Small things in life that gravel your ass

[Bwana]

What are some things in life that are really not that big of a deal in the big picture, but just piss you off?

My example of the day:

The dogs were barking at something today out in the alley, so I went outside to find out what the hell was going on. Some Slippery Larry contractor was back there unloading a bunch of shit into my city garbage container.

Me: Hey there strokestick, are you my new neighbor or something?

Slippery Larry: No

Me: Yeah, I knew that, then why are you dumping your crap out into my garbage container? I have plans to clean out the garage and am going to need the space.

Slippery Larry: I don't know.

Me: Do you live in a house, do YOU have a garbage container?

Slippery Larry: Yes, but it's full, so I'm dumping it in here.

Me: No, no you're not, try the city dump. Don't let me ever catch you back here pulling the bullshit again, or we are going to have a big problem.

At that point, he high tailed it out of there.

Like I said, it wasn't like the guy was back there trying to break into my shop, but it rubbed me the wrong way.

[In58men]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I'm sitting in a mall, and the guy opposite me is moving his head as he reads, so I can tell where he's at on the page and on each line in the page. I find that more curious than annoying. What's mildly annoying is when people move their lips as they read, but I can generally look away if I see it so it's not a huge issue.

This is unlike people who don't eat peanuts properly, which compels me to stare as I try to understand their strange ways.

You're like the real life D-Fens

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

You're like the real life D-Fens

Do you have any idea how much money my country has given your country?

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

Minnesota. But you may have to get behind the Minnesota Attorney General.

Do tell...

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Do tell...

Sorry-BBB but if they are making false claims Lori Swenson will make an issue of it.

Spoiler!

The list of problems keeps growing for My Pillow, the popular Minnesota-based pillow maker known for its late-night TV infomercials and celebrity endorsements.

Just months after settling a consumer protection lawsuit alleging false and deceptive advertising, My Pillow has taken a hit over a different set of consumer complaints.

On Tuesday, the Better Business Bureau announced that it had revoked My Pillow’s accreditation and lowered its rating from an A-plus to an F, saying the company’s longstanding “buy one, get one free” offer was unfair and confusing to customers.

The BBB said the offer violated the organization’s code of advertising by marketing pillows in a two-for-one “deal” that was in fact the regular price. Consumers might have thought they were getting a special deal, the BBB found, but they were really paying the full cost of the product, as the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

“Continuous BOGO offers, which can then be construed as an item’s regular, everyday price, violate not only BBB’s Code of Advertising, which all BBB Accredited Businesses agree to abide by, but also other state and national organizations’ rules,” said Dana Badgerow, president of BBB in Minnesota and North Dakota.

[Infomercial sleeper ‘My Pillow’ gets $1 million wake-up call over false medical claims]

Losing BBB accreditation doesn’t carry any legal or financial penalties, but it does strip My Pillow of a widely used industry certification designed to help establish consumer trust in a company. The F rating is the lowest mark a company can receive in the BBB’s rating system based on a company’s complaint history. A company’s rating can be lowered when the bureau “determines that the business is not being transparent about its marketplace conduct,” among other reasons, according to the BBB website.

Founded in 2005, My Pillow touts its product as the “most comfortable pillow you’ll ever own.” Founder and spokesman Michael J. Lindell’s infomercials, a staple of late-night television, have claimed the pillow can prevent sleep loss associated with a range of ailments. The company has sold some 18 million pillows in the past decade at about $50 each, pulling in $100 million annually, as the Star Tribune has reported.

The BBB said it received a “pattern of complaints” about My Pillow’s buy one, get one offer. Bureau officials said they began urging Lindell to discontinue the marketing ploy and were left with no choice but to dock the company’s rating when he didn’t respond, the Star Tribune reported.

Barb Grieman, senior vice president for the BBB in Minnesota, said the bureau seldom gives out F ratings because companies tend to comply.

“We can’t understand why he’s not making the changes,” Grieman told the Star Tribune. “We’re not saying he can’t offer a BOGO, just not continuously all year long.”

According to the BBB, My Pillow should have ended the offer after 30 days.

“It’s unfair to businesses in the same industry,” Grieman said. “We want advertising to be clear.”

Lindell said Tuesday he was disappointed in the BBB’s decision. He told the local NBC affiliate, KARE, that he wouldn’t be able to stop the sale at the moment but would make unspecified changes later this year. In a tweet Tuesday he said he was “sorry about the new rating as my customer service is the most important thing to me.”

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The BBB said it has received 232 complaints about My Pillow in the past three years. Most have related to the buy one, get one offer, the BBB said, but the organization said consumers raised other issues as well. Among them were complaints that the pillow advertised on TV was not the same as the one they received and that a “full warranty” required purchasers to pay a fee to return the product, according to KARE.

The bureau’s announcement comes just a few months after My Pillow agreed to pay $1 million to settle a consumer protection lawsuit alleging the company overstated the benefits of its products. The company had claimed — without evidence — that its pillows could prevent sleep loss from insomnia, restless leg syndrome, neck pain, fibromyalgia, sleep apnea and migraines, raising alarms at the consumer watchdog Truth in Advertising.org, as The Washington Post reported. The organization also objected to Lindell’s claim that he was a “sleep expert,” when he had no such training. Lindell said he chose to settle the case rather than pay the legal fees to fight it. The company did not admit fault.

also https://www.google.com/search?q=my+p...pillow+lawsuit

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

Sorry-BBB but if they are making false claims Lori Swenson will make an issue of it.

Spoiler!

The list of problems keeps growing for My Pillow, the popular Minnesota-based pillow maker known for its late-night TV infomercials and celebrity endorsements.

Just months after settling a consumer protection lawsuit alleging false and deceptive advertising, My Pillow has taken a hit over a different set of consumer complaints.

On Tuesday, the Better Business Bureau announced that it had revoked My Pillow’s accreditation and lowered its rating from an A-plus to an F, saying the company’s longstanding “buy one, get one free” offer was unfair and confusing to customers.

The BBB said the offer violated the organization’s code of advertising by marketing pillows in a two-for-one “deal” that was in fact the regular price. Consumers might have thought they were getting a special deal, the BBB found, but they were really paying the full cost of the product, as the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

“Continuous BOGO offers, which can then be construed as an item’s regular, everyday price, violate not only BBB’s Code of Advertising, which all BBB Accredited Businesses agree to abide by, but also other state and national organizations’ rules,” said Dana Badgerow, president of BBB in Minnesota and North Dakota.

[Infomercial sleeper ‘My Pillow’ gets $1 million wake-up call over false medical claims]

Losing BBB accreditation doesn’t carry any legal or financial penalties, but it does strip My Pillow of a widely used industry certification designed to help establish consumer trust in a company. The F rating is the lowest mark a company can receive in the BBB’s rating system based on a company’s complaint history. A company’s rating can be lowered when the bureau “determines that the business is not being transparent about its marketplace conduct,” among other reasons, according to the BBB website.

Founded in 2005, My Pillow touts its product as the “most comfortable pillow you’ll ever own.” Founder and spokesman Michael J. Lindell’s infomercials, a staple of late-night television, have claimed the pillow can prevent sleep loss associated with a range of ailments. The company has sold some 18 million pillows in the past decade at about $50 each, pulling in $100 million annually, as the Star Tribune has reported.

The BBB said it received a “pattern of complaints” about My Pillow’s buy one, get one offer. Bureau officials said they began urging Lindell to discontinue the marketing ploy and were left with no choice but to dock the company’s rating when he didn’t respond, the Star Tribune reported.

Barb Grieman, senior vice president for the BBB in Minnesota, said the bureau seldom gives out F ratings because companies tend to comply.

“We can’t understand why he’s not making the changes,” Grieman told the Star Tribune. “We’re not saying he can’t offer a BOGO, just not continuously all year long.”

According to the BBB, My Pillow should have ended the offer after 30 days.

“It’s unfair to businesses in the same industry,” Grieman said. “We want advertising to be clear.”

Lindell said Tuesday he was disappointed in the BBB’s decision. He told the local NBC affiliate, KARE, that he wouldn’t be able to stop the sale at the moment but would make unspecified changes later this year. In a tweet Tuesday he said he was “sorry about the new rating as my customer service is the most important thing to me.”

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The BBB said it has received 232 complaints about My Pillow in the past three years. Most have related to the buy one, get one offer, the BBB said, but the organization said consumers raised other issues as well. Among them were complaints that the pillow advertised on TV was not the same as the one they received and that a “full warranty” required purchasers to pay a fee to return the product, according to KARE.

The bureau’s announcement comes just a few months after My Pillow agreed to pay $1 million to settle a consumer protection lawsuit alleging the company overstated the benefits of its products. The company had claimed — without evidence — that its pillows could prevent sleep loss from insomnia, restless leg syndrome, neck pain, fibromyalgia, sleep apnea and migraines, raising alarms at the consumer watchdog Truth in Advertising.org, as The Washington Post reported. The organization also objected to Lindell’s claim that he was a “sleep expert,” when he had no such training. Lindell said he chose to settle the case rather than pay the legal fees to fight it. The company did not admit fault.

also https://www.google.com/search?q=my+p...pillow+lawsuit

So he is charging for two pillows while telling people their only paying for one, eh?

I knew there was something off about that guy, thats why I intend to smother him in his sleep with his own product!

[raybec 4]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Get that Shane Company guy first.

"Now you have a friend in the diamond business. Shane Company."

That continental siding dildo can get run over by a dump truck: "Call Noooooooow!" **** you ! I'm never calling, ever!

[Rooster]

Originally Posted by raybec 4

That continental siding dildo can get run over by a dump truck: "Call Noooooooow!" **** you ! I'm never calling, ever!

I hate those commercials. The worst part is I parrot him when he says that. I can't stop I think I have a mental defect or something.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Spider2YBanana

Black guys playing the Phantom.

Completely ruins my immersion.

And no, it's not racist. There were precious few black dudes running around Paris in 1881, and probably none that could write and sing opera music.

And I don't want a white dude playing Lando Calrissian, either.

You might want to take a pass on Hamilton, then.

[Hammock Parties]

Hamilton is fine, because it's an original.

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

I'm going to buy a "My Pillow", then take it to Wisconsin and smother Mike Lindell to death with it while he sleeps

Make sure to take the pillow home with you after the smothering. The My Pillow is really a great product.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

Make sure to take the pillow home with you after the smothering. The My Pillow is really a great product.

I kinda thought it might be, he must be selling the hell out of them in order to afford 24/7 tv commercials

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Spider2YBanana

Hamilton is fine, because it's an original.

You realize that the guys they're portraying were both (a) real, and (b) white, right? The phantom of the opera is a fictional character. I mean, if you're going to have a problem with one, you should probably have a problem with the other.

The last time I saw Les Miserables the guy playing Javert was black. And he was awesome.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Frazod

You realize that the guys they're portraying were both (a) real, and (b) white, right? The phantom of the opera is a fictional character. I mean, if you're going to have a problem with one, you should probably have a problem with the other.

Yeah, but the point of Hamilton is to blackify everything. I mean, it's a hip hop musical. You can't have a bunch of white boys doing that.

Look, I'm a consumer. I expect some faithfulness to the original when I'm watching a production of the same play. As soon as I heard a black man's voice that sounded nothing like Michael Crawford, or even like someone that could have been the Phantom IRL, I was completely taken out of my immersion. It mostly ruined the evening for me.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Spider2YBanana

Yeah, but the point of Hamilton is to blackify everything. I mean, it's a hip hop musical. You can't have a bunch of white boys doing that.

Look, I'm a consumer. I expect some faithfulness to the original when I'm watching a production of the same play. As soon as I heard a black man's voice that sounded nothing like Michael Crawford, or even like someone that could have been the Phantom IRL, I was completely taken out of my immersion. It mostly ruined the evening for me.

The very idea of Chernow's novel (which I've read) being dumbed down into some hip hop dogshit by a bunch of leftist agitators is disgusting to me. I remember being thrilled when I first heard somebody was making a musical about Hamilton's life. Then I learned the details.

[ThaVirus]

Bet you watched The Last Samurai, Prince of Persia, and about a million other whitewashed films and didn't bitch about it, you shithead.