Things you just don't get

cptjeff · Sep 17, 2013

Reggs said:
I flew on Southwest recently and this was on the armrest in between seats. It could not turn on. I don't know what this is. What is it?

One of those in flight "radio" things that plays music from some airline playlist. Deactivated now, but no reason to spend extra money to remove it. Southwest has some fairly old planes in service. Old planes aren't unsafe (usually, they're retired because newer planes have lower fuel costs, not because of issues with the airframe itself), but they do tend to have residual dohickeys like that from the days before everyone was lugging iPods around.

L'Incandescent · Sep 18, 2013

Betimes I notice that my friends on Facebook "like" companies. One of my friends just "liked" Duracell. What would make a person think "Man I like Duracell makes a good battery hell I need to "like" them on the Facebook."?

Blackhood · Sep 18, 2013

I regularly get notifications from Facebook telling me "XXX Likes Insurance Company Y!" Or something, but very regularly it happens with friends who have died. There is nothing better than asking the company why they are using your dead friend to push their product.

lawyerdad · Sep 18, 2013

Blackhood said:
I regularly get notifications from Facebook telling me "XXX Likes Insurance Company Y!" Or something, but very regularly it happens with friends who have died. There is nothing better than asking the company why they are using your dead friend to push their product.

Wow, that's creepy.

I can think of many things better than that, though.

samadhi27 · Sep 18, 2013

L'Incandescent said:
Betimes I notice that my friends on Facebook "like" companies. One of my friends just "liked" Duracell. What would make a person think "Man I like Duracell makes a good battery hell I need to "like" them on the Facebook."?

It's usually only because the company is offering a price discount or some other promotion, if you "Like" their page.

L'Incandescent · Sep 18, 2013

I thought of that. Honestly, I think I'd rather pay full price for my Duracell batteries than have all my friends see that I have "liked" them.

Harold falcon · Sep 18, 2013

L'Incandescent said:
I thought of that. Honestly, I think I'd rather pay full price for my Duracell batteries than have all my friends see that I have "liked" them.

What if it was a really good discount though, like 15% off?

L'Incandescent · Sep 18, 2013

harvey_birdman said:
What if it was a really good discount though, like 15% off?

Even a discount of that magnitude would not compel me. Even 30% or 33%.

Harold falcon · Sep 18, 2013

L'Incandescent said:
Even a discount of that magnitude would not compel me. Even 30% or 33%.

40%?

patrickBOOTH · Sep 18, 2013

I think it is so we have conversations like this and further promote Duracell.

Btw, which batteries to you guys prefer?

Connemara · Sep 18, 2013

Energizer.

otc · Sep 18, 2013

Just unlike them afterwards!

Or when they ask you to share something...my default share mode is "Custom" which is set to share things to be only visible to me.

Since I don't look at my own page, the company gives me whatever they were going to give me for sharing...and nobody ever sees it.

I also have a spam twitter account (literally... @otcspam ) that I use whenever someone is offering free crap for a tweet. I think I last used it for a free sandwich at a Corner Bakery. I'm sure my one follower loved the offer I tweeted about.

patrickBOOTH · Sep 18, 2013

Peanut butter and battery sandwiches rule.

Harold falcon · Sep 18, 2013

patrickBOOTH said:
I think it is so we have conversations like this and further promote Duracell.

Btw, which batteries to you guys prefer?

Who uses one-and-done batteries? I have an iPhone not a Walkman.

Edit - even my flashlights are rechargeable or self-powered.

Further Edit - the battery in my automobile is a Die Hard. Which is a misleading name because they actually die pretty easy, but I only have to replace them every 3 years or so.

zarathustra · Sep 18, 2013

patrickBOOTH said:
Peanut butter and battery sandwiches rule.

Must have bananas and then the batteries must be Energizer. Their flavor is more delicate and doesn't overpower everything like Duracell or Eveready.

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