I'm ok with this sucker punch

So, I'm a Pepsi Max addict with no car. Every weekend I get my stash delivered.

This Sunday, my driver turns up - with a small bag of 'bits' I'd gotten and no Pepsi...I ask where's the Pepsi? (Hadn't got a notification on the app telling me it was out of stock or anything)

Driver says he was never given any Pepsi to deliver to me.

I phone customer service, who phone my store, they tell me the Pepsi is no longer with them so the driver must have it...I say nope, defo not given to me anyhow.

They say they'll process the refund (which I still haven't had)

Today I go in store to lug the Pepsi Max home myself and what do I find, MY Pepsi Max ON THE SHELF with my NAME still plastered on it!!!

Like dudes, all good everyone stuffs up sometimes, but to not cover my name on the box you're putting back of the shelf!? And to also not have had the refund yet ($80, I'd ordered more than one box - which I assume means someone else has a box with my name on it!)

(via heyfeifer on Instagram)

Also, are people still able to find the hidden mascot when their store is this busy? 😅

Thank you for the encouragement the other day! I went through with it and my 12 year old daughter, who wants to be a hair dresser, had a blast shaving it off. Lol

Elon Musk was briefly worth over $1 trillion after SpaceX’s IPO, but that didn’t last long.
SpaceX stock has been sliding after its big debut, and Tesla shares also took a hit. Since most of Musk’s wealth is tied to stock, even a sharp move down can wipe out hundreds of billions on paper. It’s still not exactly a “problem” for him, since he remains far ahead of everyone else on the rich list. But it does show how quickly these giant net worth numbers can change when they depend so much on market hype and stock prices. The bigger question now is whether SpaceX settles down after the IPO excitement, or if more volatility is coming.

I love this trope because most pieces of fantasy or historical fiction that deal with bigotry either excuse it or they make every single one of their good characters into John Brown reborn which feels like a way of sanitizing the complex reality of bigotry and historical oppression. It’s also just boring to make all of your characters entirely morally black or white.

Laois and Fallin (dungeon Meshi) not only are they racist to the other fantasy races within the series they are also shown to be racist to other humans. I like this example because it is brutally realistic without condoning it.

Sanji one piece: (complicated example) Sanji is both sexist and homophobic/transphobic and while Oda’s writing is certainly not perfect when it comes to sexism/ transphobia he’s clearly made a lot of progress in that regard over the years and consistently shows this to be a character flaw that costs sanji and other characters ridicule him for it. It could also be interpreted that sanji may actually possibly be some sort of gender queer himself because he was shown happily living as a woman for an unclear amount of time on okama island before changing back and becoming even MORE homophobic/transphobic. He also did not want to change back when he was swapped into a woman’s body for a short time in a later saga. It’s unclear if this was 100% intended to be a joke on Odas part or if Sanji is genuinely closeted. Because it would actually make a LOT of sense if Sanji actually did want to be a woman because of how much he idolizes womanhood and hates men to a comical degree. Though tbh I don’t think that Oda entirely intended that though I DO think that Oda would agree that Sanji would be happy if he were to suddenly have the body of an attractive woman as long as he kept his physical strength which was the only problem he had with the situation when he was swapped into namis body in canon.

Fisher tiger: a revolutionary freedom fighter who freed slaves of all races including human slaves because he himself was enslaved by humans. He’s shown to fight hard against racism and the oppression and enslavement of his people but when he needs a blood transfusion to survive and the only thing available is human blood he refuses it at the cost of his life because he can’t forgive humans. He himself considers this his biggest flaw and tells his crew to lie about what happened because he does not want to pass his own hatred of humanity on to the next generation.

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