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People are so GODDAMN worthless these days...

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Originally posted by: npoe1
I have a sizeable collection of movies and I have like 4 friends that always return them scratched or worst they lost the DVD but manage to return the case, but the movies were always scratched when they borrowed them from me, obviously they?re lying. I wouldn?t lend them anything if they weren?t good friends.
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I still wouldn't loan them anything.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
I got my cement mixer back on Saturday after lending it out (and not getting it back for like a year) and it was slightly egg-shaped (from getting dumped over and hitting the ground), had dried concrete inside it and in splatters all over the outside, and the paint was ground off of the legs in a bunch of spots from sandy hands dragging it all over the place. :| :| :| Goddamnit, if they had spent five hundred farking bucks on it, they'd have treated it better, but since it was free... We had to take an air chisel to the inside of it just to make it usable. It was in nearly new condition when it left my house.
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That sucks. I certainly hope they're going to buy you a new one. But it doesn't sound like it.
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He is NOT going to buy me a new one. He kept promising to buy it from me (I asked for 250 because it was used...I didn't want to sell it but I honestly didn't expect him to ever return it) but he never did. He won't borrow it again unless he buys it, and that's probably not gonna happen because I really do have a need for it (wouldn't have bought it in the first place if I didn't.)
 
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: npoe1
I have a sizeable collection of movies and I have like 4 friends that always return them scratched or worst they lost the DVD but manage to return the case, but the movies were always scratched when they borrowed them from me, obviously they?re lying. I wouldn?t lend them anything if they weren?t good friends.
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I still wouldn't loan them anything.
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No kidding. Let them buy their own copies if they don't have the decency to treat them properly.
 
CD's are indestructible!!!

At least they told us that back in the '80's. Rented DVDs are worse. I think the time is coming for permanent memory Flash Drives.
 
Lent a co-worker some DVD's as his cable got disconnected and guess what, it's been a month and
he still has 'em so when he gets back to work Wednesday I'm going to demand they be returned and
his borrowing privileges are being revoked!
 
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I'm a HUGE stickler for protecting my original CD's. I treat other peoples sh!t the same way I treat mine.
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Same here.

I seriously wonder if these morons intentionally grind the discs under their cowboy boots just so that it annoys the hell out of someone else. I mean, COME ON!! HOW THE FVCK DO THESE CD'S GET SO SCRATCHED???
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I think they attach them to the bottom of their shoes and attempt to skate around their driveway.
 
Originally posted by: sandorski
CD's are indestructible!!!

At least they told us that back in the '80's. Rented DVDs are worse. I think the time is coming for permanent memory Flash Drives.
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That was one of the main selling points of CD's back when they came out. What a lie that was.
 
Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
Originally posted by: sandorski
CD's are indestructible!!!

At least they told us that back in the '80's. Rented DVDs are worse. I think the time is coming for permanent memory Flash Drives.
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That was one of the main selling points of CD's back when they came out. What a lie that was.
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My 300+ collection of vinyl has held up better than the CDs I purchased 20 years ago and some of my records are 40 years old.
 
A soft cloth and some instrument panel polish works well.

Recently I rented Miami Vice on DVD. I could not watch more than 30 seconds, in any chapter, without skipping or freezing. I took the disc out and looked at it under light, at many different angles. :|

What I saw was, some fat fsck was probably trying to load the disc while eating KFC. There were thick, greasy fingerprints all over the disc. I washed it with dawn, dried it with a soft cloth, and it worked fine.
 
My mom had the same problem with CDs she got from the library. I wound up just ripping them to the computer and putting them on CD-RWs so she could listen once through. The computer's CD drive is much better at dealing with scratches than almost any standalone CD player.

That, or I'd use my Skip Dr. on the library's CDs to try to make them readable.🙂
 
Originally posted by: JM Aggie08
"you scratched my cd!"
"you picked it up in a broad daylight, and you scratched it!"
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lmao! i just watched that over the weekend. i was expecting a horrible movie but it was pretty good.


The Ringer for those who don't know
 
1. Don't check out anything but books from the library. Buy it, use it, sell it on eBay.

2. Don't loan your stuff to anybody, if they had any integrity they wouldn't be borrowing stuff in the first place.
 
Originally posted by: gwrober
Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Please, PLEASE have a little responsibility.
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That would change ssoooo many things.....:thumbsup:
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Have some kids and teach them how to be responsible. That's your only recourse.
 
yeah, pisses me off when i get a dvd from netflix and its all scratched to hell.

i had one dvd literally break in half as i slid it out of the slip. that was probably done in shipping, but still...
 
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I'm a HUGE stickler for protecting my original CD's. I treat other peoples sh!t the same way I treat mine.

I drive around four hours a day so I often go to the library for audiobooks on CD. Well, FVCK THAT. I'm sick and FREAKING tired of getting a book that plays fine for a while and then hopelessly skips. Not just one track, not just one DISC, sometimes two or three CD's are WORTHLESS.

It pretty much renders my time pointless if I'm going to have to go and rent the goddamn book just to figure out what happened in chapters 11-28.

I seriously wonder if these morons intentionally grind the discs under their cowboy boots just so that it annoys the hell out of someone else. I mean, COME ON!! HOW THE FVCK DO THESE CD'S GET SO SCRATCHED???

PSA: If you are renting an audiobook on CD from the library, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF IT! Just because it doesn't COST you anything doesn't mean that you should throw the CD's on the floor of your 1979 Pinto so that it can slide around for the remainder of your three weeks.

Please, PLEASE have a little responsibility.
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Amen brother.
 
Originally posted by: DotheDamnTHing
Originally posted by: thirtythree
My library has audiobooks you can download online. Check their site.
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link?
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I meant check his local library's site. You have to be a member to download them from mine, and you can only do that if you physically present proof of residence.
 
Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
1. Don't check out anything but books from the library. Buy it, use it, sell it on eBay.

2. Don't loan your stuff to anybody, if they had any integrity they wouldn't be borrowing stuff in the first place.
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I don't believe borrowing something will in any way compromise one's integrity (unless they are against it)...
 
Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
Originally posted by: sandorski
CD's are indestructible!!!

At least they told us that back in the '80's. Rented DVDs are worse. I think the time is coming for permanent memory Flash Drives.
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That was one of the main selling points of CD's back when they came out. What a lie that was.
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technically, it's somewhat true. you can just take it to the geek squad and they'll fix the CD for you. also they sell optical disk repair kits.

but then again... it's not guaranteed.

p.s. geeksquad sucks
 
Welcome to communism. When something is everyone's property, it's no one's responsibility to take care of it. Unless it's someones specific job to clean it, what would your office fridge look like?
 
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