This broken clock never right once!
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Lowsy Smarch weather!
You found the extra matter in the universe! Incredible!
Money exchanged hands though, so it accomplished its purpose (of tricking the buyer). :-(
I’m sure he can return it to Kmart though
I don’ didn’t know there were still Kmarts around. Dollar stores and Wally World replaced them all in my part of the country.
Kmart is still really big in Australia and New Zealand. It’s mostly replaced target, and we don’t really do chain dollar stores (we do have them, just they aren’t called dollar stores most of the time and are usually small little independent ones in the corner of shopping centres)
Even so, it has already accomplished its purpose. Dealing with returns is the job of the next CEO - this one has already gotten theirs, ca-ching 🤑 !
You Americans with your imperial system. 9:77 o’clock is 10:17 in metric. /s
OP said Kmart, Kmart is dead in the USA, so the buyer is probably Australian or New Zealander.
Kmart isn’t completely dead in the US. There are two in the states, three in the US Virgin Islands, and one in Guam
Also the clock says it’s 17 degrees Celsius, although to be fair I think it’s established that the clock is unreliable.
I assume the 59% is humidity? So they took the time to make the clock indicate humidity but couldn’t make it indicate time.
No it is just 59% just in case you need to know how much percent it is.
how much percent what is?
It
Maybe it’s a certainty. The clock is 59% sure that it is 9:77 right now.
A great man once said Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. … so why not temperature too?
or it’s a tweet from 10+ years ago
I don’t think Twitter was founded by the time Kmart left the big cities around 20 years ago.
I can guarantee there was a K-Mart in Sacramento, CA, at LEAST until 2019, possibly 2022 but my memory of being in the area in 2022 is hazy
Twitter def existed well before they were gone from populated areas
Oh wow, I thought they had left cities in the early 2000s although maybe that was just TX. I thought they completely left the states by 2015.
Which makes waaaaaay more sense as everyone uses their phone for alarms now rather than a fucking clock lmao
Ummm I still use a clock. It played the radio which I like as an alarm better. Plus you can hit the snooze so easily.
I see the s, but you have it backwards. 9:77 is clearly metric time, with 100 minutes per hour…
ackshually … the French really tried something like that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
IT would be simpler if this catched on. Why it didn’t?
Centons
Perhaps try a store that still actually exists, next time?
Kmart does exist…
Funny. They are on Lemmy.world but yet, forgot the world exists.
But it is weird to find out that a store known for cheap garbage and bad stores that went out of business is doing just fine on the murderous animal island so I get why they are confused.
Dumbass just has it upside down it’s actually just LL:6
11037
El El Seis?! He’s HERE?!
LL:6 already! I’m late for my harmonica recital!
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You mean
%65
And
)•L1
Both seem like perfectly cromulant measurements to me.
Maybe it’s in Spanish mode.
I think that was sarcasm.
Did you try setting it to Wumbo?
In was looking for a small space heater for the bathroom because it gets so cold in the morning. There was one that was a plug in into the outlet kinda like a night light, and had a temperature display. There was a one star review along the lines of
This thing is garbage! It just keeps saying nonsense like 9L! Needs better instructions!
I flipped the photo upside down and…
Ah that make sense . These karma whores i tell ya.
That’s why you should always include a banana in the picture. Then we can tell if the clock is right side up in relation to the banana.
Banana for orientation
did you just assume my orientation?
I guess that depends what you do with the banana
I hate it so much when people say or write “the wife”. Riles me up
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Dare people language! Shit… I mean ᚨᛚᛚᚨᛁ ᛗᚨᚾᚾᚨ ᚠᚱᛖᛁᚺᚨᛚᛋ ᛃ
I tried to read that and shot an energy blast across the room. Scared the shit out of my cat.
What would you have people say instead? “My wife”?
Incredibly out there, I know
It’s such a kludgy way of using language. You know what is being communicated with “the wife” vs “my wife” so why not use them interchangeably?
Ole Battleaxe
Ah fine. The “old lady”
Like it or not “the wife” was a change in language seen as progressive not too long ago because it recognises that a man doesn’t own a woman.
What would you prefer “my wife” implying ownership. “A wife” implying a non specific wife of anyone.
Or they name them on social media to avoid mentioning their marital status and ignoring their relationship to them.
I’m genuinely curious how this person should, in your view, refer to the person they’ve married.
“my dad”
I do not own him. Wtf is that argument?? It’s not a descriptor of ownership but relation.
I agree either my wife, or the wife is fine.
I’ve just stated the reason “the wife” exists at all is a reaction against historical patriarchal language.
Exactly
People are stupid and looking for reasons to be offended. Usually it means their opinions are to be ignored as they simply exist to argue about non issues.
“No he can’t be YOUR dad, he’s MY neighbor”
This whole thread’s logic is whack.Right? It is almost like “my” is a word which denotes association as well as ownership. Naw that can’t be right.
My wife is absolutely fine in my books. The same way you can say my friend or my acquaintance or what have you, you can say my spouse/wife/husband/whatever without implying any sort of ownership. My view might be skewed being an ESL, but the same applies to German, Russian, Ukrainian, French, for example, which I speak too. I’ve never heard people complaining over those usages
I say either my wife, or the wife is fine.
I’ve just stated the reason “the wife” exists at all is a reaction against historical patriarchal language.
I’ve heard different people complain about both and they were always insufferable people trying to nit pick the conversation into a boring place.
Like you!
I prefer the ole ball and chain. /s
When I read “the wife”, I read it as this. It feels impersonal, like you are intentionally distancing yourself from your spouse. Like, why would you do that unless you are literally Al Bundy?
The minister or war and finance.
The ole battle axe
“My mother” = I own my mother
I agree either my wife, or the wife is fine.
I’ve just stated the reason “the wife” exists at all is a reaction against historical patriarchal language.
NO! Everyone MUST speak how I do at all times, or they’re WRONG!
There’s only one way to speak, and any linguistic deviation will be reported to the POLICE!
That’s why I speak exclusively in Sting lyrics.
What song is that?
I don’t know if “my” always means owning the noun it could mean co-owning the relationship. If I say “my partner” or “my kids” or “my job” I don’t think most people think I am a slave owner who somehow has an unbreakable contract with work.
“My” can, but certainly doesn’t always imply ownership. It implies that the qualifier for person B in the sentence is applied to their relationship to me, person A.
My banker, my hairdresser, my dentist, my accountant, my contractor, my neighbor, my boss, my elected official, etc.
Probably not at all on you, here, but this is a good example of “exaggerated progressivism” or fake-woke/politically correct speech. It weakens the credibility of the progressive movement and gives conservatives silly exaggerations to point to and mock, when this kind of stuff emerges.
Just my 2 cents!
My banker, my hairdresser, my dentist, my accountant, my contractor, my neighbor, my boss, my elected official, etc.
Why do you have slaves? /s
That clock obviously runs on military time. Easy mistake to make.
That’s obviously Fri Apr 24 1970 02:22:39 GMT+0000 in Unix time.
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Clearly it’s set to metric time
9.7 kiloseconds for my metric friends
Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds (100000 decimal seconds per day), as opposed to the more familiar standard time, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds (86400 SI seconds per day).
That sounds like a better way to me. 🤔
This clock is clearly using the galactic alphabet. Buyer should have looked before buying.
Should ring in 13 minutes
Kmart is still a thing? Is this the 90s?
Probably Australia, Kmart is still alive and well there.
