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On this topic, we used to have a local television news reporter that frequented the bookstore. He was known to be difficult to work with and a notorious "returner"... he'd consume the product (book/music/magazine, etc.) and then return it for a refund, claiming it was defective or "it wasn't what he thought it was". I was working kasse once and he came up and slapped down his ID and asked for a refund on some books. I looked at his ID and said "ah, I know who you are", meaning that he wasn't going to get anything from me that day. He took it completely wrong and gave me this big ass smile, stuck out his hand for a shake, and said "thanks for watching" .

Why does nobody ever ask them who's going to do the (often essential) minimum wage jobs if their expectation is for everyone to just move into the careers that pay better?

It's a cliche brought to the world by English speaking people used to customer services being ass kissing whatever the customer's behaviour. German customer services treat people like they're treated from them.

"Customer is always right" is a bad policy which caters to sociopaths and narcissists, and breeds entitled assholes. My former company's policy when I was working in customer service was basically this - if it's our mistake, we'll apologise and make it right. If it's your mistake but you're nice and polite, we'll do what we can to help you make it right, often at our expense. If it's your mistake and you're a rude and entitled cunt, good luck with it, you're not getting any help.

I would have still binged it all in two nights

I don't know how many times this gets played here in the US. I used to work in a bookstore when I was in college and so many times we had to cater to assholes. It used to eat me up. The German approach seems to be the correct one, honestly.

Anyone that thinks they could survive in a room with a Rhino for 37 minutes must have a death wish... Here is a pretty good idea in this opener...

Rhinos are a lot faster than you think - assuming this is a normal sized room, I think you'd be pretty fucked with a rhino in the room. If I've got a laser pointer, I think I could distract the cat. If I've got nothing, I'll take my chances on trying to befriend the gorilla for 37 minutes like @Tommy

Out of touch cunt

That confused me for a second. I thought the episodes are 6 hours long.

I'm sure you can find weird tax shit in most country's histories. I think Imperial Russia had a 'beard tax'. Jizya tax would blow a lot of people's minds.

Finished watching Thai Cave Rescue, a Netflix mini-series about the Tham Luang cave rescue of 12 kids and their football coach 4 years ago. Written completely from a Thai perspective, I thought it was a great watch and a good portrayal of the actual rescue mission with some fictional characters and some other liberties taken for the sake of dramatisation. Binged all 6 hour-long episodes in two nights...

Pyrenean ibex is the first and the only known species to go extinct twice. Originally, they became extinct in 2000, and there were several cloning attempts to resurrect the species afterwards. In 2003, a living specimen was born through cloning, but died 7 minutes after birth due to a respiratory defect, making it the first species to go extinct, be brought back alive, and become extinct again. Such a majestic animal, too.

No worse then buying a licence for the fucking TV

The Philippines isn’t a kleptocracy anymore, I was referring to the past, the 60s/70s more specifically.

Hilarious - 9GAG

The Gorilla. I'd befriend and it we'd just chill for 37 minutes.

Students massacred at Sharif University (the country’s top uni) in Tehran