Well, none of mine are in boxes, but they are not as enamored of them as others in their species seem to be. But I decided they needed equal time. Since the pups got all the Christmas love.
Zander Chillin’
Sully and Willow plotting…something
This is an open thread
Alison Rose
Yay kitties!
Thought you’d appreciate this one — cat is best friends with his four rescue Great Dane housemates. I love seeing huge dogs play with cats. When the one dog runs around with a ribbon trailing from his mouth to get the cat to chase it 🥰
NotMax
Did someone say boxes?
;)
raven
I came home from the dog park and let Artie out of the van. She often chases critters up to the driveway but, for some dog reason, she took off and it was a bit harrowing trying to find her. The air tag proved useless and my wife finally corralled her a couple of blocks away. Now she’ll have to be leashed when we get out of the van!
Abnormal Hiker
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Old School
@NotMax: I see the whole film is on YouTube. Have you watched it?
beckya57
Kitties plotting oh no! 😱😱😹😹
TaMara
@Alison Rose: OMG, it’s my house, LOL. Yup, the cats love to tease the Danes and get them to play. Sully always looks to Trixie for nuzzles.
Alison Rose
@TaMara: It’s so sweet how playful yet gentle the dogs are!
TaMara
@NotMax: That’s looks like great fun
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
The retail version of Boxing Day is when a customer gets a new high priced drill and puts the old cheaper one in the new box and returns it.
sab
@raven: Scary!
Raven
@sab: Fortunately this is a college town and there is nobody here!
eclare
That black kitty in the video sure does have fangs!
Scout211
One of our new WOKE laws in California starting 1/1/2024 is a law barring “excited delirium” as a cause of death.
What is “excited delirium” you ask? I certainly did.
eclare
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
That is awful. Instant confrontation.
eclare
@Abnormal Hiker:
Hahaha…
Alison Rose
@Scout211: Very glad to see this. The term has always been nothing but bullshit to excuse aggressive acts by police.
Phylllis
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: At the bookstore, it’d be folks who wanted refunds on their gifts, shocked to learn the book was a $3.99 remainder, and wanted to argue their friend/relative would never have purchased such a cheap gift for them. That they were trying to get the cash refund for. That they didn’t want.
Alison Rose
@Phylllis: I worked at a B&N a hundred years ago, and we would get people wanting to return gifted books without the gift receipt, and they would get so mad when we told them we could only give them store credit in return. One lady was yelling at me saying I was calling her a liar, and it was all I could do not to say “well, yeah, you might be”. Plenty of people would absolutely try to just bring in whatever books and think they could get cash for them. Go to the used bookstore for that shit, not us.
Soprano2
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Had a guy at Sears tell us about a nicely-dressed woman who came in and bought several 5-gallon buckets of white ceiling paint. She returned them a couple of days later, saying she didn’t need them after all. They didn’t open the containers to check since they looked new and undisturbed. When they took them off the shelf at a later date to mix a color, they found the buckets were full of water! He said after that they always opened returned buckets to make sure there was paint in them. I don’t know how she did it, but he said they didn’t look like they’d been opened or used at all.
NotMax
@Old School
Watched it on some streaming service or other some time back. Decent popcorn and Jujubes fare, not to imply that’s in any way a bad thing. Would be right at home in a drive-in if those were still a thing.
HumboldtBlue
I’m gonna order a pizza, that comes in a box.
StringOnAStick
@Soprano2: I once tried to return a 5 gallon paint bucket where the boss swore it had never been opened. They looked and about a gallon was gone; I didn’t appreciate being made an accomplice to his scheme, cheap bastard.
raven
I used to box oranges in Florida!
TaMara
This probably deserves its own thread…but 2 lambs from a nativity display went on the…lam. in south Boston
rikyrah
@HumboldtBlue:
BWA HA AHA HA HA HA HA
kindness
After watching that boxing video at the top of this post I wondered if catnip was in any of those boxes. Then I wondered if big cats are affected by catnip as house cats are. Then I wondered if it would be prudent to give a big cat a big wad of catnip. Well, no, not me. But I’d watch a video of someone else doing it.
rikyrah
@TaMara:
The imagery just cracks me up :)
Phylllis
@Alison Rose: I worked for B. Dalton’s. I think the policy after Christmas was to push for exchanges but give refunds if we could verify the book price in the system.
I also remember this creepy old guy coming in with a $100 gift certificate & wanting to know where the ‘adult’ books were. I gave him my thousand yard stare and replied the fiction section was alphabetical by author. He proceeded to tell me the certificate was of no use to him then.
Mike in Pasadena
Just now read two of dumpty’s Christmas day rants he posted – the all caps rant posted last night by Ann Laurie I think and another one that ends with something like, MAY THEY ALL ROT IN HELL! AGAIN MERRY CHRISTMAS.
As if we needed more evidence, humpty dumpty is one of the most brain damaged and bitter old men this country has ever had the misfortune to appoint to the Presidency via the electoral college. A true lunatic. Nobody but the sick and seriously damaged twump would post similar Christmas messages. He is most definitely not well, not right in the head. Goddess save us from the idiots who will vote for him.
mrmoshpotato
Totally!
Alison Rose
@Phylllis: LOL he was expecting to find porn in a B Dalton’s?? I mean…maybe there might be some spice in the romance section, but probably not the type he was searching for.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Looks like a silly version of Cube.
HumboldtBlue
@TaMara:
Oooooohhh,
mares eat oats
and does eat oats
and little lambs eat ivy,
a kid’ll eat ivy too, wouldn’t you?
Jay
@HumboldtBlue:
Kids should not eat ivy.
mrmoshpotato
The 2024 Far Side calendar came in a box.
Phylllis
@Alison Rose: We sold Playboy and Penthouse – had to keep them behind the counter. We’d occasionally get calls from the God botherers asking ‘do you sell pornography there?’. My stock response was always, ‘is there something specific you’re looking for?’, which invariably led to a harumph and and a hang-up.
Kayla Rudbek
I didn’t realize that my sibling was not showing the spouse the blanket I was knitting, so sibling-in-law got a surprise for Christmas. The comment was “I can’t show this to my mom because she’ll try to outdo it and we’ll drown in blankets.”
Jackie
@Phylllis: Perfect!
Alison Rose
@Phylllis: Hmm…I’m trying to recall if we had porn mags at B&N when I was there. I certainly don’t remember ringing any up, but this was like 20 years ago, so…
Ruckus
@Mike in Pasadena:
His brain, such as it is, was broken (like a teacup dropped from the upstairs railing) decades ago. We just didn’t have as easy a way to see the evidence. But he’s been seen on the internet since it’s inception, as exactly who you see today – a totally useless hunk of whatever it is, because it can’t actually be human.
His siblings were no great shakes but they far, far out classed him in humanity points.
IOW, he’s pure shit with lifts in his shoes and pretty much any other thing that might elevate him, and all it’s done is get him from 100% to 99.9999% pure shit. At least it’s exposed a portion of the electorate as also being in the pure shit brigade, so we all see the proof that in humanity, it takes all kinds.
Jim Appleton
@kindness:
Here you go.
Jay
Big Box Retail Returns suck.
In general, the till is staffed by one of the best Cashiers, someone who is fast and can manage all the different transactions. The restockers are generalists, who know where stuff is supposed to be.
One time, a Customer, amongst other items, was buying 10 boxes of 3″ deck screws. They come in clear plastic boxes, 100 per. As I was ringing them through, I noticed that 3 of the boxes didn’t contain 3″ deck screws, they contained old and rusted nails, used screws, nuts and bolts, just enough to match the weight. So I replaced them with the proper product.
So, they had been returned, the customer had been refunded, and the restocker had put them back on the shelf.
Then there was the used toilet episode.
As the Tool Repair Tech, Caroline in Seasonal took use of my skills. It started with me just removing oil and gas, so they could be returned to Vendor. Once she realized I knew what I was doing, not like the last guy, I would test the tools, (chainsaws, lawn mowers, pressure washers, etc). 90% turned out to be “one day rentals”. Buy a lawnmower because the City gave you a notice, cut the lawn at your rental property, return the lawnmower, don’t clean it, claim it doesn’t run, get your full $350 back. Cheaper than actually renting a lawnmower.
It got to the point that she would send customers to me, to get basic technical instruction on the care and feeding of the tools, or to help them solve problems they were having.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Jay: We get “rentals” on tables, chairs, fake grass and potted trees. We’ll pull an order for 4 tables and 24 chairs…there’s another rental.
Geminid
The Foreign Relations Committee of Turkiye’s national assembly voted today to advance Sweden’s accession to Nato. The assembly’s Speaker has yet to schedule the matter for debate and a vote. Erdogan may wait from a public signal from Washington that F-16 sales are forthcoming.
There was other Mideast news reported by Laura Rozen (@lrozen), including the US Navy shooting down a number of missiles over the Red Sea that were launched by the Houthis. They control half of Yemen, and want to halt Israel’s offensive in Gaza by impeding maritime traffic with drones and missiles provided by Iran.
Also, President Biden and the Emir of Qatar discussed ending the Gaza war in a phone call. Egypt put out a plan for a ceasefire a few days ago but so far it has not yet gotten much traction. The plan is backed by Jordan, Saudi Arsbia and the United Arab Emirates.
Phylllis
@Jay: My favorite was watching a woman who worked in the mall coffee shop, who could not be described as a girly girl, come by one day with a cocktail dress in a dress bag from Penney’s. Two or three days later, she’s hoofing it back to Penney’s with said dress in said dress bag. One of my co-workers said, ‘oh, she’s taking back the dress she bought for a wedding she was going to.’ I was appalled to learn this was a thing. I think now you have to return formal dresses with tags still attached for just that reason.
Jay
@Phylllis:
It used to be that one could just tape the tags, (attached at the neckline) down the back. Now the tags at “smarter” places are attached differently.
When I worked at Raider, Colin, one of the engineers at BE sent me a 4500watt generator.
Some dude on a scooter, bought it from a Lordco, returned it the next day, got his cash back.
Lordco (auto parts) couldn’t figure out why it didn’t run, BE couldn’t figure out why it didn’t run.
Took me 5 minutes. It had been filled with gas, from as near as I could figure, stolen from a brickyard. It had been run with out any oil, (no compression, BE includes a bottle of oil in the box), and when it stopped running, they set fire to the air filter/carb to try to get it running again. $1200 completely trashed, but I guess the Meth Lab ran for a few more hours.
Sad thing, if they had approved the hours, I could have hatched the walls and reseated the valves and got it running again.
Geminid
@Geminid: Regarding the missile attacks off of Yemen: it was a busy day for the U.S. destroyer Laboon and F-18 Superhornets from the aircraft carrier Eisenhower. Central Command says they shot down 12 one-way attack drones, 3 ballistic anti-ship missiles and two land attack cruise missiles. Reminds me of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song.
Some observers complained that the US hasn’t attacked the Houthi’s missile launching forces yet, but that could change. We did attack sites in Iraq controlled by Iranian backed militias. They have been taking shots at US forces in Syria and Iraq and yesterday they managed to injure 3 American soldiers, one very seriously.
Also yesterday, a top Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander was killed by a missile strike near Damascus, Syria. It’s assumed the Israelis did this, and Iran has vowed revenge.
Tenar Arha
@TaMara: thank you I really needed that
Miss Bianca
@Phylllis: *snort* Good one!
Chris T.
Usually, when the cats are sitting at the glass door like that, they’re thinking: “If I could just get out there, I could murder so many birds!”