Grocery store you are pissing me off

One of the most ridiculous marketing maneuvers pulled by grocery stores is putting the milk, meat, bread, and produce in the corners of the store. Since most people have all four on their list, they have to walk all the way around the store to get them. The stores figure you’ll pick up lots of impulse buys along the way.

All it does for me is convince me I need to shop in a smaller store.

Chain stores aren’t always the cheapest

I currently work part-time in an independent, rural drugstore. I can say from experience that what we pay for a drug is higher than what a chain pays, because we can only buy a select few very common drugs in bulk (and we don’t pay kickbacks to anybody).

That being said, we’ve still had dozens of people over the past couple years transfer all their prescriptions to us, and drive out of the way to come to our store, because they called around and found out we still had the cheapest prices around for cash patients. One woman was on 6 Rx’s a month, and she said the second-cheapest store in the area was still quoting her a price that was $60 a month higher than ours for the same 6 Rx’s. We then told her one of the drugs has been available in a generic for a few months, and another one was available in an easy-to-halve double strength (and we’d cut them in half for her if she wanted us to). That made her savings per month go to over $100. She was, needless to say, furious that no one at her previous (chain) pharmacy ever told her any of this. We’ve gained at least 6 customers from her good word-of-mouth.

Over 300 Proofs of God’s Existence

http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/GodProof.htm

Some of my favorites:

ARGUMENT FROM INTIMIDATION
(1) See this bonfire?
(2) Therefore, God exists.

ARGUMENT FROM INCOMPREHENSIBILITY
(1) Flabble glurk zoom boink blubba snurgleschnortz ping!
(2) No one has ever refuted (1).
(3) Therefore, God exists.

ARGUMENT FROM INFINITE REGRESS
(1) Ask atheists what caused the Big Bang.
(2) Regardless of their answer, ask how they know this.
(3) Continue process until the atheist admits he doesn’t know the answer to one of your questions.
(4) You win!
(5) Therefore, God exists.

And, of course, these 2 sum up so many message board threads:

ARGUMENT FROM EXHAUSTION (abridged)
(1) Do you agree with the utterly trivial proposition X?
(2) Atheist: of course.
(3) How about the slightly modified proposition X’?
(4) Atheist: Um, no, not really.
(5) Good. Since we agree, how about Y? Is that true?
(6) Atheist: No! And I didn’t agree with X’!
(7) With the truths of these clearly established, surely you agree that Z is true as well?
(8) Atheist: No. So far I have only agreed with X! Where is this going, anyway?
(9) I’m glad we all agree…..
….
(37) So now we have used propositions X, X’, Y, Y’, Z, Z’, P, P’, Q and Q’ to arrive at the obviously valid point R. Agreed?
(38) Atheist: Like I said, so far I’ve only agreed with X. Where is this going?
….
(81) So we now conclude from this that propositions L’, L’ and J’ are true. Agreed?
(82) I HAVEN’T AGREED WITH ANYTHING YOU’VE SAID SINCE X! WHERE IS THIS GOING!?
….
(177) …and it follows that proposition HRV, SHQ’ and BTU’ are all obviously valid. Agreed?
(178) [Atheist either faints from overwork or leaves in disgust]
(179) Therefore, God exists.

PEACOCK ARGUMENT FROM SELECTIVE MEMORY
(1) [Christian asks "stumper" question]
(2) [Atheist answers question]
(3) [A lapse of time]
(4) [Christian repeats question]
(5) [Atheist repeats answer]
(6) [A lapse of time]
(7) [Christian repeats question]
(8) [Atheist repeats answer]
(9) [A lapse of time]
(10) Atheist, you never answered my question.
(11) Therefore, God exists.

Oh, the irony.

Nov 11 1634 “Under the urging of Anglican Bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes ‘An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery’. Seven years later, the good Bishop Atherton is the second man hanged for Buggery under that Act.”

Nov 11 1215 “The Fourth Lateran Council meets. They adopt the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ. This turns all Catholics into Cannibals on a feeding schedule, but who are we to comment on theology.”

Got both of these off The Daily Rotten (NSFW so I won’t link to it).