U.S. Politics January 2023: Kevin McCarthy's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life

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I muted Sarah Kendzior a while ago, she's hyperbolic

the M&Ms statement is clearly a viral marketing campaign that will result in an explosion of spokescandies everywhere, likewise I assume this A&W announcement is tongue in cheek. Is conservative media this fucking dumb?

I mean who has given A&W a second thought in the past 40 years until now, they are a brand that hardly exists

Is Mr. Peanut still dead?

Is conservative media this fucking dumb? If it fuels the 24/7 outrage machine there is no dumb too dumb.

I drank A&W root beer for years as a child before ever finding out they had physical locations.

I have a distinct memory of going to an A&W restaurant in the midwest in the 1970s and they had phones at each table so you could order stuff.

It's possible I imagined it. But I think about it every time I go someplace like Red Robin or Olive Garden where they have tablets at each table - or Green Turtle, where every table has its own television, or Silver Diner which used to have a separate jukebox on each table. When I was a child, novelty restaurants were a rare treat. At the Spaghetti Factory in St. Louis, they had booths where the seats were things like bathtubs and cars and vintage canopy beds.

Terrible idea: a chain restaurant where every seat is also a toilet, so you can just keep eating without getting up to go to the bathroom.

It's all about the outrage. Any event that transpires, however trivial, must have an angle about the maleficent influence of WOKE LIBS that will inspire max outrage. Even decisions made by multibillion dollar corporations. Just look at that Fox anchor's sour face as she's reporting this devastating A&W news. So much palpable disgust in that sneer.

This is what happens when you have literally nothing else in your life worth living for, I guess.

The A&W thing is 100% a bit, lots of brands doing it today. Does Fox New not understand that a.) it is a joke b.) inspired by the M&M thing c.) which was itself caused by outrage on Fox News?

I remember diners with separate jukeboxes in each booth. Mercifully, hardly anyone ever used them. Can you imagine if everyone was playing a different song at the same time? Horrendous.

Unperson, no - your choice went into a diner-wide queue. You had an individual volume knob for when you didn't like the song.

A favorite prank of my college days was to put in eight quarters and request something obnoxious like "Monster Mash" over and over again, then leave.

i worked at an A&W for a while, after it was combined into a Long John Silver's I had worked at for a couple years. worst part about the A&W addition to the restaurant was how they made us put pants on

(didn't darlene love do backing vox on monster mash?)

Doesn't Waffle House have a jukebox at every booth filled with songs about waffles?

i worked at an A&W for a while, after it was combined into a Long John Silver's I had worked at for a couple years. worst part about the A&W addition to the restaurant was how they made us put pants on

Before this low moment: boxers or briefs?

frosted glass shorts

I can't tell if Waffle House has a mascot, but apparently IHOP has a mascot named "Susie Pancake." She's a pancake.

I assume the Waffle House mascot would look a bit like Yosemite Sam, or like a fat Civil War re-enactor with suspenders.

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https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mrs-mets-rear-end-a-photographic-appreciation/

i googled "mrs met" to find out if conservatives complained about there being a mrs met in addition to a mr met. found this old article from cbs. america is a stupid place.

mr met(oo)

thinking about this reporter telling his parents that he has been hired by cbs as a sports reporter, how proud he was. imagining him telling his editors that he is happy to churn out human interest or cultural pieces for the website. three a day? sure, yeah, web traffic, seo, got it. i'm a reporter.

Some stories you email to your mom; some stories you just post and go outside for a smoke.

Reports of Mr. Peanut's death were highly exaggerated.

Barely Remembered Food Mascots

We went to Sambo's as a kid, I don't even want to get into their branding

The nearest Sambo's quietly turned into a Denny's in the early '80s. Hm.

The first & last one in Santa Barbara (?) kept the brand going for a really long time.. and then reluctantly changed it to Sam's or something

There was a Sambo's where Sherwin-Williams is now... Sambo's used to be there... Sambo's was farther up on the parking lot, more where the paint store is now... I know Sambos was where the paint store is now... I think Sambo's was actually about where Sherwin Williams is now... Sambo's where paint store is... Sambos was where the Sherwin Williams paint store is... Sambos was never on the corner. It was behind it on the hill. It was were Sherwin Williams Paint is now... Sambos was where the paint store is right behind... Sambo's is where the paint Store is now that's next door... There was a restaurant called Sambos... Above where Sherwin Williams is now was Sambo's... Sambo's Restaurant was on the hill behind Lindsey's Steak where Sherwin Paint is now... Sambos was up the hill where the Sherwin Williams store is now...

THESE ARE ALL FROM THE SAME GODDAMMED THREAD.
― pplains, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 8:31 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

from Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

lol

Dying

our sambo's had a mascot / greeter / clown in a furry tiger suit. my parents still make fun of me for being scared of the tiger at age 3

Wow, the Santa Barbara location held on until the bitter end:

In late May 2020, George Floyd protests against racism in the United States began in cities across the United States, including Santa Barbara. A petition drive asked the owner to change the name of Sambo's. In June 2020, the name on the original Sambo's sign was temporarily changed to the motto "☮ & LOVE" ("Peace and love"). In July 2020, the restaurant was officially renamed to "Chad's"...

Should be Chodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMZpq5C401M

the chad not sambo's vs the virgin racist

I remember diners with separate jukeboxes in each booth. Mercifully, hardly anyone ever used them. Can you imagine if everyone was playing a different song at the same time? Horrendous.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, January 25, 2023 11:37 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

In my experience, these were separate jukebox controls that would feed into the overhead restaurant PA.

See what he did here?? Pretty good

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Tuesday introduced the Pelosi Act — or the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act — renewing a legislative push to curtail stock trading by lawmakers that has failed over the last few years.

I haven't seen anything Pat Buchanan has written about talked about in any significant manner in years, and have not seen him on tv in just as many (the latter is surely down to MSNBC deciding that his hideous views were incompatible with its late 2000s olbermann era priorities)… surely this retirement announcement is more about his being at death's door…

He was the founder of the American Conservative mag, which is still around I think, though I don't know if he still wrote for it.

I have no idea what this bill actually consists of, and I'm sure there's lots of ridiculous showboating and bullshit involved, but the base idea is... fairly reasonable?

Pat Buchanan's career arc:

- dead-eyed Nixon goon (1970s)
- Reagan-era cable news shouter (1980s into early 1990s)
- multiply failed presidential candidate/cable news shouter (somehow this was OK) (mid 90s through early 00s)
- "avuncular" cable news presence, sort of "if Grandpa Munster was a Nazi" (mid 00s till...Obama's second term, maybe?)
- wait, that guy's still alive? (2012-present)

Hawley is a chud and naming that act that way is a major troll, but it's one of the only things he has ever done that I support.

Reagan's second-term direftor of communications too.

xpost - I'm sure Hawley knows this can't and won't pass as many of his GOP colleagues hold stocks and investments, but he came up with a clever acronym, and it will allow him to showboat a bit on C-SPAN

maybe Hawley's giving the bill a name that will stop Dems from voting for it because he doesn't actually want it to pass

xpost

If Hawley is not actively insider trading himself, all the Republicans who are will take turns kicking him in the balls in the House parking garage until this bill is withdrawn or dies.