That sounds about right, I've never gotten anything nice from a hornet. The one time I did get something from a hornet, it was a painful disappointment.
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Goddamn hornets, this is why everyone prefers bees
Speak for yourself. Bees are an invasive species given an unfair advantage through their alliance with humanity. If they aren't native to an area, they are a pest that competes with local pollinators and drives them toward extinction
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I guess I'll continue not watching basketball or football or whatever
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!
Yeah. Fuck this noise. I'm boycotting the Hornets. You won't catch me at a Hornets Football match!
LOL. Cheap bastards. I mean, PS5 is an expensive gift, but not for such an occasion, no?
Not expensive for a literal NBA team.
Compared to the marketing expenses of even very small companies, a PS5 is so ridiculously cheap that these costs are not even worth mentioning.
I meant expensive for a kid. Of course, yes.
Sure. But the Hornets aren't interested in the child, they're only interested in marketing. The only way I can explain this is that either some employee wanted the PS5 and just took it from the kid or the Hornets' marketing department thinks that even bad publicity is free publicity. Maybe they intentionally planned for the predictable media coverage on this matter because it also brings attention. If the Hornets wanted to buy this kind of exposure, that paltry $500 wouldn't even begin to cover it.
The team has revenue in the millions. They'd never have noticed the money. This should be in the dictionary under Penny Wise, Pound Foolish.
Kinda reminiscent of various Russian official events involving children.
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Why? It's a few hundred dollars, not a car or something.
It could have literally been a tax write off
It could have been a glitch in tax calculator tbh. Not my point. And I agree with you. "LOL. Cheap bastards" was my point.
yeah, anything under 1000 was a rounding error.
Budget lint
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I wonder how it affected the kid. I don't know the grade school culture these days but when I was his age I think it would've earned sympathy points from the whole class and boosted his social ranking lol. As an aside I do not miss that aspect of school lol
Man, I wish I had gone to your school.
I would have went back to school the next day and the kids would have presented me with two broken PS2s taped to a broken PS1 and giggled while singing, “I love your PS5, it makes me holler! Where’d you git it, Family Dollar?!”
Fat kid in the background with a Taz tattoo on one arm and a confederate flag on the other (at the ripe old age of 10) would have shouted, “LIKE HIS SHOES! AHAHAHAHAHA!”
Then the kids would start stabbing each other over whether Ford or Chevy trucks are better.
Haha, you live around here?
Might have to get more specific. For example, I recall a trailer park pinecone war that pitted kids from one half of the trailer park against those low-life bastards from the other half. I'm from the good half, obviously.
Ooooh I got one better! My bunch had a chestnut shell war that pitted kids from one holler against another holler (hollow, but properly pronounced. :p). The smallest kid was captured and thrown into a pile of chestnut shells and kicked around until he was bloody from head to toe after the two groups formed an alliance against the weakest member.
That kid today is covered in tattoos from head to toe that look like a kindergartener drew all over him. Folks call him Gump. He is all sorts of messed up.
I ran when it started and the next day I heard, “Look at sissy over ‘ere. He ain’t got no scabs ‘cause he ran away like a lil queer!”
Edit: Was making the comment about Tim the sex pest and remembered that Gump was on the registry too. Something about hillbillies and incest. Damn.
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One of the comments about why
Unfortunately, this applies to 99% of people in power I know of, if they think they’ll get away with it, they’ll do it.
You don’t usually get into places of power by being thoughtful and considerate.
How would this commenter know that?
I mean surely it could be a lie but they just took away a PS5 from a kid...
what? lies? on the internet? why would anyone do such a thing.
I know, right? I'm human like you and totally not a dog
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You want Lemmy adoption.. you get folks with stature in the machine sharing mundane recon.. you don't believe anything.
Look, I'm just engaging in critical thinking here. I don't believe everything I read on the Internet especially since people love just making up random crap just so they can have a story to tell.
That's a Reddit comment though.
By having met her.
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I might suggest that the kid got a nicer present in the form of a reason to file suit against the team for the embarrassment and emotional distress. Using the kid for a BS publicity stunt is not acceptable.
Stingy.
They're Hornets. Being stingy bastards is in the name!
That's fucked up.
wait what? did they go back to the store and ask for a refund on the PS5, lol.... someone was like "that is fine we will just apologize and save a couple hundred bucks!"
nice troll.