The internet vs real-life

Etch · Post by **Etch** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:42 pm

No doubt about that.

But I've never done an image of the stereotype where a black person always wears a french beret while staring at a bucket of chicken with an unsure look on his/her face.

...That is the chicken stereotype correct? ( I know its not, but the actual stereotype is bad.)

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:33 pm

Why the beret?

Etch · Post by **Etch** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:03 am

Because just adding the chicken bucket and nothing else would be too unoriginal I guess.

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:18 pm

Oh god that's so much better than mine. I tip my hat sir.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:21 am

We should have an mrobo Photoshop contest

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:33 pm

I could get a prize from Poundland. They actually start paying me next week!

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:38 am

That is a spectacular idea. Seriously.

Etch · Post by **Etch** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:45 am

I agree and submit the first entry, and the fact that SG is primarily a squeenix themed site is taken into account as well.

Bear with me plz. I don't have fancy photoshop anymore. I am forced to use freeware in its stead...so the quality is terrible, but the content is there.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:38 am

Man. That's going to be a tough one to top.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:24 am

Yuka, try to find some nice ninja DVD as teh prize or something

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:14 pm

I'll make a thread later today

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:40 pm

Calbrena wrote:

Yuka, try to find some nice ninja DVD as teh prize or something

Bwaha. This is Poundland. All I've seen pass through the till recently are incredibly low budget horrors, a guide to the steam engines of Britain and the best of American Idol season 1.

Edit: I could get an unathorised biography on the life and times of Jade Goody? Or Cheryl Cole's marriage and problems? Or Katie Price's divorce and remarriage? They're books, but they're just as worthy prize winners.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:33 pm

Omg, that sounds like an awesome present

The Jade book I mean

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:55 pm

The RDM votes for the guide to steam engines.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:05 am

Etch is win just for the mrobo. Disqualified though, because it's obviously not in banner proportions.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 10:12 am

Yuka, some of the best movies I've ever seen were from Poundland

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:04 pm

Damien wrote:Yuka, some of the best movies I've ever seen were from Poundland

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:54 pm

Calbrena wrote:
Damien wrote:Yuka, some of the best movies I've ever seen were from Poundland

One of them, anyway

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:21 pm

Do you think Poundland sell any Nollywood masterpiece by any chance?

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:12 pm

I'll see if I can post up a full list of the awful shit we've got... I think we've got some age old Hammer Horror classics too!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:51 pm

You should hold a Halloween lock-in movie marathon. Vimto Light on the house!

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:51 pm

mrobo photoshopping and the 2g10 banners would be the same contest? Unthinkable.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:09 am

I'll get the winner into one of the SG11 banners.

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:32 pm

Yuka wrote: I think we've got some age old Hammer Horror classics too!

People have been LAPPING that shit up. I've had people coming up with about 20 DVDs asking me to check if there's any duplicates.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:56 pm

Yuka wrote:
Yuka wrote: I think we've got some age old Hammer Horror classics too!
People have been LAPPING that shit up. I've had people coming up with about 20 DVDs asking me to check if there's any duplicates.

Haha. Real films aren't too much any more (£3ish). Why the hell do people want that rubbish?

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:17 am

I dunno. One customer (Who was buying about 15 Hammer Horror films) asked me exactly why they were so cheap compared to being about £15 in HMV.

Of course, I didn't know the exact economics of the place - I mean, I just work the till, but it does seem weird to completely out-price a competitor so severely.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 8:41 am

Probably because they bought just a few new years ago and they've gone untouched whereas your shop bought crates of them for a fiver each. That and £1 is the actual value.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:38 am

They buy up the stuff other stores can't sell at insane discounts because the other stores don't want to take a total loss, then sell it at a ridiculously low price that is still a big markup compared to what they paid for it.

Kage · Post by **Kage** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:50 pm

But.. the internet is real life.