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I have absolutely no complaints about this weekend. I didn’t leave the house from 6 p.m. Friday until 8 a.m. Monday and I could not have been happier about it. I spent a lot of quality time in my pajamas, on the couch, watching cheesy Hallmark movies. So while I had a great, lazy weekend, others weren’t as lucky.
Spice Girls Fans
Last week, the internet was abuzz with rumors that the Spice Girls were going to reunite and go on tour. An ardent lover of “Wannabe,” this development was quite exciting to me. But now, the artist formerly known as Posh Spice has crushed my girl power dreams.
Victoria Beckham released a statement to Vogue UK on Saturday at a viewing of her fashion collection that quashed the rumors, simply saying, “I’m not going on tour. The girls aren’t going on tour.”
But all hope is not dead. Beckham continued on, saying, “It was so great to see the girls. We had such a fun lunch. It was really, really, really lovely. I still speak to them all individually, but for us all to get together was really lovely. There’s something so strong in the message of what the Spice Girls stood for. What is that in the future? What does that look like? We were just bouncing ideas around. Brainstorming. But this is what I do.”
Stop leaving us hanging, Posh. [via Perez Hilton]
Disney Lovers
For those of you that love Disney, visiting your favorite place just got a little bit more expensive.
On Sunday, the Walt Disney Company quietly raised the ticket prices for both Disneyland and Disney World.
According to Business Insider:
A regular, one-day ticket to Disney World’s Magic Kingdom now costs $119, a $4 increase, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
The cost of “value” tickets, sold during less crowded times of year, increased by $2 to $109 for adults. Peak ticket prices, for the busiest times of year, now cost $129 for adults, a $5 increase.
Disney also significantly increased how much Florida residents pay for annual passes. The premium Platinum pass now costs Floridians $729, up from $679.
Well, there goes the only reason anyone would want to live in Florida. [via Business Insider]
A Maine Dairy
If you read any of my pieces, you see that I am a big fan of the Oxford comma. Some other fans of the grammatical staple? Some dairy delivery drivers in Maine who received a $5 million settlement because of it.
The drivers’ employer had claimed they were exempt from overtime pay, according to Maine’s labor laws. However, the court ruled that a missing Oxford comma in the law that exempts certain tasks from receiving overtime compensation meant that the drivers were indeed entitled overtime pay. The judge wrote, “Specifically, if that [list of exemptions] used a serial comma to mark off the last of the activities that it lists, then the exemption would clearly encompass an activity that the drivers perform.”
The company decided not continue the ligation and proposed a $5,000,000 settlement with the drivers. Unfortunately for anyone that was planning to move to Maine and try and take advantage of this missing punctuation, you’re out of luck: the Maine Legislature has since edited this exemption, adding in semicolons for extra clarity. [via CNN]
Travelers in New Zealand
Anyone know travels knows that there is always at least one person who screws up the experience for everyone else. If you happened to be flying through Auckland this weekend, that person was a lady who stepped smoke a cigarette.
According to Stuff:
Having gone through security as normal, a female passenger left her plane’s gate to have a final cigarette before boarding.
She bypassed security altogether on her return, thinking she didn’t need to go through a second time. All passengers had to be rescreened as a result and it took around two hours to get back to normal, a spokesman from Aviation Security (Avsec) said.
All I can say is that lady is lucky I wasn’t on her plane. [via Stuff]
Shoppers at a Philippines Mall
You know what? I’m just going to let the video do the talking in this case.
Yep, this is pretty much my worst shopping nightmare. [via New York Post] .
Image via Shutterstock
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Special shout-out to NBC. Your Olympic coverage is generally shit, but Friday’s opening ceremony was extra awful. Between cutting out 25 minutes of a 2 hour show in a 3 hour time slot and spending 10 minutes showing Team USA when their entrance was MAYBE a minute and saying fucked up things about Korea/Japan and the Netherlands – no, the Dutch don’t casually ice skate to work along Amsterdam’s canals – it might have been a new low.
Bonus: All of the event finals are being published before anyone in the Western Hemisphere has a chance to actually watch them.
That’s kind of what happens when a major sporting event is held halfway across the globe. In Olympics past, NBC has gotten flack for refusing to show any events outside of prime time in tape delay, so at least now you have the option to live stream everything. And at least they’re showing the big events live in prime time anyway.
I understand not necessarily wanting a moratorium on the results, but when they hype say, women’s slope style as a prime event, but then publish the results early, why bother really watching the event? I don’t know anybody who enjoys watching a sporting event knowing the results beforehand.
You can watch it live though. Sure it would be at like 3 am, but you can stream all the events through NBC’s site/app.
Company blocked streaming.
Got completely hosed by Uber this weekend. I requested a ride and then immediately got a call from my boyfriend offering to pick me up, and in my drunken state, I was so excited about what drive-thru to hit up that I forgot to cancel the requested Uber. Some other girl must have used it, and then promptly thrown up in it, because I have a nice little $250 charge from Uber. They refuse to refund me because the girl took the Uber on a route that I’ve taken before (from one popular bar area to another), so they’re calling the ride legitimate. Motherf.
Dispute it with your credit card company. That’s fraud.
I thought about it but in my dispute with Uber, they warned that if I had my bank reserve the charge, I would have an outstanding charge owed to Uber and wouldn’t be able to request any more rides until it was paid off. Utter bullshit. I would just do it and switch to Lyft but I’ve had too many shitty drivers from lyft, and it would be a headache to convert the entire friend group over to lyft for splitting rides with me.
That’s a shit move on Uber’s part. Before giving up, I would speak with your credit card company (hopefully you used a credit card and not a debit card) and explain the situation to them. I’m not a lawyer, but I would think that merchant retaliation for credit card disputes would be against the merchant-credit card ToS.
I personally assume anyone not using the Oxford comma is either an idiot or lazy. There is only upside to the Oxford comma. I also use two spaces after sentences still, and will absolutely never drop to a single space.
Oxford comma yes, hard no on the two spaces.
Can’t hate on that lady rippin a cig before the flight.