I would EXCELSIOR, but I haven't got a ZING to LOL

i remember once this summer i saw an amazon driver using his own pickup truck to delivery (he had one of those roll-top bed covers)

When I was in Chicago in November I was shocked at how many Prime vans there were, I would often see them in twos or even threes

yes, in my US city they are equally omnipresent

yes. yes. keep going. kill excelsior forever

yall would enjoy Ken Loach's "Sorry We Missed You"

xpost Is that what the she said when you rested the computer on her back?

does Canada Post still handle Amazon in your area? they lost the contract a while ago.

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, January 7, 2022 12:13 PM (one minute ago)

No, we don't use it much, but when we do it tends to be Purolator that handles delivery (often arriving at insane even undesirable times like Sunday 9am). Not sure if that company exists outside of QC?

Maybe worth mentioning that Amazon is simply less useful in Canada, or at least it was when I moved here in 2014 and dropped Prime. I try not to use it because I hate them so bad, but sometimes you are basically forced to, like right now I need replacement filters for the de-lead-ing water filter the city gave me (lmao) and they are only available on Amazon afaict

yes. yes. keep going. kill excelsior forever

― imago, Friday, January 7, 2022 12:17 PM (two minutes ago)

happy to be of service!

was it a Dyson?

fwiw Canada Post owns Purolator! Which filter? I'm good at playing Anything But Amazon.

I did not know that! Now I feel less Canadian: how does CP even own other companies? I guess they're a Crown Corp? Seems weird though, does HydroQuebec own a coal company?

The filter is Zero Water. Tbh I didn't look that hard for alternatives because it's not like some cool, local boutique is going to have them lol but if you know an option, I'm all ear

It's time for the Purolator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8KZ0wspws0

lol thank you, I was trying to parse that post unsuccessfully

ah cmon those filters are all over the place

the boutiquiest thing might be ebay.ca and filter results Canada Only. some fellow patriots have some open box ones they could send by Canada Post. failing local kijiji (a subsidiary of eBay) business of course

Alright well buying open-box water filters off ebay might be the limit to my anti-amazon feelings, I also don't avoid every website that uses AWS

you're into some fancy boutiques

ok

I plead guilty to having a porch and living in a safe neighborhood - but I don't really masturbate thinking about any delivery people, that was a joek, hope that clears things up

let's get back to joeks plz

but i want to talk about masturbating to amazon delivery workers more. what is it about them that would turn a person on, i wonder.

most of them tend to be young?

there's a tuomas joke I'm not going to make

well now you've made us think of it so you essentially did :)

a dude i know had a song about 20 years ago about wanting to have sex with the Fed Ex Lady. there might be a youtube video

https://briankenneyfresno.bandcamp.com/track/fedexy

Perhaps it's something to do with novelty, like, "I don't go anywhere or do anything or see anyone (except the people I see all the goddamn time) and no one visits except sometimes there's a mysterious stranger who delivers the toner cartridges and boxed risotto and paper towels and cat litter"?

Joek thoroughly dead from overexplanation now

god the 00s was a bad decade

when did you start posting here?

well qed

i don't have bandcamps of songs about the fedex woman though, just a solo queen cover

can we poll-guess which song you did?

there have been numerous cryptic allusions to the cover and more specifically its instrumentation in the last hour on ilx

i am fated to 'play along'

further evidence I am in all the wrong threads today

@sarahell - bit of a theme for BKF! Didn't he also have a song called Sexy Mail Lady?

sexy pizza lady

which reminds me, i need to find and bookmark that post. does anyone have a link?

apparently Dyson isn't a publicly traded company in the US -- I wanted to invest but no.

Dyson and Bose both move air around and charge too much for it because of shit ~Sharper Image-level design~

I feel like Dyson is the Apple of HVAC

Not overly impressed with the Dysons I've had.
Also I much prefer changing a vacuum bag than fishing out crud from the bagless innards.

Dyson no. Miele yes.

Yup!

I am a proponent of using a Ridgid shop vac in all applications

I've had good luck with my Dyson

but understand ilx not liking it

i like my dyson vacuum but as a person who struggles to do even less disgusting small tasks i cannot express how hard it is to make myself empty that thing. my next one will definitely have a bag.

i do like how a dyson ships with a turtleneck in the box that you can wear while showing it to your dinner guests

I've seen some weird strawmen in my day but the turtlenecked vacuum dinner party enthusiast is up there

Dysons are so expensive it's kind of ridiculous gotta get them on a good sale

was there an origin point for the Dyson discourse (on ilx)?