"Mina's World" Woke Coffee Shop Closes

We talked about this earlier -- this was the woke coffee shop which had a trans co-owner.

The menu consisted almost exclusively of Home-Cooked Representation with Coffee on the Side.

Mina's World and the Line Between Representation and Tokenization

The West Philly coffee shop is often highlighted for being a queer haven -- but isn't its menu the thing worth talking about?
by Dayna Evans Jun 8, 2021,
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For once, Sonam Parikh would like to be written about for being the best. "Not just the gay best," Parikh says, sitting on the curb in the backyard of Mina's World, the coffee shop that Parikh runs with their business partner Kate Egghart. "But the best." The menu at Mina's World -- from the house-made cardamom syrup to the pea-and-tofu samosas -- is what makes it notable, Parikh says. "We're an incredible cafe with incredible recipes. We really believe in the stuff that we're making."
In a moment of reflection while Egghart and Parikh's small, sweet dog Joon pads back and forth between their legs, Parikh brainstorms a headline for this story: "Check Out This Incredible Cafe -- Also, This Is the Background of the People. And Can You Believe They Do This While Being This?"
Even if it's a tad wordy, Parikh's point is a salient one. Queer-owned food businesses like Mina's World, where a safe, inclusive culture is prioritized and workers are paid fairly and treated with dignity, often find themselves in a double bind. Do they want to be represented as a coffee shop first and foremost, one that sells crispy spinach-and-onion pakoras, creative chai lattes, and ceramic incense holders made by local artists? Or is the cafe a queer- and trans-inclusive community space where the mission and identities of the owners are foregrounded? For that reason, "it's interesting," Parikh says, "that this article is running during Pride Month."

During Pride Month, Eater Online?

During Pride Month?!

Running a business in which workers were invited to help decide every thing, from whether or not the store would open during the pandemic to what hours it would operate, entails some moral hazards.

Like workers also deciding that maybe they should own your business.

Or are your claims of being a cooperative just another White Man's Lie?

Black Orchid explained last time:

ok so Minas was a co-op cafe - basically one of those very Woke, pay-as-u-wish, head in the clouds hippy operations. it was owned/run by a lady named EJ. her son is trans, that's Kate. they are about as lefty as they come, the whole idea for the place was socialist, etc etc
they employed a bunch of (probably) dropped out former penn and drexel BIPOC students. these employees decided they needed to get reparations in the form of collective ownership of the business - building and all. EJ said "um, no."
the workers grabbed her "daughter" who has some mental issues and made "her" the face of their demands on Instagram. with a series of very bizarre videos where "she" talks quite badly about "her" parents and supports the demands of the baristas. they look like hostage videos.
so the parents were stuck, they closed up shop, and are now putting the building up for sale. Kate is apparently a total mess and sunk into a deep depression, so I am not really laughing at all this. it's blue-vs-blue, yes. but i'm just hippie enough to feel for EJ with everything going on.
it's total insanity, basically.

The workers at the shop -- though I use the term "workers" advisedly -- demanded that the store be made into a co-op with both the store and the physical real estate property, the building itself, shared with the "workers."

They posted these grievances and demands, via Libs of TikTok's substack and her digest of the matter.

All they do is list grievances and demands for other people's stuff.

They thought they could run this scam because they people running it were "allies" and looked like this:

"Kate" and Sonam Parikh

The owners said "Nah" and sold the whole deal.

Get woke, go broke.

I mean, it worked out fine for the owners. They had the right response to wokeness: They shut that sh** down.

But then the "workers" called them names and said they were Bad Allies and pressured them.

So "Kate" and Sonam went to GoFundMe to try to raise the money to buy back the building they had just sold.

They failed. No one wanted to give rich kids money so they could give it away to entitled socialist layabouts, it turned out.

They put out videos claiming that they were really on the workers' side and boy oh boy isn't that EJ Eggbert ("Kate's" mother, a part owner) a mean one for not agreeing to "redistribute" her 18% share in the company.

"Kate" and Sonam deleted the so-called "hostage videos" in which they cursed their confounded fate at having sold their business and building for a tidy sum. Curses! Now they can't give that to the workers!

They later deleted those videos, but wouldn't you know it, LibsofTikTok copied them.

UPDATE: They deleted the hostage style video from Instagram which I embedded in the article. I always keep backups pic.twitter.com/3H2DHGPHrt
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 6, 2022

And now it's finally closing.

A coffee shop in Philadelphia known for its LGBTQ brand identity closed its doors after employees revolted against the owners and demanded that they "redistribute" the company.
Mina's World, located in the neighborhood of West Philadelphia, was characterized by Bon Appetit as a business that doubled as a "hangout spot for people of marginalized identities." Sonam Parikh, who ran the company alongside partner and co-owner Kate Egghart, told the outlet that Mina's World was the city's first coffee shop owned and operated by queer, trans people of color ("QTPOC"). The pair had named the company after their cat.

I don't know why they even bothered reporting that last part. It was implicit from the other facts.

Parikh blasted other coffee shops for neglecting to "protect their Black and trans employees" and allow customers to enjoy coffee in a space that was not "whitewashed." However, as chronicled by the Philadelphia Inquirer and Libs of TikTok, Parikh and Egghart are now facing similar allegations.
An Instagram page called the "Minas World Workers" began posting accusations against the ownership last month, claiming that they had subjected workers to "manipulation, abuse of power, exploitation, anti-blackness, ableism," and other charges summarized in a "List of Grievances." The employees demanded "immediate payment" and told the owners to "redistribute the business."

LOLGF.

If you're new to the site and don't know that meme, it stands for "Laughing out loud/get f***ed."

Egghart and Parikh apologized in an Instagram video, which has since been removed from the Mina's World account. "We're going live as part of a radical accountability process. We're complicit in the gentrification and anti-blackness on 52nd Street. We put our community at risk with our presence as well as our workers," the pair said, per Libs of TikTok. "With the guidance of the workers and Black and Brown Workers Collective, we're trying to raise funds to buy the business and turn it over to our staff."

Days later, the building that hosted Mina's World was listed for sale. According to the workers, Kate Egghart's mother, Eunjoo, was the owner of the building as well as an 18% owner of the company. The workers claimed that despite Parikh and Egghart's best efforts, she "refused" the request to redistribute the business.

I saw that Danny DeVito movie, Throw Mamma Under the Bus.

The workers attempted to raise $200,000 via GoFundMe to purchase the building, as well as the share of the business allegedly owned by Eunjoo Egghart. They managed to raise over $11,000 by July 6. In early July, however, Mina's World said it did not "have enough money to continue operating" and closed its doors.

Seriously, if they really wanted to appease their entitled socialist layabout "workers," they wouldn't have started a GoFundMe -- they could have just turned over the proceeds from the sale of the shop and the building to their workers. They could have just "redistributed" the money from the sale.

But they didn't want to do that.

Which, frankly, they shouldn't have wanted to do.

But they were claiming they wanted to "redistribute" the business to their workers. Pretty sure their "workers" would have accepted cash as a fungible substitute.

Posted by: Ace at 01:40 PM

Comments

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1 The Left has gone totally insane, example 72,345.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:41 PM (tQL7r)

2 This thread has to be fat to fit that woke thing in it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 01:41 PM (b2nrj)

3 Where is everyone? Hiding?

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:42 PM (tQL7r)

4 "I'd like a cup of coffee please."

GET OUT OF HERE H*ER!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 01:42 PM (Msys3)

5 Is the point now to look as bizarre and deviant as possible?

These people are nauseating to look at.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2022 01:42 PM (hdp1J)

6 Harsh. But fair.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:43 PM (tQL7r)

7 Oft woke will shall woke mar.

Posted by: Theoden at July 11, 2022 01:43 PM (9p+wn)

8 I'd like a cup of coffee please."

GET OUT OF HERE H*ER!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 01:42 PM (Msys3)

No coffee for you!

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:44 PM (tQL7r)

9 "Employee owned" is not an automatic fail waiting to happen.

Unless it's a crew like this.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 11, 2022 01:44 PM (vORT+)

10 Wow. I can't even.

Their names alone scream "I'M SO F**KED UP AND BELONG IN AN ASLYUM!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 01:45 PM (Msys3)

11 And Can You Believe They Do This While Being This?
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So "working while gay" or "working while trans" or "working while non-white" or whatever is now some heroic and great thing? Huh?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:45 PM (WWh8n)

12 Well, the business avoided the profitable phase.

Cafe Woke started out woke, and went broke, rather than starting out profitable, going woke, then broke.

I guess cutting out the first part didn't lead to the expected profits.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 01:45 PM (5pTK/)

13
Reason #736,747,204 not to enter any urban enclave.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (/U27+)

14 Will "Kate's" voice go up a couple octaves after surgery?

Posted by: BignJames at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (AwYPR)

15 Who knew affirming crazy as a business model wouldn't quite work out the way the business owners thought?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (5pTK/)

16 ""Mina's World" Woke Coffee Shop Closes"

That's not coffee.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (VpIIl)

17 How do you get "promised wage increases" without increasing profits by increasing production and sales with only an asymmetrical increase in labor?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (WWh8n)

18 Cafe Woke started out woke, and went broke, rather than starting out profitable, going woke, then broke.

Cut out the middleman?

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (tQL7r)

19 Are Kate and Sonam the former owners? The sight of them would kill my appetite.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 01:47 PM (eGTCV)

20 17 How do you get "promised wage increases" without increasing profits by increasing production and sales with only an asymmetrical increase in labor?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (WWh8n)

The man pays you out of his stash, duh.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 01:47 PM (b2nrj)

21 According to the workers, Kate Egghart's mother, Eunjoo, was the owner of the building as well as an 18% owner of the company.

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Don't miss this.

"Kate" is a man. He was given his sh*t by his parents. It's literally "THE PATRIARCHY!!!" that they rail against.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 11, 2022 01:47 PM (C0bt5)

22 Looks like a crime-fighting duo called The Unfuckables.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 01:47 PM (8LP6B)

23 Cut out the middleman?
Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (tQL7r)
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I was originally going to go there, but then realized "woke" was the middleman.

Darn it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 01:47 PM (5pTK/)

24 This is the small-business application of that article about woke employees making it impossible to get anything done at leftist nonprofit orgs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2022 01:48 PM (ppBhU)

25 Parikh blasted other coffee shops for neglecting to "protect their Black and trans employees" and allow customers to enjoy coffee in a space that was not "whitewashed." However, as chronicled by the Philadelphia Inquirer and Libs of TikTok, Parikh and Egghart are now facing similar allegations.
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It's a race to the bottom, guys. It always is. Enjoy your lesson.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:48 PM (WWh8n)

26 The margins were girthy that day, my friends.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 01:48 PM (U3uv2)

27 Some people are trying to run the same scam on the first lesbian bar to open in ten years in Portland.

A group claiming to represent the "workers" said that the bar was unsafe, that the owner of the bar is racist, and that they should have the bar turned over to them.

They issued these demands after the bar had been in operation for one day.

https://tinyurl.com/2ejx6jfb

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 01:48 PM (I2/tG)

28 What a freak show.

I'm sure the "manipulation" charge has something to do with making employees come to work on time remain until then end of the work day.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 11, 2022 01:48 PM (lf83v)

29 that pic looks like Tom Petty and Superfly Snuka.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 01:49 PM (89T5c)

30 It would be interesting to know how many hundreds of thousands off free dollars they received in COVID funds.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 11, 2022 01:49 PM (C0bt5)

31 Its like Tranny Lurch found a fat girlfriend.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 01:49 PM (LQjWA)

32 Isn't this how the woke run all businesses?

Even the greenest SJWs working in the mailroom seems to think THEY are the ones who actually own the business, not the investors, not the Board of Directors, or even the actual owner of the business.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 01:49 PM (YIVH2)

33 This would be a better story if Mina's World was replaced with Starbucks.

Posted by: SH (Roe Overturned) at July 11, 2022 01:49 PM (sX1BW)

34 pst

*whispering*
kate is a dude

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 11, 2022 01:49 PM (ex2Cx)

35 It seems to me, it all started with Fivebucks making coffee a statement - NOT nectar of God.

'Coffee shop' appears to now mean - a woke, pretentious, overpriced, tinged with a sprinkling of douchbagginess place where the actual coffee takes a second, if not third, place to performance.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 01:49 PM (Msys3)

36 Hey honey what do you think the world will look like in the far future of 2022?

Will we have vacations on the moon?

Will we have robots do all our work?

Will we have solved cancer?

Posted by: Some woman to her husband in 2022 at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (ESjRY)

37 You mean to tell me that those two fucking mutants couldn't raise enough money to buy the business and building? But seriously: they did manage to raise $200k. How stupid do you have to be to give money to those two creepy weirdos?

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (iFTx/)

38 I was originally going to go there, but then realized "woke" was the middleman.

Darn it.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Woke if the beginning, middle, and especially the END of anything it touches.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (tQL7r)

39 They thought they could run this scam because they people running it were "allies" and looked like this:
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Spoiler alert: it was exactly as you expected.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (WWh8n)

40 Looks like Cameron from Ferris Bueller, in Drag.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (HJ1lo)

41 Burnt day old diner coffee > Starbucks coffee

Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (ESjRY)

42 Enjoy your lesson.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:48 PM (WWh8n)

To bad they are not swimming lessons!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (ex2Cx)

43 This gay trans woke bullshit is too confusing to even bother trying to figure out. I don't care about any of them enough to even make an effort.

And that menu sounded awful. Pea and tofu somosas? Shut up and get me a cheeseburger.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (ZLI7S)

44 How dare you Ace post such a thing, during the month after Pride Month?!

Posted by: scruboak at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (I+dwr)

45 If you have to make a big deal that your business is queer owned you might as just call it "queer coffee shop" because why do we need to know what your sexual orientation is in order to buy a cup of coffee and a scone?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (FZ2cV)

46 Eunjoo sounds like a Korean name. If so, did *her* minority status suddenly not matter?

#raceToTheBottom

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (WWh8n)

47 Some people are trying to run the same scam on the first lesbian bar to open in ten years in Portland.

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Good. Let them. And I support them, and I hope they win. That's your demographic, sugartits. Enjoy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (g6ohO)

48 17 How do you get "promised wage increases" without increasing profits by increasing production and sales with only an asymmetrical increase in labor?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (WWh8n)

Equity?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 01:51 PM (/EuRN)

49 >>29 that pic looks like Tom Petty and Superfly Snuka.

Jimmy has really let himself go.

That top rope is not gonna like it.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 01:51 PM (HJ1lo)

50 Can I just get a simple cup of coffee, for God's sake?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 11, 2022 01:51 PM (lf83v)

51 Hippie dippie shop had a casual attitude toward what customers pay, but, expects the workers to show up on time? I wonder if the shop owner also demanded a certain level of cleanliness from the staff?

I see a bit of a disconnect.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 01:51 PM (5pTK/)

52 Those two look like the leads in a remake of Of Mice and Men that was filmed in Turkey.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 01:51 PM (8LP6B)

53
NYC subways now feature signs saying, "Just put the damn mask on while on the train. Is it really that hard? COVID-19 is still spreading and your selfish behavior isn't making this easier [masked figure with uplifted middle finger]. It's been over two years. Figure it the eff out and stop being a jerk."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 01:51 PM (/U27+)

54 32 Isn't this how the woke run all businesses?

Even the greenest SJWs working in the mailroom seems to think THEY are the ones who actually own the business, not the investors, not the Board of Directors, or even the actual owner of the business.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 01:49 PM (YIVH2)

Well one of Marx's key errors was to assume factories just kind of existed naturally. See, by his reckoning profit is just pure rentier stuff, it doesn't do anything, it's a drain in the capitalist system (free money without corresponding labor) that eventually collapses the whole affair.

You can't just assume a business exists, but they do in their approach to economics.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 01:51 PM (b2nrj)

55 I don't know why they even bothered reporting that last part. It was implicit from the other facts.

I died

anyway yeah hang on a sec - there's ANOTHER one of these in West Philly right now going thru similar - same infection present. I have to go find the name.

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 01:52 PM (w0NJk)

56 The Wokers must control the mocha of production, Comrades!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 11, 2022 01:52 PM (yikp0)

57 The man pays you out of his stash, duh.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 01:47 PM (b2nrj)
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:: slaps forehead ::

Of course! How silly of me to forget.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:52 PM (WWh8n)

58 It seems appropriate that Mina's was destroyed by vampires

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 01:52 PM (eGTCV)

59 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 11, 2022 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

60 40 Looks like Cameron from Ferris Bueller, in Drag.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (HJ1lo)

The remake of Fuller Bueller Day Off will be a cross between the original FB, La Cage Au Follet, and Rupauls Drag Race.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 11, 2022 01:52 PM (ex2Cx)

61 18 Cafe Woke started out woke, and went broke, rather than starting out profitable, going woke, then broke.

Cut out the middleman?
Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:46 PM (tQL7r)

Well for Kate, it's more like: Cut off the little man!

#amiwrite

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 01:52 PM (BgMrQ)

62 Kate and Sonam.

A couple that even a mother doesn't give the time of day to.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 11, 2022 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

63
Buc-ee's Coffee >>>>>> Starbux Coffee

Half the price, too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (/U27+)

64 My eyes!

*watches the blonde in anchorbabe fashion cop's video again*

Ah, that's better.

Posted by: spindrift at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (h5TKJ)

65 This is awful. Tragic. Terrible. How shall I go on?
-watches Yankees lose-
Joy comes in the morning

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (b+v9B)

66 I know I'm a dolt, but after hearing about this story and reading parts of this story twice, I still don't get who the owners are, who is what sex, who took who "hostage" and why there are so many seriously sexually, confused mentally retarded, and socially ill people?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (DcKNO)

67 Gotta love the pic. That's a modern-day "American Gothic" right there.

Everything wrong with American culture captured in a single snap.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (guGkK)

68 If you have to make a big deal that your business is queer owned you might as just call it "queer coffee shop" because why do we need to know what your sexual orientation is in order to buy a cup of coffee and a scone?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (FZ2cV)
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If you have to make a big deal that your business is queer owned, it's because either your product is subpar or the price is too high or both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (WWh8n)

69 The only answer one can draw is that economics are racist and sexist.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (sy5kK)

70 Interesting that 'radical accountability' appears to mean "kidnapping".

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (nC+QA)

71

Eenie Meenie Mina Mo
Close the doors and hit the road

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (63Dwl)

72 I hope it reopens as a Starbucks.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (Y5qcH)

73 And in the Libs od Tik Tok Video the blonde person looks like they're on drugs. And what are they wearing? Is that a cross or an upside down one?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (FZ2cV)

74 From each according to his ability to each according to his memes!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (yikp0)

75 50 Can I just get a simple cup of coffee, for God's sake?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 11, 2022 01:51 PM (lf83v)

Not Here! Our coffee cums with woke cream and a side of perversion!

Posted by: Mina's World at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (ex2Cx)

76 But seriously: they did manage to raise $200k. How stupid do you have to be to give money to those two creepy weirdos?
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (iFTx/)

That's the truly scary part right there.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (tQL7r)

77 My sentences are shit once again.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (DcKNO)

78 pea-and-tofu samosas MMMM With cream of fichus. Darn, will never get to go there. Or Philly. So sad. In other news. My give oh fuck meter for all these clowns is below zero.

Posted by: Fartavius Clamatia at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (GwxCX)

79 Feel good story of the day!
I love Commies losing stories almost as much as I love winning, sometimes even more

Posted by: Joetato at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (YTBIQ)

80 Good. Let them. And I support them, and I hope they win. That's your demographic, sugartits. Enjoy.

Smithsonian Magazine noted that there were 200 lesbian bars in the US forty years ago, and 15 today.

Turns out that lesbians don't want to hang out in a bar with trannies, and God help you if you try and exclude the trannies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (I2/tG)

81 though I use the term "workers" advisedly

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Wokers.

Posted by: Here, let me help at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (43PWs)

82 It's been over two years. Figure it the eff out and stop being a jerk.

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I'd be interested to know the science explaining why super-masked NYC is the same or worse than completely unmasked Podunk, Arkansas.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (C0bt5)

83 Make Asylums Great Again.

Posted by: Azathoth at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (wb1YC)

84 pea-and-tofu samosas MMMM With cream of fichus. Darn, will never get to go there. Or Philly. So sad. In other news. My give oh fuck meter for all these clowns is below zero.
Posted by: Fartavius Clamatia at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (GwxCX)
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The field of fucks is barren as far as the eye can see...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (YIVH2)

85 King Harv doesn't have these type of problems.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (HJ1lo)

86 I bet they got their beans from Sam's Club, and hung out some decoy bags out back from some douchey ass pinko coffee commune farm to look legit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (/EuRN)

87 Wow, never put those together, but you're actually correct.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 11, 2022 01:10 PM (XSRBF)

There is a market-ticker article out there by Denninger. It was actually quite illuminating as to the cause of the 2008 bubble burst.

I'll see if I can track it down.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 01:11 PM (U3uv2)

Willowed, I couldn't find the article. The gist was, a few of the lesser connected financial entities (the NL farmers) were over-leveraged and dependent upon cheap borrowing (Nitrogen fertilizers), and by a few market players raising the tide (cost of borrowing, cost of farming), you can force those lesser connected entities to go under, which can then be had on the cheap. JPM was a prime player in the bubble burst, because, before their gift of WaMu by the FDIC, they really were "too big to fail."

JPM had to be saved, little people be damned.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (U3uv2)

88 This post seems to have lost weight...

Posted by: Inogame at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (53oGX)

89 You could make an entire series of horror movies based on that picture alone.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (Y5qcH)

90 I hope it reopens as a Starbucks.

In West Philly it's lucky to reopen as anything. I had GPS route me through there one afternoon and I'm still terrified 4 years later.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (ZGrMX)

91 They're all queer, whatever sexual orientation any of them have.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (FZ2cV)

92 82 It's been over two years. Figure it the eff out and stop being a jerk.

*

I'd be interested to know the science explaining why super-masked NYC is the same or worse than completely unmasked Podunk, Arkansas.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (C0bt5)

I think the sign answers it on multiple levels. Unlike Podunk, Arkansas, NYC is filled with assholes.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (b2nrj)

93 https://youtu.be/BC_pWiE4otk

Lord help us

Liberty Hangout.
And modest bewbs.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (ufFY8)

94 But seriously: they did manage to raise $200k. How stupid do you have to be to give money to those two creepy weirdos?
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (iFTx/)

That's the truly scary part right there.
Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM

Unless I misread (skipped most of it cuz laughing at these inbred tranny psychos) They only raised 11K from some other dumbasses.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (GwxCX)

95 My give oh fuck meter for all these clowns is below zero.
Posted by: Fartavius Clamatia at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (GwxCX)

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

I am sitting around -20!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (ex2Cx)

96 Imagine caring enough about your mostly fake job in a mostly fake coffee shop to print up a multi-page position statement/manifesto when you lose it.

Posted by: Match Checksout at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (IK4m/)

97 I know I'm a dolt, but after hearing about this story and reading parts of this story twice, I still don't get who the owners are, who is what sex, who took who "hostage" and why there are so many seriously sexually, confused mentally retarded, and socially ill people?
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (DcKNO)
++++
Gender-confused boy's mom owned the building and a piece of the business.
Gender-confused boy and his buddies at the business demanded more, including the building.
Gender-confused boy's mom said, "no" and the boy and his buddies started a publicity smear job against the mom to guilt and threaten her into compliance (that's the "hostage video" piece, I think)
Gender-confused boy's mom sold the building and the boy and his buddies started a GFM to raise enough money to buy it back. It failed.
Gender-confused boy's buddies claim that he and his partner are also discriminatory because the gambit failed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:56 PM (WWh8n)

98 so the parents were stuck, they closed up shop, and are now putting the building up for sale. Kate is apparently a total mess and sunk into a deep depression, so I am not really laughing at all this.

I am. You'd have to have a heart of stone to not laugh.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 01:56 PM (c8pZY)

99 The remake of Fuller Bueller Day Off will be a cross between the original FB, La Cage Au Follet, and Rupauls Drag Race.

______________________________________

They'll bring back the principal Rooney He'll fit right in with their morality. Jeffrey Jones pleaded no contest in 2003 to employing a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexually explicit photos.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 11, 2022 01:56 PM (lf83v)

100
Looks like a crime-fighting duo called The Unfuckables.
Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 01:47 PM (8LP6B)

*snort*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 11, 2022 01:56 PM (n+4am)

101 86 I bet they got their beans from Sam's Club, and hung out some decoy bags out back from some douchey ass pinko coffee commune farm to look legit.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (/EuRN)

------

hhahhahahhah Man, I hope so.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2022 01:56 PM (DcKNO)

102 Hindu Corky is looking awfully sleep deprived.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 01:56 PM (8LP6B)

103 Listen to what they write, they are unhireable in any normal work environment.

Dollars to donuts they all have EBT cards. And free gubbermint internet.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (sy5kK)

104 Imagine caring enough about your mostly fake job in a mostly fake coffee shop to print up a multi-page position statement/manifesto when you lose it.

There's a known behavioral thing where the lower the stakes, the nastier people get.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (ZGrMX)

105 That lousy Texas shitbag, Cornyn, and the rest of the Vichy 14 who voted to take away your Fourth and Second Amendment rights, stood as props while Biden called for a ban on AR's and other additional subversions of your rights at a White House event today.

That's your Republican senate, that people want to take over in November.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (VpIIl)

106 These people...(excuse me, let me start again)...These VOTERS have just displayed their acumen for the subject of Economics. Now, replace the hipster doofus coffee shop with the Federal Government and you now understand (to them) how it works.

The Fed gives us stuff. If they refuse to give us stuff, we vote people into office who give us more stuff. If you disagree with our approach....shut up, bigot.

These pockets aren't going to fill themselves...let's go!

Posted by: Orson at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (jOtk3)

107 I love you, ace.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (nKzsY)

108 What the eff is a pea and tofu samosa? Sounds gross.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (DRSnL)

109 On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

110 This story warms my cold, dead heart.

Suck it, crazy freaks.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (U3uv2)

111 We laugh at this now, but wait until creeps like this head for the suburbs and pick out the house they like and tell the owners to get out. After they beat the crap out of the owners, the police will arrest the owner for fighting social justice.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (lTGtQ)

112
Eventually in Communist America, the army will have to shoot all these people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (/U27+)

113 Imagine caring enough about your mostly fake job in a mostly fake coffee shop to print up a multi-page position statement/manifesto when you lose it.
Posted by: Match Checksout at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (IK4m/)
++++
Low stakes but high drama. Also IT'S THE CAUSE, DAMMIT!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (WWh8n)

114 anyway yeah hang on a sec - there's ANOTHER one of these in West Philly right now going thru similar - same infection present. I have to go find the name.
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp

You mean it's spreading? Like a contagion??

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (tQL7r)

115 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:56 PM (WWh8n)

-------

Thanks. I think I get it now.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (DcKNO)

116 Sounds like mamma Egghart is a Korean lady. No wonder she's not impressed by entitled attitudes and claims of victimization.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (nC+QA)

117 I saw we all chip in, buy the place and turn it into a church. Twist the knife a bit. Who's in?

Posted by: Jesus Hosafat at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (1dzqn)

118 Lord help us

Liberty Hangout.
And modest bewbs.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM

Dumb fucks gotta dumb.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (GwxCX)

119 >> Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.

Rainbow Jimmies had a whole 'nother meaning at that place.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (HJ1lo)

120 I guess Sonam can always fall back on her hobby of unloading trucks.

Posted by: Azathoth at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (wb1YC)

121 On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

Poofter Johnson is right!

Posted by: Olson Johnson at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (guGkK)

122 I am sitting around -20!
Posted by: rhennigantx

I am amazed and astounded at your empathy!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (hOUT3)

123 Looks like a crime-fighting duo called The Unfuckables.
Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 01:47 PM (8LP6B)

*snort*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 11, 2022 01:56 PM (n+4am)

Their superpower is confusing the fuck out of their enemies and confounding them to indifference.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (U3uv2)

124 see those two in the photo up there? These are the new Americans. They're going to be running things in 20 years.

we're doomed.

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (geLO8)

125 Willowed, I couldn't find the article. The gist was, a few of the lesser connected financial entities (the NL farmers) were over-leveraged and dependent upon cheap borrowing (Nitrogen fertilizers), and by a few market players raising the tide (cost of borrowing, cost of farming), you can force those lesser connected entities to go under, which can then be had on the cheap. JPM was a prime player in the bubble burst, because, before their gift of WaMu by the FDIC, they really were "too big to fail."

JPM had to be saved, little people be damned.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (U3uv2)

I don't recall there being much of a scheme to break other players though JPM iirc was aware that the whole thing was a crock and so made sure to have their books clean of the toxic assets. Others like citi thought they were legitimately good investments and so got wrecked.

JP Morgan does engage in a lot of scummy stuff though. It would be up their alleyway to try to bankrupt a firm that owes them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (b2nrj)

126 Pea and tofu somosas?

I'll bet these were actually good. It's pretty hard to eff up samosas.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (ppBhU)

127
What the eff is a pea and tofu samosa? Sounds gross.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (DRSnL)

_________

A samosa is a dot-Indian baked pastry with a filling.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (/U27+)

128 This story warms my cold, dead heart.

Suck it, crazy freaks.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM

Cut, Jib, you know the rest.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (GwxCX)

129 so the parents were stuck, they closed up shop, and are now putting the building up for sale. Kate is apparently a total mess and sunk into a deep depression, so I am not really laughing at all this.

I am. You'd have to have a heart of stone to not laugh.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 01:56 PM (c8pZY

Yeah. I'm chuckling as well.
Talk about living in a bubble.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (anj39)

130 Anyone opening a chain of for profit mental hospitals would be a gazillionaire.

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (gmo/4)

131 How about:

"Egghart and Parikh drove their incompetent would be rulers from their failing business and sold it."

Posted by: rd at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (Z32m1)

132 >> see those two in the photo up there? These are the new Americans.

*Gouges eyes out with Spork*

Posted by: Winslow Homer at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (HJ1lo)

133 Franny Lou's Porch is the other one

the pregnant owner/founder left for mat leave and the employees did sort of a hostile takeover.

hmm I can't link to info on this ... here's a snippet from the owner:

" I left daily operations of Franny Lou’s Porch at the end of March 2022 due to an ultimatum that was given to me from Ashley and Chantelle earlier that month. Ashley and Chantelle were both exceptional employees at Franny Lou’s Porch for a few years. In October 2020, at 5 months pregnant with my fourth child, I brought them on as equal business partners without any financial contribution towards the business hoping to do business differently and offer a more sustainable solution to the collective with a new profit sharing business model. I was a bit naive, hopeful, and trusted we would take care of each other..."

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (w0NJk)

134 How much do you want to bet they'll all end up working as baristas for their hated corporate foe, Starbucks?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (YIVH2)

135 What the eff is a pea and tofu samosa? Sounds gross.
---
Could be a hospital trip for me.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (krQz2)

136 We laugh at this now, but wait until creeps like this head for the suburbs and pick out the house they like and tell the owners to get out. After they beat the crap out of the owners, the police will arrest the owner for fighting social justice.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (lTGtQ)

I don't think "Kate" will be beating anything except the sad little remnant of his tiny dick.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (guGkK)

137 A samosa is a dot-Indian baked pastry with a filling.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (/U27+)

That sounds suspiciously like cultural appropriation.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (DRSnL)

138 I guess Sonam can always fall back on her hobby of unloading trucks.

lol

VDH winces.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (ppBhU)

139 Considering 'vegetarian' samosas are diced potato and peas and taste great, no need for a crappy tofu version.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (yikp0)

140 On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.
Posted by: Elric Blade

What? They couldn't stick it out?

The competition licked them?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (Msys3)

141 114 anyway yeah hang on a sec - there's ANOTHER one of these in West Philly right now going thru similar - same infection present. I have to go find the name.

----------------

The left always eats itself. Isn't this basically a reprise of what happened to the "feminist" book shop that was satirized on Portlandia? And IIRC something similar happened to a literal communist coffee shop in Ann Arbor or someplace like that.

The simulation is running out of ideas.

Posted by: Jesus Hosafat at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (1dzqn)

142 >>I'll bet these were actually good. It's pretty hard to eff up samosas.

Well. If they use their 'Tuck' hand to make them...

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (HJ1lo)

143 and why there are so many seriously sexually, confused mentally retarded, and socially ill people?
Posted by: Seems Legit

Ummm....mental hospitals were all closed in the 70s? AND, mental illness was treated. NOT ENCOURAGED.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (tQL7r)

144
*leaps onto counter*

To the barricades, Comrades!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (/U27+)

145 Hindu Corky? LOL

Posted by: Joetato at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (YTBIQ)

146 Not my favorite episode of Portlandia.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (krQz2)

147 40 years ago. I used to fire people all the time

just cuz I felt like it

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (us2H3)

148 That's your Republican senate, that people want to take over in November.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (VpIIl)

Are you trying to tell us "That's Who They Really Are?"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (hOUT3)

149 I'd be interested to know the science explaining why super-masked NYC is the same or worse than completely unmasked Podunk, Arkansas.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - witness the Amber Heard presidency at July 11, 2022 01:54 PM (C0bt5)

Haiti has lowest vaccination rate in world and one of lowest Covid infection rates.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (H8QX8)

150
That sounds suspiciously like cultural appropriation.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (DRSnL)

___________

Her Majesty, who grew up in the Punjab, loves them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (/U27+)

151 Distributionism sounds amazing until it comes down to you taking a pay cut to buy capital shares in the business you want to partially own. It sounds good until your pay has to come from profit behind other operating costs instead of revenue as an operating cost. It sounds amazing until your company goes defunct chasing bs instead of business and those capital shares you bought have a value of 0 as you are laid off during business closure.

Everyone these pie in the sky systems right up until the FACT that in order to provide reasonably well it requires MORE virtue from the average person instead of less mugs them severely.

Communism requires high virtue in leadership to function along with high worker virtue, something that has never existed on earth with any large population.

Distributionism requires extremely high worker virtue.

Socialism requires extremely high leadership virtue.

Capitalism works ok even when everyone really kinda sucks. That's why it's preferred. Not because it's so good, it's just amazingly good at producing with fundamentally bad actors.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (T/vhV)

152 What? They couldn't stick it out?

The competition licked them?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (Msys3)

It turns out that "ring meat" is not a flavor of ice cream that anyone actually wanted to buy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (guGkK)

153 Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.

Rainbow Jimmies had a whole 'nother meaning at that place.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 01:58 PM (HJ1lo)

That would've been a better name.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (T6Rpm)

154 It was the second "etc." in the list of grievances/demands that won me over.

Posted by: RS at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (1XDfN)

155 96 Imagine caring enough about your mostly fake job in a mostly fake coffee shop to print up a multi-page position statement/manifesto when you lose it.
Posted by: Match Checksout at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (IK4m/)
________________________________________

This is what they do. This IS their lives. They have nothing else going in in life. Nothing. Just look at those two repulsive mutants. Think either of these two get invited to a lot of parties?

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

156 QTPOC is Queer, Trans People of Choler.

Because they're all angry, all the time.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (7yL1h)

157 >>t 5 months pregnant with my fourth child, I brought them on as equal business partners without any financial contribution

Her business advisor must be Jim Cramer.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (HJ1lo)

158 For real, mad props to Sonam for trying to bring back that Andrea Dworkin aesthetic in the midst of all her financial woes.

Tastemaking is a 24/7 endeavor. Especially when that taste is a combination of curry and body odor.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (8LP6B)

159 " I left daily operations of Franny Lou’s Porch at the end of March 2022 due to an ultimatum that was given to me from Ashley and Chantelle earlier that month. Ashley and Chantelle were both exceptional employees at Franny Lou’s Porch for a few years. In October 2020, at 5 months pregnant with my fourth child, I brought them on as equal business partners without any financial contribution towards the business hoping to do business differently and offer a more sustainable solution to the collective with a new profit sharing business model. I was a bit naive, hopeful, and trusted we would take care of each other..."
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (w0NJk)

So she gave away the business and got forced out.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (b2nrj)

160 Don't Hindoos drink tea not coffee? WTF do they know about coffee?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (LQjWA)

161 who the fuck puts tofu in a samosa?

Peas and potatoes. Maybe a bit of onion. That's it. End of fucking list. All you crotch-lice did was make a fucking hippied-up gloppy ass turnover. You unenlightened assholes.

Don't fuck with samosas.

Shomer Shabbos.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (/EuRN)

162 Was she a great big fat person?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (vuisn)

163 130 Anyone opening a chain of for profit mental hospitals would be a gazillionaire.
Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (gmo/4)

Try getting on operating license...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (BgMrQ)

164 That sounds suspiciously like cultural appropriation.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM

They shouldn't be allowed to serve ANYTHING then! I stand with the united Minean people's liberation front! Those bastards!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (GwxCX)

165 A samosa is a dot-Indian baked pastry with a filling.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (/U27+)

Guess what hindu corky uses for filling.

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (gmo/4)

166 If you have to make a big deal that your business is queer owned, it's because either your product is subpar or the price is too high or both.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 01:53 PM (WWh8n)

...

The protesting that you're paying attention to us for all the wrong reasons is *mwah* cheff's kiss perfect.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (2jRyv)

167 From last thread:

Well, you guys convinced me to take it more seriously than I was. I ordered a dimpling jig.

https://bit.ly/3nRklsH

And a carbide bit.

https://amzn.to/3nRkufJ

I'm going to go slowly.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (kDGvA)

168 QTPOC is Queer, Trans People of Choler.

Because they're all angry, all the time.
Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (7yL1h)
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WSOC is White Supremacists of Color.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (krQz2)

169 162 Was she a great big fat person?
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (vuisn)

roomy

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (us2H3)

170 Fascinating graphic from Stats of India, using the CIA World Facebook showing the number of babies born in various countries.

Did you know that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has more births than the United States? (OTOH, Wikipedia says that the DRC has slightly fewer births than the United States.)

Nigeria has more births than Europe.

Of the next 1000 kids born: 513 in Asia, 326 in Africa, 106 in the Americas, 52 in Europe.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7wkjut

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (I2/tG)

171 I'm OK with all of this

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (sJHOI)

172 JP Morgan does engage in a lot of scummy stuff though. It would be up their alleyway to try to bankrupt a firm that owes them.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Bear Sterns says "Hello".

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (Msys3)

173 who the fuck puts tofu in a samosa?

Peas and potatoes. Maybe a bit of onion. That's it. End of fucking list. All you crotch-lice did was make a fucking hippied-up gloppy ass turnover. You unenlightened assholes.

Don't fuck with samosas.

Shomer Shabbos.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (/EuRN)
++++
Truth.

This is like the hip grilled cheese place I went to once that put sliced pears in a damned grilled cheese sandwich. No. Stop doing this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (WWh8n)

174 The skills required to be successful as a coffee shop worker are negligible, which is why they are entry-level jobs that really should go to teenagers.

It speaks volumes that these idiots are taking these dead-end jobs so seriously.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (XIJ/X)

175 Anyone opening a chain of for profit mental hospitals would be a gazillionaire.
Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 02:00 PM (gmo/4)

Try getting on operating license...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (BgMrQ)

call 'em something hip on the permit application.

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM (gmo/4)

176 162 Was she a great big fat person?

Roomy.

Posted by: Jesus Hosafat at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM (1dzqn)

177 Why are there so many people who don't know who's the boss and who isn't?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM (eGTCV)

178 148 That's your Republican senate, that people want to take over in November.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (VpIIl)

Are you trying to tell us "That's Who They Really Are?"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (hOUT3)

It's not just the Senate. Check this out from Business Insider just now:

"Paul Ryan said he doesn't normally cry, but 'found himself sobbing' while watching the Jan 6. insurrection, book says"

That's who they are!

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM (nMx88)

179 Franny Lou's Porch is the other one

the pregnant owner/founder left for mat leave and the employees did sort of a hostile takeover.

Welcome to communism. Congratulations on finding out you don't have the top chair.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM (c8pZY)

180
All you crotch-lice did was make a fucking hippied-up gloppy ass turnover.

_________

If they try that stuff with pierogi, the war is on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM (/U27+)

181 Samosa?

Gesundheit.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM (vuisn)

182 That sounds suspiciously like cultural appropriation.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM

They shouldn't be allowed to serve ANYTHING then! I stand with the united Minean people's liberation front! Those bastards!
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (GwxCX)

...

They named it after the cat so--cat food?

Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM (2jRyv)

183 Imma try and link to the franny's whatever thing. delete spaces:

reddit.com/r/ GoldandBlack/ comments/ ve1lq1/ sole_proprietor_and_activist_gives_partial/

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM (w0NJk)

184 On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.
Posted by: Elric Blade

What? They couldn't stick it out?

The competition licked them?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM

They sucked?

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 02:05 PM (GwxCX)

185 Posted by: mikethemoose at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (T/vhV)

Centralized economics also has an information problem. One individual or team of bureaucrats can't really make production and pricing decisions effectively for a large economy. Even if you want to make the right choices, it doesn't mean you'll know what those choices are. The win or lose your capital model of capitalism sorts (relatively) effective people into decision making roles in a distributed fashion.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:05 PM (b2nrj)

186 So glad I don't live in Mina's World...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 02:05 PM (VP9wG)

187 168 QTPOC is Queer, Trans People of Choler.

IDRGAFF is I really don't give a flying fuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 02:06 PM (89T5c)

188 This is like the hip grilled cheese place I went to once that put sliced pears in a damned grilled cheese sandwich. No. Stop doing this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (WWh8n)

What? Yuck.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 02:06 PM (DRSnL)

189 TCM is having a Tab Hunter day

he used to come to CT shop

proud to say, I ripped his ass off

and fuck the phrasing

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 02:06 PM (us2H3)

190 For real, mad props to Sonam for trying to bring back that Andrea Dworkin aesthetic in the midst of all her financial woes.
.
Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 02:02 PM (8LP6B)

The original Triggly Puff.

Posted by: BignJames at July 11, 2022 02:06 PM (AwYPR)

191 This story warms my cold, dead heart.

______________________________

Have you no cockles in your heart?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 11, 2022 02:06 PM (lf83v)

192 Weirdos going after other weirdos. In the final analysis it's about who gets the shit without working. I mean that is the bottom line here. One group of weirdos wanted the shit the other weirdos had. It's just that their way of going about it is, well, weird. Like them. Writing down your grievances is such a pussy move. Might have been an interesting story if one group had beat the other group to death, then took their shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 11, 2022 02:06 PM (BFigT)

193 They thought they could run this scam because they people running it were "allies" and looked like this:

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That'is how I picture soldiers, ubiquitously in the near-future, left in the US military to protect us against foreign enemies. #WASTF

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (p2Rds)

194 I don't recall there being much of a scheme to break other players though JPM iirc was aware that the whole thing was a crock and so made sure to have their books clean of the toxic assets. Others like citi thought they were legitimately good investments and so got wrecked.

JP Morgan does engage in a lot of scummy stuff though. It would be up their alleyway to try to bankrupt a firm that owes them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 01:59 PM (b2nrj)

Yeah, they were just as wrecked, if not more, by derivatives as the rest of them. I really wish I could find the article. IIRC, there was a goosing of the short-term interbank rates, shortly after JPM made a rejected offer to purchase WaMu, which basically made WaMu's position more tenuous in the market. I don't know if that was the reason, but in the end, JPM ended up with what they wanted on WaMu shareholders dime, Schumer's office got JPM a retroactive liability safe harbor in Congress, and JPM ended up not failing, after receiving a massive amount of coveted assets. Kind of convenient.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (U3uv2)

195 170 Fascinating graphic from Stats of India, using the CIA World Facebook showing the number of babies born in various countries.

Did you know that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has more births than the United States? (OTOH, Wikipedia says that the DRC has slightly fewer births than the United States.)

Nigeria has more births than Europe.

Of the next 1000 kids born: 513 in Asia, 326 in Africa, 106 in the Americas, 52 in Europe.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7wkjut
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (I2/tG)

We face a impossible to solve demographic crisis, so we'll just have to endure and hope we come out with something approaching civilization on the other side.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (b2nrj)

196 Days later, the building that hosted Mina's World was listed for sale. According to the workers, Kate Egghart's mother, Eunjoo, was the owner of the building as well as an 18% owner of the company. The workers claimed that despite Parikh and Egghart's best efforts, she "refused" the request to redistribute the business.

The "employees" don't have the sufficient "dots" to be on equal footing with Eunjoo.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (c8pZY)

197 >>Writing down your grievances is such a pussy move.

Don't be BREADED, yo.

Posted by: THE MATT HARRIS at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (HJ1lo)

198 "Paul Ryan said he doesn't normally cry, but 'found himself sobbing' while watching the Jan 6. insurrection, book says"

That's who they are!
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 11, 2022 02:04 PM

Good, I am glad he cried like the little bitch he is. Fucking pussy.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (GwxCX)

199 Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.
Posted by: Elric Blade

What? They couldn't stick it out? The competition licked them?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM

They sucked?
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 02:05 PM (GwxCX)
_________________________________

Too much fudge packing

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (iFTx/)

200 Eunjoo?

No way a Korean mom willingly let their kid transition.

Posted by: Allie at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (UnA8+)

201 Was she a great big fat person?

Roomy.
_______________________________

Went to the same zumba class as Brian Stelter.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (lf83v)

202 Well, you guys convinced me to take it more seriously than I was. I ordered a dimpling jig.
And a carbide bit.
I'm going to go slowly.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (kDGvA)

...

Taken out of context this could make people wonder about you.

Dimpling jig indeed. Sir, this is a reputable establishment we will have you know!

Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (2jRyv)

203 Wasn't there a soft drink called Tab?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (LQjWA)

204 Imagine a business model in which the owner tries to monetize struggle sessions.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Mina's World!

Oh, wait, I don't, because, Mina's went broke.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (5pTK/)

205 Centralized economics also has an information problem. One individual or team of bureaucrats can't really make production and pricing decisions effectively for a large economy.

We did great! Truly!

Posted by: Comecon! at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (I2/tG)

206 Life can be cruel sometimes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)

207 187 168 QTPOC is Queer, Trans People of Choler.

IDRGAFF is I really don't give a flying fuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 02:06 PM (89T5c)

HNNRRRRK is the sound I make after thinking about all these mutilated nutjob fatty-boombalatties actually trying to do it with each other....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (/EuRN)

208 The "employees" don't have the sufficient "dots" to be on equal footing with Eunjoo.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM

So she's a eunuch Joo?

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (GwxCX)

209 I mean if all these mental cases pooled their trustfunds they could probably buy an island and turn it in to the mentally disturbed alphabet soup paradise they dream of.

The only alternative would be them jumping off a bridge, as this world is clearly too evil and racist to keep supporting, so even having a cafe in a city, that pays taxes to a racist government, is supporting racism, so just being here is in turn being a oppressor.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (0B2xO)

210 No way a Korean mom willingly let their kid transition.
Posted by: Allie at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (UnA8+)
++++
Lefties abound. It would be atypical, but certainly not impossible. If she's been in America for most of her life, I could see it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (WWh8n)

211 112
Eventually in Communist America, the army will have to shoot all these people.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Those who are left, you mean? Because entitled, mentally ill, and perverted is not going to do well with hungry, angry normies.

Posted by: Dianna at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (kiM40)

212 *laughs hysterically*

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (Ra7ld)

213 I want to be accountable for my complicitnesses.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (sn5EN)

214 Samosa?

Thin mints are better.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (anj39)

215 Eunjoo?

Posted by: Allie at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (UnA8+)

Gesundheit!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

216 >>"Paul Ryan said he doesn't normally cry, but 'found himself sobbing' while watching the Jan 6. insurrection, book says"

How many guys were fucking his wife while he was watching, though?

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (HJ1lo)

217 I'm not very good at math but usually the 18% shareholder can't tell the other 82% of shareholders what to do.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (2jRyv)

218 Every time someone opens one of these "pay what you think is fair" places, the homeless and local students find it and kill it.

I find it annoying that selfish people make it so we can't have nice things. Yes, it's hopelessly naive to have a "pay what you think is fair" place, but wouldn't it be nice if that sort of business actually worked?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (kDGvA)

219 Centralized economics also has an information problem. One individual or team of bureaucrats can't really make production and pricing decisions effectively for a large economy. Even if you want to make the right choices, it doesn't mean you'll know what those choices are. The win or lose your capital model of capitalism sorts (relatively) effective people into decision making roles in a distributed fashion.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:05 PM (b2nrj)
++++
Plans by the many, not by the few. Democratize planning! Planning for the people!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (WWh8n)

220 >>>>at 5 months pregnant with my fourth child, I brought them on as equal business partners without any financial contribution towards the business hoping to do business differently and offer a more sustainable solution to the collective with a new profit sharing business model. I was a bit naive, hopeful, and trusted we would take care of each other...

So you told your employees "We all have a joint checking account, and we can all write checks and all make deposits according to our needs."

Yeah, they already did this. It is called the European Union. Your workers are like Greece, Italy, Ireland and Portugal.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (8LP6B)

221
The left always eats itself. Isn't this basically a reprise of what happened to the "feminist" book shop that was satirized on Portlandia? And IIRC something similar happened to a literal communist coffee shop in Ann Arbor or someplace like that.

The simulation is running out of ideas.
Posted by: Jesus Hosafat at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM (1dzqn)

I admit that I get a chubby every time the commie cocksuckers replay the Stalinists vs POUM kerfuffle.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (n+4am)

222 I notice they "listed" their grievances in the most vague terms possible.

Compare that list to the list in the Declaration, that listed specific offenses by the King against the colonies. It did not include "date and time" like a criminal complaint, but at least listed the specific action. Not "Oppressed us with anti-colonial ferver" but " He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance."

These people don't really have grievances. They have the gimmedats.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (JMAcK)

223 no Flaming Skull post for the Pedo Peter revelations?

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (V6W16)

224 Eunjoo?

No way a Korean mom willingly let their kid transition.
Posted by: Allie

Thinking more 'dot' Indian.
And no, mom ain't giving up shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:10 PM (c8pZY)

225 I'd like to point out that this very blog displays anti-Crocsness in a multitude of forms and occasions.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 11, 2022 02:10 PM (a3Q+t)

226 LOL, look at those CHUDs

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:10 PM (Zhwz2)

227 216 >>"Paul Ryan said he doesn't normally cry, but 'found himself sobbing' while watching the Jan 6. insurrection, book says"

How many guys were fucking his wife while he was watching, though?
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (HJ1lo)

His tears indicate not enough.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 11, 2022 02:10 PM (nMx88)

228 lolgf, indeed ... bringing "get woke, go broke" all up-close-and-personal !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra maga ftw ! at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (a82Er)

229 217 I'm not very good at math but usually the 18% shareholder can't tell the other 82% of shareholders what to do.
Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (2jRyv)

goddman...more math.

C'mon man, it's Monday...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (BgMrQ)

230 Some little place like this just opened up in the small t own I recently moved to. They bragged in the press how they opened it here because they didn't think they'd be accepted -- you know to stick it to those locals. They're having a drag show in a few weeks with kids invited because of course they are.

Posted by: brak at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (j5Tg0)

231
They can find work in the primate house at the Philly Zoo

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (Zhwz2)

232 I'm going to go slowly.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:03 PM (kDGvA)

I didn't find them necessary. Get clamp on gas block or install other type, run set screws in to mark barrel, remove gas block, and center punch if desired and drill.

Your way will end up more nicely done, but IMO, it's overkill.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (U3uv2)

233 So did they ever list at least a couple of the multitudes of forms/occasions of anti-blackness or anything else they whined about?

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (Qae3d)

234 Yeah, they already did this. It is called the European Union. Your workers are like Greece, Italy, Ireland and Portugal.
Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (8LP6B)

Isn't Ireland pretty well off?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (b2nrj)

235 > I'm not very good at math but usually the 18% shareholder can't tell the other 82% of shareholders what to do.

True, although it does depend a bit on what the 82% of shareholders own. If it's thousands of shareholders and none of them owns more than a percent and none of them can agree on anything, the 18% owner is powerful.

If it's just a few that own the 82% and they are fairly unified in their vision, the 18% owner is powerless.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (kDGvA)

236 The leggy brunette in a dress loves coffee, but never went (nor wanted to go) to Mina's:
https://is.gd/wEFNd1

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (WWh8n)

237 All places are by definition "pay what you think is fair".

If you don't think it's fair, don't fucking buy it. Asshole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (/EuRN)

238 I can't believe they pulled down 11 grand. What kind of numbskull throws money at these hapless bozos?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM (llsW/)

239 So glad I don't live in Mina's World...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 02:05 PM

Sadly, we all do. And the mentally ill fucks who promote this disgusting idiocy keep doing so. You'll be made to care about .0000.3% of the population! No boundaries anymore. Everything THEY want is O.K. But not what you want. Hater!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 02:12 PM (GwxCX)

240 "We have demands!"

To quote the renowned sage Khan Noonien Singh, "You are in a position to demand nothing, sir."

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 11, 2022 02:12 PM (HmZuC)

241 226 LOL, look at those CHUDs
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:10 PM (Zhwz2)
____________________________

Dude, stop. That's offensive. CHUDs made more of a contribution to society than these two.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

242 What? They couldn't stick it out? The competition licked them?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2022 02:01 PM

They sucked?
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 11, 2022 02:05 PM (GwxCX)
_________________________________

Too much fudge packing
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
****

They loved the whipped cream but the chopped nuts hurt.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 02:12 PM (anj39)

243 Dude, stop. That's offensive. CHUDs made more of a contribution to society than these two.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 02:12 PM (iFTx/)
++++
It's a buck dancer's choice, mu friend.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (WWh8n)

244 The People's Front of Mina.

Not those assholes in Mina's People's Front

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (sJHOI)

245 209 I mean if all these mental cases pooled their trustfunds they could probably buy an island and turn it in to the mentally disturbed alphabet soup paradise they dream of.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 11, 2022 02:08 PM (0B2xO)

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Who would they get to deal with sewage? The garbage? Building things? Engineering functioning facilities? These people hate work and have no muscle tissue on their stick-like arms or scrawny legs.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (DcKNO)

246 203 Wasn't there a soft drink called Tab?

****

Yes. It's the soda version of Samantha Bee.

Posted by: Azathoth at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (wb1YC)

247 >> The leggy brunette in a dress loves coffee, but never went (nor wanted to go) to Mina's:
https://is.gd/wEFNd1

Those thighs could keep my ears warm for the entire winter.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (HJ1lo)

248 Left on left idiocy.

No sympathy for any of these fools.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (MvHI3)

249 "Paul Ryan said he doesn't normally cry, but 'found himself sobbing' while watching the Jan 6. insurrection, book says"

____________________________________________

And I'll bet not one of those tears were for Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed American who was killed by her government.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (lf83v)

250 EJ is Korean, I think?

tangentially, my youngest tried to explain the newspeak term "white asian" to me last night. I freaked a little bit. this is a real thing! not a joke!

a real term?!?!

the explanation was SO RACIST too. "well mom it's because they dress like white people a lot"

O RLY?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (w0NJk)

251 218 Every time someone opens one of these "pay what you think is fair" places, the homeless and local students find it and kill it.

I find it annoying that selfish people make it so we can't have nice things. Yes, it's hopelessly naive to have a "pay what you think is fair" place, but wouldn't it be nice if that sort of business actually worked?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (kDGvA)

It's just a needlessly complicated approach to charity. Some people give freely of their own to others.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:14 PM (b2nrj)

252 > Your way will end up more nicely done, but IMO, it's overkill.

WHERE WERE YOU BEFORE I PLACED THOSE ORDERS?

Just kidding. I feel much better knowing it'll be harder to screw up with the tools I ordered. I do appreciate your input and the input of everyone else who gave me advice. 'Preciate it y'all!

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:14 PM (kDGvA)

253 tangentially, my youngest tried to explain the newspeak term "white asian" to me last night. I freaked a little bit. this is a real thing! not a joke!

a real term?!?!

the explanation was SO RACIST too. "well mom it's because they dress like white people a lot"

O RLY?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (w0NJk)
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It will continue. Asians are a serious problem for the race pimps, so they have to be made white. White-adjacency works for now, but this is the basic argument for "white-adjacent" nonsense. They embraced the white man's system, so of course they can excel in it - but it's still white and they're white by association.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (WWh8n)

254 Those thighs could keep my ears warm for the entire winter.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:13 PM (HJ1lo)

Concur.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (anj39)

255 Interesting from that picture it's obvious the new Addams Family film is going in a different direction.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (QRdjz)

256 If it's just a few that own the 82% and they are fairly unified in their vision, the 18% owner is powerless.
Posted by: bonhomme

Unless the 18% shareholder also owns the building and says, "GTFO, it's being sold".

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (c8pZY)

257 This is like the hip grilled cheese place I went to once that put sliced pears in a damned grilled cheese sandwich. No. Stop doing this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11

That's gross. But have you tried grilled cheese with jalapeno? Mwha (chef's kiss)

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (ftFVW)

258
Workers of Mina's World backbite.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (Zhwz2)

259 I'm not very good at math but usually the 18% shareholder can't tell the other 82% of shareholders what to do.
Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM

Sometimes different classes of shares have different voting rights.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (a3Q+t)

260 233 So did they ever list at least a couple of the multitudes of forms/occasions of anti-blackness or anything else they whined about?
____________

The owners were white, or at least white-ish, so that's offense enough! Not kowtowing to the demands of any black person is proof of anti-blackness!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (MvHI3)

261 >>This is like the hip grilled cheese place I went to once that put sliced pears in a damned grilled cheese sandwich. No. Stop doing this.

If they lightly fried the pears and used a cheese with some bite, that would be good.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (HJ1lo)

262 That's gross. But have you tried grilled cheese with jalapeno? Mwha (chef's kiss)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (ftFVW)
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Sure. Peppers with cheese is often a winning combination.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (WWh8n)

263 Interesting from that picture it's obvious the new Addams Family film is going in a different direction.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (QRdjz)
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I pointed out this morning that the Addams Family is far more wholesome than the Biden clan. I maintain that the Addams Family is more "normal" than the freaks described above as well...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (YIVH2)

264 This is like the hip grilled cheese place I went to once that put sliced pears in a damned grilled cheese sandwich. No. Stop doing this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11

now now.

The one I tried had some fancy cheese too and it was actually quite good.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (2jRyv)

265 224 Thinking more 'dot' Indian.
And no, mom ain't giving up shit.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:10 PM (c8pZY)

Except it wasn't Sonam's mother. It was the other one's. And that one isn't Indian.

Posted by: Allie at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (UnA8+)

266 It's amazing how fast the world destroys idealists. Envy, greed, and jealousy are powerful forces that the democrats have simply relabeled social justice.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (uWF4x)

267 But NOT on Sourdough.

That shit is fucking gross.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (HJ1lo)

268 my first air fried tater tots

not bad

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 02:17 PM (us2H3)

269 > I notice they "listed" their grievances in the most vague terms possible.

Yuuuup. Anti-blackness in various forms could be anything. I've seen woke-tards online saying that making people keep a time schedule is anti-black, so their "grievance" could mean the owners/operators expected people to show up on time.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:17 PM (kDGvA)

270
If they lightly fried the pears and used a cheese with some bite, that would be good.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (HJ1lo)

You *would* say that, Croc-boy

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:17 PM (Zhwz2)

271 >>>Centralized economics also has an information problem.

That's why communism and socialism require such high virtue of the leadership class......to NOT try and run everything as a centrally planned operation. Centrally planned economies always fail. To date no leadership class when faced with the prospect of political ownership of the means of production hasn't then shifted to full political control of production to everyone's dismay.

You can see this in the communist and socialist wars against the "middle man" a guy whose sole competency was matching commodities available for sale with the greatest need and desire for said commodities. Labeling these ushers of social riches as "parasites" who enrich themselves on the work of others, they are eliminated and replaced with central planners, whom are invariably lazy and not particularly talented at distribution while politically connected enough to hold their middling government positions. Distribution collapses and shortages abound.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 11, 2022 02:17 PM (T/vhV)

272 Starting all over again, is gonna be rough...so rough, but we gonna make it!

Posted by: Mel & Tim at July 11, 2022 02:17 PM (y2tIF)

273 I shouldn't laugh, but I am.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 11, 2022 02:17 PM (dNqv+)

274 The leggy brunette in a dress loves coffee, but never went (nor wanted to go) to Mina's:
https://is.gd/wEFNd1

Creamy skin. I can cream them some more......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 11, 2022 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

275 If they lightly fried the pears and used a cheese with some bite, that would be good.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (HJ1lo)
++++
That would be pushing it. The texture and flavors aren't really compatible. Regardless, that's not what they did. The just put pear slices in the sandwich and grilled it all up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:17 PM (WWh8n)

276 oh heavens, i wasn't calling you an asshole, bonhomme, not at all, not by any means. That was the royal "asshole", meant for the hippy jackasses formerly running this shop. And i didn't see your post before I posted mine. But scrolling up, it looks like I was.

It would be nice, as you say, if people were nice. Alas, they aren't.

Yeesh. /awkward

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (/EuRN)

277 This is like the hip grilled cheese place I went to once that put sliced pears in a damned grilled cheese sandwich. No. Stop doing this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11
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There are weirdos out there that like a slice of cheese on their apple pie...I don't get that either...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (YIVH2)

278 "In a moment of reflection while Egghart and Parikh's small, sweet dog Joon pads back and forth between their legs, Parikh brainstorms a headline for this story: "Check Out This Incredible Cafe -- Also, This Is the Background of the People. And Can You Believe They Do This While Being This?" "

Meanwhile 99.99 percent of potential customers are left wondering, "Is the coffee good? Is the customer service good?"

Key questions that Communists, cis-, trans-, or whatever, do not care about. Some types of people never learn.

Posted by: GLSD at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (AMIL/)

279 I'm not very good at math but usually the 18% shareholder can't tell the other 82% of shareholders what to do.
Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM

Sometimes different classes of shares have different voting rights.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (a3Q+t)

You know they named it after the cat right? I don't think classes of voting shares was part of the equation.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (2jRyv)

280 Wasn't there a soft drink called Tab?

The forerunner to every sugar free diet drink. My grandmother drank cases of it because she was diabetic.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (c8pZY)

281 109 On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

For a time you could buy Big Gay Ice Cream at one of my local markets out here in California. The flavor names were pretty hilarious, but the ice cream was actually good.

Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (Yr4Df)

282 218 Every time someone opens one of these "pay what you think is fair" places, the homeless and local students find it and kill it.

I find it annoying that selfish people make it so we can't have nice things. Yes, it's hopelessly naive to have a "pay what you think is fair" place, but wouldn't it be nice if that sort of business actually worked?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (kDGvA)

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

Posted by: Cow Demon - Free the Netherlands! at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (u79Vq)

283 >>This is like the hip grilled cheese place I went to once that put sliced pears in a damned grilled cheese sandwich. No. Stop doing this.

If they lightly fried the pears and used a cheese with some bite, that would be good.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:16 PM (HJ1lo)

I agree. It comes down to the cheese, and I prefer my pears on the side, but it sounds good.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (anj39)

284 271
That's why communism and socialism require such high virtue of the leadership class......to NOT try and run everything as a centrally planned operation. Centrally planned economies always fail. To date no leadership class when faced with the prospect of political ownership of the means of production hasn't then shifted to full political control of production to everyone's dismay.

You can see this in the communist and socialist wars against the "middle man" a guy whose sole competency was matching commodities available for sale with the greatest need and desire for said commodities. Labeling these ushers of social riches as "parasites" who enrich themselves on the work of others, they are eliminated and replaced with central planners, whom are invariably lazy and not particularly talented at distribution while politically connected enough to hold their middling government positions. Distribution collapses and shortages abound.
Posted by: mikethemoose at July 11, 2022 02:17 PM (T/vhV)

Replacing the decision-makers is the central conceit of socialist economics. I don't see that as a virtue issue(which would just be embezzlement) but inherent to their theory of operation.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (b2nrj)

285
You have to love the lame-ass workers little sign-off phrase to their demands:

"With righteous fire,"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I would immediately make that my new sign-off for everything as a joke except, no one would kn0ow what the hell I was going on about and think I had lost my mind.

So...I'll use it, bit more exclusively.

Yours with righteous fire,

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (5NkmN)

286 BTW: Did you guys read that Dr. Jill Biden hosted the Latinx IncluXion Luncheon? I'm sure it was a huge hit.

My only question is why didn't they go with the 'Latinx IncluXion Xtravaganza'?

Posted by: 40 Miles North at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (uWF4x)

287 I'm not very good at math but usually the 18% shareholder can't tell the other 82% of shareholders what to do.
Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (2jRyv)
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She also owned the building. They can take their 82% and reopen somewhere else.

I suspect her effective control was *much* higher because she was giving them a cheap place to do business.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (WWh8n)

288 >>That would be pushing it.

One of my fav fall sammiches is pan fried apple w/ bacon and good cheddar on a Brioche or Croissant.

Amazing.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (HJ1lo)

289 It shouldn't be so hard: if you want to run a nice, progressive business then you will need to focus on equity, as modified by intersectionality.

The base line is that all assets are absolutely equally distributed among everyone concerned: everyone has identical shares.

But then you will need a formula for determining an hierarchy to "advantage" the victim intersectionality matrix. Plus, you'll have to construct that matrix for both the shareholders / stakeholders directly associated to the business, and then meld it into a second version to model the hierarchical advantage for the local community at large.

Now you need to do the same for the liabilities. However, your hierarchical advantaged matrix will be the inverse of the one you constructed for assets. Those who receive more should pay more, right? Once you've accomplished both of these, then you will have a conflict-free operation, right?

Sounds very familiar to a model that does the same thing but bases it on investors instead of victims. Weird.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (K58O6)

290 There are weirdos out there that like a slice of cheese on their apple pie...I don't get that either...

Correct.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (89T5c)

291 280 Wasn't there a soft drink called Tab?

non alcoholic version of Pomac

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (us2H3)

292 Uuhhhhhh whhhyyyyyy didn't the city commie board not step in and 'nationalize' this place? Was it not essential?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. in hoc signo vinces at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (3Or4S)

293 oh no, the one Parikh looks like Haystacks Calhoun and the Wild Samoans mated and this was the result

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (dCxaZ)

294 BTW: Did you guys read that Dr. Jill Biden hosted the Latinx IncluXion Luncheon? I'm sure it was a huge hit.

I saw Latinos mocking it on the Twats.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (ZGrMX)

295 >>There are weirdos out there that like a slice of cheese on their apple pie...I don't get that either...

Wisonsin. That shit is wrong.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (HJ1lo)

296 >>>If you're new to the site

There are ... new people?

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (r8enq)

297 Wilson Goode would have known what to do with that building.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (rJ48h)

298
For a time you could buy Big Gay Ice Cream at one of my local markets out here in California. The flavor names were pretty hilarious, but the ice cream was actually good.
Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (Yr4Df)

There's all kinds of good ice cream that isn't fagged the fuck out, tho.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (Zhwz2)

299 >That would be pushing it. The texture and flavors aren't really compatible. Regardless, that's not what they did. The just put pear slices in the sandwich and grilled it all up.

that's as bad as pineapple on pizza
YEAH I SAID IT

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (geLO8)

300 Mina's Ableism:

1. Are you able to come to work?
2. Are you able to stay off your i-Phone with your BFF/significant other/drug dealer while working?
3. Are you able to tell time?
4. Are you able to avoid drugs or alcohol for 8 hours before coming to work?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (lf83v)

301 There are ... new people?
Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (r8enq)
++++
There are *people?* What? Aren't we all bots?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (WWh8n)

302 There used to be this barbeque restaurant in Philadelphia between City Hall and the Schuylkill river where the price of your meal was determined by the spin of a wheel.

I remember getting a GREAT price. My friend, not so much.

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (RHGPo)

303 https://bityl.co/DBLE

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (yQpMk)

304 That worker's statement is amazing.

They always try to hide the fact that they are saying nothing by using airy and academic sounding language.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (Q2Y8o)

305 295 >>There are weirdos out there that like a slice of cheese on their apple pie...I don't get that either...

Wisonsin. That shit is wrong.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (HJ1lo)

I could see myself trying it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (b2nrj)

306 I suspect her effective control was *much* higher because she was giving them a cheap place to do business.

yes

it was basically a gift to "Kate" - something for him to focus on, to be creative with

and he really went above and beyond as far as that goes!

that said, he ("Kate") was not an aggressor here, not really. he's a hot mess now tho.

it's all so sad. but Philly has bigger problems right now...

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (w0NJk)

307 Meanwhile 99.99 percent of potential customers are left wondering, "Is the coffee good? Is the customer service good?"

Key questions that Communists, cis-, trans-, or whatever, do not care about. Some types of people never learn.
Posted by: GLSD at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (AMIL/)

To be fair, there are plenty of businesses that focus intensely and passionately on the wrong things. Recently I have been getting hit with adverts on YouTube for a brand of bacon which is supposed to be carbon neutral, great if you care about climate warming or global change or whatever that thing is going to be called tomorrow in a bid to market it better. You know what I care about in regards to bacon? Does it TASTE GOOD? A radical concept, I realize...

Posted by: Cow Demon - Free the Netherlands! at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (u79Vq)

308 Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (5NkmN)

Yes I like your idea but also it can be riffed as we please

Posted by: kallisto, righteously firing off on all cylinders at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (dCxaZ)

309 who DOESN'T choose their ice cream based on what the proprietors do with their genitals

c'mon people

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (geLO8)

310 Mina's Ableism:

1. Are you able to come to work?
2. Are you able to stay off your i-Phone with your BFF/significant other/drug dealer while working?
3. Are you able to tell time?
4. Are you able to avoid drugs or alcohol for 8 hours before coming to work?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (lf83v)
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Why we hafta act white?

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (krQz2)

311 So sad. Now the local BIPOCLGBTQ+ peoplx have no safe space to enjoy pea and tofu samosas and creative chai lattes with artisan cardamom syrup.

SMDH. White supremacy wins again.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (PLNBu)

312 I suspect her effective control was *much* higher because she was giving them a cheap place to do business.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (WWh8n)

Absolutely. It seems almost certain that the place survived on a massively favorable rent arrangement. Like "free" or thereabouts.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (2jRyv)

313 that's as bad as pineapple on pizza
YEAH I SAID IT
Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (geLO8 )

You're not wrong.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (DRSnL)

314 I tried cheese on apple pie once. I love both of those things. They do not belong together. That is all i will say on the topic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (/EuRN)

315 Wasn't there a soft drink called Tab?

Yeah, it was discontinued in late 2020. And probably best known as the basis of a joke in Back to the Future.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (ZGrMX)

316 For a time you could buy Big Gay Ice Cream at one of my local markets out here in California. The flavor names were pretty hilarious, but the ice cream was actually good.
Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at July 11, 2022 02:18 PM (Yr4Df)

There's all kinds of good ice cream that isn't fagged the fuck out, tho.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:20 PM (Zhwz2)

Do they also have "The Secret Sauce"?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (yQpMk)

317 There are weirdos out there that like a slice of cheese on their apple pie...I don't get that either...

A slice of sharp cheddar on hot apple pie is delish.

And reaches out to lthe larger community of cheese aficionados.

With righteous fire,

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (5NkmN)

318 Robbie, NYC doesn't concern itself with Podunks or Haiti's. NYC and Albany are a moral universe unto themselves.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (b+v9B)

319 natural fake you really do need to always use that closing please

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM (w0NJk)

320 Cheese does not go on apple pie.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM (89T5c)

321 Snoop Dogg (purveyor of fine cannabis products) has a new offering called "Sleepy Joe OG".
Slogan "You won't even know what country you are in", and better yet "Where am I?".

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM (jTmQV)

322 I thought the miserable excuses for humanity on that show "Portlandia" were perhaps a slight exaggeration. Not any more. These people are beyond parody.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM (sn5EN)

323 Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (Q2Y8o)

they all got A++ in their college Grievance Studies and just basically repeating their textbooks verbatim

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM (dCxaZ)

324 FUBAR

The old ways are the best.

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM (gmo/4)

325 who DOESN'T choose their ice cream based on what the proprietors do with their genitals

c'mon people
Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (geLO

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If they keep their genitals out of my ice cream, I'm good.

I would like to see hours and several showers between anal play and serving me ice cream though.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM (krQz2)

326 This all just reads like an account of some insane internecine struggle at some regional Khmer Rouge command in the 70s, except more insane.

As Francis Bacon noted, "prosperity doth best discover vice", but the universe is about to do an intervention with parts of American "culture", as they've crossed even the very permissive boundaries of the last few decades.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM (OTzUX)

327 I suspect her effective control was *much* higher because she was giving them a cheap place to do business.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:19 PM (WWh8n)

Absolutely. It seems almost certain that the place survived on a massively favorable rent arrangement. Like "free" or thereabouts.
Posted by: TexasDan at July 11, 2022 02:22 PM (2jRyv)

Like when you let your 10 year old sell ice cream to the neighbor kids out of your garage.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM (yQpMk)

328 Crow...was there Crow on the menu?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (jZBWN)

329 >>>Replacing the decision-makers is the central conceit of socialist economics. I don't see that as a virtue issue(which would just be embezzlement) but inherent to their theory of operation.

Well I'd say it is a virtue issue. Under the theory of "ahhhctual" communism, you don't take a hard working dude, who is damn good at his job, and replace him with a politically connected government stooge, for the purpose of economic control. The tendency to do that is built on human vice wherein we build our political fiefdoms in lieu of capital wealth when the former effectively substitutes for the latter in a completely politicized society.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (T/vhV)

330 Past 100...so going off topic:

It appears the Biden's Justice Dept is initiating an investigation into the PGA for anti-competitive practices due to it's stance on PGA members joining LIV golf.

Just as Biden heads off to see the Saudis...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (BgMrQ)

331 I think Tab was the precursor to Diet Coke

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (geLO8)

332 > oh heavens, i wasn't calling you an asshole, bonhomme, not at all, not by any means.

Heh, I didn't take it that way. We're good.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (kDGvA)

333 Are there lilac trees in this part of town?

Do you hear the larks in any other part of town?

Does enchantment pour out of every door?

Posted by: washrivergal at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (qWMK9)

334 Workers of Mina's World backbite.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:15 PM (Zhwz2)

This has possibilities. Next mostly-peaceful protest .... expect to hear this chanted. But what will they rhyme it with?? That's the hard part.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (tQL7r)

335 I still can't get over Mt. Fiji up there

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 02:25 PM (dCxaZ)

336 It appears the Biden's Justice Dept is initiating an investigation into the PGA for anti-competitive practices due to it's stance on PGA members joining LIV golf.

that's just obvious flailing around now

pointless garbage

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:25 PM (w0NJk)

337 On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

I wouldn't have thought Chunky Monkeypox would be such a big seller. Know your audience, I guess.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at July 11, 2022 02:25 PM (8LP6B)

338 Siberian Russians are White Asians.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 11, 2022 02:25 PM (NU6D7)

339 you would think a site that caters to 29+ cranks would fail

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 02:25 PM (us2H3)

340 so the parents were stuck, they closed up shop, and are now putting the building up for sale. Kate is apparently a total mess and sunk into a deep depression, so I am not really laughing at all this.

*

I love a story with a happy ending.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 02:25 PM (TLtfY)

341 That's the kind of restaurant where the only tip you leave is "Loose the face piercings you weirdo freak".

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2022 02:25 PM (sn5EN)

342 Wasn't there a soft drink called Tab?

Yeah, it was discontinued in late 2020.

After grandma died, their sales went into the toilet.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:26 PM (c8pZY)

343 44 How dare you Ace post such a thing, during the month after Pride Month?!
Posted by: scruboak at July 11, 2022 01:50 PM (I+dwr)

H8er!
Extend it another month.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:26 PM (r8enq)

344 281 109 On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 01:57 PM (iFTx/)

Was Ben a partner? Ben always ran a little hot.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 11, 2022 02:26 PM (MkuC5)

345 Btw, this kind of nonsense is not unusual in west Philly. A lot of old hippies living there and coop housing where people who live in the houses are "part owners".

Bunch of queer milennials thought that is the normal state of affairs and they should be given property just cause.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 11, 2022 02:26 PM (Q2Y8o)

346 >>>On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.

The fuck is wrong with these people. The last thing I want to think about when eating ice cream is someone packing in the fudge.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:26 PM (U3uv2)

347 "lose"

Sorry.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2022 02:26 PM (sn5EN)

348
To be fair, there are plenty of businesses that focus intensely and passionately on the wrong things. Recently I have been getting hit with adverts on YouTube for a brand of bacon which is supposed to be carbon neutral, great if you care about climate warming or global change or whatever that thing is going to be called tomorrow in a bid to market it better. You know what I care about in regards to bacon? Does it TASTE GOOD? A radical concept, I realize...
Posted by: Cow Demon - Free the Netherlands! at July 11, 2022 02:21 PM (u79Vq)

If they're not trying to sell you the product on its own qualities, there's a fairly safe bet...

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:26 PM (b2nrj)

349 331 I think Tab was the precursor to Diet Coke
Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (geLO

Tab was Mr. Pibb's illegitimate spawn

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (us2H3)

350 At least it wasn't King Harv

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (Y1zIR)

351 *collects unemployment WITH RIGHTEOUS FIRE!!*

-- Unemployed BIPOC Fuckheads of Mina

Posted by: Sharkman at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (0seoq)

352 I'm not very good at math but usually the 18% shareholder can't tell the other 82% of shareholders what to do.
*

I'm betting the 18% shareholder can when the 18% shareholder owns the building in the middle of a wildly expensive city.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (TLtfY)

353 that's just obvious flailing around now

pointless garbage
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:25 PM (w0NJk)

DOJ has already started talking with LIV golfers prior to this week.

Happy 150th Open Championship

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (BgMrQ)

354 I think Tab was the precursor to Diet Coke
Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (geLO

shoulda thought of that

Posted by: RC Cola at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (2jRyv)

355 It's amazing how fast the world destroys idealists. Envy, greed, and jealousy are powerful forces that the democrats have simply relabeled social justice.
Posted by: 40 Miles North

And here I was thinking just the opposite

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (tQL7r)

356 Snoop Dogg (purveyor of fine cannabis products) has a new offering called "Sleepy Joe OG".

If Snoop wasn't married to the DNC, he could've co-branded that with Joe Rogan.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (ZGrMX)

357 From Twitter:

BIDEN: "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 1918, 17 dead, 17 injured."

Hey Joe, that shooting happened in 2018.

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (w0NJk)

358 Willowed:
Undo.org, working in conjuction with the State of Kalifornia blames the tobacco industry for a whole host of environmental problems...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=undo.org

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (ynpvh)

359 That's the kind of restaurant where the only tip you leave is "Loose the face piercings you weirdo freak".

Posted by: fd

I won't dine at a place that hires face pierced people. That's just begging for Hep C.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (c8pZY)

360 I could have been in the top 100 but I was laughing so hard I didn't get in until now.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 11, 2022 02:28 PM (WKPeU)

361 During Pride Month, Eater Online?

During Pride Month?!
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Pride Month is the new McCain's funeral.

Good thing that's just wrapping up.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 02:28 PM (krQz2)

362 Earthlings, what are you doing appropriating our designations? Cease immediately or risk total annihilation!!

Posted by: Commander QTPOC of Zorgon Prime at July 11, 2022 02:28 PM (PiwSw)

363 >>>You know what I care about in regards to bacon? Does it TASTE GOOD? A radical concept, I realize...

And yes, what does it cost per lb to similar good tasting bacon.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 11, 2022 02:28 PM (T/vhV)

364 Reading this article, I fear getting constipated from all the popcorn I am enjoying.

Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 02:28 PM (Ti+Tv)

365 I won't dine at a place that hires face pierced people. That's just begging for Hep C.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (c8pZY)

So no Starbucks, then?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 11, 2022 02:28 PM (PiwSw)

366 Pride Month at Mina's musta been LIT, yo

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 11, 2022 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

367 Father of mass shooting victim removed from White House event after interrupting Biden's speech

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:29 PM (geLO8)

368 On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.

The Purple Poz was a big hit with Obama, I'm sure.

("Poz" is the ghey lingo for "HIV positive", because it's 2022 and we all know a lot of shit we wish we didn't).

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 02:29 PM (ZGrMX)

369 Did this shop ever get to the point where it actually sold coffee?

Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 02:30 PM (Ti+Tv)

370 The Left has gone totally insane, example 72,345 X 10^23

Posted by: Prime Sister

FIFY

Posted by: Sharkman at July 11, 2022 02:30 PM (0seoq)

371 251 218 Every time someone opens one of these "pay what you think is fair" places, the homeless and local students find it and kill it.

I find it annoying that selfish people make it so we can't have nice things. Yes, it's hopelessly naive to have a "pay what you think is fair" place, but wouldn't it be nice if that sort of business actually worked?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:09 PM (kDGvA)

It's just a needlessly complicated approach to charity. Some people give freely of their own to others.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:14 PM (b2nrj)

And The Tragedy of the Commons.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:30 PM (r8enq)

372 Getting lame, overpriced food from poorly groomed, scowling Communist mutants in a poor, violent city where everything smells like piss. Sounds like a ton of fun.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:30 PM (Zhwz2)

373 What a lovely couple.

*turns head and vomits*

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 11, 2022 02:31 PM (4LyY6)

374 367 Father of mass shooting victim removed from White House event after interrupting Biden's speech
Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:29 PM (geLO

Yeah. About that absolute moral authority thing...

Posted by: Useless idiot Cindy Sheehan at July 11, 2022 02:31 PM (Ti+Tv)

375 370 The Left has gone totally insane, example 72,345 X 10^23

Posted by: Prime Sister

FIFY
Posted by: Sharkman at July 11, 2022 02:30 PM (0seoq)

I prefer 6.022x10^23

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 02:31 PM (ynpvh)

376 "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 1918, 17 dead, 17 injured."

"Shooter specifically enabled to be free and able to legally buy his guns by DOJ/Broward County program to forego consequences and punishment for youthful criminals. Shooter specifically ID'd as dangerous kook by online site operator calling the FBI tipline. Local law enforcement criminally and cowardly failures in responding to incident."

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 02:31 PM (OTzUX)

377 > If they're not trying to sell you the product on its own qualities, there's a fairly safe bet...

Sometimes the weirdos have a good product. I had some time to kill in Bellevue the other day. I took my kid to an ice cream shop called Molly Moon.

If you look at their mission statement page, they're hard left nutters:
https://bit.ly/3c6mz4I

I didn't know any of that, I just wanted to take my kid out for ice cream. We each got a cone and it was delicious; overpriced, but delicious.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:31 PM (kDGvA)

378 367 Father of mass shooting victim removed from White House event after interrupting Biden's speech

was he trying to explain the difference between 2018 and 1918?

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:31 PM (w0NJk)

379 Maybe Disney will buy it up.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 11, 2022 02:31 PM (RctME)

380 Getting lame, overpriced food from poorly groomed, scowling Communist mutants in a poor, violent city where everything smells like piss. Sounds like a ton of fun.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:30 PM (Zhwz2)
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Welcome to the jungle. It gets worse here everyday.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:31 PM (WWh8n)

381 Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:14 PM (kDGvA)

Now I can see your reluctance to spend on the tools. I had the torque wrench and just needed an upper vise jig and an ungodly expensive (1 1/4") crow's foot to torque the Seekins Precision barrel nut.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:32 PM (U3uv2)

382 I went to an amusement park over the weekend. I am used to seeing 90% of the adult population being overweight. The thing that struck me this time . . .

90% of the teenagers had no muscle tone. Not that they were fat, some were but many were not fat. Just across the board no muscle tone. Even the skinny ones were sort of flabby, soft and under developed. Between videogames, phones, and covid. OMG what an impact. There's no way the average life expectancy keeps going up given the fact that these kids, supposedly at their physical peak, look like they just got over a LOOOONG illness. It was literally almost every kid.

Posted by: My wife and I in our fifties had more muscle mass than just about every teen. And I'm a little guy at July 11, 2022 02:32 PM (AdRxH)

383 380 Getting lame, overpriced food from poorly groomed, scowling Communist mutants in a poor, violent city where everything smells like piss. Sounds like a ton of fun.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:30 PM (Zhwz2)
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Welcome to the jungle. It gets worse here everyday.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:31 PM (WWh8n)

There used to be a place at UCSD called the Che Cafe.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 02:32 PM (ynpvh)

384 350 At least it wasn't King Harv

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (Y1zIR)

This would be terribly upsetting to me.

(Did you know King Harv has a coffee plantation on Mars?)

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 02:32 PM (dCxaZ)

385 It's too bad the climate changed in Mina's World.

Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 02:33 PM (Ti+Tv)

386 BIDEN: "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 1918, 17 dead, 17 injured."

Hey Joe, that shooting happened in 2018.

Yeah, that's pretty much a normal person gaffe. On a Pedo Peter scale, that one's pretty low.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:33 PM (kDGvA)

387 On a somewhat related note, a Big Gay Ice Cream store opened a few blocks from me in Manhattan. Yes, it's as gay as you'd expect. It closed in a few months.

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DURING NATIONAL ICE CREAM MONTH?!?!?! Really?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 02:33 PM (Sm0n6)

388 367 Father of mass shooting victim removed from White House event after interrupting Biden's speech
Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:29 PM (geLO

Here's a link:

The Hill
https://tinyurl.com/5twa2bk6

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:33 PM (r8enq)

389 Im still pretty confused about who owns what and what is the "workers" actual grievance, but its crystal clear I would never eat or drink anything that came from their filthy hands.

Posted by: LASue at July 11, 2022 02:33 PM (Ed8Zd)

390 384 350 At least it wasn't King Harv

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (Y1zIR)

This would be terribly upsetting to me.

(Did you know King Harv has a coffee plantation on Mars?)
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 02:32 PM (dCxaZ)

I could've been buying Martian coffee? I've gotta start clicking these ads.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:33 PM (b2nrj)

391 So, ok... you say "pay what you think is fair". I, personally, believe that Zero dollars is fair. Anything greater than zero is giving a finite amount of money for a good or service I don't want, and any amount of money I give you for a service I could otherwise have had for zero dollars is a finite amount of money that i now CAN'T spend on something else I value higher than your product.

So fine. Fair price: Zero dollars. If that's not what you meant, then don't make that your policy. If you want a lower price, set the price lower. You want to sell at cost, or as a loss-leader, then do that. You want to give out free coffee as a promotion, do that.

But don't give me free coffee and then bitch that it wasn't really free.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 02:34 PM (/EuRN)

392 It's hard to imagine anyone going to a bank and telling the loan officer "Okay, so I want to open an ice cream store for little kids. But here's the thing. I'm also hoping to combine a porn fetish AND my love of feces. I need $500,000, please."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 02:34 PM (TLtfY)

393 And The Tragedy of the Commons.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:30 PM (r8enq)

This is the fundamental economic disconnect in all of those pay what you want hippie dippie "business" models.

Hell, even commie Bernie Sanders knows what's what.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:34 PM (U3uv2)

394 372 Getting lame, overpriced food from poorly groomed, scowling Communist mutants in a poor, violent city where everything smells like piss. Sounds like a ton of fun.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:30 PM (Zhwz2)

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One of my favorite Simpsons quotes from Marge is "We can't afford to shop at a store that has a philosophy". I think it applies equally well to dining establishments.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 11, 2022 02:35 PM (CAJOC)

395 It's too bad the climate changed in Mina's World.

Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 02:33 PM (Ti+Tv)

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"There's always Public Access TV. Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 02:35 PM (Sm0n6)

396 "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 1918, 17 dead, 17 injured."
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China Joe then went on to blame Kaiser Bill for the shootings.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 11, 2022 02:35 PM (yikp0)

397 Snoop Dogg (purveyor of fine cannabis products) has a new offering called "Sleepy Joe OG".

Snoop also promoted a line of pot with Jaleel White (dressed up as Steve Urkel) called Purple Urkel.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:35 PM (c8pZY)

398 What the heck is "ableism"?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 02:35 PM (jTmQV)

399 336 It appears the Biden's Justice Dept is initiating an investigation into the PGA for anti-competitive practices due to it's stance on PGA members joining LIV golf.

that's just obvious flailing around now

pointless garbage
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp

Well, Biden DoJ. They'll muck it up and arrest some grandma in Topeka for watching LIV online or something.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 11, 2022 02:35 PM (sAmhv)

400 Any Congress people reduced to tears over January 6th mostly peaceful demonstrations is far too attached to their own power. They ought to look at the decades of lies, theft and abuse before pulling the cry baby routine. Eff Paul Ryan.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (z0DEK)

401 Yeah, that's pretty much a normal person gaffe. On a Pedo Peter scale, that one's pretty low.

you're too kind

it's still hilarious

especially since it was probably spelled out PHONETICALLY on the prompter

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (w0NJk)

402 So, is the chubby Indian chick really a dude, too?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (2RBkF)

403 Learn to live like an animal in the jungle where we play...

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (89T5c)

404 About thirty years ago I moved to a small town on the Central Oregon Coast for business.
Beautiful sunsets over the Pacific, elk herds two miles out of town, mushrooms (not that kind! Well, the hippies from California would harvest “that kind” early Sunday mornings before services), smelt on the beach at a park in town, oysters at the oyster farm, old hippies, senators, school teachers, very well-to-do retirees with a lot of cash from selling their house in California, trust fund babies with beach home, and a I soon discovered a fairly large, stable, gay community. Tourism was a good portion of the general communities income.
Ken Kesey has a cabin a little further south.
Nice people, by and large.
There had only been one killing in many years. Kind of a Cuban crime of passion messy and old fashion involving two members of our liberal community.
But, hey, love is love, passion is passion, and cheatin’ Is cheatin’ and old ways are the best ways.
But I digress.
There was a coffee shop overlooking the bay in the next little town up the coast. The two women owners were partners.
(cont)

Posted by: waepnedmann at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (URhzO)

405 My coffee's so strong, it would have turned these twinks straight AND cis.

Posted by: King Harv's Imperial Coffee at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (JCZqz)

406 What the heck is "ableism"?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 02:35 PM (jTmQV)
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Nasty people who build systems and processes that are for the benefit of people who are not disabled and so exercise their social power to victimize the disabled by not accommodating and including them equitably.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (WWh8n)

407 It was literally almost every kid.

Posted by: My wife and I in our fifties had more muscle mass than just about every teen. And I'm a little guy at July 11, 2022 02:32 PM (AdRxH)

Someone posted an anecdote about a frightening percentage of a Marine recruit billet being kicked out for failing to even be able to do one pull up.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (U3uv2)

408 > Now I can see your reluctance to spend on the tools. I had the torque wrench and just needed an upper vise jig and an ungodly expensive (1 1/4") crow's foot to torque the Seekins Precision barrel nut.

Yeah, I've had to spend more than I wanted for the tools. The torque wrench was less than I thought it would be, so that was nice. I got a Tekton for like $45. I torqued to 50 ft lbs. If it's within 3% of that, I'm happy.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (kDGvA)

409 So no Starbucks, then?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

No. Never.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (c8pZY)

410 Posted by: LASue at July 11, 2022 02:33 PM (Ed8Zd)

Me too.

The only thing clear to me is that "Kate" is from some rich lily-white suburban enclave like Doylestown or Huntingdon Valley.

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 02:37 PM (dCxaZ)

411 390 384 350 At least it wasn't King Harv

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 11, 2022 02:27 PM (Y1zIR)

This would be terribly upsetting to me.

(Did you know King Harv has a coffee plantation on Mars?)
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 02:32 PM (dCxaZ)

I could've been buying Martian coffee? I've gotta start clicking these ads.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:33 PM (b2nrj)
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One day, the King Harv ad will be replaced by something else. That will be a dark day for the blog.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 11, 2022 02:37 PM (CAJOC)

412 So, is the chubby Indian chick really a dude, too?
Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (2RBkF)

I never really ever wondered what happened to that Jazz character......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 11, 2022 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

413
'Coffee shop' appears to now mean - a woke, pretentious, overpriced, tinged with a sprinkling of douchbagginess place where the actual coffee takes a second, if not third, place to performance.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Wendy's. 10 oz. 'Over 29' coffee. $0.27, including tax. I meet two old Vets there four days a week. One 91, the other 93. Between the coffee, and their stories, it's probably the best part of my week.

On one remarkable day, Wendy's had a Buy One, Get One Free. So, $0.54 for four coffees. I felt guilty...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2022 02:37 PM (id1Da)

414 392 It's hard to imagine anyone going to a bank and telling the loan officer "Okay, so I want to open an ice cream store for little kids. But here's the thing. I'm also hoping to combine a porn fetish AND my love of feces. I need $500,000, please."
Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 02:34 PM (TLtfY)

Well, they are an "underserved community." Load approved.

Posted by: More than one Big Bank at July 11, 2022 02:37 PM (PiwSw)

415 Cheese does not go on apple pie.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM

Sharp cheddar on apple pie is the shizznit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 11, 2022 02:37 PM (4p7Em)

416 Thank gawd I'm finally out of that fukcing pyche ward.

Posted by: Mina the Cat at July 11, 2022 02:37 PM (2YNEF)

417 Thank the Lord there aren't any smart liberals.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 11, 2022 02:38 PM (mE7cY)

418 WTFF are "mission statements" doing in the corporate/business world anyway? Mere existence of this in a small business = off the list, bye bye, when shopping around.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 02:38 PM (OTzUX)

419 The advert underneath this article has photos of Trump and Desantis grinning, as if they are drinking the nectar of their liberal tears from a nonrecycled NASCAR Slurpee cup.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 11, 2022 02:38 PM (q1ouM)

420 Mission statement: provide product or service of high quality at competitive cost while being reliable and easy to deal with.

Done.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 02:38 PM (OTzUX)

421 417 Thank the Lord there aren't any smart liberals.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 11, 2022 02:38 PM (mE7cY)

I beg your pardon?

Posted by: Thomas Friedman at July 11, 2022 02:38 PM (PiwSw)

422 One day, the King Harv ad will be replaced by something else. That will be a dark day for the blog.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 11, 2022 02:37 PM

One day, his coffee plantation will be a republic.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM (4p7Em)

423 394 One of my favorite Simpsons quotes from Marge is "We can't afford to shop at a store that has a philosophy".
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 11, 2022 02:35 PM (CAJOC)

LOL

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM (r8enq)

424 Some little place like this just opened up in the small t own I recently moved to. They bragged in the press how they opened it here because they didn't think they'd be accepted -- you know to stick it to those locals. They're having a drag show in a few weeks with kids invited because of course they are.
Posted by: brak at July 11, 2022 02:11 PM

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Be a real shame if the normies all quietly agreed to boycott the place.

Posted by: Bigsmith at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM (NW66J)

425 The best part of wokin' up,
Is closing down your shop...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM (wtvvX)

426 If it's within 3% of that, I'm happy.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:36 PM (kDGvA)

And now you have the justification, "I already have the tools, so next one is cheap."

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM (U3uv2)

427 Dad's bakers (both of them) would come in rebellious (drunk). The old man would fire them, get the stuff done around the shop, and rehire them when they sobered up. About once a month. It would get exciting if they came in drunk and the old man had a load on.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM (lz5hY)

428 WTFF are "mission statements" doing in the corporate/business world anyway? Mere existence of this in a small business = off the list, bye bye, when shopping around.
Posted by: rhomboid
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Popularized by Gurus, and management bought into it. Such have been the butt of employee humor ever since.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM (id1Da)

429 > What the heck is "ableism"?

If there's a person with a disability that you don't acknowledge in your speech or accommodate in your facility, you're being "ableist."

If you say, "As you can see," you're being ableist to the blind. If your countertops aren't easily reachable for those in wheelchairs, you're being ableist. If you don't label everything in braille, you're being abelist.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:40 PM (kDGvA)

430 The best part of wokin' up,
Is closing down your shop...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM

I LOL'd.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 11, 2022 02:40 PM (4p7Em)

431 398 What the heck is "ableism"?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 02:35 PM (jTmQV)

We should not use that word on this blog anymore because not everyone knew what it meant.
Next!

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:40 PM (r8enq)

432 WTFF are "mission statements" doing in the corporate/business world anyway? Mere existence of this in a small business = off the list, bye bye, when shopping around.

*

Yep. Although I've seen one in a local mom and pop once that said something like "We intend to make good milkshakes and cheeseburgers." I'm not sure if they were making a joke or not or if they thought they were supposed to have a mission statement, and I'm fine with that because they had a clear vision of what it should be either way.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 02:41 PM (TLtfY)

433 The best part of wokin' up,
Is closing down your shop...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM (wtvvX)

We've replace their magic utopia crystals with harsh reality. Let's see if anyone notices.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:41 PM (U3uv2)

434 I hate to point this out, but Sonam Parikh and Weasel share a common sartorial sense...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 11, 2022 02:41 PM (PiwSw)

435 It's amazing how fast the world destroys idealists. Envy, greed, and jealousy are powerful forces that the democrats have simply relabeled social justice.
Posted by: 40 Miles North

And here I was thinking just the opposite.

Posted by Prime Sister

Ugh! That did NOT come out right. At all. Only meant the opposite of "Amazing how fast the world destroys idealists." The opposite of that line only! Whew

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 11, 2022 02:41 PM (tQL7r)

436
To be fair, there are plenty of businesses that focus intensely and passionately on the wrong things.

__________

The half-completed first bridge over the Houston Ship Channel, designed by the Florida All-Girl Firm dedicated to beautiful designs, is being demolished because of fatal flaws.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 02:42 PM (/U27+)

437 7-11 is a coffee shop. And they have those little mini-donuts that come 6 to a pack.

Last time I was in a Starbux, there was a filthy street person in there, sat on the floor charging his laptop. Obvious wet spot on the front of his pants where he had recently pissed himself. Who needs that shit.

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:42 PM (geLO8)

438 The Left has gone totally insane, example 72,345 X 10^23

Posted by: Prime Sister

Gone? Gone? What's this 'gone' shit?

They've been insane for decades. It's just that they can't cover it up any more.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 11, 2022 02:42 PM (IEa8U)

439 Always thought the Che Cafe at UCSD should have had company.

A Cafe Beria. A Himmler Cafe, or maybe Cafe Heydrich.

Why not?

The misinformed civically cretinous patrons probably wouldn't get it.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 02:42 PM (OTzUX)

440 WTFF are "mission statements" doing in the corporate/business world anyway? Mere existence of this in a small business = off the list, bye bye, when shopping around.
Posted by: rhomboid

Pretty standard for every company since the invention of a formal business plan for the purposes of loans, licenses, or insurance.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 11, 2022 02:42 PM (IEa8U)

441 My coffee's so strong, it would have turned these twinks straight AND cis.
Posted by: King Harv's Imperial Coffee

You want strong coffee? Prison coffee. 6 heaping tablespoons in a six cup percolator pot.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:43 PM (c8pZY)

442 I hate to point this out, but Sonam Parikh and Weasel share a common sartorial sense...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 11, 2022 02:41 PM

To paraphrase Agent J, the difference is that Weasel makes the overalls look good. And accessorizes with gunz instead of trannies.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 11, 2022 02:43 PM (4p7Em)

443 >We've replace their magic utopia crystals with harsh reality. Let's see if anyone notices.

Posted by: Comrade flounder

good one

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:43 PM (geLO8)

444 Can't they all get Monkeypox and die?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2022 02:43 PM (CoV1l)

445 425 The best part of wokin' up,
Is closing down your shop...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 11, 2022 02:39 PM (wtvvX)

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That cleared my sinuses.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 11, 2022 02:43 PM (+R5dc)

446 > Someone posted an anecdote about a frightening percentage of a Marine recruit billet being kicked out for failing to even be able to do one pull up.

That doesn't surprise me even a little bit. For most kids, unless you go out of your way to be in CrossFit or some sport that does pullups as part of training, you're never doing pullups.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:43 PM (kDGvA)

447 Maybe I should open a Trotsky cafe, complete with ice axe decorations on the walls!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 02:43 PM (jTmQV)

448 420 Mission statement: provide product or service of high quality at competitive cost while being reliable and easy to deal with.

Done.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 02:38 PM (OTzUX)

That is frequently what a mission statement is, and in that sense can be reasonable. What is our mission? We make and sell widgets.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:43 PM (b2nrj)

449 Always thought the Che Cafe at UCSD should have had company.

A Cafe Beria. A Himmler Cafe, or maybe Cafe Heydrich.

Why not?

The misinformed civically cretinous patrons probably wouldn't get it.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 02:42 PM (OTzUX)

Something tells me a Sharia Cafe atop the highest campus building would quickly go under.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:44 PM (U3uv2)

450 Cheese does not go on apple pie.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 02:23 PM

Sharp cheddar on apple pie is the shizznit.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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'Apple pie without cheese is like a hug without a squeeze.'

Quoting midwestern waitress who served me. Ohio, I think it was.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2022 02:44 PM (MrUzB)

451 Everywhere is
Freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies
Tell me, where is sanity?

Posted by: Mina's Song at July 11, 2022 02:44 PM (Xrfse)

452 Mission Statements are fantastic for any organization. A single sentence that unequivocally states what your company is about is a good thing to have.

When that mission suddenly is a sentence with fifty dependent clauses, twenty of which are un-parseable and the rest are utterly devoid of any semantic content whatsoever, it's a good sign that your company is beginning to spiral the porcelain.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 02:44 PM (/EuRN)

453 Test!(ee)

Posted by: Justin Castreau at July 11, 2022 02:44 PM (ZW1rs)

454 429 If you don't label everything in braille, you're being abelist.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:40 PM (kDGvA)

No, that's being "Cain-ist."

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:44 PM (r8enq)

455 Last time I was in a Starbux, there was a filthy street person in there, sat on the floor charging his laptop. Obvious wet spot on the front of his pants where he had recently pissed himself. Who needs that shit.
Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 02:42 PM

Last time I was in one (at the airport terminal where Dunks was sadly absent), even the plain old coffee I ordered tasted beyond burnt. Worst cup of coffee I've ever had.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 11, 2022 02:44 PM (4p7Em)

456 Yep. Although I've seen one in a local mom and pop once that said something like "We intend to make good milkshakes and cheeseburgers." I'm not sure if they were making a joke or not or if they thought they were supposed to have a mission statement, and I'm fine with that because they had a clear vision of what it should be either way.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 02:41 PM (TLtfY)

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Quite possibly a requirement for some small business loan program.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 11, 2022 02:45 PM (CAJOC)

457 "All you magic utopia crystals are belong to us.

Now get out."

Eugenia or whatever her name is liked the company so much she sold the building.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 11, 2022 02:45 PM (MkuC5)

458 They bragged in the press how they opened it here because they didn't think they'd be accepted -- you know to stick it to those locals.

A gay male couple showed up at our church a couple Sundays in a row. They moved about with their little infant children during the service, and were kind of really obvious that they were there to get attention.

I wondered if they showed up to provoke some kind of "hate crime" (in their minds). The only reaction they got from the parishioners was a couple old ladies went up to them to coo over the children.

They haven't been seen since.

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 02:45 PM (dCxaZ)

459
I would not myself choose to have cheese on pie but it's not bad at all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 02:45 PM (/U27+)

460 439 Woke hipster know nothing douche comes into the Heydrich Cafe. "Yo, who was this Heydrich dude?" "Why, he was Protector of Czechoslovakia". "So cool, everybody needs protecting now and then".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 11, 2022 02:45 PM (lz5hY)

461 'Apple pie without cheese is like a hug without a squeeze.'

Quoting midwestern waitress who served me. Ohio, I think it was.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2022 02:44 PM

Was she hot?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 11, 2022 02:45 PM (4p7Em)

462 (cont)
We had a bad flood one winter and the bay front businesses were in danger of being flooded out or worse.
The local paper reported that most of the bay front businesses had to use sandbags to prevent flooding, but the coffee shop had been surrounded by dikes and was safe.
Times have changed.
These woke people have no sense of humor and if you cannot laugh at yourself. Even if I have to “...laugh that I might not cry”.

Posted by: waepnedmann at July 11, 2022 02:46 PM (URhzO)

463 Anyone following the info dump on Hunters iphone?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 11, 2022 02:46 PM (YglAn)

464
I used to have a really bitchy Siamese cat named Minka. Got her from a Latvian dude. She liked me well enough, but not anybody else. Lived to be 21.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:46 PM (Zhwz2)

465 This relieves the additional problem of customers oppressing the workers by wanting certain things (and not just "something like it") within a timely fashion with a decent quality of food and service.

Customers tend to be all fascist that way.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 02:46 PM (krQz2)

466
Me and millions of sensible people stop to get some joe and a breakfast burrito, not make a political statement.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 02:47 PM (/U27+)

467 Anyone following the info dump on Hunters iphone?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 11, 2022 02:46 PM (YglAn)

Only what you see here, pal.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:47 PM (U3uv2)

468
Quoting midwestern waitress who served me. Ohio, I think it was.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2022 02:44 PM

Was she hot?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Motherly, as I recall.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2022 02:47 PM (MrUzB)

469 Anyone following the info dump on Hunters iphone?

*

"We don't even want to report on Sri Lanka!"
- ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, etc.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 02:47 PM (TLtfY)

470 unless you go out of your way to be in CrossFit or some sport that does pullups as part of training, you're never doing pullups

Gotta disagree. You don't have to be trained to do pullups. It's called arm strength in proportion to body weight.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 11, 2022 02:47 PM (Xrfse)

471 @458 Some of our peeps are known to hug those folks real good first thing when they walk in the door.

Basically to check them for weapons.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 11, 2022 02:48 PM (MkuC5)

472 Quite possibly a requirement for some small business loan program.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

Mission statement for small business:

Make Money.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:48 PM (c8pZY)

473
Nud

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 02:48 PM (/U27+)

474 This would be a better story if Mina's World was replaced with Starbucks.
Posted by: SH (Roe Overturned) at July 11, 2022 01:49 PM (sX1BW)

Dunkin' Donuts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2022 02:48 PM (CoV1l)

475 Hydrox > Heydrich >> Oreos

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 02:48 PM (/EuRN)

476 Nood pedo peter.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 02:48 PM (U3uv2)

477 463 Anyone following the info dump on Hunters iphone?
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 11, 2022 02:46 PM (YglAn)

No one in the US press.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:48 PM (r8enq)

478 Anyone following the ... dump on Hunters iphone?
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 11, 2022 02:46 PM (YglAn)
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I don't care what Hunter did to his phone.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 02:49 PM (krQz2)

479 "That's strange - Jim NEVER asks for a second cup of Woke at home!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 11, 2022 02:49 PM (906pl)

480
That's Juanita Valdez and xer mule Cuntchita.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:49 PM (Zhwz2)

481 470 "unless you go out of your way to be in CrossFit or some sport that does pullups as part of training, you're never doing pullups"

Gotta disagree. You don't have to be trained to do pullups. It's called arm strength in proportion to body weight.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 11, 2022 02:47 PM (Xrfse)

I've always had to exercise for pullups to do them. Definitely works muscles I'm not working otherwise.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:49 PM (b2nrj)

482 480
That's Juanita Valdez and xer mule Cuntchita.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 02:49 PM (Zhwz2)

Cuntchita.
I snorted.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 02:50 PM (r8enq)

483 > You don't have to be trained to do pullups. It's called arm strength in proportion to body weight.

Pullups work much more than just arms. There's a whole chain of muscles that have to work well together to do them. Shoulders, chest, biceps, abs, triceps, upper back and lower back muscles all work together to do pullups.

Farm boys can probably bang out some pullups without any training, but most people have to do at least some focus work to do more than one or two.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 02:50 PM (kDGvA)

484 472 Quite possibly a requirement for some small business loan program.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

Mission statement for small business:

Make Money.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 02:48 PM (c8pZY)

That's implied. It's the how of making money they want to know.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:50 PM (b2nrj)

485 Protectorate of Moravia and Bohemia, I think. But the panel will accept "Czechoslovakia". Speaking of which, guess who grabbed a piece of the former Czechoslovakia when You Know Who carved part of it off, then grabbed the rest?

Poland. Polish foreign minister was quick to take his share of Hitler's hand-outs, yet balked at the request for a "corridor swap" up north (Gdynia and Danzig).

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 02:51 PM (OTzUX)

486 Way back in the mid 60s, we had youths with no muscle tone. So JFK got a mandatory fitness program started in the schools. I always hated it because I am not athletic. But maybe it might be time to give it another try.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 11, 2022 02:51 PM (5HBd1)

487 It was literally almost every kid.

Posted by: My wife and I in our fifties had more muscle mass than just about every teen. And I'm a little guy at July 11, 2022 02:32 PM (AdRxH)

Someone posted an anecdote about a frightening percentage of a Marine recruit billet being kicked out for failing to even be able to do one pull up.
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I also noticed that you could win a prize for hanging from a bar, for 1 min 30 seconds -- just holding your own weight no chin ups. This is an achievement now?

Posted by: My wife and I in our fifties had more muscle mass than just about every teen. And I'm a little guy at July 11, 2022 02:52 PM (1Kb35)

488 485 Protectorate of Moravia and Bohemia, I think. But the panel will accept "Czechoslovakia". Speaking of which, guess who grabbed a piece of the former Czechoslovakia when You Know Who carved part of it off, then grabbed the rest?

Poland. Polish foreign minister was quick to take his share of Hitler's hand-outs, yet balked at the request for a "corridor swap" up north (Gdynia and Danzig).
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 02:51 PM (OTzUX)

It's all typical European opportunism and backstabbing until somebody starts genociding.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 02:52 PM (b2nrj)

489 They're all queer, whatever sexual orientation any of them have.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 01:55 PM (FZ2cV)

Evil, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2022 02:54 PM (CoV1l)

490 We should all work on posting allegations of "systemic opposition, manipulation, abuse of power, exploitation, anti-blackness, ableism," and other charges summarized in a "List of Grievances."

Maybe then Ace would "redistribute" AoSHQ.

Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 02:54 PM (VJsqe)

491 >>It appears the Biden's Justice Dept is initiating an investigation into the PGA for anti-competitive practices due to it's stance on PGA members joining LIV golf.

Just as Biden heads off to see the Saudis...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 02:24 PM (BgMrQ)

Heh. Should be fun to see all the woke sportswriters who hated on the LIV because of its Saudi backing turn on a dime to support the current thing.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 11, 2022 02:54 PM (La6gB)

492 In my saved "stuff" I have a pic of blackbloc marchers under Black and red banners "Workers United against Work!".
after a bit of Gurgle searching found out it is a Union of Belgian Gay Sex Workers...they want to get paid without the pain in the ass of actually doing anything...and expect the Taxpayers/Govt to fund that.

Posted by: Birddog at July 11, 2022 02:54 PM (uAI4S)

493 463 Anyone following the info dump on Hunters iphone?
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 11, 2022 02:46 PM (YglAn)

What is this "Hunter" you speak of? Hunting is gross and uses those icky assault weapons of war. We should repeal the Second Amendment. That Joe Biden sure is unlucky Putin caused this big mess with the Economy.

Posted by: Chris Wallace, High Priest of the Order of Journalists, Star of CNN+ and currently squeegee guy in B at July 11, 2022 02:57 PM (cupoy)

494 Mission statement for small business:

Make Money.
Posted by: rickb223

Be able to afford precursors to final product.
Make payroll.
Make rent.
Make tax payments.
Make profit for owner/s.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 11, 2022 02:58 PM (t4KWL)

495 "Paul Ryan said he doesn't normally cry, but 'found himself sobbing' while watching the Jan 6. insurrection, book says"

That's who they are!

Paul Fucking Ryan is a large part of why there had to be an "Insurrection". He is the primary reason I left the Republican Party.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 11, 2022 02:58 PM (7yL1h)

496 Burpees are terrific.
I could do about 5 or 6, decades ago.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 02:58 PM (jTmQV)

497 470 unless you go out of your way to be in CrossFit or some sport that does pullups as part of training, you're never doing pullups

Gotta disagree. You don't have to be trained to do pullups. It's called arm strength in proportion to body weight.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 11, 2022 02:47 PM (Xrfse)

Disagree right back atcha...

There a numerous instances of top level athletes not being able to do one pull up when tested, happens in the NHL testing of draft prospects all the time.

I'm a strength athlete who can pull 500lbs, Squat 375lbs and Bench 220lbs. Unless I'm training pull-ups, I'm hard pressed to get two proper ones completed.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 03:00 PM (BgMrQ)

498 What is scary about this story, is that to somebody, somewhere, this all makes sense.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my President at July 11, 2022 03:11 PM (ZEHVO)

499 The story about the feminist strip club in San Francisco was funnier

Posted by: Mike D at July 11, 2022 03:21 PM (rS5vj)

500 Give these SJW's credit, I LOVE the new term for "extortion"- "navigating a radical accountability process"!!

Posted by: kyle a jolly at July 11, 2022 03:38 PM (V+KCB)

501 When I was in the Marines, I had to do 20 pullups in order to score 100% on that part of the physical fitness test. I don't know what the test requirements are now.

Posted by: Jolo at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (WrMOC)

502 This sort of nouveau socialist tripe really is the playground of people with no discernible skills and the safety net to fail bigly at their attempts at anticapitalist Nirvana.

Posted by: red speck at July 11, 2022 04:37 PM (gS3OW)

503 There used to be a Vegan Sandwich shop that would,nt allow Tipping and made diners wait 40 Minutes it has since closed its doors

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 11, 2022 06:04 PM (wGqjj)

504 The parasites killed their host!

Posted by: JOHN at July 11, 2022 07:33 PM (1FTXV)

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