Jacket, Pocket.

Dear everyone that works in sales;

If you don’t know the answer to a question, say ‘I don’t know’. It is preferable to immediately follow this step with finding the relevant information to answer the question, be it by looking online or making a phone call. If you cannot do it immediately then do it as soon as possible so that even if you can’t help the customer that’s asking you can at least help future customers that have the same question.

Don’t just guess instead.

The thing is, you’re not liable (maybe you are but you never get sued) when you’re wrong. Usually because lives aren’t at stake. But I can gaurantee you that if I walked into a car dealership and asked the guy if the car I wanted had passenger side air-bags and he just said “Yeah sure” because he couldn’t be bothered checking, then he’d be in deep shit. 

But when I ask you if a TV is capable of doing something and you can’t be arsed finding out, you know you won’t get in any trouble if you’re wrong. And you won’t get in any trouble. Even if I went to JB and made a complaint about how confident the guy appeared in his answers to my incredibly specific questions when literally all of his answers were wrong, he wouldn’t even get a slap on the wrist.

So instead I’ll write to you retail workers and sales people and people that work on commission directly. 

Please admit when you don’t know an answer.

Please don’t guess.

societyhappens replied to your post: Got a TV.

#First World Problems. And THAT is good marketing.

Value for money, faulty products/produce and/or products/produce not functioning as advertised are universal issues that occur in all societies where any kind of trade system exists, and while I understand that you’re specifically saying ‘You’re shopping for TVs and that makes you rich’, I feel obligated to point out that the problem itself is not exclusive to the first world at all.

Don’t let this dishearten you though.

There are a lot of memes on the internet and some of them are easier than others. While this attempt was a clear miss, you might find that you’d have more success in future replies with a simpler meme like ‘all ur base lol’.

Got a TV.

I had a choice between a Sony TV that had ‘wifi’ or a Samsung that didn’t. Everything else seemed identical. So I got the Sony.

When I got home I found that the Sony doesn’t work with external hard drives. It works with flash drives, but it’s a total bitch with everything else. Not only that, but it doesn’t support a lot of file types. I discovered this when I threw my 1080p copy of Attack the Block on a flash drive just now and the TV told me it couldn’t read it. Most blu-ray quality videos you download will be .mkv, and if your HD TV can’t play HD files then… What’s the point?

So now I’m trying to figure out whether I should take it back and swap it for the Samsung. The Samsung has no wifi, but the wifi sounds like a lame glamour accessory to me. Also, in my experience, Samsungs accept most (if not all) file types and work well with Hard Drives. 

Basically I’m going to end up taking this back, and now I just have to wait and see whether I’ll take it back and get a Samsung or take it back and get a refund. 

It’s frustrating because I’d really like to have a pretty TV and these were the only reasonably priced options with reasonable (read; recognizable) brand names, and I refuse to spend anything over $200 on electronics if I don’t know the brand.

HEY NERDS!

Whycome a 8gigabite USB is empty but when I try to put on a 5gigabit video I get error massage saying ‘Not enough space’?

Whycome that, huh?

Edit: Nevermind, nerds. I found out that the USB was using a filesystem called ‘Fat32’ and it has a limit on the size of the files it can hold. I formatted it to ‘Exfat’ and now it’s working. THANKS FOR NOTHING GUYS.

Come loose your dogs upon me,

And let your hair hang down.

Anonymous asked: Assuming what the gentleman was viewing was indeed child pornography, possession of such materials is actually an indictable offence. However, just viewing run of the mill porn in a public place is a bit more of a grey area. But is it wildly inappropriate? Fuck yes. However, I'm genuinely curious about you referring to the woman as a 'victim of sexual abuse'. If you don't mind, could you explain what you mean by that?

In the sense that any sexual contact (verbal, physical, visual, psychological) used for the sexual stimulation of the perpetrator could be considered sexual abuse. I’m sure it wouldn’t fly in a court (which is why I said summary offence), but I’d assume that if you’re looking at porn in clear view of the public then you’re not just cocky, but you’re actually getting off on it. I’m sure people may disagree with me but I think that the only kind of person that does something that private in public is an exhibitionist. And in that sense, if she asked him to stop and he continued because “hey woohoo the hot blond behind me is getting riled up at my porn”, I’d consider that to be sexual abuse. Because non-exhibitionist just horny dudes don’t look at porn in such a conspicuous manner, and they’d be far more susceptible to embarrassment if caught out. 

But then that’s just my opinion, as I said.

leonrw:

blindly defending nearly all pornography makes me so mad

fuck man

it’s just cause you’re all horny as fuck teens you try and justify it by looking at every porn video with some sort of rose tinted view that every one in that made a choice and they enjoy what they’re doing and they’re not being manipulated and this form of pornography never has any at all adverse affects on any aspect of society

fuck

just cause you get off on it don’t try and convince others that the whole pornography industry is actually perfectly fine

Rhiann and I got into a heated debate over that “8 year old girl” from Dublin.

And I can’t find any concrete evidence to suggest that it’s fake, and most sites say it isn’t, so I’ve deleted it.

But I’m still adamant that it’s fake.

Vic Pale Lager.

New beer that’s just been launched, and part of the marketing campaign is ads on the backs of metropolitan buses. The ad features three men and one woman sitting on outdoor furniture on what appears to be a rooftop with the dusk-lit Melbourne skyline in the distance behind them.

The men are sitting on chairs while the woman sits on one man’s lap.

The men are holding/drinking bottles of Vic Pale Lager (as you’d expect), but the woman’s hands are empty.

She isn’t presented as part of the “I’m having a good night Melbourne style thanks to Vic pale Lager!” club with the guys.

She’s an accessory to their good night, much like the rooftop setting or the view.

I don’t know if she’s featured this way deliberately, in the sense that they planned on having her as a feature to appeal to the male customers or if it was accidental, in the sense that they just wanted a cool rooftop scene to appeal to male and female customers alike, and they didn’t see any issue with having the only female in the shot drinkless and on a lap.

Regardless, I drive behind this ad at least once a day, and it’s starting to make me grind my teeth.