J22 in Berkel en Rodenrijs is failliet. Na bijna dertig jaar sluit de modewinkel de deuren. Het faillissement werd op 27 januari uitgesproken door de rechtbank in Den Haag.
Nothing’s harder to watch than an older person desperate to look cool to younger people, and this might be the most egregious example we’ve ever seen: This woman is trying to seem hip to her daughter by wearing a shirt featuring a big bedazzled R-word.
Yikes. ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’ much?
Durham, NC, resident Patricia Wilson, 53, is putting on a masterclass in cringe for all the girls at her daughter Sabrina’s sleepover by wearing a t-shirt with a massive, glittery R-word on it, apparently under the impression that using the ableist slur is ‘in’ among today’s youth. After hearing about how the R-word has become re-normalized, now regularly employed on the Internet and by influential celebrities like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, Patricia saw the slur as an opportunity to connect with her 14-year-old daughter and decided to make the bedazzled R-word shirt herself. Despite her good intentions, the sparkling R-word shirt has only been met with eye rolls by her daughter and her friends, who Patricia later overheard whispering about how “sad” it is for “an old lady to dress like an edgelord e-girl” and declaring the R-word “so over.”
“Is my [R-word] shirt giving snatched or what, fam? Momma [R-word] is highkey mogging in this fit, mm-mmm,” Patricia said to the girls, who just exchanged dirty looks and ignored Patricia’s offer to make them R-word shirts too. “Don’t leave me on read after I dropped my guap on pizza for y’all [R-words]. Sabrina, you can take a seat with that skibidi camp side eye, m’kay little miss [R-word]? Quit acting delulu or this slaycation’s over. I’ll send the baes home. Bet. Well, I’ll let you [R-words] cook. Don’t sleep on bedtime. Lights out at 11.”
What an absolute trainwreck. Please, please, please, just act your age…
If Patricia’s goal with her bedazzled [R-word] shirt was to win her daughter’s favor, she failed, to say the least. On the bright side, people opposed to the R-word’s return to the mainstream might have a reason to celebrate here, because try-hard parents like Patricia are about to make it uncool all over again.
If you’re a Costco member, get ready for your life to finally become perfect, because your shopping experience is about to be taken to a whole new level of excitement: Costco just announced that the people offering free samples are allowed to scare you now!
Hell yes! It’s so awesome to see a company that’s willing to go above and beyond to thrill their customers!
Starting this week, Costco shoppers can expect anyone handing out free samples in any of the company’s wholesale facilities to do anything in their power to absolutely terrify customers. The company says that they have given these employees free reign to experiment with how they would like to scare the people who come up to them to try pieces of cake or bao, and that nothing will be considered against store policy, from elaborate costumes to sudden ambushes.
Although the program is relatively new, many Costco members are already saying that getting scared by the people offering them free samples has completely elevated their shopping experience.
“The person who gave me free meatballs at Costco yesterday threatened me with a huge knife!” one delighted customer posted on the Costco subreddit yesterday. “She kept saying she was going to murder me, and she somehow knew my name and where I lived! I was so scared, and it made the meatballs taste better.”
The original poster wasn’t alone. Dozens of Costco shoppers have reported amazing experiences getting terrified by the people offering samples.
“I went to take a small smoothie from a tray of tree samples and a man dressed as Frankenstein jumped out from behind a stack of boxes and started chasing me around,” another customer wrote in the same thread. “He kept saying he was going to eat me, and I believed him! It’s so awesome that Costco is finally exciting.”
This is amazing! It’s so refreshing to see a corporation take responsibility for how boring their stores are and take action to make them more interesting. We can’t wait to visit Costco and get really scared by all the awesome tricks and frights the employees have cooked up around the sample tables. Other companies take note: this is how you create the ultimate shopping experience!
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Continue reading...Despite an estimated outlay of $6bn since 2022, LIV appears to be far away from establishing itself in the the manner of PIF projects in other sports
In one sense, it is difficult to detect anything warm and cuddly in all of this. Elite golfers, who were already obscenely rich, take the bounty on offer from a Saudi Arabian-backed disruption model before shuffling back whence they came – essentially for a trivial penalty – when the novelty wears off. This is hardly sport at its purest. Instead, an admission by Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed that they blundered in believing the fairways were greener on the LIV side. The PGA Tour, desperate to portray themselves as the big boys in the playground, welcome one-time pariahs back with open arms. Other golfers who spurned LIV’s fluttering eyelashes scratch their heads, wondering why they bothered.
There is, however, an underlying and endearing point. All the petroleum pounds in the world are no substitute for legacy. Trying to match the achievements of Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy carries significance. LIV golf has no relevance beyond its own domain. Saudi Arabia has made inroads into various sports but, in golf, the kingdom is unquestionably doomed. LIV is on the road towards oblivion, far earlier than most had anticipated. Only those who will gain financially from its continuation can try to spin an alternative story.
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