Every year the Girl Scouts would come to my door, and their sales pitch was, “Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies? They’re made with real Girl Scouts”.
I have no idea who told them to quote the Addams Family, but it worked every damn time.
When I was a girl scout doing sales in front of grocery stores they taught us to be friendly and cheerful to people going into the store but to only ask if people would like to buy cookies when they were leaving because:
It meant they knew what their budget was after buying food
They possibly still had their wallets in their hands and that made it an easier impulse buy
They wouldn’t get annoyed about getting asked on their way in and the way out (especially since we kept tables at both exits of the store)
They just spent a bunch of money on food and the $3 (i am old) box of cookies looks less expensive when you’re leaving after paying a bigger bill
It was a wonderful example of being conniving as fuck while also being polite and putting people at ease, and was extremely educational for me in terms of selling things.
The way that most people used to tell us “no” was “sorry, I don’t have cash” and we weren’t ever supposed to argue with that, but I have been very amused to hear the girl scouts at the local market saying “That’s okay, we take Venmo!”
The more people who use Firefox the better! It’s got versions for the desktop, android, and iphone, all free. In addition to ublock origin there are thousands of addons. You could also consider using one of Mozilla’s paid products, such as their VPN, or donating to the Mozilla Foundation, in order to ensure they’re able to keep going.
Not to be Old on main but I remember this exact thing happening in the late 90s and early 00s. I remember it very well. Microsoft pushed out all the browser competition with Internet Explorer, at which point both browser and web innovation stagnated for years because why fix something that’s broken if everyone is using the broken thing anyway because there are hardly any other options. If you want to know how bad it was, Internet Explorer did not have browser tabs and it certainly did not have any sort of adblock. And everyone just lived with it.
I am watching the exact same thing happen with Chrome in real time today and that’s why I always reblog these posts and sometimes am extra annoying and add on to them. I don’t want to see it happen again because it sucked. Please use Firefox. Use it on mobile too (it has browser extensions!!! Including ad blockers!!!) And reminder that Edge/Brave/Vivaldi are all built on Chromium and you should not be using those either. Those browsers will show up as Chrome on tracking analytics and it does not help the overall project, which is showing web developers that Chrome is not the only browser people are using.
Your passwords and other useful things transfer to Firefox, btw. Go make the switch. You have nothing to lose.
Yet another reason (there are So Many) to use Firefox as Browser of Choice.
My friend is trying to name herself, and she’s like, “Oh, what’s that name that’s like marmalade, but it’s a name?” and I know she means Adelaide, but I think I can talk her into naming herself Marmalade if I play my cards right here.
Not in a hateful, cruel way, but because my name is Newt, and I think “Newt & Marmalade” sounds like a detective agency that solves mysteries for tiny garden critters.
Whenever I see someone refer to “Victorian era-” for places outside the UK I’m tempted to start saying shit like “Han Dynasty era Rome”, “Soviet era Australia” etc
“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”
The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America
I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.
“cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas”
it is crazy how “if this childrens show doesn’t kill their villain at the end it’s irredeemable media” became such a popular opinion here. like people were calling steven universe fascist apologia. and to be clear I don’t even think that would be the case for non childrens media, either. perhaps holding every single story up to the same standard of “does it follow the acceptable narrative path or is it evil propaganda” isn’t the most anti-fascist thing, either. maybe.
“you are morally obligated to murder your enemies” is also perhaps not the most anti-fascist thing
I hope your era of “disappointed, but not surprised” will soon come to a close, and for it to be replaced with a long span of “surprised, but not disappointed.”
I know that your heart has been hurt before by the cruel masses. but can you learn to trust again, and let your beloved mutual reblog that post you disabled reblogs on? for me? because i asked so so niceys? please?
alright i got the reblog in shut the gates again fuck'em
