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April 14th, 2018 at 1:41:03 AM permalink
Quote: Greasyjohn

Your post reminds me of when I hit my soft 18 against a dealer 10 up. I draw a 9 and the dealer winds up with 18.


Better than hitting and getting an 8 for a hard 16 then standing (as you should)....then people are like "what dafaq u hit 18 but not 16?? omgz!"
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April 15th, 2018 at 7:42:31 AM permalink
Quote: RS

Better than hitting and getting an 8 for a hard 16 then standing (as you should)....then people are like "what dafaq u hit 18 but not 16?? omgz!"



You forgot doing this at 3rd base, then having the dealer flip a 6 and draw a 5. Total strangers will make their best attempt to telepathically set you on fire.
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April 26th, 2018 at 6:54:23 PM permalink
I cannot STAND when bank tellers ask me about whatever I’m doing with my money.

I withdrew $1200 cash the other day and the teller asked me what I needed the money for. WTF???

I deposited a fairly large check a few weeks ago, and I was asked about 4 times if I wanted to see a financial advisor.

I’m about to just close my accounts at this branch just the nosey tellers. I’ve never had this issue anywhere else.
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April 26th, 2018 at 7:44:48 PM permalink
Starting in May, Wells Fargo will only accept cash deposits from the person whose name is on the account. If Grandma wants to put cash into little Johnies bank account, she has to first buy a money order and deposit that instead.

Cash deposits will be limited to account owners or authorized signers
What is happening
To help reduce criminal activity and protect your account, we'll be making changes to our policy for cash deposits made at Wells Fargo branches.

Once our policy takes effect in a few weeks, we'll only accept cash deposits into your Wells Fargo Consumer checking or savings accounts if it is coming from an account owner or authorized signer.

What you should know
If a non-account owner needs to deposit money into your account, they can deposit a check, cashier's check or money order, or use a person-to-person payment service like Zelle®.

All customers will need to provide identification to make cash deposits.
Wells Fargo ATM or debit card holders may use their card and their Personal Identification Number (PIN) to confirm their identity when making deposits.
Customers who do not have a Wells Fargo ATM or debit card may present a valid driver's license, state or federal government-issued ID card, passport, or other similar picture ID.
Questions?
If you have questions, please ask a banker in your branch, or call us at 1-800-869-3557, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Thank you for choosing Wells Fargo.

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April 26th, 2018 at 7:46:35 PM permalink
Quote: gamerfreak

WTF???


Depending on an impertinent little twit's place on my annoyance scale:

#4. "Why do you ask?"

#3. "No habla Ingles, Senor/Senora,"

#2. "Hookers and blow, baby!"

#1. "Yo mama likes me to do her with caviar.

(#1-b.Extra-supertwit special: And do you like taking it with caviar?")
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April 26th, 2018 at 7:59:13 PM permalink
Quote: billryan

Starting in May, Wells Fargo will only accept cash deposits from the person whose name is on the account. If Grandma wants to put cash into little Johnies bank account, she has to first buy a money order and deposit that instead.

Cash deposits will be limited to account owners or authorized signers
What is happening
To help reduce criminal activity and protect your account, we'll be making changes to our policy for cash deposits made at Wells Fargo branches.

Once our policy takes effect in a few weeks, we'll only accept cash deposits into your Wells Fargo Consumer checking or savings accounts if it is coming from an account owner or authorized signer.

What you should know
If a non-account owner needs to deposit money into your account, they can deposit a check, cashier's check or money order, or use a person-to-person payment service like Zelle®.

All customers will need to provide identification to make cash deposits.
Wells Fargo ATM or debit card holders may use their card and their Personal Identification Number (PIN) to confirm their identity when making deposits.
Customers who do not have a Wells Fargo ATM or debit card may present a valid driver's license, state or federal government-issued ID card, passport, or other similar picture ID.
Questions?
If you have questions, please ask a banker in your branch, or call us at 1-800-869-3557, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Thank you for choosing Wells Fargo.

Wells Fargo Deposit Products Group
wellsfargo.com | Fraud Information Center

I think they're doing such things so overdrafts hit more accounts. If the banks can delay a cash deposit, ca-ching. It's probably a main reason a third party deposits in a bank account. They're full of shit.
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April 26th, 2018 at 8:15:21 PM permalink
Quote: billryan

Starting in May, Wells Fargo will only accept cash deposits from the person whose name is on the account. If Grandma wants to put cash into little Johnies bank account, she has to first buy a money order and deposit that instead.

I received a similar notice from JP Morgan/ Chase bank months ago, saying the same thing. Don't know if you said this, but I believe they said no one else could make a cash payment for a customer at all? So if a friend or brother or whatever rushed to the bank to make a payment you remembered while out of state, even with the money, you miss your payment.

It's all about control. I don't know if they will accept cash at all?
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April 26th, 2018 at 9:58:31 PM permalink
Quote: gamerfreak

I cannot STAND when bank tellers ask me about whatever I’m doing with my money.
I withdrew $1200 cash the other day and the teller asked me what I needed the money for. WTF???



I was just discussing this the other day.
I have no bank now, screw them.

I used take out of state personal checks
to my bank, 30 of them sometimes,
and they paid me cash even if I had only
$100 in my account. That was pre 9/11.

After 9/11 it totally changed. Now if
I deposit a check from a bank across
the street, it's takes days before the
money is available, out of state can
take 10 days.

A manager told me years ago that
things were getting really tight and
the public had no idea. They want
to know where all your money comes
from what you do with it. Screw that.

There are other ways to handle cash
that doesn't involve bank accounts.
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April 26th, 2018 at 10:24:07 PM permalink
Worst thing about tellers several years ago was this habit of addressing customers by name. I kept telling them not to do it but its like talking to a brick wall. They just couldn't understand that the person in line behind me might know me under a different name and I didn't want anything broadcast to the whole lobby about who I was.

Now, I do online banking and supermarket withdrawals if I need cash, else its just a debit card. Haven't been in a branch bank or at an ATM in years.
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April 26th, 2018 at 11:16:09 PM permalink
Quote: FleaStiff

Worst thing about tellers several years ago was this habit of addressing customers by name. I kept telling them not to do it but its like talking to a brick wall. They just couldn't understand that the person in line behind me...<SNIP>...<nevermind who I don't wanna know what & why>...

Wouldn't work in a bank, but for other joints that try to be overly familiar phony friends, like when a certain overpriced yuppie coffee chain which I will not name (but rhymes with "Starbucks") asks for my name when ordering at the counter, obviously none of their damn beeswax to make coffee, it is my policy to lie. Usually with an insipid substitute like "Joe." But if feeling mischievous, sometimes my name becomes something like "Number Nineteen." "Uh, your name is number nineteen, Sir?" "Yes, yes it is." ... "Attention, calling number nineteen, your double XYZ Liquid Meth Special is ready now." And then I get to see maybe half a dozen people suddenly stricken with confused looks that say: "Huh, wait, what, I don't remember any number, what number was I supposed to be?" Sue me.
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April 27th, 2018 at 1:39:04 AM permalink
Quote: gamerfreak

I cannot STAND when bank tellers ask me about whatever I’m doing with my money.

I withdrew $1200 cash the other day and the teller asked me what I needed the money for. WTF???

I deposited a fairly large check a few weeks ago, and I was asked about 4 times if I wanted to see a financial advisor.

I’m about to just close my accounts at this branch just the nosey tellers. I’ve never had this issue anywhere else.



I have read that Bank Tellers will ask what the money is for for your own protection. Someone said something like "The Bank Teller asked me what the money was for because she thought I was a victim of a Robbery and was being forced to withdraw thousands of dollars against my will." This is plausible as my mother told me of her friend's son and his friend attempted robbery and held most of the family hostage and tied them up and they didn't know there was another family member still in the house and that last family member shot them/killed them both to protect himself and his family. There is nothing to say that a scared person who didn't have a gun would be forced to go to a bank and withdraw thousands of dollars to give to the robbers to save their families lives. Which is why a concerned Bank Teller would ask what the money is for.
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April 27th, 2018 at 5:15:39 AM permalink
Quote: DrawingDead

Wouldn't work in a bank, but for other joints that try to be overly familiar phony friends, like when a certain overpriced yuppie coffee chain which I will not name (but rhymes with "Starbucks") asks for my name when ordering at the counter, obviously none of their damn beeswax to make coffee, it is my policy to lie. Usually with an insipid substitute like "Joe."

Hey, now! ;)


Quote:

But if feeling mischievous, sometimes my name becomes something like "Number Nineteen." "Uh, your name is number nineteen, Sir?" "Yes, yes it is." ... "Attention, calling number nineteen, your double XYZ Liquid Meth Special is ready now." And then I get to see maybe half a dozen people suddenly stricken with confused looks that say: "Huh, wait, what, I don't remember any number, what number was I supposed to be?" Sue me.

Love it! Mind if I use this on my next visit to the "Pequod's first mate's" coffee shop?


Quote:

Depending on an impertinent little twit's place on my annoyance scale...

I'd definitely have to go with #2. Although in Vegas, she would probably think you meant it!
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April 27th, 2018 at 7:56:18 AM permalink
Quote: EvenBob


After 9/11 it totally changed. Now if
I deposit a check from a bank across
the street, it's takes days before the
money is available, out of state can
take 10 days.



What bank do you use/were you using? I don't know that I've ever had that problem... I'll deposit checks from other banks and it's available the same day to cover pending transactions. By midnight it's totally in my account.
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April 27th, 2018 at 10:39:51 AM permalink
The blackjack hand that really stings the most for me is doubling an 11 vs a dealer 6, getting a low card , and then the dealer turning over an ace. (Dealer S17) after getting that low card on the double down some other player will inevitably say “don’t worry it doesn’t matter what you got “

Obviously other stuff like dealer 6 card 21s and losing with 20 are also annoying.
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April 27th, 2018 at 10:47:43 AM permalink
Why is it that almost every time when you're on the phone talking to a representative, whether is't your bank, Internet provider, credit card company, cell phone company, solicitor, etc., and they ask you how you're doing and you say, "Fine, how are you?", they respond with "Good," or "Fine," or "I'm okay," followed by "Thanks for asking."

I have never in my life said to a representative, when they've ask me how I'm doing, "I'm going good, thanks for asking."

Oh, I get it. They're thanking you for showing a basic conversational courtesy. You're taking a lowly representative, or God forbid solicitor, and humanizing them.

To all companies: Tell your workers to quit thanking customers for asking how they are. We already have to put up with solicitors, and wait on hold forever and often have to go through a bunch of menu prompts to speak to a representative as it is. Please don't make me have to listen to someone trying to butter me up or thank me for showing basic courtesy.

You wanted to know my pet peeve? Thank you for asking.
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April 27th, 2018 at 11:06:35 AM permalink
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Hey, now! ;)

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April 27th, 2018 at 12:42:32 PM permalink
Quote: DrawingDead

Wouldn't work in a bank, but for other joints that try to be overly familiar phony friends, like when a certain overpriced yuppie coffee chain which I will not name (but rhymes with "Starbucks") asks for my name when ordering at the counter, .

Yeah, I give fake names. Once gave Marmot at a bakery/coffee shop and the clerk was thrilled to bring a breakfast to someone she considered to be French. Ever try that Sparticus trick at Starbucks.
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April 27th, 2018 at 12:44:54 PM permalink
Quote: Greasyjohn

and they ask you how you're doing and you say, "Fine, how are you?".



I hate that to the point I always now
respond, 'How am I doing? I have no
idea, if you find out let me know.'

I've said this so many times it's automatic.
It always takes people by surprise and
they usually find it funny. I have gotten
the occasional 'smart ass' comment, though.

What I really hate is if somebody asks:
"Are you OK?"

You hear this constantly on TV and in
movies. Am I OK in what way, and how is
that your business in any shape or
form. I will NEVER ask that of anybody,
ever. Yet people do it all the time.
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April 27th, 2018 at 6:13:35 PM permalink
When you get an email from your Boss or HR person that starts "Just a Friendly Reminder", which is basically them saying "Respond or I'll report you for insubordination!"

And then the really annoying ones that are just old forwarded emails that only say "Please advise"

Like it's so hard to copy and paste the original message? Or they feel the need to remind you of the original time stamp of the email?

I wonder if there's a handbook for bad managerial tips that include these gems?
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April 27th, 2018 at 8:44:29 PM permalink
Chicago accents.

Extremely annoying
It’s all about making that GTA
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April 28th, 2018 at 5:31:31 AM permalink
Sitting with two hands of 20 against a 6 thinking you’re in good shape, then next thing you know the dealer reveals a soft 17 and hits it with a stupid 4.
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April 28th, 2018 at 7:28:19 AM permalink
the phase "I guess i am one jack off" and other stupid phrases.."You're killing me smalls" etc.. They say it like we have never heard it before, and its always followed by a really weird forced laugh by the one who says it.

Also people who say "Ace or Face" repeatedly EVERY.SINGLE.HAND.

And craps players who make up their own little phrases every time they throw the dice.
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April 28th, 2018 at 7:37:21 AM permalink
Quote: GlenG

the phase "I guess i am one jack off" and other stupid phrases.."You're killing me smalls" etc.. They say it like we have never heard it before, and its always followed by a really weird forced laugh by the one who says it.

Also people who say "Ace or Face" repeatedly EVERY.SINGLE.HAND.

And craps players who make up their own little phrases every time they throw the dice.

Methinks you might be a candidate to appreciate some of the deep thoughts of MeanPokerDealer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meanpokerdealer?lang=en

EDIT: Unfortunately, they aren't new deep thoughts; he's been quiet for several months. Hope he hasn't retired from his vicious ridicule of customers hobby.
Last edited by: DrawingDead on Apr 28, 2018
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April 28th, 2018 at 7:37:28 AM permalink
OMG Glen, one jack off, every time I hear that in a casino I’m happy for myself and everyone around me that I don’t carry a firearm. Can’t imagine how tired you are of it. The worst is when dealers say it, how can they still want to hear that?
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April 28th, 2018 at 8:02:40 AM permalink
Quote: DrawingDead

Methinks you might be a candidate to appreciate some of the deep thoughts of MeanPokerDealer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meanpokerdealer?lang=en

EDIT: Unfortunately, they aren't new deep thoughts; he's been quiet for several months. Hope he hasn't retired from his vicious ridicule of customers hobby.



Ironically enough his most recent post is still relevant even though its 7 months old.

"Hey F...face, You can always give me 10K and I'll mule-kick you in the nuts and buy you the chicken dinner you'll never win. " LMAO

Quote: mcallister3200

OMG Glen, one jack off, every time I hear that in a casino I’m happy for myself and everyone around me that I don’t carry a firearm. Can’t imagine how tired you are of it. The worst is when dealers say it, how can they still want to hear that?



Cheap Laughs = Cheap way to get tipped. Its a pretty common tactic. Works very well in a Vegas/Touristy casino
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April 28th, 2018 at 10:16:58 AM permalink
Quote: mcallister3200

OMG Glen, one jack off, every time I hear that in a casino I’m happy for myself and everyone around me that I don’t carry a firearm



I feel blessed I never heard any of
these. Roulette players never say
anything, usually. Of course bac
players always yell 'monkey monkey'
for a face card occasionally, but I
don't play bac anymore.
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April 28th, 2018 at 10:52:12 AM permalink
Quote: ChesterDog

While searching for this pet peeve, I found a page about "misophonia".

A sound I don't like is fingernails on a blackboard. What sounds bother you other posters?




The sound of multiple people playing with their poker chips at a poker table.
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April 29th, 2018 at 12:36:41 PM permalink
Customer Appreciation days.

Because that makes it complicated to keep track of them, in order to avoid all the other days at those places during which paying customers are not to be appreciated.

See also: Fan Appreciation days.
http://www.milb.com/promotions/index.jsp?sid=t2310#August
Fri, Aug 31 - Mon, Sep 3: Fan Appreciation Weekend
Quote: Minor League Marketing Genie-ious in Training

Offers & Promotions
[Buy Tickets] August 31 Reno Aces vs. Albuquerque Isotopes
Fan Appreciation Weekend
Come on down to Greater Nevada Field for our last homestand as we dedicate it to our fans!...<SNIP>...

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April 29th, 2018 at 1:28:47 PM permalink
Just discovered a new pet peeve this morning. I was ready to cash out chips in line for the cashier. I had to take a piss real bad too. There was only one cashier working. The woman in front of me had a bag full of pennies... and i sh%$ you not, she took them to the cashier and made them count the coins and pay her out. Only at the SugarHood !
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April 29th, 2018 at 1:30:19 PM permalink
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Just discovered a new pet peeve this morning. I was ready to cash out chips in line for the cashier. I had to take a piss real bad too. There was only one cashier working. The woman in front of me had a bag full of pennies... and i sh%$ you not, she took them to the cashier and made them count the coins and pay her out. Only at the SugarHood !



.... before the silly comments come in from the usual suspects.. Yes, I was well hydrated, perhaps too much!
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April 29th, 2018 at 2:31:48 PM permalink
Quote: WatchMeWin

.... before the silly comments come in from the usual suspects.. Yes, I was well hydrated, perhaps too much!

I have a feeling that woman in front of you was a very close family member.
♪♪Now you swear and kick and beg us That you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas With a handle in your hand♪♪ Your black cards can make you money So you hide them when you're able In the land of casinos and money You must put them on the table♪♪ You go back Jack do it again roulette wheels turinin' 'round and 'round♪♪ You go back Jack do it again♪♪
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April 29th, 2018 at 2:51:31 PM permalink
Quote: WatchMeWin

.... before the silly comments come in from the usual suspects.. Yes, I was well hydrated, perhaps too much!


That’s even worse.
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April 29th, 2018 at 3:09:22 PM permalink
Quote: DrawingDead

Customer Appreciation days.

Because that makes it complicated to keep track of them, in order to avoid all the other days at those places during which paying customers are not to be appreciated.

See also: Fan Appreciation days.
http://www.milb.com/promotions/index.jsp?sid=t2310#August
Fri, Aug 31 - Mon, Sep 3: Fan Appreciation Weekend

Quote: Minor League Marketing Genie-ious in Training

Offers & Promotions
[Buy Tickets] August 31 Reno Aces vs. Albuquerque Isotopes
Fan Appreciation Weekend
Come on down to Greater Nevada Field for our last homestand as we dedicate it to our fans!...<SNIP>...


I went to an Oakland A's Fan Appreciation Day game once - got a "free" green baseball bat, and saw what I think was the first-ever four-pitcher no-hitter.

Something tells me, however, that the casinos aren't giving away free stuff.
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April 29th, 2018 at 3:46:10 PM permalink
It irks me when people laugh while in a heavy losing streak. Yeah buddy, isn’t this hilarious? I can’t think of anything funnier than losing these ten hands in a row!

I know losing happens, but laughing and smiling during it is just not an appropriate reaction in my book!
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April 29th, 2018 at 5:26:07 PM permalink
Quote: WatchMeWin

.... before the silly comments come in from the usual suspects.. Yes, I was well hydrated, perhaps too much!


It’s really has more to do with your electrolyte levels. I’ve started to get a metobolic panel a few days before big casino trip so I have time to make the proper adjustments to my diet.
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April 29th, 2018 at 5:37:10 PM permalink
Quote: ThatDonGuy

Quote: DrawingDead

Customer Appreciation days.

Because that makes it complicated to keep track of them, in order to avoid all the other days at those places during which paying customers are not to be appreciated.

See also: Fan Appreciation days.
http://www.milb.com/promotions/index.jsp?sid=t2310#August
Fri, Aug 31 - Mon, Sep 3: Fan Appreciation Weekend

Quote: Minor League Marketing Genie-ious in Training

Offers & Promotions
[Buy Tickets] August 31 Reno Aces vs. Albuquerque Isotopes
Fan Appreciation Weekend
Come on down to Greater Nevada Field for our last homestand as we dedicate it to our fans!...<SNIP>...


I went to an Oakland A's Fan Appreciation Day game once - got a "free" green baseball bat, and saw what I think was the first-ever four-pitcher no-hitter...

Okay so that does sound like a decent F.A.D. haul, relatively speaking.

Quote: ThatDonGuy

...Something tells me, however, that the casinos aren't giving away free stuff.

That depends on your definition of terms like "give" and "stuff."

Quote: DrawingDead

Station Crapolafest update bulletin:

This past Sunday I passed another giveaway of valuable prizes for honored patrons of a Station property in progress. The recipients were clutching their precious cargo of...a boxed cleaning cloth. Yes, they were giving away rags. Yellow rags, in a box. Yes, there was a line to get them. Yes, it was long. I wonder how many of them got wrapped, tied with a bow, and given as a thoughtful gift to someone who'd just done the same.

I don't get the calendars announcing these spectacular events. Apparently you have to be at a certain level of slot machine play on your comp card to get an invite, and if you are at a high enough level of regular suckerdom you get two of whatever they are passing out, but I've never put a nickel into any of the machines, only used it to log in at the poker tables, so I'm not invited. Sniff.

I feel like such a sucker paying a garbage company to come pick-up my trash.

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April 29th, 2018 at 6:44:19 PM permalink
Quote: AxelWolf

I have a feeling that woman in front of you was a very close family member.



What gives you that impression?
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ThatDonGuy
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April 29th, 2018 at 6:52:27 PM permalink
Quote: DrawingDead

That depends on your definition of terms like "give" and "stuff."


Was it just "a boxed cleaning cloth," or a box of ShamWows (which, I will admit, you can get rather cheaply at Costco)? Seriously, those things are great for cleaning up spills (much better than a sponge or a mop) - just don't put them in the clothes dryer.
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April 29th, 2018 at 7:23:55 PM permalink
Quote: ThatDonGuy

Was it just "a boxed cleaning cloth," or a box of ShamWows (which, I will admit, you can get rather cheaply at Costco)? Seriously, those things are great for cleaning up spills (much better than a sponge or a mop) - just don't put them in the clothes dryer.

Now we're stretching the outermost limits of my cleaning fabric expertise here. What I know, or at least believe I recall of my experience of trying to walk through the middle of the fantanbulous event that had taken over one side of the casino, was that they were packaged in a little cardboard box like a less than half sized box of crackers, with a plastic window revealing that the rag inside was yellow. And I have no knowledge of whether or to what extent the only Sham I'm acquainted with (or any of his Pharaos) was Wowed.



So into the dryer with them would be bad. For the rag, or the rag's neighbors inside the dryer, or the dryer... or my house? Purely theoretical question, since none of them came home with me, but can't resist asking. (Imagining what fate may have befallen some of them - Station Casinos slot degens are not likely to be diligent readers of instructions).
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April 29th, 2018 at 7:29:42 PM permalink
Quote: hitthat16

It irks me when people laugh while in a heavy losing streak. Yeah buddy, isn’t this hilarious? I can’t think of anything funnier than losing these ten hands in a row!

I know losing happens, but laughing and smiling during it is just not an appropriate reaction in my book!



Someone said something like,"I fake laugh and smile when I am losing, pretending I am having a good time when really I am about to snap in complete anger realizing I am losing my hard earned money on gambling games!"
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April 29th, 2018 at 9:54:26 PM permalink
Room service prices.

The hotel I am currently staying at is asking $18 for a bowl of cereal.

I did some searching to figure out why it’s so ungodly expensive beyond the obvious connivence markup, and some articles are saying that often hotels struggle to break even, or even lose money on room service ... which I’m not sure I believe.
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May 2nd, 2018 at 6:58:36 PM permalink
Waiting for the light to turn green,then it turns green but the @#$%=:^ ahol#/ in front of you are on their phones,so by the time they start to go the light turns red and you get stuck again.
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May 2nd, 2018 at 7:06:20 PM permalink
Quote: Hunterhill

Waiting for the light to turn green,then it turns green but the @#$%=:^ ahol#/ in front of you are on their phones,so by the time they start to go the light turns red and you get stuck again.


Even worse when the person realizes what they did at the last second and runs the red light.
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May 2nd, 2018 at 9:19:29 PM permalink
Quote: gamerfreak

Even worse when the person realizes what they did at the last second and runs the red light.



Even worse when you beep your horn
and they look up at the light, then look
in the mirror to see who beeped, then
look right and left at traffic, and by that
time it's red again and she's waving her
arm out the window to say she's sorry
and is looking at the phone again.
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May 2nd, 2018 at 9:27:20 PM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

Roulette players never say
anything, usually.



Roulette players constantly point out that the ball landed in the number right next to the one they played.

Or that it bounced in and out of their number

Or complain that the dealer hasn’t been landing the ball anywhere near the section they are playing
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May 2nd, 2018 at 9:42:31 PM permalink
Waiting 20 minutes for a cocktail waitress to appear at Craps / BJ table.

The check in line at the Luxor. Hundreds of people long more than once. Which is one of the reasons I stopped staying there.

Driving on I-15 through Vegas. I swear there’s a major accident and backed up traffic almost every time I use it.

BJ table full of young guys that yell / high-5 / cheer loudly pretty much every hand.
Last edited by: Ace2 on May 2, 2018
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EvenBob
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May 2nd, 2018 at 11:06:14 PM permalink
Quote: michael99000

Roulette players constantly point out



I never see roulette players constantly do
anything. Once in awhile they make
a comment on the ball, nobody usually
pays any attention to it except just a
very few.
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May 2nd, 2018 at 11:53:15 PM permalink
Quote: gamerfreak

Room service prices.

The hotel I am currently staying at is asking $18 for a bowl of cereal.

I did some searching to figure out why it’s so ungodly expensive beyond the obvious connivence markup, and some articles are saying that often hotels struggle to break even, or even lose money on room service ... which I’m not sure I believe.


Yeah I’ve read an article or two a while ago about how room service is a struggle to make money or even break even. Idk if it’s true or not, but there are always lots of “extra” costs that people don’t realize with pretty much everything.

E.G.: When you buy a steak at a restaurant, just because the ribeye cost the restaurant $1 and they’re selling it for $45, doesn’t mean they’re making $44 on it. They gotta pay waiters, bus boys, host, bartender, chef, etc., lights and electricity and gas, dish washing, laundry for table cloths and some uniforms, rent, insurance, also fade losses like glasses/dishes/stolen steak knives/grumpy customers who get their meal for free/etc., and a bunch of other crap. On top of all that, it has to make sense for the owner financially to be worth the risk (just like how I’m not going to make a $10k bet on roulette even though I have a 0.05% edge, the profit isn’t worth the risk).
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May 3rd, 2018 at 4:43:06 AM permalink
Quote: Ace2

Waiting 20 minutes for a cocktail waitress to appear at Craps / BJ table.



Ironic, pet peeve of mine is people who constantly bitches about the cocktail service. Especially if they have been there for like 10 minutes and says "Its been an hour already"

The cocktail servers(we have a few dudes) at my casino are Union, and i believe their ruels are that they have to do 20~~ minutes..ive heard them talk about getting in trouble for being too fast.


Quote: Ace2

Driving on I-15 through Vegas. I swear there’s a major accident and backed up traffic almost every time I use it.



I-15 North maybe..i live off the 15 in-between M and South Point, rarely have to deal with traffic.
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May 7th, 2018 at 5:18:03 PM permalink
People who go buy cocktail feels that they bought already the whole hotel or restaurant and start bitching whenever the service is late. They should go to Mcdonalds if they want a fast service.
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