Lighten Up!

The Amazon coder who did it needs a little good luck in keeping his/her job?

Hoy, mon - have ye nae considered the Gaelic/Goidelic POV on the magicality of a four-leaved clover? :smiley:

That’s certainly valid, but it’s SAINT Patrick’s day, the guy who used the shamrock to explain the 3-in-1 aspect of the Holy Trinity.

The Gaels are much more reasonable, and get the rest of the year. :wink:

(side note; I’ve danced with Fiona Ritchie; then gone out for drinks afterward. Granted, she’s Scottish, but most of the Gaelic community/expats know her).

We LOVE her in my family! :star_struck::open_mouth:

She’s a sweetheart (about the only woman Nisha gets jealous of anymore), and more than a little mischievous. Watch out if you’re ever at a party with her, especially if the lights are low!
I’ve not seen her since she moved back to Scotland, though.

Speaking of St. Paddy’s Day, I see that Amazon’s latest Global Marketplace, Amazon Ireland, is now up and running (the Home Page URL was still being redirected to UK when I last checked it on 031625):

This makes 23 Global Marketplaces (the 24th, Amazon.cn, is a special case), and No. 10 in the Europe Region; certain applicable SHC (“Seller Help Content”) pages, and the Brand Registry 2.0 Program’s RaV Tool (‘Amazonese’ for “Report a violation”), have been updated to reflect this launch.

I mention this because we’ve found it advisable, over the last several Global Marketplace additions, to check whether or not any of our own ASINs have Offer-Listings we didn’t ourselves create, as that vector has long been known to expose the infamous “Keyword Sabotage” exploit (& the like), and because nothing can bollix-up the GEI (“Global Expansion Initiative”) as quickly as can one of Amazon’s poorly-parameterized Amabots.

Perhaps especially-so if they’re running around drunkenly, yelling “Sláinte”… :upside_down_face:

Anybody that falls for that deserves their fate.

“placed under the rest” – never encountered that one. Does make you wonder.

I assume it’s voice to text and a thick accent. Or a really aggressive autocorrect.

Either way, when the IRS starts accepting payment in Walmart gift cards that will be the day the entire country is beyond salvation.

I have, IRL, so allow me to explain the findings of what my examination reveals:

It’s apparently a degree of magnitude more severe than being placed under arrest by civil authorities, because it’s typically imposed by the better-½ as a euphemism for “Yah, you’re sleeping on the couch tonight,” and/or “Get yer behind in the doghouse, and don’t come out 'til I call ya.”

Of course this could go under Fun with Wild Animals as well…

I sell on Amazon, what did you expect???

Literally spent so much of today thinking it is Wednesday :woman_facepalming: so really any day can be “when huh what day” if you believe enough

We average out just fine; I keep thinking it’s Friday. :wink:


What would panic some I laugh at.

There is someone who put my email on a target list for hackers, and every day I get a one time use code via email for my Microsoft account.

Only problem for them is they don’t have a clue what the password is (each attempt shows incorrect password) and I have 2 factor required so even if they somehow guess the password (good luck!) they an’t getting in!

And if they did, there is literally nothing in that account, no subscriptions, no payment info, nothing! :laughing:

But not as bad as the guy who has to keep renaming his wife …

:smirking_face:

J Wellington Wimpy would singlehandedly bankrupt Klarna (the get now pay later company backing this)

Let’s start with the fact that my wife and I are OLD. Way back in about 1970 we had moved to Illinois for my first job out of college, first to Peoria and less than a year later to Des Plaines.

The closest and best grocery store at the time was Dominick’s. They were one of, if not the first, to let people shop and pay with their credit cards – well before debit cards were in common use.

It was like the flood gates opened. People were piling all the ‘good stuff’ in their carts. I’m talking high end steaks, lobster, shrimp, you name it. Pretty much like drunks on a food bender.

Needless to say, the bankruptcy court eventually got flooded as well with buyers on a hangover.

Good lesson for those of us who watched it and did not participate. Not sure if we even had a credit card at the time. Back then, even if you were poor and/or broke you still carried some cash for stuff.