Random Thoughts Thread

[Moliere]

You are giving computer scientists way too much credit for eye hand…errr…eye hand penis coordination.

[Moliere]

I was in several airports this week and in a couple of them I walked past the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store. Each of these stores has a ton of candy covered apples. I've never seen a single person in the airport eating one of these apples, yet they continue to have a ton of them for sale displayed in their store windows. The store in Houston even had a couple tall tray racks full of candy covered apples that were just sitting in reserve. I originally thought that maybe the apples in the windows are just really good plastic replicas and if you buy an apple they'll get one from the back, but having seen them more up close, I'm convinced the ones in the windows are actually apples. So now I'm wondering how many they have to throw away as I doubt they sell many of them each day.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I was in several airports this week and in a couple of them I walked past the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store. Each of these stores has a ton of candy covered apples. I've never seen a single person in the airport eating one of these apples, yet they continue to have a ton of them for sale displayed in their store windows. The store in Houston even had a couple tall tray racks full of candy covered apples that were just sitting in reserve. I originally thought that maybe the apples in the windows are just really good plastic replicas and if you buy an apple they'll get one from the back, but having seen them more up close, I'm convinced the ones in the windows are actually apples. So now I'm wondering how many they have to throw away as I doubt they sell many of them each day.

I have wondered the same thing. Maybe it is just a money-laundering front.

[chrisrenrut]

I was in several airports this week and in a couple of them I walked past the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store. Each of these stores has a ton of candy covered apples. I've never seen a single person in the airport eating one of these apples, yet they continue to have a ton of them for sale displayed in their store windows. The store in Houston even had a couple tall tray racks full of candy covered apples that were just sitting in reserve. I originally thought that maybe the apples in the windows are just really good plastic replicas and if you buy an apple they'll get one from the back, but having seen them more up close, I'm convinced the ones in the windows are actually apples. So now I'm wondering how many they have to throw away as I doubt they sell many of them each day.

My wife loves those, but only ever buys them at RMCF stores in resort towns. Never in an airport.

Think they are literal window dressing, to get people to come in and buy fudge.

[Northwestcoug]

I know no one who loves covered apples. They aren't that great and they're not worth the mess.

[Bo Diddley]

I know no one who loves covered apples. They aren't that great and they're not worth the mess.

Haven't had one for a while, but I like them.

One of my former soldiers owns a couple stores in North UC. I could ask him about them. My guess is they are required by the franchise even if they don't sell very many in that particular store.

[Moliere]

Think they are literal window dressing, to get people to come in and buy fudge.

This is the best rationale for their existence.

[Donuthole]

Mrs. D loves the chocolate-covered gummy bears, so I sometimes snag some of those when they have them.

[BigPiney]

Mrs. D loves the chocolate-covered gummy bears, so I sometimes snag some of those when they have them.

I like the trader joes ones, but they are all the same flavor so I can only a few at a time.

[Donuthole]

I like the trader joes ones, but they are all the same flavor so I can only a few at a time.

Yeah, those are ok in a pinch, but definitely not as good as the RMCF ones.

[BigPiney]

Yeah, those are ok in a pinch, but definitely not as good as the RMCF ones.

good to know. The chocolate covered cinnamon bears from the byu bookstore are not good.

[Jeff Lebowski]

good to know. The chocolate covered cinnamon bears from the byu bookstore are not good.

Agree to disagree.

[Pelado]

Not a big fan of cinnamon bears, whether or not covered in chocolate.

[Donuthole]

Not a big fan of cinnamon bears, whether or not covered in chocolate.

I dislike the texture of cinnamon bears. I make dark-chocolate-covered Hot Tamales for Valentine's Day. They are delish.

[wally]

One would think that someone with the intellectual capacity to get a white collar job at a decently large tech company would also have the necessary motor skills and cultural awareness to not pee all over the floor when standing at the urinal.

But one would be wrong.

Why is so hard to pee into the urinal instead of all over the urinal and floor? There is even an “aim mark” in the urinal scientifically placed in the spot that would cause the least splashing. (If you always wondered what the little logo in the urinal was for, now you know.)

I had an older coworker that I nicknamed "the dribbler" based on what he always left behind on the toilet seat. I always cleaned up after him, probably mostly so nobody using the bathroom after me would think that I did it, but also I'd like to think that it was a charitable act too.