Assuming troll post. Or sarcasm. One of the two.
EDIT: My bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YORCk1BN7QY
Apparently I forgot how it ended. I just remembered seeing the scaled down version on a treadmill not work.
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No. That is an example of something people fail to grasp. Of course it would take off.
No. That is an example of something people fail to grasp. Of course it would take off.
In fairness to folks who don't/can't install ad blocker, Google's f'in double click ad system has screwed up the convention.Difference between single click and double click.
Fucking double clicking hyper links and single clicking icons. Been using Windows 25 years and still not getting the concept?
Few years back I was talking to my dad about insurance and how the premiums go up every year even if you never make a claim. He said "Well, the insurance company knows that if you go for a while without an accident, you're due." I argued no, that's not the case, and pointed out that if you flip a quarter and it comes up tails 9 times, it's still 50/50 odds on the tenth flip. He told me 'no', heads is more likely on the 10th flip.
Few years back I was talking to my dad about insurance and how the premiums go up every year even if you never make a claim. He said "Well, the insurance company knows that if you go for a while without an accident, you're due." I argued no, that's not the case, and pointed out that if you flip a quarter and it comes up tails 9 times, it's still 50/50 odds on the tenth flip. He told me 'no', heads is more likely on the 10th flip.
In combination of the above, sometimes (every time? if you have control) a perfectly valid reason to buy something is simply because you want it, you don't have to try to justify it because it was on sale.
I have a friend that will tell me the "original" price of something (my wife still does this on occasion, I've been working on her for years though so she's a lot better) and I just shake my head.
That actually happened to me once on a COLA bump.
It was just enough to take me out of the high end of one bracket into the low end of the next bracket. I think it was only about a $40 loss for the year, but a loss is a loss.
That's actually illegal in the UK.employee: "What are we wanting to sell this widget for"?
manager: "$19.95"
employee: "What do I put under 'original price'"?
manager: "I dunno. Just put a higher number there"
...and that's how "original prices" come to be. Their sole purpose is to be a higher number than what the company wanted to sell their product for in the first place. They aren't cutting it from that price. It was never going to be sold for that. The weird thing is that I think that 99% of people know this by now, but they carry on talking about it because it makes them feel better.
Basic concept to YOU is not a basic concept to EVERYONE.
Everyone is different and EVERYONE is stupid in some way shape or form about things they have very little knowledge or experience of.
I think it's pretty ignorant and stupid for OP to not understand that.
Something I learned in the IT world. Just because someone doesn't know how to hook up a mouse, doesn't mean they are stupid. To me it's easy cause I've done it before and do it on regular basis. But some people never even touch a computer.
Heck I remember there was a guy at a company that simply refused to use a computer all together. He was rich, had islands and no, he didn't know how to hook up a mouse.
Was he stupid? Not at all, I'm pretty sure he was smarter than MOST people.
Hope you understand.
That's actually illegal in the UK.
Another one that I've heard of but never personally run into is people that don't understand how graduated income tax rates work. i.e. they believe there are certain breakpoints where earning another dollar of income will result in reduced earnings because the taxes on their entire gross income will increase.
I used to think that when I was a teenager. I think it's excusable until you are old enough to have to file taxes.
I don't know how you could enforce that though. Seems like all they'd have to do is list said widget for the "original price" for a while to get around it. In that case the consumer loses out because they have to pay more for something for however long it takes to satisfy the legal definition of "original price".
They did this on Mythbusters. It was pretty cool.
Spoiler: no.
If you have your own office, it's ok to fart in it without apology.
That actually happened to me once on a COLA bump.
It was just enough to take me out of the high end of one bracket into the low end of the next bracket. I think it was only about a $40 loss for the year, but a loss is a loss.
Temp doesn't matter. The answer depends on volume of air at a given temp, and/or total BTUs.We have a heat pump, so bumping the thermostat a few degrees will keep the heat pump going. Bumping it up more than that will kick in the aux/strip heat. The heat pump blows in at probably 85-90F, while the aux heat is closer to 110. Which do YOU think will warm the house faster?