I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: peleroja on January 03, 2010, 08:43:39 AM
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My friend and I started a non-profit renal support group. We would like to be officially non-profit, but that costs over $700. If we're non-profit, where are we supposed to get that kind of money?
How exactly did the advertisers decide that $19.95 was the perfect price for anything purchased on TV, whether it's a dozen hair curlers or a dozen Ginsu knives?
How did "buy one, get another free (just pay separate shipping and handling)" become so popular?
Just exactly how much is "separate shipping and handling?"
Feel free to answer my questions or list the ones that bug you!
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This is funny. My only observation is "could it be you watch too many infomercials?"
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My unanswerable question for the month came with my SS disability information. No raises this year, as the official index says there was no inflation. So why did I get notices from both of my insurance plans about rate increases for the coming year if there's no increase in inflation or the cost of living?
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Here in the UK, in my youth, some goods were priced in guineas. There was no guinea coin or bill, just as there's no $19.95 bill. But a guinea was £1.05 and it made the goods appear 5% lower in price.
The guinea died a generation ago.
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No raises this year, as the official index says there was no inflation.
Even when there is inflation, it goes up 10% and we get 2%. Does not compute in my book!
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$19,95 is just under $20, tricks you into thinking it is not so expensive and yet high priced enough not to seem like a really cheaply made product. ???
As for "buy one, get another free (just pay separate shipping and handling" the shipping and handling costs so much that they can afford to do it and still make a proffit. After all not all the "handling" is for "shipping". Also, they can move more product. :sarcasm;
On, "Just exactly how much is 'separate shipping and handling?'" Whatever they want to make it, it seems.
Some of the print adds (you'll never be able to read it on TV adds) have "small print" and in it they sometimes mention the shipping and handling charges. Gasp! Some of those prices are amazing, almost the cost of the product alone.
Anyway, that's my take on it. Wish I had something more humorious to contribute. Maybe later.
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Again for the inflation, my note book computer costed $1500 three years ago and a friend of mind got one this week under $400. It is better than my computer. So, something goes up and something goes down.
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A few months after my late husband passed away, I recived a pamphlet in the mail that told me I had a "lifetime" guarantee on the casket. Say what??? Whose lifetime would that be?
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A few months after my late husband passed away, I recived a pamphlet in the mail that told me I had a "lifetime" guarantee on the casket. Say what??? Whose lifetime would that be?
My Dad owned a funeral home, and he could never give me answer to that one either.
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Why?
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A few months after my late husband passed away, I recived a pamphlet in the mail that told me I had a "lifetime" guarantee on the casket. Say what??? Whose lifetime would that be?
My Dad owned a funeral home, and he could never give me answer to that one either.
Why?
Said he didn't know what the casket company meant when they said that.
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Something I wodner about. There were all these smerfs and only one of them was female? Why?
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was that the one pat robertson said was gay?
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No, Dan, that ws Teletubbies. I'm talking about smerfet.
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Smurfs, Dan - the little blue ones that the big guy with the cat wanted to eat.
One of the local toy stores is selling those little plastic smurfs again. $5 each. How can little plastic toys that don't move possibly cost that much?
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Oh, I just can't keep up with the celebrities these days. Sorry.
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Why did I buy an Aquaglob off TV for $19.95 and then saw one at the store for $8 ????
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The question that keeps me awake at night is
Why can't I get that d%$#d song out of my head?
:rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
And the worst part is that it is usually a silly preschool song. Try the Itsy Bitsy Spider for hours on end....
:banghead; :banghead;
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Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
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That's an earworm, willow. Try searching online for the song and listening to it all the way through. Or not. Sometimes your brain is just stuck on replay!
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Why did I buy an Aquaglob off TV for $19.95 and then saw one at the store for $8 ????
Does it work rerun? I always wondered if it worked as good as they say it would. No leaks?
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Where are my pipes?
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Where do the missing socks go?
Why are there so many single shoes beside the road along the highway? Who drives with their feet out the window?
What the heck is an Aquaglob?
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I think missing socks turn into dryer lint...
Bought a pair but only have one foot. Threw the otherone out the window.
Probably some Suzanne Summers sells on TV.
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Why do appliances go on the fritz a month after the warrantee is up?
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It was a computer glitch in Y2K....
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Why does the lane/que you change too always stops to a halt the minute you move over into it?
Why does the neighbours dogs crap on your sidewalk and not their own?
What is "the beginning of the end"? When does it end then?
Why is Dan so worried about his pipes???? :rofl;
Should I believe the weatherman after I have proven him wrong a thousand times?
Does puppies really just go on eating until they burst?
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Something I wodner about. There were all these smerfs and only one of them was female? Why?
smerfet must have had a good life!
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Why is it my husband will walk a 2 km for a beer but not 2 steps to make a coffee?
Why do the Australian networks show US tv shows that have already been cancelled before they began to air them? (what's the point of showing half a season of a cancelled show)
Also... how can a show that's only run for 3 or 4 episodes have a 'season finale'? (white collar)
And for the Aussies.. What ever happened to Tim "but wait there's more" Shaw?
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Something I wodner about. There were all these smerfs and only one of them was female? Why?
smerfet must have had a good life!
I bet she was awfully tired.
If a politican fell in the woods would anyone hear it?
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Why do green olives come in glass bottles,
and black olives come in cans.....
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Why does the lane/que you change too always stops to a halt the minute you move over into it?
it's called lanes law of lines. whichever line you're in will move slower than any other line.
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Why do kids fight taking naps when they have to and grown ups want naps when they can't have them?
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Because we get smarter when we grow up, Aleta! :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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why do stuff break the day after the guarantee expires?
why do the dogs dig up flowers and not the weeds?
Why do cellphone companies want to sell you more than one phone? (what the heck am I suppose to do with the second one?)
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Why, when you have 3 kids who seem to know everything and you ask how something happened all of a sudden they simultaneously get amnesia and don't know how it happened?
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Why do green olives come in glass bottles,
and black olives come in cans.....
Cuz the black olives are afraid of the light. :rofl;
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Why do I like to smell my own farts but not those of other people?
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You might want to ask that bird of yours...... :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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Where do all the scissors go? I bought 6 pairs of cheap scissors on sale - how come I can rarely find even one?
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Why is it when I want one pill two come out the bottle, but when I want two one comes out in my hand?
Why is it when are watching a somewhat boring Tv show and think maybe there is somethig on another chanel, when you go there to check there is nothing but commercials for a long time?
Do squirrles sit up nights planing how to raid bird feeders?
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The answer to a lot of these questions is what my dad used to call - "The Perversity of Inanimate Objects".
E.g. - only finding blue/black pens when you need a red (teachers will understand), and then only finding red pens when you need a blue/black;
finding only needles when you need a pin and vice versa!
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Murphy's Law.......
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Poor Murphy he always get the blame :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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I know that feeling, Murphy. :rofl;
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The answer to a lot of these questions is what my dad used to call - "The Perversity of Inanimate Objects".
My mome used to refer to it as the total depravity of inanimate objects. Maybe we're related!
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I can answer one of your questions (well sort of)....... I know where all the pens go
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/01/14/20100114tr-pens0115.html
and
http://www.notesinbottle.com/pens.htm
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I solved my missing highlighter problem when I was the only woman working in an office full of men. I bought a whole batch of cutsie little highlighters that looked like animals - little round pigs, cows, puppies and kitties. The heads popped off to reveal the highlighter in the pudgy little bodies. No man there would be caught dead holding onto one of them, so they never left my desk. . . :rofl;