Just need to vent...

I first noticed this as a small child, when candy bars shrunk but stayed the same price. Mom was familiar with this practice long before my birth.

I suspect U.S. car dealers will look to see if there are any ideas in here that they hadn't already thought of and should also implement.

 

1/2 gallon ice cream is now 1.5 quarts.

 

Go back far enough, before several downsizing steps, and it was a full gallon. And even 5 quarts before that.

 

Try again. I saw 1.3qt the other day but it is the same price as before and some of the old stock (1.5qt).

 

good way to lower your calorie intake

 

Except for Blue Bell in southern states

 

When you bought an old 100 watt incandescent bulb, you'd expect to get around 1600 lumens of light out of it.

Sure, it needed 100 watts of power to make those 1600 lumens, which was lousy, but you knew what you were getting.

When other technologies started showing up on the shelves, they would sometimes be marked with "equivalent watts" and those would be reasonably accurate. If something was marked "100W replacement", it would be giving you somewhere near 1600 lumens. And today, that labeling is still reasonably accurate on some products some of the time:




But is nobody actually checking what they put on those labels anymore?? Walk down the same aisle in the same store, and:




Hmm, that was on a 2-pack. Maybe what they mean is if you use both of those bulbs, you can (almost) replace a 100 watt.

 

By any chance, might they be using any directional property to justify that claim? E.g. light flux density in the center of its emission pattern compared to an (omidirectional) incandescent?

 

A majority of the younger crowd grew up with calculators in grade schools and can't do approximate math in their heads. So mistakes are common.

 

Not in any way apparent to me. Those were clear glass, B11 bulbs, pretty darned omni.

 

I spent too time on this, but it is because of the candelabra base. I don't know why, but these bulbs just put out less light for the same wattage than a standard base one. Even the incandescent ones. The 750 lumens is low compared to other LEDs available, but it is higher than these incandescent 60W ones, which should be 800 lumens if a standard bulb.

Incandescent Bulbs with a Candelabra (E12) Base, 50W - 99W | Bulbs.com

 

I have seen the auto tip on groups 6 or more.

One place I go for breakfast does this for the mc group. I make sure I let the waitress that she is getting screwed because of the auto tip.

 

smart UPS has my package amd it was out for delivery at 9am. Now the website says it will ne delivered tomorrow by noon.

I have no faith in them now.

 

Damn christmas commercials have started. Not sure which is worse. The christmas commercial or the political commercials. At least those are only every 2 years.

 

In southern states that bowl would be sweating the ice cream would be melted and the one and a half quart tub would have blown away in the hurricane

 

Ford's Garage collects 18% gratuity but only gets 15% to the waitresses. The 3% diff is supposed to be the credit card fee but that means the waitress is paying the credit card fee for the entire bill not just her tip because 3% of her tip is her credit card portioned fee.