Probably because you are in the middle of nowhere, and there is no competition. So the store can do basically what ever it wants and if you want toys they have you have to agree to THEIR terms.Quote:
Originally Posted by jena
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Probably because you are in the middle of nowhere, and there is no competition. So the store can do basically what ever it wants and if you want toys they have you have to agree to THEIR terms.Quote:
Originally Posted by jena
Must be something in the air- had a guy in a store swear at me this morning.
was he working there?Quote:
Originally Posted by bowspearer
Yeah, wasn't impressed at all. It's bad enough happening at the best of times- let alone when you have a transaction worth hundreds of dollars you're in the middle of with them and you're actually trying to facilitate a bulk buy of stuff they're so keen to sell off that they're thinking of selling it off at half price.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkyWarp91
I suspect when I call the manager/owner tomorrow he'll be less than impressed by it.
It's just too bad you don't get to see their layby terms and conditions until after you actually create the layby, if I had of known the cancellation fee was so ridiculous I probably wouldn't have bothered. It wouldn't have been so bad if the woman wasn't so damn rude. They have a model kit of RMS Titanic that I want but I don't want to give that woman any more of my money! Such an old goat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippo
Quit skimping on the details, I'm a girl, I want details! Why did he swear at you? Don't these people understand customer service...Quote:
Originally Posted by bowspearer
Thoroughly disgusted and furious right now and I'd laugh at the irony if it weren't so blatantly offensive. On tonight's episode of Highway Patrol, one of the officers referred to a suspect on camera and before approaching them as acting like a "spastic".
It's bad enough that so much neo-Nazi bigotry exists in society, but to have it come from a member of the Police force who are meant to be the upholders of Law and Order is nothing short of inexcusable and depraved.
It's ironic- Highway Patrol is meant to be a PR stunt for the Victorian police, yet all comments like that do is paint the entire Victorian Police Force as a pack of neo-Nazi pigs.
I'd spoken to the manager when putting a deposit down on all his vintage MOTU figures but not his 200x figures a few weeks back. At the time he'd said to me if I was buying the lot, that he'd have given me a discount.Quote:
Originally Posted by jena
I went in on Friday to let him know that I was going to be slightly short on picking them up on Thursday (between $50-$100, which I was going to be fixing up the following fortnight) and we made arrangements on that. In that conversation, he'd mentioned he might be reducing his 200X figures to half price as the store is changing ownership at the end of the month.
At the time I thought nothing of it, but last night I got an idea to see if I could get a bulk buy on here, which would clear out his unwanted stock, get people on here a bargain and get me a reduction in price on the stuff I had.
So I go in this morning to ask the guy working there (not the manager) who fobbed me off about price claiming they had no control over prices (clearly a lie based on what the owner/manager said), which I pointed out was not what the owner had said, and asked him about calling the manager quickly, which he made an excuse not to. I then said that I was pretty sure that the manager would be interested, explained what the manager had said about the half price and what I was proposing if I brought a bulk buy into the equation where the lot went.
To which I got words to the effect of "look, you've got your $#!+ here which is going to be sitting here for months" and yes he did swear at me. At which point, I cut him off and in a raised and assertive voice told him that I had spoken to the owner twice about things and I was picking up most of them next week. At which point he told me to calm down and claimed ignorance. When I brought up that I would be complaining to the Manager because of how rude he'd been, I was told "go right ahead" in a "screw you" tone of voice.
If it wasn't for how the manager has been which is awesome, I'd be cancelling the whole deal after what happened and spreading the word about this store.
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Originally Posted by Tabias Prime
Now now......Im 6ft and 110kg and I drive a Ford Fiesta and I know I can escape from people who chase me through the shopping mall by baddies in a Corvette and conduct beach landings with British Marines.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
So nah nah nah :D:D
I'd prefer the ZR1 to be honest :PQuote:
Originally Posted by valkyrie_76
I love that I knew exactly what that link was of without even looking. One of the best car reviews ever. But I'm sorry, I prefer my Focus. The Fiesta is just too small and I'm shorter/smaller than you! But A+ for driving a Ford anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by valkyrie_76
@bowspearer that guy sounds like an ignorant twit. There's no excuse for that kind of attitude, especially since you weren't being unreasonable, in my opinion at least. How frustrating for you.
Out of interest what makes them "Neo Nazis"? I understand it is a insensitive comment to make but but why is anyone that makes those comments a Neo Nazi? Why not Neo Fascist as by branding them Nazi's you are guilty of the same genralisations that you are accusing the police of? Fascism exists in many forms not just the Nazi varietyQuote:
Originally Posted by bowspearer
Or why not just arseholes as I hardly think that making a insenstitive remark is akin to Nazi eugenics & I doubt they are looking to put people on a bus to Hadamar.
Also why is it Neo Nazi bigotry in general? Bigotry exists in all races & creeds not just Central European politics from 75 years ago.
Actually your argument here is guilty of the very mis-attribution you accuse mine of.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prowl
The problem is you've completely misattributed what fascism is.
To quote FDR in 1938: "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power."
In other words, while the Nazi regime was certainly fascist, it was not fascism which drove the extermination of the Holocaust.
Now to deal with the Nazi aspect of things.
Hitler didn't start the Holocaust, he merely jumped on the bandwagon that was already rolling away in Germany at the time.
To quote Binding and Hoche (1920) in their Permission for the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life:
Furthermore it was this very school of Social Darwinist thought which ideologically fueled the genocide of the Holocaust. Why wouldn't it have- the moment you apply this ideology in any productive way, you wind up in a situation where you are at best, saying that it would be best for the good of the productivity of society if those with a disability died out. Funnily enough, that fits neatly into exactly what is meant by slurs like "spaz", "spastic", "retard" and "tard".Quote:
Their life is absolutely pointless, but they do not regard it as being unbearable. They are a terrible, heavy burden upon their relatives and society as a whole. Their death would not even create the smallest gap -- except perhaps in the feelings of their mothers or loyal nurses.
You bring up the visceral example of loading the disabled on a bus to Hadamar, but that's a bit of an irrational argument. After all, only a few of Hitler's supporters post 1942 loaded the ovens. Only a few of them manned the gas chambers. Only a few of them manned the gas chambers. Only a few of them rounded up the "undesirables" into cattle cars and transported them to concentration camps, were members of the Gestapo or were members of the SS.
The vast majority simply agreed with what Hitler was doing, that the "undesirables" needed to be wiped out "for the good of the volk".
That police woman might not have been experimenting on or forcibly sterilising the disabled, but she was actively perpetuating the bigotry that says that they should be- meaning that ideologically it ammounts to the same thing. Otherwise you might as well argue that the conviction of Albert Speer in the Nuremberg trials was unjust because all he was was a number cruncher (which would be an utterly ludicrous argument).
Whether you want to split hairs and call it Neo-Nazism, Nazism, Nazi sympathising, or some other term which rightfully and shamefully brands someone as a pro-eugenic scumbag, the underlying ideology is identical.
Then again, I completely understand why so many are reluctant to admit to this form of bigotry being what it is. Considering how much disability discrimination gets a free pass globally compared to racism and sexism; if society actually admitted to this being what it is, then a significant number of people would have to admit to the ideological swastikas they've been wearing in their hearts for some time now.
I won't bother going over your entire post as this is far from the forum to do so but a couple of comments.
Or were members of the military on convalescent leave or the Order Police (who ultimately fell under the command of Reichsfhurer Himmler but were not SS members) or local volunteers or were militias set up by the German occupying forces to root out all undesirables. It was far from just the SS & Gestapo who actively participated in all aspects of the holocaust.Quote:
Originally Posted by bowspearer
This is like 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon. You can draw a line between a police officer casually using a common & often espressed sentiment that some one is a "spastic" with perpetuating the ideals that lead to genocide.Quote:
Originally Posted by bowspearer
Wonders never cease..
As for Speer he was a great deal more than a number cruncher.
Are you studying to teach this drivel? So in short what you are saying is anyone who uses those disparaging terms must have a ideological swasticka in their heart?Quote:
Originally Posted by bowspearer
I must wear jackboots & smash babies skulls for fun because I use those terms daily & a lot of other terms that would offend your sensibilities. I make no apologies for doing so & will continue to do so without being a Neo Fascist in my heart.
To begin with, I also made reference to groups other than the Gestapo and SS when mentioning the prison guards at the concentration camps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prowl
You mean by comparing them to a viewpoint of someone with cerebal palsy which ideologically fits in completely with that quote from 1920 which I brought up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prowl
Talk about a ludicrous argument. There is a vast difference between wearing jackboots or driving a Voltswagon and perpetuating stereotypes with promote the very ideology which drove the likes of AKTIONT4 & AKTION14. We are talking about bigotry here, which those of us who have faced it our entire lives are all too aware of as well as the suffering to where it leads as well as leads. If you think that every single instance of genocide on this planet rooted in bigotry didn't start out with some kind of slurs and bigoted antagonism, then you have an incredibly poor grasp of history.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prowl
Furthermore I suggest you take a look at peer reviewed studies out there which have demonstrated significantly higher levels of abuse suffered by the disabled as opposed to the abled, and then try telling me that it's "just a slur".
If you use those terms on a daily basis, then as much as you hate hearing it, yes, you are glorifying the attitudes which drove the Holocaust every bit as much as someone who uses racist terminology glorifies the kind of hatred actions of the likes of the KKK. If you're that ignorant that you cannot see that then I truly feel sorry for you.
A reminder to all...
Any unresolvable issues like religion, politics or social ideologies is not to be debated here. There are sites out there catering for that.
This is not a site for picking on people and their comments just because they see things differently to your point of view. This is a toy collector site. Ignore it (non-toy stuff you don't agree with) and move on.
Griffin, just for the record, I wasn't trying to turn this into a political debate, merely venting based on bigotry I've witnessed and encountered most of my life (I test in the genius range on IQ tests but most of my life I've been treated like a worthless idiot because of my disability)- in the same way that I'd expect anyone else who'd witnessed bigotry to be able to vent about it on here, be it sexism, racism, or any other form of bigotry.
It's just sad that in this day and age when we're supposed to be so enlightened, that people would actually come on here and minimise, trivialise and diminish said bigotry when another board member had been clearly and genuinely offended by it.....
Damn......
I have missed too much Hercules, I am gonna have download that entire show :D
1st world problems, I know...
You could buy the series which is on sale now for about $150 at jb-hi fiQuote:
Originally Posted by gantz
Really?! that is fantastic!! :)
Thanks so much for the heads up SkyWarp
Ha!, LOL! :p:DQuote:
Originally Posted by valkyrie_76
I loved that review, the acoustics of the Corvette in that mall would've been AWESOME! :D:cool:
In black, it is indeed a sexy beast huh? ;):)Quote:
Originally Posted by KillinSpoon
For some reason, I always thought Aries to be way cooler than Hercules in that show - Damn you Kevin Sorbo! :p:DQuote:
Originally Posted by gantz
Hey mate, my math was off. Apparently it's even cheaper, there are 5 season DVD sets each priced $25, the last has both seasons 5 and 6. So 5 sets = $125!Quote:
Originally Posted by gantz
i was going through a box of my transformers last night looking for a pretender... and to my horror i discovered a buch of of figures have discoloured.. my Doubledealer, Landfill, Quickmix and my Powermaster Prime..
its sad......
these have been out of dust and sunlight is it just age that fades them... now i am paranoid about all my stored figures...
I feel your pain sharky! G1's - you do your best for them and they still fade! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharky
I feel you Sharky! Was moving a few figures from a storage container to a cardboard box for transport, and when I lifted my thumb off Transmetal Rampage there was a significant amount of chrome stuck to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharky
I thought it was enough to keep my figs out of direct sunlight, so I'm quite paranoid now.:(
yeah just dont know any more. i guess 20 somthing year old figures have a right to age its a little disapointing.. i am hoping there are not more that have faded as mostly everything is packed and ready for the move soon.
They are the laws of the universe.
Entropy will claim everything. You can keep the toys in a vacuum sealed container buried in a vault, and it will still degrade.
Heh eventually everything will just turn to dust like a mummy's fart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Demonac
Where's my TFCC Sideburn figure?@!!??!
Tets is only a couple of suburbs away from me and he already has his :(:confused:
oh god i'm sick of work!!!
please let me win tattslotto tonight so i can become an international man of leisure.
( not asking for much... lol )
janda :)
Grr ebayers who use accounts setup in the US but request items to be sent to china or some other country where I cannot track items :mad: ah I dont think so. Now I have to go through the ebay resolution process....zzzzzzzz
Received this rare-ish item in the mail, in a padded bag (should have been sent in a box, as it was totally squashed on the bottom half, destroying the reflective panel inside).
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/damaged01.jpg
It's the second rarest of the 96 different Minivehicles so far released by Hasbro, and is one of the few TFs toys I wanted to keep sealed in packaging... so have to get another one now.
^ That really sucks griffin. I feel your pain as this has happened to me more than once including an extremely rare 25 year old book that was folded in half by my postie so it would fit in the letterbox :mad:
Post Offices should have the 'Deliver with Extreme Care or we'll sue your ass' option for deliveries.
me likes that idea.... lol :pQuote:
Originally Posted by SkyWarp91
janda :)
Got a phone call this morning. the job interview I had lined up for Tuesday -- Canceled.
Reason - I have too much experience for a junior position and would rock the boat
How the **** can you have too much experience for the position BEFORE an interview.
Its not like I can walk in, and 15 minutes later know their entire IT system, the ins and out of said system and how to fix any problems they have over their exsisting IT support and engineers.
that blows, sounds like they have more internal problems than you perhaps want to have to deal with though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippo
Welcome to the workforce of Australia 2011! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippo
basically, you would be too good for the job and they would have to promote you and then refill the position.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippo