Hmm ... you're right, it does sound a bit too rude. I hereby humbly apologize to any and all bats, flying foxes and other mammals capable of flight who might be reading this and are currently trying to figure out how to type a reply. Y'all are cool. Weird, but cool. ;)
Triceratops already means "Three-Horned Face" =P It's just Greek instead of Latin.
Similar thing with "Easter", which comes from the name of Ēostre, the Germanic goddess of Spring. The origins of that holiday have nothing to do with Christianity, but the day and name were hijacked by Christians sometime in the mid-2nd century.
"Goodbye" exists because of 15th century chatspeak. It's a highly abbreviated version of "God be with ye"
My guess is that's either a typo and was supposed to be "shipped", or that they deliberately chose the word shifted ("to exchange for or replace by another") in order to combine the numbers of sales and repairs into one statistic so it looks bigger. After Nintendo was mass-sued about the poor quality of their C-sticks, they were ordered to replace / repair any stick drift issues for free even outside of the warranty period, and people naturally used that feature.
I for one had to send my joycons in for repair six times since buying the switch, so in that statistic my hardware would have been sold once, but "shifted" seven times.
Have you tried vinegar and baking soda? Those are basically the default at-home stench-and-stain removers any household should have.
Same with guest rooms. In my area, almost all "old" houses have a room that is kept neat and tidy but unused until guests come over - basically wasted space specifically reserved for other people not living under that roof. And the boomers here get confused about why newer houses (especially rental appartements) don't have that oh-so-important feature anymore.
Imagine an entire effing room and everything in it (furniture included) getting the "fine china" treatment and old people being offended that "the youth today" has the audacity to invite guests into the regular boring non-special living room.
Yeah it happens once or twice a year, if you're lucky ... =P
But joke aside, I think he was just too embarrassed to be angry.
The only example I personally encountered "in the wild" was Disney's Tarzan, where Phil Collins insisted on singing the songs in different languages himself. It was a bit surreal to hear him sing in German, and frankly it is very noticable that it isn't his mother tongue.
Just in case you want to listen to an example: "Son of Man", sung by Collins, in ...
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...German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbfGOohwP_4
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...Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k8NySrpplY
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...French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Oz2fBXTDs
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...Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NpGoEpMZh4
On the other hand, I do appreciate the effort. Letting someone else do it would have been easier for him, but instead he sat down and learned a ton of phonetical lines by heart, in four different languages - none of which he understands. For all seven or so voiced songs in the movie.
Bathroom products. In fact, they're currently located between the TP/paper towel section and the liquid soap dispensers & refill bags.
Granted, they DO look like white chocolate or something similar, but the product placement, package and the fact that it did not taste like food should have been rather obvious hints to maybe check the package again instead of driving all the way back to the store to yell at the employees. At least he had the decency to be embarrassed about it instead of starting the usual "you lost a customer, I'll never shop here again" shouting match, which is a big plus.
PS: he got a refund, but only because he was polite as soon as he realized his mistake. Normally, any sort of hygiene product is excluded from refunds, especially when it has bite marks.
I work in customer service. I wouldn't say that 90% of ALL people are stupid, but an astounding number of the people I have to deal with have ... unique ways of thinking, so to speak.
The most recent example was an olderly man who was absolutely furious because a box of candy he bought for his wife "tasted absolutely disgusting". We're talking about something similar to this but I won't link our actual product as I don't feel comfortable sharing that information.
Either way, those are friggin' bath bombs. It says so on the effing package. Just because they're labeled "vegan" doesn't mean that they're edible FFS!
On the other hand,, "knocked down" and "knocked up" have drastically different meanings, which is a little confusing for foreigners sometimes. =P