Steakhouses are mostly terrible. I got taken out to a Morton's on company dime recently, so expensive and so boring.
Peter Luger once in a while is nice, and I'm a big fan of the M. Wells Steakhouse which is sort of a riff on the concept of a steakhouse rather than a steakhouse.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
for chain steakhouses I quite like Ruth's Chris which seems to lack the macho bs vibe you find elsewhere, probably because it was founded by a woman,
check this from wiki:
(Ruth) Fertel personally took a hand in every part of the business. She had to teach herself how to butcher steak, and despite being just five-foot-two and 110-pounds, would saw up 30-pound short loins by hand until she could afford an electric band saw. She staffed her restaurant with single mothers, saying that they were hard workers and reliable. For many years, Chris Steak House was the only upscale restaurant in New Orleans with an all-female wait staff.[13]
cool
― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
A Portuguese-style chickenless life is not worth living.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
steakhouses are okay but it's kind of weird to me to spend that kind of money because it's really not hard to go to a nice butcher shop and shell out for a good ribeye then cook it on a cast iron skillet w/a baked potato if that's yr jam
whereas like an actual fine dining restaurant (or culinary type place) at least i'm shelling out for stuff i'd have zero hope of cooking at home
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
like chicken!
― suggest boban (Will M.), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
(seriously i hate cooking chicken i always do a bad job)
I just found out that Rogue has a beer that was fermented from the wild yeast found in the brewmaster's beard. FULL CIRCLE.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
That suggests a complementary product…
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 18 January 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
when did we start talking steakhouses? I was getting ready to share my beard grooming techniques but I'd much rather talk about how awesome Keens is.
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 January 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
somebody write the guns, germs, and steel for cocktails
https://fromagebob.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/6-glasses-cover.jpg
Already happened
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 January 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
I'm furious at how that cover rebuses "the" with "thé"
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 18 January 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
this Rogue stuff makes me sad, Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar is a delicious caramel beer that is now available in (man) cans.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 19 January 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
white wine doesn't go w chicken as nicely as a red does imoyours, a locally-grown beard curator
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 January 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
whatever you prefer!the best wine is balsamic vinegar amirite
― mh, Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
Vinegar is my only use for wine that’s for sure
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 19 January 2019 03:06 (five years ago) link
Yeah, so that ad. I 100% understand the cynicism, major corp pressing ~hot button~ issues in hopes of viral play to raise visibility is gross. But going on the substance of it alone, I’m legitimately bewildered by anyone (especially here) thinking this is some over-the-line attack on men. “Hey, we can do better, let’s call out shitty behavior when we see it.” Wow, I feel deeply and unfairly shamed.And yeah, this is only dreary/dark/weird if you watch like the first 30 seconds of it and turn it off. It’s blatantly a positive, inspirational thing taken as a whole. Feel like I watched something totally different than what everyone’s freaking out about.
― circa1916, Saturday, 19 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
dan selzer at 3:18 18 Jan 19when did we start talking steakhouses? I was getting ready to share my beard grooming techniques but I'd much rather talk about how awesome Keens is.
― peace, man, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
I love keens
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
anyone (especially here) thinking this is some over-the-line attack on men.
Did anyone here read it this way? I thought people just thought it was dumb.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
strawmasculinity
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
I was so offended I’ve been crying nonstop since I saw it
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
At bar at keens mind you. Masculine refuge. Just drinking makers and burying myself in 20 oz porterhouses
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
Upon watching it I decided to clean up my act and start shaving again.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
Use a fusion not a mach 3
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
Eh, I won’t press it. I didn’t think it was dumb or shitty, ultimately positive and well done imo.I hosted a bachelor party last night. Got real high and drunk and watched monster truck videos on YouTube and played Super Nintendo games. It was honestly really fun and the best one of these I’ve been a part of.
― circa1916, Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
As an ad, it doesn't give me a reason to buy Gillette products. As a PSA, I don't find it particularly informative or insightful and I agree with Mordy that it muddles together different issues that should not be muddled together. (And if your analysis IS that childhood bullying, boys fighting, catcalling, sexual assault, etc are all manifestations of a fundamental issue with patriarchy or 'toxic masculinity', then the solution should probably be something more systemic and large-scale than 'as individual men, we have to step up, be better men, and teach those around us". Why doesn't a large corporation advocate for some kind of systemic change, I wonder?)
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 January 2019 19:50 (five years ago) link
i think it was so they could go viral tbh
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Saturday, 19 January 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
no doubt
― calumy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 19 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
something went viral at home this week and i spent last night throwing up :(
― Mordy, Saturday, 19 January 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
As a PSA, I don't find it particularly informative or insightful
― circa1916, Saturday, 19 January 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
Like it’s more enlightening than your standard “smoking is bad” or whatever the fuck else standard PSA thing is. As heavy handed as it is, the scene alone where dude condescends to the woman in a meeting is 100% happening all the time and most dudes aren’t even clocking it.
― circa1916, Saturday, 19 January 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
its good that ppl are being helped by this advert i spose
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
Like it’s more enlightening than your standard “smoking is bad” or whatever the fuck else standard PSA thing
I'd probably go the other way bc I at least find anti-smoking PSA messages more coherent but I appreciate that you see it differently and get more out of this.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
This tune still pops in my head sometimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7uaKCjjufs
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
An ad that people are talking about = an ad that has done its job.
It's not about "selling more razors" per se, but about making sure that the next 20 times you think about shaving you think about Gillette. Mission accomplished.
Same goes for much of Coke/McDonald's /Microsoft advertising. Keep the brand top-of-mind and you don't need to work as hard on individual sales motions.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
the most chud dude I know is so triggered by this ad, since he's a typical easy mark for whatever issues make people like him super-shook (AOC dancing, issues of sexual identity cf transgender politics and gay marriage or whatever, the "caravan", etc and on and on) and it's amazing to watch. it's not to say the right-wing doesn't have their shit which gets the left riled up a lot, but it's astonishing that a dumb ad has had this reaction. "oh no, i have to boycott them now" lol
― omar little, Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
YMP, so basically it's exploiting feminist issues for the sake of subconscious manipulation in the service of profit? Can't imagine why that might rub someone the wrong way.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
hey theres no bad way to #nagallmen
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link
― circa1916, Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
If you want to die, look at the YouTube comments.
― circa1916, Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Saturday Night Live last night had a weird parody of the Gillete commercial subbing in the Kool-Aid Man...Oh yeah.
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
Advertising is dirty and garbage as a whole, yeah, but there are a billion worse ways to do it than through a positive PSA.I’m not buying that most people super chuffed about this hate it because it’s ~co-opting a righteous movement, man~.
I’m not buying that most people super chuffed about this hate it because it’s ~co-opting a righteous movement, man~.
I don't care that much about why some chud in the comments section is chuffed and didn't mean to claim that this is the reason. I guess I'm working out what I think; I'm less convinced of the message, or the form of it, than you are. If YMP is right, the point would be to troll more than to promote a positive message (although yeah, abuse and harassment are bad and if this gets people to stop doing those things, it's a good thing).
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
wait what does 'chuffed' mean in american
― kinder, Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
idk. i hate that word and also "chud."
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
cos here it means someone is pleased with something
― kinder, Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
Idk, I was just reusing circa's terms there. I never use either word tbh.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
I guess "chud" was omar's, actually.
Apparently, 'chuffed' can mean both 'pleased' and its opposite, depending on the context.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:48 (five years ago) link
And it doesn't seem to be a UK/NA thing, although I'd wager Brits use it way more often than North Americans.
love to chuff my chuds amirite guys
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link