Can't make it too obvious.Netpackrat wrote:I need to get some of those made for Alaska, but with the intermediate line, "please leave your money and..."Aesop wrote:These are a comfort to me.
Would that it was the official state motto.
That sign, as well as the genuine 'customer service' I've seen that works the exact same way, would only have very niche appeal. Turns most people off.CByrneIV wrote:Actually, in some places I think the novelty factor and honesty of it would work quite well...Greg wrote:
Like a business with a giant sign over the door, 'Buy my overpriced shit then GTFO'. Just won't do.
Hipsters exist after all...
Yep. Exactly how most BMW's are wasted on their owners.CByrneIV wrote:The shitty part of it is... when the stuff actually is better, and that's why you guy it... and everyone assumes it just because of the image.
I'd never buy an Apple desktop (though I happily hackintosh), but I love their laptops.
When I wear a decent watch, I usually wear an Omega.
Both of these are because of their toughness, and utility... for which I'm happy paying extra.
The "lifestyle consumers" just irritate the hell out of me.
Yeah..."The soup Nazi" was based off of a VERY popular store. It worked, and people really did wait outside to get in. That was before Seinfeld made it famous.CByrneIV wrote:in some places I think the novelty factor and honesty of it would work quite well...Greg wrote:Buy my overpriced shit then GTFO'. Just won't do.
And they pay extra for Lincoln badges on a Ford Expedition or Explorer, Lexus tags on a Toyota and Acura stickers on a Honda...Caddy labels on an Avalanche.Greg wrote:People spend extra for Apple products,
The nice thing is newer models becoming more affordable for those who will use them to their potential.Greg wrote:Yep. Exactly how most BMW's are wasted on their owners.
Not from Jersey, I just live here. Have no idea what either of those are.CByrneIV wrote:And Girbaud too... $90 for denim for 13 year olds....TheIrishman wrote: Hell Greg, you're from Jersey, remember Z Cavaricci's?
TheIrishman wrote:Yeah..."The soup Nazi" was based off of a VERY popular store. It worked, and people really did wait outside to get in. That was before Seinfeld made it famous.CByrneIV wrote:in some places I think the novelty factor and honesty of it would work quite well...Greg wrote:Buy my overpriced shit then GTFO'. Just won't do.And they pay extra for Lincoln badges on a Ford Expedition or Explorer, Lexus tags on a Toyota and Acura stickers on a Honda...Caddy labels on an Avalanche.Greg wrote:People spend extra for Apple products,
People are idiots who yearn to be cool.
Hell Greg, you're from Jersey, remember Z Cavaricci's?The nice thing is newer models becoming more affordable for those who will use them to their potential.Greg wrote:Yep. Exactly how most BMW's are wasted on their owners.
FIFYCByrneIV wrote:You can lay the blame for Pelosi and Boxer on [strike]Maryland[/strike]Baltimore's crooked Democrat machine
Cough, Williamsburg, Cough..CByrneIV wrote:Actually, in some places I think the novelty factor and honesty of it would work quite well...Greg wrote:Like a business with a giant sign over the door, 'Buy my overpriced shit then GTFO'. Just won't do.
Hipsters exist after all...
He hates that name, yaknow.TheIrishman wrote:Yeah..."The soup Nazi" was based off of a VERY popular store. It worked, and people really did wait outside to get in. That was before Seinfeld made it famous.
And it got populare because it was A)very, very good soup, B)reasonably priced for Manhattan C)at the very beginning of the foodie revolution, and D)came along at a lull in Manhattanite trends..I remember them. The thing is, go to a large enough HS, and that pool of "Outcasts might number in the hundreds, so it doesn't hurt so much..CByrneIV wrote:Designer jeans, basically required to not be socially outcast for a while.
Apparently, Forbes magazine agrees with you.Frankingun wrote:I think it's beyond time that we started using the Saul Alinsky tactics on the democrats.