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re: Dapper to Dust: Blockbuster destroying livelihoods

Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:35 pm to
Posted by mjax57
Vinings, GA
Member since Mar 2012
5137 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:35 pm to
but did they complain when it was $5 to rent a movie a day?
Posted by BatonRougeBuckeye
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Aug 2013
1907 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:36 pm to
I cant tell if some of you are serious or not, but its called Capitalism. When somebody finds a way to save the consumer money and deliver a superior product the consumer will gravitate towards that and the other will die. Happens all the time.
Posted by NavyTiger77
Collinsville
Member since Aug 2013
251 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:39 pm to
considering the article is 3 years old, i'd say this is a troll job.
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
61791 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:42 pm to
But a shitty one.
Posted by Upperdecker
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2014
33903 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:43 pm to
Im trying to write a funny analogy here. Anyone have any ideas on what the Blockbuster employee version of truck nutz would be?
Posted by LucasP
Member since Apr 2012
21618 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:47 pm to
We were so caught up in celebrating our convenient and inexpensive movie watching, we never stopped to consider who we were hurting.

Is it really worth it, are we this selfish?
Posted by X123F45
Dictated not Read
Member since Apr 2015
30038 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:51 pm to
quote:

Im trying to write a funny analogy here. Anyone have any ideas on what the Blockbuster employee version of truck nutz would be?




Tubs of sour gummy worms and el caminos on dubs.
Posted by saintsfan1977
Arkansas, from Cajun country
Member since Jun 2010
10513 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:57 pm to
I havent rented a movie in about 15 years due to those nazis and their late charges. As soon as I found torrents I never saw the need. Glad they out of business.
Posted by LasVegasTiger
Idaho
Member since Apr 2008
8752 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:00 pm to
quote:

I havent rented a movie in about 15 years due to those nazis and their late charges. As soon as I found torrents I never saw the need. Glad they out of business.


Same with libraries. My lazy arse couldn't return books on time, so I just started stealing them.
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29454 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:02 pm to
Which parking lot am I supposed to be shot in now?!
Posted by Finch
Member since Jun 2015
3768 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:06 pm to
It's about time blockbuster employees got sucked back to reality.

They spent all of those years living in high cotton off of those fat paychecks funded by back breaking rental prices.

Never once did anyone in the industry stop and think that maybe earning all that money with no education or real skill set wasn't going to last forever.

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered. I don't feel bad watching all those blue and yellow hogs getting led to the slaughterhouse. They spent the last 15 years raping and pillaging the movie nights all over America. Now it is our time to Netflix and Chill!!!!


Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
47719 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:18 pm to
quote:

Anyone have any ideas on what the Blockbuster employee version of truck nutz would be?


Popcorn balls
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
61725 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:19 pm to
Cheap movies are all that's holding my clan together. This creates a tough decision
This post was edited on 2/23/16 at 6:20 pm
Posted by Sid in Lakeshore
Member since Oct 2008
41956 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:38 pm to
quote:

They spent all of those years living in high cotton off of those fat paychecks funded by back breaking rental prices.


Sounds like reparations are in order...............
Posted by tylerlsu2008
Monaco
Member since Jul 2015
1533 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:51 pm to
1. STFU
2. That article is 3 years old -- blockbuster is long gone
3. GFY
Posted by NOLAManBlog
The Big Nasty
Member since Dec 2012
1225 posts
Posted on 2/23/16 at 7:12 pm to
My 7 year old nephew wants to know what Blockbuster is.
Posted by Will Munny
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
3110 posts
Posted on 2/24/16 at 12:03 am to
Blockbuster killed off the awesome locally owned video stores from my childhood. frick blockbuster.
Posted by Arkapigdiesel
Faulkner County
Member since Jun 2009
15771 posts
Posted on 2/24/16 at 12:53 am to
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you dummies love getting your movies from gas station vending machines a.k.a. redbox, or worse, illegally streaming them. which i might add is illegal. you don't see what it's doing to families.

You probably have a newspaper thrown on your driveway also.
Posted by forksup
Member since Dec 2013
8817 posts
Posted on 2/24/16 at 12:57 am to
Had to look at the date and make sure this wasn't a zombie thread from 2005
Posted by tzimme4
Metairie
Member since Jan 2008
33878 posts
Posted on 2/24/16 at 1:06 am to
Do they still have VHS tapes?
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