, but it's so much more fun and satisfying when you can have real, relaxed conversation as opposed to just a quick 30 second blurb of talking.

I'll be done with it and headed back to school in another week and a half though, so even if the work sucked it wouldn't be a big deal, haha.

Anyway, sweet sift there. It reminds me that I am not listening to enough Foo Fighters, because the stuff I had on my computer had unreasonably low bitrate (96 kbps or whatever, wtf) so I deleted it, only to realize that I won't get a chance to re-download until the semester starts up again. Awesome song, I'm still a little disappointed that my girlfriend didn't want to go see Foo Fighters live when we had the chance this Spring.

Ah well, I'll get a chance sometime.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
That could very well be the funniest promote I've ever seen here. Thanks. bro!

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
*promote

How did this not sift? Now I've got to go kick my dog once for every single view on this video that wasn't an upvote. YOU MAKE ME DO THIS, VIDEOSIFT.

I've been too goddamn busy working at a moving company for 40+ hours a week to get my internet video fix during the week and it's made me cranky, I constantly crack jokes there about how I'm going to have to go home and beat my dog to relieve the stress that job instills in me.

Nah, I kinda like it, it's a job where I can talk and laugh with my coworkers or listen to my iPod as I work, which beats the hell out of standing silently at a cash register anytime you're not putting on your biggest fake smile and spouting out a cheesy-ass one cent greeting to a customer.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm definitely a people person, but it's so much more fun and satisfying when you can have real, relaxed conversation as opposed to just a quick 30 second blurb of talking.

I'll be done with it and headed back to school in another week and a half though, so even if the work sucked it wouldn't be a big deal, haha.

Anyway, sweet sift there. It reminds me that I am not listening to enough Foo Fighters, because the stuff I had on my computer had unreasonably low bitrate (96 kbps or whatever, wtf) so I deleted it, only to realize that I won't get a chance to re-download until the semester starts up again. Awesome song, I'm still a little disappointed that my girlfriend didn't want to go see Foo Fighters live when we had the chance this Spring.

Ah well, I'll get a chance sometime.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
That could very well be the funniest promote I've ever seen here. Thanks. bro!

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
*promote

How did this not sift? Now I've got to go kick my dog once for every single view on this video that wasn't an upvote. YOU MAKE ME DO THIS, VIDEOSIFT.

I live in Ohio, and this was posted today in local 10TVNews's site:
(*chuckle* 'The video had been removed by Tuesday night.')

XENIA, Ohio — Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it has parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in the restaurant's utility sink.

The nearly four-minute video, which was posted Thursday on MySpace.com, shows him taking the bath to celebrate his birthday. The employee, Timothy Tackett, refers to himself only as "Mr. Unstable" in the video and appears to be naked.

Tackett, 25, told Dayton television station WDTN that he made the video for his MySpace page because it was his birthday and he wanted to do something to entertain fans and friends who follow his aspirations to become a full-time singer. The video had been removed by Tuesday night.

Tackett said he would like to apologize to Burger King Corp., and he said he regretted taking the bath because it led to the firing of the employee who did the recording, as well as the restaurant's shift manager.

"She had three cash registers and a safe open," he said Tuesday in an interview posted on WDTN's Web site. "What can you do when an employee is already in the sink?"

Tackett said he's also pleased that more people have gone to his MySpace page in recent days to listen to his music because of the attention he's received from the video.

Burger King spokeswoman Denise Wilson said earlier Tuesday that two employees involved in the incident were fired and another quit. She declined to identify the employees or say whether the man who took the bath quit or was fired. Tackett said he was fired.

The sink is used to clean large pieces of equipment, said Greene County Health Commissioner Mark McDonnell. Bacteria or viruses on the skin could have potentially contaminated equipment, but there have been no reports of any customers becoming ill.

McDonnell said he dispatched an inspector to the restaurant, but at that point the restaurant had sterilized the sink. Tackett told WDTN he spent more than an hour cleaning the sink just after the bath.

Miami-based Burger King, the nation's No. 2 hamburger chain, said in a statement that it also disposed of all kitchen tools and utensils used in the incident and is retraining the staff in health and sanitation procedures.

Tackett said the restaurant's regular customers shouldn't worry about eating there again.

"It's totally a safe place to eat," he told the TV station. "I would eat there still, but I'm not allowed."

Someone needs to start a fast healthy food restaurant that actually has food that tastes good and has complete meals for less than $5.

It's the only way you'll beat the Big Boys. McDonalds, Burger King, etc.

hehe, and make people lineup on conveyor belts moving AWAY from the cash register...

oh, and ban drive-thrus. More exercise, help the enviroment, and cut back on foreign oil all at once!

I wonder if a job at McD's includes health insurance with special coverage for removal of polyps formed in your arse after eating too much of that crap!

stupidest kid's toy: MCD's cash register. Yes, lets train our kids to work at McD's starting at 4 years old. It sure makes a great paying job at 30!