By Walt Hickey Prep Ladies and gentlemen, it is with utter delight and profound admiration that I can announce the following: A Chinese company did a MoviePass. Offcn is a company that sells test preparation for China’s civil service exam, a difficult test that is necessary for those who want to gain public employment. To back up their test prep, Offcn made a remarkable and difficult to decline offer in their premium course that if you fail, you get a full fee refund. Back in 2019, that meant they had an average refund rate of 44 percent, a high cost of acquiring customers to be sure but one that led to enough business that the founders grew to be worth $21 billion. Then the pandemic happened, and suddenly lots of people wanted to be civil servants for the job security and Offcn became absolutely screwed. By 2021, their refund rate was up to 70 percent, and Offcn posted a loss of
" Obviously, Americans are going to stick to pickleball, and then a few decades later a bunch of hipsters are going to wake up early on Saturdays and watch the English Padel League, and then a bunch of people are gonna pull their kids out of pickleball and put them into padel because you know, the injury risk, and every four years you’re going to try to get into the padel scene but you know the minute that the States are out of the World Padel Cup you’re going to check out on it, but apparently the U.S. Women’s padel team is absolutely dominant so you do tune into that, but let’s be honest you’re way more into Fantasy Pickleball than Fantasy English Padel League at the end of the day and you’re just going to have to live with whatever moral stain that leaves you with."
" Obviously, Americans are going to stick to pickleball, and then a few decades later a bunch of hipsters are going to wake up early on Saturdays and watch the English Padel League, and then a bunch of people are gonna pull their kids out of pickleball and put them into padel because you know, the injury risk, and every four years you’re going to try to get into the padel scene but you know the minute that the States are out of the World Padel Cup you’re going to check out on it, but apparently the U.S. Women’s padel team is absolutely dominant so you do tune into that, but let’s be honest you’re way more into Fantasy Pickleball than Fantasy English Padel League at the end of the day and you’re just going to have to live with whatever moral stain that leaves you with."
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Delia:
I can't believe we're eating Cantonese. Is there no Szechuan up here?
Lydia:
I plan to have a stroke from the amount of MSG that's in this food.