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― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
also why is this news re. chik-fil-a just breaking these past few weeks? somehow i knew about their donations years ago...
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:13 PM
Yeah, this is kind of odd. I thought their conservative/fundie/homophobe bona fides were universally known. I've been avoiding giving them my money for at least a decade, since I heard about them donating to Eagle Forum and the AFA and such.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
CEO of Popeyes has been trying to get Gaga on the phone all day.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
This reminds me of when I sadly could no longer get the tofu sandwich at Your Black Muslim Bakery because they murdered a journalist.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 7:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's amazing
― Cunga, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
that whole story is so sad and stupid
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
It really was a great tofu sandwich
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
holy hell, I thought you guys were joking
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
me too!
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Ybmblogo.png
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
It is now officially 1000x funnier than when I thought it was a joke.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
also people who are bummed about chick-fil-a: it's just shitty fried chicken, you can get pretty much the same thing at mcdonald's or popeyes or kfc without directly funding a publicly homophobic company
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:34 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not defending chick-fil-a as a company but their batter's got a unique flavor compared to most of those chains.
the employees chirp "Have a blessed day!" as they hand over your waffle fries
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this has literally never happened to me at a chick-fil-a. i also worked at a chick-fil-a for a few weeks right before graduating high school. i imagine it might be different for store managers or franchise owners, but there was zero religious pressure put on me or any employees that i could see. in any case, fuck 'em.
― mythical mickey rourke jacket (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
the your black muslim bakery is less "funny" than "sordid and tragic"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
this has literally never happened to me at a chick-fil-a.
I've been in only one CAF in my life so this might be the policy at the store located in the secular heart of a diseased county, i.e. a public university in Miami-Dade.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/5928926/chick+fil+a-got-caught-pretending-to-be-a-fake-teenage-girl-on-facebook
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah not really seein the lolz personally
― giallo shots (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
for reference
― giallo shots (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
wtf seriously
I've never been in one but now I wanna go by a lemonade just to tell them hail Satan prince of all flesh
― tallarico dreams (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
I would jump at the register bellowing THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
Ummmm, they dont say that.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
I stopped eating Popeye's because of the "Annie the Chicken Queen" commercials, and now this. I need to eat less fried food though so I guess overall it's a plus.
also the only times Chick-Fil-A employees have said stuff like "have a blessed day!" to me were in semi-rural regions where a Wendy's or Burger King employee would have said the same thing. I've never been too weirded out by the closed on Sunday thing. That's not an offensive practice imo.
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
i totally thought alfred was joking about 'have a blessed day'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
the only chik-fil-a i've ever been to was on my old campus, where the employees were obv just stressed-out students trying to move the line along as fast as possible -- so yeah, never got to hear 'have a blessed day.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
also the only times Chick-Fil-A employees have said stuff like "have a blessed day!" to me were in semi-rural regions where a Wendy's or Burger King employee would have said the same thing.
Yeah, I can think of at least six businesses in my town where I'll hear that at checkout.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Why was Your Black Muslim bakery named that? Apologies if I'm coming off as thick. Seems a bad race PR move if you're also a hitman?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Bey named the business Your Black Muslim Bakery on the personal recommendation of his spiritual guide, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. In 1971, Bey moved the bakery to Oakland.[1] By 1974 it was the "largest Bay Area bakery specializing exclusively in natural food products", with over 6,000 loaves of bread and over 300 cakes per week sold at 150 stores.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, missed the wiki link. Thanks!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
xp Or "Heaven-O!", which actually has a serious pressure group behind it
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
"serious pressure group"
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Geocities lives on
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
come on guys let's just sit back and laugh at the bigger and bigger PR hole they are digging for themselves
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
'serious' and 'influential' maybe not in the hemisphere, much less same zip code with that one. xposts
― Neil Jung (WmC), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
bouncin around my fb feed...http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/580779_10150964068092869_1460836878_n.jpg
― arby's, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe the mayor is won't allow chick fil-a in Boston JUST because he doesn't like their chicken
― , Blogger (schlump), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
xp I meant that they take themselves and a ridiculous idea like that seriously.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
I believe he said he personally doesn't like their company. lol @ them pretending he has any legal standing for not allowing them there.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Christians Say Chick-fil-A Under Siege By Militant Gays // FOX News
What a crazy world.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah how does that work exactly? i think he can block some public subsidies? iirc he was banging heads w/ wal-mart a while back and whatever he did there was effective. but i don't think he can just like push a button and SHUT IT DOWN
― arby's, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
But that isn’t cutting the mustard with Menino. He said he plans to fire off a letter to the company’s Atlanta headquarters “telling them my feelings on the matter.”“If they need licenses in the city, it will be very difficult — unless they open up their policies,” he warned
“If they need licenses in the city, it will be very difficult — unless they open up their policies,” he warned
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061147182&srvc=home&position=emailed
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
there are tons of licensing/zoning/permitting things city officials can do to keep franchises out
― giallo shots (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
a ha
― arby's, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
lmao at militant gays, they have taken up arms and have allied with the cows, they are here for your bibles
― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I gotta say that unless the restaurant is actually discriminating against GLBT folks as customers, or in hiring -- and from what I've seen there's no evidence that it is -- what these city officials are doing is kinda NAGL. Punishing a business for who/what it supports politically is treading on dangerous ground.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I agree. I still won't eat their shitty chicken sandwiches though.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
can you expand a little, phil? i think that's interesting but i can't quite find a good analogue for the dangerous ground. i feel like it depends what 'punishing' means; like either action - respecting a company's right to bigotry (or whatever else), or publicly lending your voice to speak against a company - has baggage, but at least the latter has a positive effect, too.
there's something else that i can't quite put my finger on, too, about how automatically separating the opinions of a company from customers' attitudes towards that company is a sad deferral to the stature of corporations, a can't fight city hall thing allowing compartmentalisation that we would be reluctant to accept in other situations. if corporations are people, this one is an asshole, some vocal recognition of that is powerful i think?
― , Blogger (schlump), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
? cities do this kind of thing all the time. if they don't like a business, they have the power to run it out of town, it isn't very complicated.
― giallo shots (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
coworker of mine is a city councilmember for a bay area city and was very involved in keeping Walmart out - arguments didn't get much more complicated than their policies are shitty and they will harm local businesses (an argument you could make about any franchise, really) and then you throw up all sorts of onerous processes to make it not worth the franchise's time to try and get a permit and then they give up. until the next election cycle anyway lol.
― giallo shots (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
I was gonna say, the only thing really different here is that the policy in question is so repellent that city officials are willing to pull back the curtain and reveal the wizard
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
In many circumstaces I've conflated support for gay marriage with not giving a damn about homosexuality. The CEO took a position on probably the socological and moral question of our time -- an abhorrent one. But I would find it more disturbing if we learned that the corporation offers no domestic partnership benefits (I haven't checked).
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol "policy" I meant "position"
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link