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Tastebuds, I guess...

What?

thats what i said now

princes kneel before you

My god..since age 13 i've killed billions if not trillions.

i think I win.

she went to jail...not for life like paul, but she still did

Yes, absolutely. Most of the time I do. it is useful for a lot of situations, such as tipping when I go to restaurants, paying people back if I owe them money(and they dont have zelle or care to use it), and purchasing bills out of my cash drawer at work. It's also rare but the credit/debit system at my store has gone down before. Not often or for that long, but it happens.

some people can pull off weird hair colors and some cannot. Some look good and some look terrible.

But MY opinion certainly doesn't matter. Nobody cares.

I played an older version and I liked how it was challenging but not impossible and it DID actually prioritize strategy over sheer power. I was healing/reviving characters a lot though.

I don't know if this is actually better but I've always just used a 3.5mm to red and white cord to connect my stereo receiver to my computer, so it plays through the speakers i have connected to that.

I don't like it by itself. I was amazed as a kid though because a lot of kids foods had plastic or other utensils. With fun dip it's like fuck you can eat it

I've made plenty of legitimate friends at work. However sometimes the forced aspect of being forced to be around people sucks and "water cooler" talk is boring AF.

i watched the whole video and it was way more interesting than I thought.

So the company that makes the machines(the one McDonalds forces franchisees to use), Taylor, gets about 25% of their revenue from service calls to fix machines(the issue could be serious or as minor as the hopper filled with too much mixture).

So, when the machine fails, usually after the 4 hours cleaning process, the screen spits out nebulous codes and meanings nobody can interpret, the manual is aparently just as confusing and most problem chains end up at "call the maintenance guy"

McDonalds itself isn't paying for the service calls, the Franchisees are, so they have zero incentive to care(I guess being an industry joke isn't enough motivation).

Taylor has incentive to make the machines confusing for the user. They get a boatload of money from service calls. There is, however, ZERO reason they can't make a more user friendly machine that the user can fix unless it is something serious you'd actually need a technician for(removing some mixture from the hopper is one thing, some sort of part failure is completely different in terms of skill needed to resolve)

One man created an app that a lot of franchise owners liked, wherein it could actually diagnose the problem, give the user friendly feedback so that they can fix it themselves. Kind of like a third party app that does all the things Taylor doesn't want you to do because it makes them so much money.

McDonalds caught wind of this(at one Franchisee meeting, an owner said this app wasn't corporate approved but it worked really well). and decided to disallow their franchises from using it.

Instead, McDonald's decided to partner with a company to make their own app that does similar stuff. However, it won't be as good because the company making it is owned by the same parent company as Taylor.

The reason you can't get ice cream at McDonald's sometimes is because McD's and Taylor are partnered up with this scheme to make a shitty, user unfriendly machine that keeps Taylor's revenues up with a constant stream of service call revenue paid for by the franchise owners.

The video points out that the target rate of success should be 99.9966%. The success rate of this particular Taylor machine is 85%, which is terrible.

just eating an entire bucket of gushers slathered in just the liquid juice in the center, akin to movie theater butter.

I guess places run the cycle overnight like you'd expect, but if it fails somehow(usually because the machine is overloaded with too much mixture) at mcdonalds they just restart the machine cleaning process. multiple times until it works. maybe other resturants teach their employees to figure out the what the error codes mean and how to fix them if a layperson could, like, emptying the mixture compartment until it isn't too full.

yeah i didnt watch far enough to see why this is a huge issue with just mcdonalds. but the reason why is because.^^^^^

There seems to be a deeper concept behind the video as he says in the intro "....how big businesses protect other businesses even if it hurts their customers"

BUT

the real reason is, the machine goes through a 4 hour cleaning process, and it's just easier to tell customers it is broken

Laundry, eh?

Is this some kinda....

You wouldn't be...?

I seen they had some cool lights on, so I decided to see what I could do.

https://imgur.com/x0xeC5x

This picture came out alright, at least considering a stock lens on my camera.

As always I recommend clicking through to imgur to see a higher quality version of the photo

If you're fucking with me, boy howdy there is gonna be hell toupee.

my mom says people make fun of me because they're jealous

VS

There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist.

In one episode, Kramer is running buckets of water from Jerry's apartment to his, because he needed to fill up his newly purchased hot tub.

George asks Jerry if Kramer even has running water, and Jerry replies with

"I don't ask those kinds of questions"

But what if Jerry DID ask those questions?

Like, Kramer is every bit as crazy as he is, but he has to knock to enter the apartment and can't just steal food all willy nilly

that looks hilariously staged.

hint of lime

I don't game that much and when I do its always just random games i've accumulated through the years and not anything really modern, but my answer is absolutely.

I can say with certainty there are even if I've never played them.

Not really.

Assuming that quote is originally from The Simpsons and not a parody on that particular episode, this shirt is actually giving off the WRONG message and probably not what he, as a Trump fan, intends.

The idea behind the quote is that Homer feels he isn't to blame for the human race being made into slaves because he voted for Kodos, but either candidate(Kodos or Kang) would have made the human race slaves to build a death ray.

My friends thinking is likely "shit is going to go downhill under Biden, but it isn't my fault because I voted for Trump" which isn't what was meant by the original quote in the Simpsons episode.

I don't like getting into political arguments with friends but this shirt makes him look ultra dumb. Not because it's Trump, because whatever, but because it takes the Simpsons quote and misinterprets it. Taken within the context of the simpsons episode, Trump is also working towards enslaving all of America, just like Biden, not that he is better.

record your weight now and then after. i'd be curious to see just how much difference there is.

You get those but it's always dumb because, as I said after I got my 5 years at wal-mart plaque and pin

"I just want more money!"

I always struggle with making other cities. where do i place them? when do i place them? Ah shit some wonders can only be built if I have X in all cities.

fuck all that. Venice. One city, and you are rolling in gold so you can just buy everything because you should be making hundreds of gold per turn at like, mid-game.

Okay so I made one burger out of it.

It was pretty good for what it was. Sure, I knew it wouldn't be anything close to real wagyu, but it was still tasty so meh

yikes

I just did

At best it was a friend of hers who shit her pants at a party, but not Kaitlin herself. Barstool sports took the story and ran with it without verifying facts

https://imgur.com/k0EF6cT

this was 7.99. I don't know if it'll be any good, but I am taking a chance. At least it'll be something different.

Do I just....form patties and make burgers? I guess that is the most logical idea but I am not sure

none. whatsoever.

I think this girl is a tryhard idiot, but people act like shit in pants is a zinger when it never_happened_

I voted for sephiroth because you chase him around all game and there is legit build up to the final fight, in ways there just isn't in say, 8 or 9.

Kefka is a good villain but he kinda just fucks off after the world of ruin until you fight him, which kinda kills it for me. It feels like fighting him before the world of ruin would be a better ending point perhaps. Though him somewhat succeeding in ruining the world is neat because a lot of villains don't get that far. I just feel like they wasted a lot of potential in the second half of the game.

This is pretty neat, because I can see somebodies hobby evolve in real time. Keep working at it and you'll keep getting better and outdo yourself routinely.

I am in the back room when a guy walks in. I didn't see him at the time but I later saw it was this dude who comes in on a semi-regular basis and buys a pint of something. He is always super friendly to the people who work here, and i've never seen him cause a problem until tonight.

He comes in, and I guess his mask was not on properly, so my manager told him to put it on correctly. I guess he moved it around but it was still under his nose, so my manager tells him three time to pull it up over his nose, as this guy is walking to the back, around the corner at the end of the first aisle. This guy then says "I heard you....fucker"

The "fucker" was in a lower voice but not a whisper. My manager hears this and tells the man imediately he can leave. The guy walks up front, and at this time I come out from the back room to back up my manager if need be. The guy walks up, my manager again says he can leave, and the guy goes "You want to fight?" and my manager goes "no, but I heard what you said, so you can leave."

At this point I walk into the office which is raised two steps up from the floor, and stand there, still ready to back my manager up if need be. I had to sit down and put my head on the desk because what happened next might be the funniest thing i've ever heard.

My manager tells the guy he heard him call him a fucker. The man goes "I was talking to myself" and my manager fires back without skipping a beat "You call yourself fucker?" and the man goes "yes" like it was a normal thing to do.

At this point things have just turned from potentially bad to comical. Once he realized he may actually not be served, the man does kind of soften up. He starts talking about how the people here all know him(technically true. Most of those people have moved to other stores or retired, and me, a male with long hair(relevant) is the last of that crew left). I am sitting in the chair with my head down, when he points into the office and goes "she knows me" and again, without skipping a beat my manager replies "that's a dude" and the guy didnt say anything, and I couldn't see anything, but at this point I am trying not to audibly cackle with laughter.

The conversation moves along, the guy actually did apologize and did get served with a warning that next time if he disrespects my manager like that again there would be no negotiation.

This guy just casually calls himself fucker out loud in public. I don't think he does, but HE said it.

actually the elam ending was featured in some nba all star games....i dont watch those either, and all star games tend to be awful for various reasons but maybe it was neat then

Basketball endgame sucks, but it does provide for some dramatic moments. However all it is is clock manipulation with fouls and other tricks. In most sports, fouling does NOT help you win. Granted it doesn't for 98% of the game in basketball either.

It's kinda bad. There is a neat alternative ending to basketball used in the Basketball Tournament(thats its name) called the Elam Ending.

The idea is that at 4 minutes the game clock stops and becomes irrelevant. There is then a target score either team must reach, and that is the leading teams score +8. If either team gets to that number of points, the game is over.

https://thetournament.com/elam-ending

It sounds neat, but i have no idea if it actually was good or not. They have kept using it at this one tournament so maybe it is interesting.

Neither. If a place doesnt have in-house delivery I don't do it.

Anyways, I think this is a bad idea. Soccer in most countries is run more capitalisticly than any US sport could dream of, which has its fair share of issues(such as two teams winning the scottish league every year just about for the last century, and three teams in Portugal winning almost every year for the last 84), but this is like a slap in the face in this already unbalanced, capitalistic culture. It's teams with a lot of money(not necessarily quality) wanting to make even more money by secluding themselves off from everybody else and making their own competition. I'm not a fan of it, and I hope the teams get punished for it. The highest honor in the sport now isn't going to be winning your domestic league(wherein you can be relegated if you don't play well), or the Champions League(reward for finishing in a top spot in your league, has group stages and knockout rounds). It's going to be this, because this could be where all the top talent congregates. But winning this super league should feel hollow in a way, and not a celebrated achievement.

Ilishe posted...

That's just what the sport is called in the USA. Everyone else calls it the by the proper name of football, it being an old sport played with feet using a ball.

Not 100% true. In Austrailia they use the term. their National team is called the Socceroos.

I thought he got killed in 1984 but

The first one I have tried out is Sir Walter Scott's Latakia Blend.

This one has me excited because I heard good things and it is a highly revered type of tobacco used in pipes. On the tin it smells like toast. What I call toast is like a burnt but pleasant type of smell. There is definitely some other shit in there, but I just don't know what it is.

So... how does it take and what does it actually smell like?

This stuff is a medium brown color and somewhat finely ground. For me it is pretty easy to take and it hits fairly hard.

It smells like that toasty smell from the tin but better, but with other elements at play here. I don't know what it is, but this stuff is great.

Finally a Sir Walter Scott's I like. But I can't place my finger on why. It is smokey, which I like, but other than that, what is it?

For perhaps a more expert opinion, things cherry picked from reviews:

a lot of people note how it smells like pipe tobacco.

One man says "camp fire, cream and lemons"

"
Finely ground, fermented Latakia tobacco blended with a little first priming flue cured Virginia Lemon leaf, to create a unique, silky, slightly moist, peppery high nicotine snuff with an intense smokey flavour."

So...yeah, it's that time again! I bought some more snuff. I was excited to see how these turn out, because my last two batches I ordered contained a bunch of meh or gross smelling snuff. I've also tried 3 or 4 Sir Walter Scott's and was not impressed by any of them. Whale Ambergris and Amaretto wasn't that great. I have three more on the way. I've had one sniff of something so far, which I will detail later on, so I haven't cracked into this. I will go through and review them at various points perhaps. I stuck with mainly English this time and I didn't buy any mints except Wilson's Crumbs of Comfort because its like Orbit sweetmint gum and is nice. Overbearing blasts of menthol are not my thing. So I decided to go simple.

The lineup:

McChrystal's:

Mulled Magic(christmas ginger scent)
SP
CBD(this actually does work as moderate, temporary pain releif/management. It's worth a buy)

Sir Walter Scott's:

I've not had one of theirs I liked yet. I can assume the tobacco they use is top shelf, but the scents I have bought before weren't my thing. But I have 3 here I really am excited for. I had to cut a 4th one, an Islay Scotch scent, out to save costs. This had great reviews but could be gimmicky.

Latakia Blend: Latakia is a type of tobacco named after the Syrian port city. This is a high quality blend of tobacco, which descriptions in reviews I saw made me excited for it.

Havana Toast: supposed to smell like an authentic Cuban cigar. I want to believe the reviewer who used to be a guy in DC years ago when he says it smells just like what a Cuban dignitary gave him one day.

Auld Alliance: Who even knows with these names? But I was interested in this one. Tin is giving off some Copenhagen(the inferior form of snuff) and chewing tobacco(yum, sometimes) vibes. Interesting.

Toque:

Violet. I wanted something on the floral side with an obvious name that should just smell like what it is

Samuel Gawith:

Kendall Brown Original. Just a highly regarded tobacco blend

Celtic Talisman. Supposed to evoke a cafe atmosphere? Hmm...

Fribourg and Tryer

High Dry Toast
Morlaix
Old Paris
Bordeaux
Santo Domingo
Princes special.

All of these just caught my attention for one reason or another I forget at the moment, and they are all sealed with plastic I don't want to crack just yet.

Wilson's of Sharrow:

• Rows of Sharrow(some english law says they cannot call it Rose of Sharrow, so they changed the name at one point to Rows, so Rose influenced scent)
• Africa
• Best Dark
• Plain(straight tobacco, baby)
• Macouba
• Royal George(one of the few from the last two orders I liked a lot. For me it's like velevty tobacco, but y'know)
• Jockey Club(heavily perfumed floral bouquet and one of my friend's favorites)
• Gold Label
• Grand Cairo(I get suckered into these ones with vague place names. I've bought this before, I recall liking it I think, but my friend asked me to buy it)
• S.P. 100(SPs are generally unflavored tobacco spiced up with something like citrus)
• Apri(cot. Another one that should smell like what it is. I also don't recall offhand what an Apricot smells like.)
• Crumbs of Comfort(a menthol on the lighter side, smells like Orbit sweet mint gum)

The last one on the list is the only non English one, and it is coffee kick by 6 Photo. I really wanted Dhlolakia's coffee cream, but it was sold out.

Folks, I'm pretty excited.

The movie reportedly made over a billion dollars, so it wasn't really a financial flop. The movie was kind of messy and not all that great, though.

I was thinking MIB but I've lost weight and it would look awful since my suit jackets are all super huge on me.

My mom bought be a stormtrooper mask, and a good "low effort" idea is the stormtrooper going to class from the empire recruitment video from family guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvc8_OvfrPY

I don't have one of those letterman jackets, but I own a blue sweater, I'm going to find some way to put that E on there. Brown pants, some books(my encylopedia of paper money is textbook size and hell I might want to read it anyways while i'm away)....

This might work.