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  • FiniteLooper@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTrust issues
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    6 months ago

    In middle school I helped run the media stuff at my summer camp, audio and projector. We thought it would be really funny to show this one night after the talent show. We really cranked up the volume too.

    I don’t think we officially got in trouble, but there were a lot of people that got pretty upset with us.







  • FiniteLooper@lemm.eetoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works16 January 2024
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    10 months ago

    So I have the daily calendar and this was today’s. I had to look it up and came up with this from here: https://cidu.info/2022/02/17/and-a-tip-of-the-hat-to-billy-sutton-in-tampa/

    If you’re wondering why Gary Larson penned a special message to a Tampa resident in today’s Far Side cartoon (on the back page of this section), wonder no more.

    Bill Sutton, who Larson sends a “thanx and tip o’ the hat to” is a fictional person made up to imitate a cartoon called They’ll Do It Every Time by James Hatlo. Hatlo’s readers often supplied him with material, and when he used an idea, he thanked the contributor in the corner of the drawing. “Thanx, and with a tip o’ the Hatlo hat to . . . ,” he would write.

    “Gary wasn’t thanking anyone in particular, he was just making fun of those cartoons,” said Universal Press Syndicate editor Jake Morrissey. “It’s a takeoff on the old line. It was kind of a silly cartoon to begin with. That’s the whole point.”

    So just the most obscure thing possible


  • Thanks for this, it makes a lot of sense actually. Oh well, my mom has her car and the warranty she will hopefully never need, but it’s there if she does. I guess it all comes down to care tactics in the dealership, pressuring you to buy warranties and such that you may not need and cannot buy at any other time except right then.

    I’ll be sticking with the recently used philosophy for the future though.


  • FiniteLooper@lemm.eetoNews@lemmy.worldAmericans can no longer afford their cars
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    10 months ago

    I totally agree with your rules here, however I recently helped my mom buy a new car (2023 Nissan Murano) and while sitting with her in the finance room deciding on warranty stuff I realized that cars are mostly 100 interconnected computers on wheels. This means the most likely thing to break on a car is a computer. This is something only the dealer can fix probably. Because of this you can’t get the same kind of warranty on a used car, only new.

    The warranty my mom on this new car is great and it will cover any kind of computer issue for years. If she had gone and saved a bunch of money by picking a used car from the same year or 1-2 years old she could not get that warranty, and if a computer issue popped up years later it could be terribly expensive.