• Girl Scout Cookies. Unfair sales tactics

    From Ed P@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 09:24:32 2025
    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday. They were setup as
    you leave the Publix store. They use some unfair sales tactics though.
    The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and ignore
    them. The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
    look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some
    cookies?" What can a guy do?

    They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a
    chocolate/caramel thing. It was OK, but not my favorite. I do like the Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.

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  • From Dave Smith@21:1/5 to Ed P on Sun Mar 2 09:55:25 2025
    On 2025-03-02 9:24 a.m., Ed P wrote:
    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday.  They were setup as
    you leave the Publix store.  They use some unfair sales tactics though.
    The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and ignore them.  The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
    look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some cookies?"  What can a guy do?

    They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a chocolate/
    caramel thing.  It was OK, but not my favorite.  I do like the Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.


    Dang. I don't think grown men should be talking about their attraction
    to pubescent girls. We will have to change your name to Hubert.

    I don't really care much for Girl Scout cookies and I am averse to
    supporting them and their woke policies. I don't know about other
    countries but here in Canada younger category of girls scouts/guides was Brownies. The organization bought into the idea that "racialized" girls
    would not feel welcome in a group with that name. Apparently they are
    now called Embers. I wonder if they realize that when embers burn out
    they are black.

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  • From Cindy Hamilton@21:1/5 to Ed P on Sun Mar 2 15:42:50 2025
    On 2025-03-02, Ed P <[email protected]> wrote:
    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday. They were setup as
    you leave the Publix store. They use some unfair sales tactics though.
    The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and ignore
    them. The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
    look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some
    cookies?" What can a guy do?

    Look her in the eye and say, "Not today, thank you."

    --
    Cindy Hamilton

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  • From Jill McQuown@21:1/5 to Dave Smith on Sun Mar 2 10:31:06 2025
    On 3/2/2025 9:55 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 9:24 a.m., Ed P wrote:
    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday.  They were setup
    as you leave the Publix store.  They use some unfair sales tactics
    though. The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by
    and ignore them.  The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
    look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some
    cookies?"  What can a guy do?

    They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a chocolate/
    caramel thing.  It was OK, but not my favorite.  I do like the
    Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.


    Dang. I don't think grown men should be talking about their attraction
    to pubescent girls. We will have to change your name to Hubert.

    WTF, Dave? He's talking about buying cookies, not looking to hook up
    with children.

    I don't really care much for Girl Scout cookies and I am averse to
    supporting them and their woke policies.

    The term "woke" is purely political.

    I don't know about other
    countries but here in Canada younger category of girls scouts/guides was Brownies.

    Brownies are based in Scottish culture. The term relates to fairies and
    there is nothing racial about it. And no, the term fairies (aka
    "faeries") does not in any way relate to people who are gay. There's
    nothing derogatory. Don't know why you jumped to racist blather. Ed is talking about buying cookies.

    Jill

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  • From Cindy Hamilton@21:1/5 to Dave Smith on Sun Mar 2 15:44:22 2025
    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

    I don't really care much for Girl Scout cookies and I am averse to
    supporting them and their woke policies.

    Weren't you the guy who disparaged my inclination not to shop
    at businesses that have right-wing views? (I suppose I could
    find the discussion on Google Groups, but I'd prefer you took
    my word for it.)

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    Cindy Hamilton

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  • From Dave Smith@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Sun Mar 2 11:28:31 2025
    On 2025-03-02 10:44 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

    I don't really care much for Girl Scout cookies and I am averse to
    supporting them and their woke policies.

    Weren't you the guy who disparaged my inclination not to shop
    at businesses that have right-wing views? (I suppose I could
    find the discussion on Google Groups, but I'd prefer you took
    my word for it.)

    I don't recall disparaging you in particular. I don't generally go
    around digging up the dirt on vendors, but I do avoid those that are
    extremely religious. I avoid media with very obvious political slants,
    far to the right or far to the left. I won't buy my maple syrup at the
    closest maple farm even though it is cheaper because it is a fund raiser
    for a fundamentalist church group. In this case I am being asked to pay
    for expensive cookies to raise money for an organization that used to
    have some good values which, being rooted in white British tradition,
    are now unacceptable. No thanks. I don't like the cookies enough to pay
    to support them.

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  • From Andy Gerald@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Sun Mar 2 11:44:34 2025
    Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

    I don't really care much for Girl Scout cookies and I am averse to
    supporting them and their woke policies.

    Weren't you the guy who disparaged my inclination not to shop
    at businesses that have right-wing views? (I suppose I could
    find the discussion on Google Groups, but I'd prefer you took
    my word for it.)


    Nope, GG no longer archives Usenet.

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  • From Ed P@21:1/5 to Dave Smith on Sun Mar 2 12:19:02 2025
    On 3/2/2025 11:28 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

    In this case I am being asked to pay
    for expensive cookies to raise money for an organization that used to
    have some good values which, being rooted in white British tradition,
    are now unacceptable.  No thanks. I don't like the cookies enough to pay
    to support them.


    Perhaps some of the leadership is "woke" but locally, there are still
    many benefits for the kids.

    Do you have specifics or are you generalizing from news reports? Have
    you heard of any indoctrination of the neighborhood girls into evil
    activities? I choose not to keep the kid down the street from enjoying
    an activity because of what someone in the HQ does but you have that
    choice.

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  • From Dave Smith@21:1/5 to Ed P on Sun Mar 2 13:05:14 2025
    On 2025-03-02 12:19 p.m., Ed P wrote:
    On 3/2/2025 11:28 AM, Dave Smith wrote:



    Perhaps some of the leadership is "woke" but locally, there are still
    many benefits for the kids.

    Do you have specifics or are you generalizing from news reports?  Have
    you heard of any indoctrination of the neighborhood girls into evil activities?  I choose not to keep the kid down the street from enjoying
    an activity because of what someone in the HQ does but you have that
    choice.

    I am not denying them anything. I am simply not supporting buying a
    product I don't particularly like though I might have if they had not
    done that.

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  • From Ed P@21:1/5 to Dave Smith on Sun Mar 2 14:30:18 2025
    On 3/2/2025 1:05 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 12:19 p.m., Ed P wrote:
    On 3/2/2025 11:28 AM, Dave Smith wrote:



    Perhaps some of the leadership is "woke" but locally, there are still
    many benefits for the kids.

    Do you have specifics or are you generalizing from news reports?  Have
    you heard of any indoctrination of the neighborhood girls into evil
    activities?  I choose not to keep the kid down the street from
    enjoying an activity because of what someone in the HQ does but you
    have that choice.

    I am not denying them anything. I am simply not supporting buying a
    product I don't particularly like though I might have if they had not
    done that.


    I recently bought some maple syrup. I just checked the label and it reads:

    Ingredients: Pure Maple Syrup Processed without Fundamentalists.

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Ed P on Sun Mar 2 21:24:44 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:24:32 +0000, Ed P wrote:

    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday. They were setup as
    you leave the Publix store. They use some unfair sales tactics though.
    The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and ignore
    them. The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
    look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some
    cookies?" What can a guy do?

    They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a
    chocolate/caramel thing. It was OK, but not my favorite. I do like the Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.

    I'm eating a Samoas as I type this and boy, is my keyboard a mess -
    there's chocolate and coconut all over it!

    Your best bet in dealing with this band of scam artists is to just
    pretend that they don't even exist. I think this could become a thing in
    the future.

    https://st1.latestly.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/140-131-784x441.jpg

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 16:05:36 2025
    dsi1 wrote:
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:24:32 +0000, Ed P wrote:

    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday.� They were setup as
    you leave the Publix store.� They use some unfair sales tactics though.
    The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and ignore
    them.� The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
    look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some
    cookies?"� What can a guy do?

    They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a
    chocolate/caramel thing.� It was OK, but not my favorite.� I do like the
    Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.

    I'm eating a Samoas as I type this and boy, is my keyboard a mess -
    there's chocolate and coconut all over it!

    Your best bet in dealing with this band of scam artists is to just
    pretend that they don't even exist. I think this could become a thing in
    the future.


    John Kuth would tell yoose and ed to be careful. Yoose guys can buy
    those girl's cookies, but yoose better not touch their Twinkies.

    Yoose could end up in jail. Ed might get away with it, but yoose ain't
    white, and yoose also asian, so yoose would get a life sentence.

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Mon Mar 3 07:19:52 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 22:05:36 +0000, Hank Rogers wrote:

    dsi1 wrote:
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:24:32 +0000, Ed P wrote:

    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday.  They were setup as >>> you leave the Publix store.  They use some unfair sales tactics though. >>> The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and ignore
    them.  The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
    look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some
    cookies?"  What can a guy do?

    They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a
    chocolate/caramel thing.  It was OK, but not my favorite.  I do like the >>> Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.

    I'm eating a Samoas as I type this and boy, is my keyboard a mess -
    there's chocolate and coconut all over it!

    Your best bet in dealing with this band of scam artists is to just
    pretend that they don't even exist. I think this could become a thing in
    the future.


    John Kuth would tell yoose and ed to be careful. Yoose guys can buy
    those girl's cookies, but yoose better not touch their Twinkies.

    Yoose could end up in jail. Ed might get away with it, but yoose ain't
    white, and yoose also asian, so yoose would get a life sentence.

    Who's John Kuth?

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  • From gm@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 3 07:41:25 2025
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 22:05:36 +0000, Hank Rogers wrote:

    dsi1 wrote:
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:24:32 +0000, Ed P wrote:

    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday.  They were setup as >>>> you leave the Publix store.  They use some unfair sales tactics though. >>>> The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and ignore >>>> them.  The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
    look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some
    cookies?"  What can a guy do?

    They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a
    chocolate/caramel thing.  It was OK, but not my favorite.  I do like the >>>> Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.

    I'm eating a Samoas as I type this and boy, is my keyboard a mess -
    there's chocolate and coconut all over it!

    Your best bet in dealing with this band of scam artists is to just
    pretend that they don't even exist. I think this could become a thing in >>> the future.


    John Kuth would tell yoose and ed to be careful. Yoose guys can buy
    those girl's cookies, but yoose better not touch their Twinkies.

    Yoose could end up in jail. Ed might get away with it, but yoose ain't
    white, and yoose also asian, so yoose would get a life sentence.

    Who's John Kuth?


    Oh, COME ON... don't you know nothing as they say David...???

    John Kuthe was that goofie guy from St. Louis who posted here about his masterbation, drug use, sound system, saying he was a "cannabis nurse", etcetera...

    His fave food was "hot beans and rice" or some such...

    He was also the dire enemy of BRYAN... they had been friends decades
    ago...

    When google groups ended a few years back, he disappeared, as he posted
    from GG...

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  • From gm@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Mon Mar 3 08:12:56 2025
    Hank Rogers wrote:

    dsi1 wrote:
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:24:32 +0000, Ed P wrote:

    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday.  They were setup as >>> you leave the Publix store.  They use some unfair sales tactics though. >>> The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and ignore
    them.  The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave,
    look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some
    cookies?"  What can a guy do?

    They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a
    chocolate/caramel thing.  It was OK, but not my favorite.  I do like the >>> Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.

    I'm eating a Samoas as I type this and boy, is my keyboard a mess -
    there's chocolate and coconut all over it!

    Your best bet in dealing with this band of scam artists is to just
    pretend that they don't even exist. I think this could become a thing in
    the future.


    John Kuth would tell yoose and ed to be careful. Yoose guys can buy
    those girl's cookies, but yoose better not touch their Twinkies.

    Yoose could end up in jail. Ed might get away with it, but yoose ain't
    white, and yoose also asian, so yoose would get a life sentence.


    "... yoose better not touch their Twinkies ..."


    "Twinkies" = "snatch", Sire Hank...???

    😍

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  • From gm@21:1/5 to BryanGSimmons on Mon Mar 3 17:12:29 2025
    BryanGSimmons wrote:

    On 3/3/2025 1:41 AM, gm wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 22:05:36 +0000, Hank Rogers wrote:

    dsi1 wrote:
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:24:32 +0000, Ed P wrote:

    I bought some cookies for the second time yesterday.  They were
    setup as
    you leave the Publix store.  They use some unfair sales tactics
    though.
    The store has boxes of cookies on the shelf, easy to walk by and
    ignore
    them.  The GS use tough tactics you cannot ignore.

    The Girl Scouts have some cute little girl accosts you as you leave, >>>>>> look you straight in the eye and says, "would you like to buy some >>>>>> cookies?"  What can a guy do?

    They have a new flavor this year, Adventureful. It is a
    chocolate/caramel thing.  It was OK, but not my favorite.  I do
    like the
    Trefoil, they go sell with a cup of tea for an afternoon snack.

    I'm eating a Samoas as I type this and boy, is my keyboard a mess -
    there's chocolate and coconut all over it!

    Your best bet in dealing with this band of scam artists is to just
    pretend that they don't even exist. I think this could become a
    thing in
    the future.


    John Kuth would tell yoose and ed to be careful. Yoose guys can buy
    those girl's cookies, but yoose better not touch their Twinkies.

    Yoose could end up in jail. Ed might get away with it, but yoose ain't >>>> white, and yoose also asian, so yoose would get a life sentence.

    Who's John Kuth?


    Oh, COME ON... don't you know nothing as they say David...???

    John Kuthe was that goofie guy from St. Louis who posted here about his
    masterbation, drug use, sound system, saying he was a "cannabis nurse",
    etcetera...

    His fave food was "hot beans and rice" or some such...

    He was also the dire enemy of BRYAN... they had been friends decades
    ago...

    When google groups ended a few years back, he disappeared, as he posted
    from GG...

    I searched for an obit, but there was none. I did see there had been
    trouble at the old Cumrag&Roach. He had to evict a couple of tenants. Interestingly, his sister was also listed as a plaintiff, which might
    mean that the old onanist was not mentally capable of proceeding on his
    own, and possibly that his eighty-something sister has power of attorney
    for him. https://www.courts.mo.gov/cnet/cases/newHeader.do?inputVO.caseNumber=24SL-AC10930&inputVO.courtId=CT21&inputVO.isTicket=false#docket


    Ah, "As The Drama At The Cumrag & Roach Ranch Turns", lol...

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