Elon Musk: Target Should Expect Class-Action Suits from Shareholders Whose Money They've Burned Away For the Sake of Advancing the Corporate Officers' Personal Divisive Leftwing Politics

The corporate officers of a company have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, not "the stakeholders" in all of society, and given that Target's leadership has absolutely crushed the value of the shareholders' shares, they might just sue.

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Won't be long before there are class-action lawsuits by shareholders against the company and board of directors for destruction of shareholder value

Tranheuser-Busch might expect a shareholder suit as well.

Bud Light has lost its place as America's number one beer. It's replaced there by Modelo, which is also a Tranheuser-Busch beer, but, if I understand this right, the US side of the concession is "controlled" by another company.

It's still a loss.

Bud Light sales suffered their worst week ever, falling 25.7% -- endangering its status as the world's No. 1 beer brand, according to the latest data provided to The Post on Tuesday.
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The precipitous drop has narrowed the gap in sales between Bud Light and nearest rival Modelo Especial, which saw its sales surge 9.2% for the week ending May 20, according to Bump Williams Consulting and NielsonIQ data.
"While Bud Light loses week after week, Modelo Especial gains week after week and now Modelo outsells Bud Light on a national basis across all trade channels combined," Bump Williams, who runs the consulting firm, told The Post.
"If this continues Modelo will surpass Bud Light for the year," he added
Anheuser-Busch InBev owns both brands, but it does not control Modelo in the US, where it is owned by New York-based conglomerate Constellation Brands.

As mentioned earlier, supermarkets and package good stores will make decisions about how much shelf space to give to Tranheuser-Busch products based on the summer numbers, and once that shelf space is gone, it's likely to remain gone.

Bud Light needs to come up with a cogent strategy to win back customers in the next few months, a former executive warned, or its market share losses could become permanent.
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A president of sales and distribution at Budweiser's U.S. parent Anheuser-Busch until his departure in April 2022, he told the Daily Mail that rivals like Coor's Lite and Yuengling could then remain a more prominent fixture in stores following this "reset".
"Those brands will have a better likelihood to succeed long term because they have more shelf space, they have more inventory, they have more back-stock, and they have more availability for consumers," he said.
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Frericks warned Anheuser-Busch has only limited time left in which to come up with a plan that can draw a line under the controversy.
"It needs to make a statement about who their customers are and who they're going to serve now, and try and regain those customers now in June and July, because by August, September, it's too late," the former sales exec said.
Frericks had previously warned in late April about the risks companies take when sacrificing their apolitical stance in the marketplace to support environmental, social and governance issues that may lose them more customers than they gain.

That might be why Tranhesuer is offering rebates to give away its beer for free, or for $2.99 per case. They want to artificially boost demand just to keep the valuable shelf space in markets. Maybe it's worth it to them to spend millions and millions just to keep all those precious feet of shelf space.

Meanwhile, Nike likes Disney's woke war against the people of Florida.

Nike's top executive praised Disney CEO Bob Iger for his handling of the Mouse House's ongoing war with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis -- just weeks after the apparel giant came under fire for its marketing partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
"I think Bob's doing a great job at this," Nike CEO John Donahoe said of Iger on Monday.
Days before Mulvaney began promoting Bud Light to her millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram, she also posted images of her wearing Nike sports bras.
The Nike partnership also sparked boycott calls.
But Donahoe told CNBC that Nike will adhere to its track record of promoting racial and social justice causes.
When asked by CNBC if he was worried that DeSantis would come after other "woke" corporations such as Nike if the Republican governor manages to get elected president next year, Donahoe said companies should "stand up for your values."

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1 red door and I want to paint it black

Posted by: micky at June 07, 2023 04:23 PM (3byMq)

2 I see

Posted by: micky at June 07, 2023 04:23 PM (3byMq)

3 th!

Posted by: Dr. T at June 07, 2023 04:24 PM (jGGMD)

4 Hit 'em where it hurts, sez Elon

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at June 07, 2023 04:25 PM (6I2Cp)

5 noodled

Posted by: micky at June 07, 2023 04:25 PM (3byMq)

6 Um, i think someone posted this before?? Or am I losing it??

Posted by: runner at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM (BQGK9)

7 On the one hand I'd love to see these lawsuits erupt all over the place against woke corporations. On the other hand, the law firms that would handle this litigation, and make a fuckton of money from it, are pretty much all woke themselves.

Posted by: Horns of a dilemma at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM (fiChp)

8 But Donahoe told CNBC that Nike will adhere to its track record of promoting racial and social justice causes.

Does that include the social justice cause of enslaving Asian people and making them work in your shoe factory?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM (lc5cP)

9 You'll sooner see fiduciary laws get overturned completely.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM (9UlRk)

10 Maybe some stakeholder from one of those social clubs that express disappointment with grenades could visit.

Posted by: DaveA at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM (FhXTo)

11 I don't practice in the area of derivative actions, but I bet it will be a fruitful area for a while.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM (bNf8H)

12 The next 12-15 months is gonna be hot for the woke-progressives.

Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM (7Tb4o)

13 I guess Nike's values include slave labor in China.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 04:28 PM (ZLI7S)

14 Blackrock and whatever have the votes of all the shares they manage in their funds (indexed or actively managed).
Zero real financial stake but they represent the people with everything to lose... and if they lose everything for a little tranny social justice grooming that is a small price for Blackrock to suffer - nothing.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2023 04:28 PM (jFrE2)

15 "While Bud Light loses week after week, Modelo Especial gains week after week and now Modelo outsells Bud Light on a national basis across all trade channels combined," Bump Williams, who runs the consulting firm, told The Post.
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Whoops. Whoopsie.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:28 PM (DU+/6)

16 The DOJ/FBI will just start arresting shareholders.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2023 04:28 PM (jzzG8)

17 The more Target goes down the better it is for Walgreens in which I have a significant stake. I’ve got a twofer for why I’m hoping for their failure.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 04:29 PM (MNhXM)

18 "But Donahoe told CNBC that Nike will adhere to its track record of promoting racial and social justice causes."

Ahaha! Good one.

Posted by: China at June 07, 2023 04:29 PM (aXxgO)

19 Smells like we're camping here in Jamaica

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 07, 2023 04:29 PM (0f0a4)

20 They deserve to be sued. They are entrusted with making a company profitable, and when their policies should have been reasonably known to cause a loss of sales, they are liable, personally.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 04:29 PM (ynpvh)

21 I saw Modelo Familiar at Walmart today. Is it any good?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 07, 2023 04:30 PM (vg8N1)

22 iirc, Nike is heavily tied in with the Chinese Government, so I don't expect them to care what anyone here says about them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 04:30 PM (i9ffA)

23 16 The DOJ/FBI will just start arresting shareholders.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2023 04:28 PM (jzzG

This is entirely possible. Domestic Terrorist.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 07, 2023 04:30 PM (ynpvh)

24 This will hopefully get companies like ExxonMobil and Caterpillar to return to their natural allies.

But only if we continue to abuse the Bud Lights and Targets of the world pour encourager les autres.

Plus, it's fun.

Posted by: Oschisms at June 07, 2023 04:30 PM (0A5+1)

25 Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

JackStraw's obviously pulling the strings around here.

Posted by: spindrift at June 07, 2023 04:31 PM (ivvNA)

26 Um, i think someone posted this before?? Or am I losing it??
Posted by: runner at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM

That is one of the known side-effects of excessive association with penguins.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at June 07, 2023 04:31 PM (fTPof)

27 Bud Light needs to come up with a cogent strategy to win back customers in the next few months, a former executive warned, or its market share losses could become permanent.
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They are permanent. It's too late now. The time to deal with this was in the first week or two. It's dragged on too long. The habits have changed. The pall of customer contempt and corporate impotence has now settled over the brand. The things they could have done right out of the gate - apologize, publicly fire people, hold customer-appreciation events, etc. - probably won't work now. If they come out and do those things, the attitude will likely be, "you're a day late and a buck short. You made your positions and your opinions of me known, and you're only backtracking now that you're in free-fall. Call me up two months ago."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:31 PM (DU+/6)

28 Who names their kid "Bump?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 07, 2023 04:32 PM (fxrF8)

29 Nike is like Disney in that they are so big and world wide it will be hard to significantly damage them. That’s why I look at my boycotts as a personal stand not dependent on whether it’s successful in doing any damage.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 04:32 PM (MNhXM)

30 That might be why Tranhesuer is offering rebates to give away its beer for free, or for $2.99 per case. They want to artificially boost demand just to keep the valuable shelf space in markets. Maybe it's worth it to them to spend millions and millions just to keep all those precious feet of shelf space.
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It's also probably a bit of financial jiggery-pokery. They aren't discounting, they're rebating. They can book the sale and write off the reduction later, making their sales - and cashflows - look healthier than they are. The books are probably a mess right now and they want the cash flow and sales figures - even if they have to write it all off later.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:33 PM (DU+/6)

31 NY Post again: "Days before Mulvaney began promoting Bud Light to HER millions of followers..."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 07, 2023 04:33 PM (ssESX)

32 1 red door and I want to paint it black

Posted by: micky at June 07, 2023 04:23 PM (3byMq)
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Best version is on the 1991 album Flashpoint. Great guitar.

Posted by: Ciampino - I stopped ironing my clothes. I have less pressing concerns at June 07, 2023 04:33 PM (qfLjt)

33 you're a day late and a buck short. You made your positions and your opinions of me known, and you're only backtracking now that you're in free-fall. Call me up two months ago."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:31 PM (DU+/6)

At some level, it's probably also: "you fucktards made me think for five seconds while I'm just trying to go on a beer run and forget that i exist. Fuck that. Thinking hurts. Beer make happy. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:33 PM (9UlRk)

34 Where the fuck are the Clydesdales?! We need more Clydesdales!!! And country music or whatever the hell they listen to in flyover land. How about camo cans? That's the ticket - camo cans!!!!!!

Posted by: Tranhauser Busch exec at June 07, 2023 04:33 PM (NgqoH)

35 Who names their kid "Bump?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 07, 2023 04:32 PM

Better than "Rash", no?

Posted by: J. Random Moron at June 07, 2023 04:33 PM (fTPof)

36

I don't always swallow a mouthful of jizz... Okay, yeah, I do... But when I do I wash it down with a nice cold Bud light! It's our second favorite thing to drink during Eat the Poo Poo month!

Posted by: Shemp Smith at June 07, 2023 04:33 PM (Iq3Ud)

37 Bud Light needs to come up with a cogent strategy to win back customers in the next few months, a former executive warned, or its market share losses could become permanent.

That strategy will not involve admitting that it was idiotic to engage a male Audrey Hepburn cosplayer as a brand spokesman.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 07, 2023 04:33 PM (9yUzE)

38 Off-track question: I've always heard the name of BL's parent company pronounced as "ann-HAI-zer bush." Though as I understand German pronunciation, the "eu" diphthong is usually pronounced "oy," as in "Freund" ("froind") or "neu" ("noy"). Why is Anheuser any different?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (J2vNu)

39 It's interesing that Modelo, a Mexican beer, is the biggest beneficiary so far of Bud Light's faceplant. But they're relatively inexpensive, and it's a decent tasting beer in that segment. I suspect that a lot of Hispanic buyers have gravitated there easily, and a lot of new Anglo beer drinkers are trying it and saying "hey that's better than my old stuff was!"

Once consumers switch brand loyalties they generally don't go back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (i9ffA)

40 "Modelo" sounds like a Chinese Lego ripoff your parents got you for Christmas. Afterwards you enjoyed a heaping bowl of Kaboom for breakfast.

Posted by: spindrift at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (ivvNA)

41 They should just put out a commercial of a guy sitting at a bar looking depressed and everybody keeps sending him free beers.

The waitress will ask one of the customers "What's wrong with Bob?"

The customer replies in a hushed tone "He just found out his son is....you know" and then he does the limp-wrist faggot move.

And then the waitress says "My God!! That's awful. That's his only kid. A faggot. He'll never have grandchildren now."

Then she does behind the bar and says "I'm so sorry, Bob. I just heard about it. Let me get you a drink on me."

And then she slides him a Bud Light and the whole bar cracks up laughing and starts throwing wadded up napkins and stuff at him.

Then the logo "Bud Light: We know you are disappointed. We are too. Come back".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (Zqeqr)

42 Me like beer.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (BL1uJ)

43 24 This will hopefully get companies like ExxonMobil and Caterpillar to return to their natural allies.

But only if we continue to abuse the Bud Lights and Targets of the world pour encourager les autres.

Plus, it's fun.
Posted by: Oschisms at June 07, 2023 04:30 PM (0A5+1)

And car makers... They have bowed without a real fight to CAFE standards, which kill that American Icon, the Muscle Car. This is the last year for Camaros, Chargers, and Challengers... and the Mustang goes electric looks like a crossover SUV.

Note, for the first time a Camaro will run this weekend at 24 Hours of Le Mans... and it's running competitive times for most of the divisions (just not the Super Cars).

So, we finally get it right, and they Kill it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (oHd/0)

44 "I think Bob's doing a great job at this," Nike CEO John Donahoe said of Iger on Monday.
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Sure, sure. Iger is loud, but he isn't going to win. He doesn't get to venue-shop in Federal court for this. It's going through Florida courts and he doesn't have a leg to stand on. He's also been making it *very* clear in public statements that Disney has been conflating the corporation with the Reedy Creek district and operating it directly in contravention of the law.

Iger's been stepping on his dick since he came back, at least on this topic. He won't quit digging, much less put the shovel down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (DU+/6)

45 For what it's worth, The discounting is to save on double handling (what they need to take back from the retail stores back to the wholesaler), also what it would cost to dispose of as trash especially at this scale isn't free.
The can buy shelf space if they need to, brands like this normally don't need to or they wouldn't want to pay to expand if they weren't moving units... they might consider it this fall to see if they can recover by the next reset.

Posted by: Inogame at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (53oGX)

46 They are permanent. It's too late now. The time to deal with this was in the first week or two. It's dragged on too long. The habits have changed. The pall of customer contempt and corporate impotence has now settled over the brand. The things they could have done right out of the gate - apologize, publicly fire people, hold customer-appreciation events, etc. - probably won't work now. If they come out and do those things, the attitude will likely be, "you're a day late and a buck short. You made your positions and your opinions of me known, and you're only backtracking now that you're in free-fall. Call me up two months ago."
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Calling your core base "fratty" and wanting to get away from that wS a colossal blunder that should have been anticipated.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (RnmtJ)

47 I still for the life of me can't believe that Butt Like was EVER the world's number 1 beer brand. Even before the brand promoted itself as liking male butts, the beer always tasted like someone's bleached asshole splashed with cat piss.

I get it that taste is subjective, and for sure I like some things that others would find abhorrent, but for such a shitty-tasting fake beer to be the NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD is just mystifying to me.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (iFTx/)

48 They deserve to be sued. They are entrusted with making a company profitable, and when their policies should have been reasonably known to cause a loss of sales, they are liable, personally.

Their defense probably would be that they took those policy actions to have access to the finance markets.

You want low interest loans today? Then mutilate your children to show us how bad you want it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (YXHzG)

49 Why is Anheuser any different?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (J2vNu)

Southern accent.

(German, not American)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (9UlRk)

50 track question: I've always heard the name of BL's parent company pronounced as "ann-HAI-zer bush." Though as I understand German pronunciation, the "eu" diphthong is usually pronounced "oy," as in "Freund" ("froind") or "neu" ("noy"). Why is Anheuser any different?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (J2vNu)

Because it would sound like you’re from Brooklyn.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (MNhXM)

51 >That might be why Tranhesuer is offering rebates to give away its beer for free, or for $2.99 per case.

A mail-in coupon for beer nobody wants. Genius.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (NgqoH)

52 Individuals and states need to get their IRAs, 401Ks and pensions out of Blackrock and Vanguard. They are the main groups forcing ESG/DEI scores in order for businesses to get loans.

Posted by: ryukyu at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (hR0kJ)

53 They can book the sale and write off the reduction later, making their sales - and cashflows - look healthier than they are. The books are probably a mess right now and they want the cash flow and sales figures - even if they have to write it all off later.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023

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"These companies just write it off."

"You don't know what 'write it off' means, do you?"

"The companies do, Jerry -- and they're the ones writing it off."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (J2vNu)

54 But Donahoe told CNBC that Nike will adhere to its track record of promoting racial and social justice causes.
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Which makes sense. Nike is an all-in woke brand, and it is particularly appealing to black men and youth more generally. Woke is working for them and they're not going to get off that horse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (DU+/6)

55 Bud Light needs to come up with a cogent strategy to win back customers in the next few months, a former executive warned, or its market share losses could become permanent.
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hahaha

Nope, doesn't work that way. You sucked the d*ck. You are now The Gay Beer. The end. College kids make fun of you now.

Have you never seen an 80s movie? There's no going back from that.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness Month! It's a bash! at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (/BX3R)

56 Why is Anheuser any different?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (J2vNu)

BECAUSE YOU'RE IN AMERICA NOW, SON!!!!

Posted by: zombie R. Lee Ermey at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (i9ffA)

57 I prefer smaller brewers. Flying Dog. Holland Brewing. Their ownership might be full on Communist for all I know. But they keep their mouths shut about it. As it should be.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (9yUzE)

58

The Budweiser Clydesdales can go horsefuck... Me!

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (Iq3Ud)

59 I think AB will be relaunching Bud Light as some sort of "American Lager" later in the year. A new can, but same swill.

Would also bet the marketing agency that gets that gig will; 1) make bank and, 2) sweat bullets until sales take off.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (Q4IgG)

60 Pennsylvania Dutch in Pennsylvania Dutch is "Deitsch", because that's how they pronounce "Deutsch", so they just started writing it that way.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (9UlRk)

61 Yep, if I was a shareholder living off of dividends, I would file a lawsuit. Fiduciary duty is actually a thing.

The discovery process will be lit.

Sorry but stakeholders are not shareholders.

Kinda like men cannot be women.

Posted by: Czech Chick at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (6Tc2R)

62 A-B should double down and make the nozzles on their bottles shaped like penises.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (ppBhU)

63 Elon Musk said ............... "8 8" today and we all know what that is code for !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Frank Figliuzzi at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (B/7uq)

64 Who names their kid "Bump?"

"could be worse"
--Newt Gingrich

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 04:37 PM (0hOvj)

65 I sincerely hope Musk is right that shareholder lawsuits will be incoming.

Corporate governance is going to be a huge topic over the next 5 to 10 years. In particular - what to do about institutional / index fund shareholders that don't give a shit about money as much as they care about political / social control. There's not a great solution. But setting the plaintiff's bar loose on these assholes would help I think.

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at June 07, 2023 04:37 PM (5C4od)

66 I swear Modelo Negro was off the market for a month or two and came back as Modelo Negra.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 07, 2023 04:37 PM (vg8N1)

67 Why is Anheuser any different?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023
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Southern accent.

(German, not American)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023

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Bavaria, then? Is that why they had, or still have, a product called "Busch Bavarian"? (At age 9, when the commercials first aired, I thought they were referring to the savages who invaded the Roman Empire: "Butch Barbarian")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:37 PM (J2vNu)

68 When asked by CNBC if he was worried that DeSantis would come after other "woke" corporations such as Nike if the Republican governor manages to get elected president next year, Donahoe said companies should "stand up for your values."
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Is a disingenuous question. DeSantis can't go after very many organizations. Disney was uniquely vulnerable to Florida government actions, but most other businesses are not. The only other thing DeSantis has done in the corporate space is around ESG and doing business with finance companies that ice out energy producers.

There is no particular corporate risk in Florida, and this was a stupid question. Donahue knows that because he is probably *much* smarter than some MSM newstalker, so he took the opportunity to brush off an irrelevant question with a soundbite.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:38 PM (DU+/6)

69 "A-B should double down and make the nozzles on their bottles shaped like penises."

Threadwinner!

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 07, 2023 04:38 PM (vg8N1)

70 I will start buying bud light if the make a sexy dressed Heather Graham the spokesperson saying ‘ I’m what a real woman looks like and I like Bud Light’

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 04:38 PM (MNhXM)

71 How does spotlighting a flat chested male in a sports bra mocking women's exercise encourage women to go out and buy the bra? I need something to support this rack, and its obvious that nike doesn't want to address my female form needs.

Posted by: Moki at June 07, 2023 04:39 PM (JrN/x)

72 Years ago I walked past a grocery store Dos Equi sales display. Not one bottle had the same fill-height from bottle to bottle much less from six pack to six pack.

Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2023 04:39 PM (7Tb4o)

73 I get it that taste is subjective, and for sure I like some things that others would find abhorrent, but for such a shitty-tasting fake beer to be the NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD is just mystifying to me.

Marketing, Public Relations and Propaganda

Just ask Edward Bernays how to make slaughter house waste into the most valuable part of the hog.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 07, 2023 04:39 PM (YXHzG)

74 The discovery process will be lit.

Just wait until Hollywood is forced to reveal data on their streaming services

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 04:39 PM (0hOvj)

75 @ace: "Maybe it's worth it to them to spend millions and millions (in direct-to-consumber rebates) just to keep all those precious feet of shelf space."

I'd guess there are direct payments to stores for placement and shelf space too. That's one of the dirty secrets of the grocery store business. Billions of dollars annually in payola for end of aisle shelves with better signage, eye level placement, extra space for new flavors or varieties, etc. Bud Light has hemorrhaged so much market share that AB couldn't subsidize things for very long though.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 07, 2023 04:39 PM (k1Qly)

76 66 I swear Modelo Negro was off the market for a month or two and came back as Modelo Negra.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 07, 2023 04:37 PM (vg8N1)
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If so, shouldn't it be Modela Negra? Modelo is a masculine word, so "Negra" wouldn't agree.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 07, 2023 04:39 PM (ssESX)

77 Son has been drinking a local beer, No-Li. He likes it. Tax on alcohol in WA is ridiculous though, so I started buying it for him at the Class Six.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2023 04:40 PM (DRSnL)

78 Nope, doesn't work that way. You sucked the d*ck. You are now The Gay Beer. The end. College kids make fun of you now.

Have you never seen an 80s movie? There's no going back from that.
Posted by: Join Moron Robbie

So true.
Posted by: Angus Sheepshagger McGlinty

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2023 04:40 PM (RnmtJ)

79 At some level, it's probably also: "you fucktards made me think for five seconds while I'm just trying to go on a beer run and forget that i exist. Fuck that. Thinking hurts. Beer make happy. "
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:33 PM (9UlRk)
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You've just described brand preference generally. People have brand preferences because they don't want to think about every little purchase. Toothpaste is toothpaste, buy Crest 'cause it's easy and you always have.

But if you *make* people think about that choice by pissing them off, they will choose something else. That choice will become a habit. Then your goose is cooked. This has been going on long enough for new habits to have been established. It's a brand disaster of the highest order.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:40 PM (DU+/6)

80 Which makes sense. Nike is an all-in woke brand, and it is particularly appealing to black men and youth more generally. Woke is working for them and they're not going to get off that horse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (DU+/6)

But is the Young Black culture into Trans? or are they killing that part of their customer base as well.

Because their have been a couple of number 1 Rap songs, that are anti Woke.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 04:40 PM (oHd/0)

81 A-B should double down and make the nozzles on their bottles shaped like penises.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority

And why not, really? Once you klown world you can't go back. We're headed for the pissed off version of Idiocracy

Posted by: micky at June 07, 2023 04:40 PM (3byMq)

82 > "A-B should double down and make the nozzles on their bottles shaped like penises
__________

"Rainbow Lite" In a rainbow can.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2023 04:41 PM (Q4IgG)

83 ... The discovery process will be lit. ...
Posted by: Czech Chick at June 07, 2023 04:36 PM (6Tc2R)
++++
Of all right-wing memes, "discovery will be lit" has the worst track record.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:41 PM (DU+/6)

84 Just ask Edward Bernays how to make slaughter house waste into the most valuable part of the hog.

Or the guy who came up with baby carrots

My favorite turning "trash into gold" is the guy who came up with those hematite rings that "absorb negative energy" and eventually break. He turned making crappy brittle jewelry not only into a positive, but an repeat purchase.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 04:41 PM (0hOvj)

85 69 "A-B should double down and make the nozzles on their bottles shaped like penises."

Threadwinner!
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 07, 2023 04:38 PM (vg8N1)

It's almost not even a joke... lean into it. Have fun with it. Yeah, we put this silly tranny in a commercial. Why not? Have a dick bottle. Let's party.

But no. It has to be a statement about poking the eyes of their customer base for being insufficiently loyal to Party Doctrine. No joy. No fun. All scold. All the time.

*that's* what really did them in. The sheer joylessness of the whole farce.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:41 PM (9UlRk)

86 I am skeptical about the possibility of lawsuits. Plaintiff's lawyers are part of the Dem coalition; they are unlikely to neck other Dems for being Dems. Big firms have been culturally coopted by the left politically (which we see in all kinds of ways - e.g., partners being asked to leave for representing clients with the wrong politics or for just having the wrong politics themselves, Trump being unable to secure well-heeled representation). And while the situation at big firms is acute, what's true of them is true of the profession more generally in terms of being coopted. Lawyers as a class have moved further to the left.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 07, 2023 04:41 PM (ppBhU)

87 @83
True, true.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 07, 2023 04:41 PM (ssESX)

88 I get it that taste is subjective, and for sure I like some things that others would find abhorrent, but for such a shitty-tasting fake beer to be the NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD is just mystifying to me.

--

Do you live in a city? Have you lived there for a long time? If so you might not realize that, until recently, there hasn't been much in the way of beer selection outside of cities.

That's not a sleight, just that I could understand not realizing how many people probably drink Bud/Coors/whatever if so. Bud is cheap and available and a known quantity. Always has been. Folks in pool halls, at concerts, at juke joints, etc. order it because of that.

Add in the 40oz malt beverage crowd and the Dos Equis XXX or whatever bunch (and ball games and golf courses and bowling alleys etc), and it's probably just a simple numbers game.

Not to mention they made moves to get into those markets in some way, so the numbers were weighted towards them.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness Month! It's a bash! at June 07, 2023 04:41 PM (/BX3R)

89 38 Off-track question: I've always heard the name of BL's parent company pronounced as "ann-HAI-zer bush." Though as I understand German pronunciation, the "eu" diphthong is usually pronounced "oy," as in "Freund" ("froind") or "neu" ("noy"). Why is Anheuser any different?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (J2vNu)
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Because Americans. See Vienna (Viana), Cairo (kayroh), and so on. BTW those are in S. IL.

Posted by: Ciampino -- I stopped ironing my clothes. I have less pressing concerns at June 07, 2023 04:41 PM (qfLjt)

90 12 The next 12-15 months is gonna be hot for the woke-progressives.
Posted by: 13times at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM (7Tb4o)

It'll prepare them for the eternity version.

Posted by: Roy at June 07, 2023 04:42 PM (rqgpJ)

91 But is the Young Black culture into Trans? or are they killing that part of their customer base as well.

Because their have been a couple of number 1 Rap songs, that are anti Woke.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 04:40 PM (oHd/0)
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That is the woke-related risk Nike faces: backlash from the black youth market. It hasn't happened yet, so they're playing through.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:42 PM (DU+/6)

92 Bitter Clinger,

You made me snort at my desk and my workmates want to know what I'm laughing at, but if I told them I'd get canned.

Bwahahahaha!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2023 04:42 PM (3XMoj)

93 Re: Modelo
Anecdotally, in TX, Bud Light was generally the beer of Hispanics.
And they actually are still proud to be men as men and women as women.

So, switching to Modelo is natural. And Bud will be forever toxico.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 07, 2023 04:43 PM (5EnGD)

94 14 Blackrock and whatever have the votes of all the shares they manage in their funds (indexed or actively managed).
Zero real financial stake but they represent the people with everything to lose... and if they lose everything for a little tranny social justice grooming that is a small price for Blackrock to suffer - nothing.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2023 04:28 PM (jFrE2)

They do not. BlackRock only recently set up a program for institutions to determine how those shares were voted(one option of which is to delegate it to BlackRock). Index shares are still broadly not voted and not without electing to delegate it to a manger. As of September the % of index assets managed by Blackrock that are using one of their voting option is about 12%, and not all of that is being delegated to Blackrock. Blackrock isn't voting shares without permission. Though it could be your 401k manager giving permission.

If index fund shares were being voted we'd start seeing way higher voting rates, it's still the case you can shake up a company with a few % of shares.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 07, 2023 04:43 PM (eYoxG)

95
Regarding Nike, I'm assuming that Michael Jordan's contract with them has expired long ago, given that one of his more memorable quotes was "Republicans wear sneakers too."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 07, 2023 04:44 PM (n+4am)

96 Of all right-wing memes, "discovery will be lit" has the worst track record.

I agree. Go Woke Get Broke is pretty spotty in its record, but yeah the discovery thing never plays out.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 04:44 PM (0hOvj)

97 Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 04:40 PM (oHd/0)

Woke includes being down with BLM so even though the other woke issues are contrary to their culture it doesn’t matter. BLM is all that matters.

Kind of like the Dems have a shitload of voters and politicians that would like to eliminate Israel but they still get 80% of the Jewish vote.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 04:44 PM (MNhXM)

98 In German it's "oy". As in Prinz Eugen. Americans just decided it was "eye."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 07, 2023 04:44 PM (oINRc)

99 Cairo syrup, used to wrap mummys in it. Lasts thousands of years.
- a bald heathen priest

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2023 04:44 PM (Uv0D2)

100 76 66 I swear Modelo Negro was off the market for a month or two and came back as Modelo Negra.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 07, 2023 04:37 PM (vg8N1)
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If so, shouldn't it be Modela Negra? Modelo is a masculine word, so "Negra" wouldn't agree.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 07, 2023 04:39 PM (ssESX)

Damn it, this is one of those Bernstein Bears moments. I KNOW I used to drink Modelo Negro beer, and I liked it - and now all references to it look like they've been erased from this timeline.

damn I missed the time fork and got stuck in the wrong world. Explains a lot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 04:45 PM (i9ffA)

101 Does that include the social justice cause of enslaving Asian people and making them work in your shoe factory?
Posted by: 18-1

And they curse the life they're livin'
And they curse their poverty
And they wish that they could be
Oh they wish that they could be
They wish that they could be
CEO of Nike

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 07, 2023 04:45 PM (FLP4Z)

102 Regarding Nike, I'm assuming that Michael Jordan's contract with them has expired long ago, given that one of his more memorable quotes was "Republicans wear sneakers too."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 07, 2023 04:44 PM (n+4am)

Would have been but he has a lifetime contract for his shoe division where he gets a percentage of sales.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 04:45 PM (MNhXM)

103 @47: "I get it that taste is subjective ..."

First episode on Mad Men makes a good point that lots of WWII vets stuck with whatever cigarette brands they smoked during the war, and there was no big reason to switch. Bud Light was the closest to "full leaded" beer outta the big three in the early '80s. Coors and Miller were more watered down. Lots of people who switched to light beers back then picked Bud Light and never thought about changing brands since. Brand momentum is a crazy thing that's way more durable than people expect. It's like AAA business in the old Yellow Pages. Most people really did dial the first couple of listings and never made it down the alphabet.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 07, 2023 04:45 PM (k1Qly)

104 Newton is Newt Gingrich's real name. If I were named Newton, I might go with Newt as a nickname as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (Keyt1)

105 *fully

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (k1Qly)

106 . This is the last year for Camaros, Chargers, and Challengers... and the Mustang goes electric looks like a crossover SUV.

Note, for the first time a Camaro will run this weekend at 24 Hours of Le Mans... and it's running competitive times for most of the divisions (just not the Super Cars).

So, we finally get it right, and they Kill it.
Posted by: Romeo13

https://www.kia.com/us/en/ev6#performance

looks like fun.
I wonder how many 1/4 miles before you're stuck.

Posted by: DaveA at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (FhXTo)

107 Gah, just went to the Cigna homepage. Fourth largest heath insurer in the world, and it's all globo-homo.

Posted by: Regular joe at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (nnp+f)

108 Is it really far fetched to imagine a beer maker not wanting their bottles in the US to have the word "NEGRO" on them?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (9UlRk)

109 Damn it, this is one of those Bernstein Bears moments. I KNOW I used to drink Modelo Negro beer, and I liked it - and now all references to it look like they've been erased from this timeline.

damn I missed the time fork and got stuck in the wrong world. Explains a lot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 04:45 PM (i9ffA)

Bet you drank it before they lit of the Large Hadron Collider?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (oHd/0)

110 But if you *make* people think about that choice by pissing them off, they will choose something else. That choice will become a habit. Then your goose is cooked. This has been going on long enough for new habits to have been established. It's a brand disaster of the highest order.
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40 days to cement a new habit, as the rule of thumb goes.

And Bud Light is well past that now....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 07, 2023 04:47 PM (5EnGD)

111 In the past I was "meh" about boycotting Target. After yesterday I will never step into that store again. I wen to see if they had pride stuff up still, and they did, in a small corner of the kids' section. It was like a shrine. Everyone avoided it. I bent down to check a tag as I was waiting in line to check out, and it turned out it was a doggie sweater!! A pride doggie sweater. The security guard walked over to it, I guess to see if I defiled the shrine, and then gave me the death stare as I left. GTH, Target. You hate me, I'm out. Not one penny more.

Posted by: PJ at June 07, 2023 04:47 PM (G1dq6)

112 Last weekend I noticed that even at Wallys Tranheuser-Busch product sections, especially Budweiser and BudLight sections looked quite full compared to other brands.

I shopped at a Super Target near my work for years, they were convenient to pick up some frozen meals for lunches along with assorted sundries but they lost my business several years ago with their hostility to customers who expressed valid concerns about their decision to be an early adopter of "all trannies are welcome to use the ladies bathrooms"

Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2023 04:47 PM (3cGpq)

113 Joe Mannix: "If they come out and do those things, the attitude will likely be, 'you're a day late and a buck short. You made your positions and your opinions of me known, and you're only backtracking now that you're in free-fall. Call me up two months ago.'"

So a Clydesdale silhouetted against the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier while hoofing God Bless America and wearing a "USA! USA!" baseball cap won't convince you to drink their beer now? Some just have a cold, cynical heart.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 07, 2023 04:47 PM (aXxgO)

114 Newton is Newt Gingrich's real name. If I were named Newton, I might go with Newt as a nickname as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (Keyt1)

I'd go by "Wto" just to be abrasive.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:47 PM (9UlRk)

115 Biden's hatchet man at the SEC, and the commissioners themselves, along with SEC Staff have been trying to slowly undermine investors by writing DEI and factors like ESG into their regulations. There are several issues with this. First, investment advisors have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure the clients objectives are met. But they've now given them an out to include factors like DEI, which have zero to do with profitability, as a factor in their decisions. That's created some gray areas, which I believe overstep the SEC's statutory authority, quite directly. That will be challenged in court, you can count on it. Congress is further investigating as they've never ceded any of that authority to the SEC. The same goes for corporate level actions. The SEC is slowly allowing factors such as these in the corporate level decisions, even though they may negatively impact corporate profitability, which they do not have the statutory authority to do. Indeed the shareholder lawsuits are going to be glorious, and costly because the government will be fighting them all the way. This is manipulation of the securities market through regulatory fiats.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 07, 2023 04:48 PM (cn09p)

116 103 @47: "I get it that taste is subjective ..."

First episode on Mad Men makes a good point that lots of WWII vets stuck with whatever cigarette brands they smoked during the war, and there was no big reason to switch. Bud Light was the closest to "full leaded" beer outta the big three in the early '80s. Coors and Miller were more watered down. Lots of people who switched to light beers back then picked Bud Light and never thought about changing brands since. Brand momentum is a crazy thing that's way more durable than people expect. It's like AAA business in the old Yellow Pages. Most people really did dial the first couple of listings and never made it down the alphabet.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 07, 2023 04:45 PM (k1Qly)

Brand loyalty relies on a few things and one of them is not giving your competitors an in. The light beer market may be one of the most competitive, least differentiating of all markets. Once they let a competitor in, well, it's kind of like an illegal alien. Good luck getting them out.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 07, 2023 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

117 Sue Pussyhats! Faster! Faster!

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 07, 2023 04:48 PM (h1mO4)

118 So a Clydesdale silhouetted against the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier while hoofing God Bless America and wearing a "USA! USA!" baseball cap won't convince you to drink their beer now? Some just have a cold, cynical heart.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 07, 2023 04:47 PM (aXxgO)
++++
Yup. Faux symbolism and rally 'round the flag bullshit ain't gonna cut it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:48 PM (DU+/6)

119 looks like fun.
I wonder how many 1/4 miles before you're stuck.
Posted by: DaveA at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (FhXTo)

Yeah... 320 HP is now a PERFORMANCE Car? Hell, my truck has that much out of its V6.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 04:49 PM (oHd/0)

120 Newton turned into a Newt and didn't want to get better?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at June 07, 2023 04:49 PM (2YtOq)

121 Revive the Ultra Vires Doctrine. Make it state law in red states.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 04:49 PM (sX1BW)

122 Yup. Faux symbolism and rally 'round the flag bullshit ain't gonna cut it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:48 PM (DU+/6)

Someone should suggest they put the flag on upside down just to see how they roll with it....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (9UlRk)

123 @116: "... not giving your competitors an in."

Or giving your customers a good reason to get out.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (k1Qly)

124 Newton is Newt Gingrich's real name. If I were named Newton, I might go with Newt as a nickname as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM

The newton (symbol N) is the unit of force in the SI system. It is defined as 1 kg⋅m/s^2, the force which gives a mass of 1 kilogram an acceleration of 1 meter per second per second.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (pwGpV)

125 I still for the life of me can't believe that Butt Like was EVER the world's number 1 beer brand. Even before the brand promoted itself as liking male butts, the beer always tasted like someone's bleached asshole splashed with cat piss.

I get it that taste is subjective, and for sure I like some things that others would find abhorrent, but for such a shitty-tasting fake beer to be the NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD is just mystifying to me.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (iFTx/)

Eh, BL doesn't actually taste bad, but it is bland and watery like so many popular things aimed at a broad audience.

The idea is not to offend anyone's taste buds.

So...if the primary purpose of your beer is to deliver alcohol to customer's bodies without offending them,

why in the hell would you purposely offend your customers socially, politically, and morally enough to drive them away from your bland, inoffensive beer product???

Really, these people are idiots. They have no ability to think comprehensively about their business and/or product and/or image.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (fb7jX)

126 Walter Freeman: "It's like AAA business in the old Yellow Pages. Most people really did dial the first couple of listings and never made it down the alphabet."

Hence the Algorithm Wars of the search engine era. If you don't make page one, you really don't exist.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (aXxgO)

127
There is no particular corporate risk in Florida, and this was a stupid question. Donahue knows that because he is probably *much* smarter than some MSM newstalker, so he took the opportunity to brush off an irrelevant question with a soundbite.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

==========

Well, okay, Mr. Donohoe. But could Nike be sucked into a black hole?

Posted by: Don LeMon, coming back to a CNN timeslot near you at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (lCaJd)

128 So, pride has its own month now. I presume then that the six remaining Deadly Sins will soon each have their own month?

Posted by: Occasional Commenter at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (GXBIW)

129 For my money, Yuengling Original Lager is the best cheap beer out there. Budweiser has always been crap beer.
This latest idiocy is just one more reason not to drink it.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 07, 2023 04:51 PM (dr4Q1)

130 Like you Ace, I only bought Nike sneakers because they fit perfectly. I will check out the brands you mentioned in the other thread. I have also been buying Nike bathing suits to lap swim. They are backless and no wires or tummy control stuff which make swimming laps uncomfortable. But recently they decide to go with some recycled fiber made from plastics, you know, to be "green" and switched to making them in Vietnam. They are now horrible.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 07, 2023 04:51 PM (t/2Uw)

131 40 days to cement a new habit, as the rule of thumb goes.

And Bud Light is well past that now....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 07, 2023 04:47 PM (5EnGD)

They've became a punchline to a bad joke. Being seen having a Bud Light is like a kid still having training wheels on his bike in grammar school.

Posted by: Roy at June 07, 2023 04:51 PM (rqgpJ)

132 Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (pwGpV)

Would someone tell this rate of change of acceleration to shut up, please?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:51 PM (9UlRk)

133 So a Clydesdale silhouetted...

After dropping the Clydesdales for the last two Super Bowls, the first thing they tried (after 2 weeks of "ignore it and it will go away") was breaking the glass "in case of emergency" and releasing the Clydesdales. It didn't work.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 04:52 PM (xttsV)

134 So, we finally get it right, and they Kill it.

--

We've spent 50 years perfecting the internal combustion engine in spite of onerous emissions controls by the feds, and they're willing to throw ALL of it away immediately.

It's not about the environment.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness Month! It's a bash! at June 07, 2023 04:52 PM (/BX3R)

135 But won't a class action trial be held in NY and Wokeland?

Posted by: Skip at June 07, 2023 04:52 PM (xhxe8)

136 I got to have that 80s movie conversation with one of my sons when he was in high school in the late 90s.
"Dad, it seems like the cute chicks are all saying they're gay, even the ones in FFA"

It's a phase girls can withstand with no problem. But fixing a leak doesn't make you a plumber and fixing your brakes doesn't make you a mechanic. But you get caught sucking one dick and you're gay forever.

Apparently his friends and cousins had never heard it because it came up a few weeks ago and a couple of the gals said they were sending their kids to me for enlightenment.

Posted by: DanMan at June 07, 2023 04:52 PM (DB6tu)

137 Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Princess Buttercup at June 07, 2023 04:52 PM (ivvNA)

138 I've always heard the name of BL's parent company pronounced as "ann-HAI-zer bush." Though as I understand German pronunciation, the "eu" diphthong is usually pronounced "oy," as in "Freund" ("froind") or "neu" ("noy"). Why is Anheuser any different?

Because this is America, where "Joliet" is "Jolly-et".

Posted by: Ian S. at June 07, 2023 04:52 PM (ZGrMX)

139 a Clydesdale silhouetted against the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier while hoofing God Bless America and wearing a "USA! USA!" baseball cap won't convince you to drink their beer now? Some just have a cold, cynical heart.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 07, 2023 04:47 PM (aXxgO)

That’s actually insulting . Only way to get back is something they won’t do. And that is to have a commercial that confirms there are only two genders . Could be funny . Could be serious. But it has to have that message. Usually don’t like to say something is impossible but that is an impossible scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 04:52 PM (MNhXM)

140 Was on LinkedIn this morning and an "ally" posted about Target needing to step up and not wrap themselves in the rainbow flag only when convenient.

I support this 100%. There's no dabbling anymore. You don't get to suck just the tip and say you're not gay.

Open wide and commit!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 07, 2023 04:53 PM (KbCG3)

141 Yup. Faux symbolism and rally 'round the flag bullshit ain't gonna cut it.

--

If no one has coined

Rally 'round the fag

it's there for the taking.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness Month! It's a bash! at June 07, 2023 04:53 PM (/BX3R)

142 Fourth largest heath insurer in the world, and it's all globo-homo.

Posted by: Regular joe at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (nnp+f)

Interesting. I just checked my Cigna home page, and it is clean as a whistle. No pride flags or messages.

It's a dedicated corporate portal, and I guess the company said "no" to the propagandizing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2023 04:53 PM (ZCCyW)

143 I remember showing up at the MudMoMe with a cooler of Modelo Especial. Trend-setter long ago.

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2023 04:53 PM (Uv0D2)

144 Cairo syrup, used to wrap mummys in it. Lasts thousands of years.
- a bald heathen priest
Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2023 04:44 PM (Uv0D2

Yup. We'd dip 'em in Karo and use 'em to draw in the flies. Works better than vinegar, and it's better for the environment than feeding your pyramid slaves meat. Democrats always put the earth first.

One of 'em did come back to life though. Started speaking Russian and peeing in my pants. They called him Corn Syrup Pop, and he was a bad dude. Til I droned him anyway.

But then a hippie bus driver removed the wrapper from his re-killed corpse, and it turned it was just Old Man Trump, trying to protect his graverobbing business. Meddling Republicans, as usual. Word as a Brandon.

Posted by: Brandon at June 07, 2023 04:53 PM (oINRc)

145 108 Is it really far fetched to imagine a beer maker not wanting their bottles in the US to have the word "NEGRO" on them?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:46 PM (9UlRk)
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Just call it Modelo Moreno.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 07, 2023 04:53 PM (ssESX)

146 141 Yup. Faux symbolism and rally 'round the flag bullshit ain't gonna cut it.

--

If no one has coined

Rally 'round the fag

it's there for the taking.
Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness Month! It's a bash! at June 07, 2023 04:53 PM (/BX3R)

Ahem... excuse me.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 07, 2023 04:54 PM (53oGX)

147 Because this is America, where "Joliet" is "Jolly-et".

Pres-kit, Arizona!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 07, 2023 04:54 PM (k1Qly)

148 Iger's been stepping on his dick since he came back, at least on this topic. He won't quit digging, much less put the shovel down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Iger can't fix what ails Disney because he was in a large part responsible for it himself.

Posted by: whig at June 07, 2023 04:54 PM (S5wBQ)

149 I think Florida has already passed a law prohibiting ESG. You would think that most state governments would want their pension funds to try and make money as the primary goal.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 07, 2023 04:54 PM (t/2Uw)

150 We've spent 50 years perfecting the internal combustion engine in spite of onerous emissions controls by the feds, and they're willing to throw ALL of it away immediately.

And all of the engineers who know how to make ICE, similar to how they destroyed the nuclear energy industry.

They also want to destroy the petrochemistry industry and by doing so they are telling young adults to look somewhere else for their studies and career outlooks.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 07, 2023 04:54 PM (YXHzG)

151 I shopped at a Super Target near my work for years, they were convenient to pick up some frozen meals for lunches along with assorted sundries but they lost my business several years ago with their hostility to customers who expressed valid concerns about their decision to be an early adopter of "all trannies are welcome to use the ladies bathrooms"

Posted by: PaleRider at June 07, 2023 04:47 PM (3cGpq)

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Ditto. And when around the same time I was looking for a gym to join, Planet Fitness was off the list for the same reason (and I've successfully lobby friends who were members to quit) for the same reason.

BTW, I joined Snap Fitness and have been happy thus far (no initiation fee, just $35 a month, with 24x7 access -- only downside is no showers, but they're more like neighborhood gyms close to home).

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 07, 2023 04:55 PM (h1mO4)

152 I got to have that 80s movie conversation with one of my sons when he was in high school in the late 90s.
"Dad, it seems like the cute chicks are all saying they're gay, even the ones in FFA"

It's a phase girls can withstand with no problem. But fixing a leak doesn't make you a plumber and fixing your brakes doesn't make you a mechanic. But you get caught sucking one dick and you're gay forever.

--

Girls think enjoying being around your girl friends and sitting close while watching a movie is lovey-dovey stuff, so they equate it with their being "gay"

It's absurd, of course, but it still happens constantly.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness Month! It's a bash! at June 07, 2023 04:55 PM (/BX3R)

153 I have been calling on this for weeks. If I had target stocks or my 401k had target stocks I would be screaming for a lawsuit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2023 04:55 PM (ncXxy)

154 Bud Light needs to come up with a cogent strategy to win back customers in the next few months, a former executive warned, or its market share losses could become permanent.

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Maybe go back to their original strategy of funny superbowl commercials. I know funny commercials are not a big thing anymore, but it worked once.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 04:55 PM (sX1BW)

155 > So, pride has its own month now. I presume then that the six remaining Deadly Sins will soon each have their own month?

March = Mars = the Roman god of war. I nominate March as wrath month.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 07, 2023 04:55 PM (eyxn4)

156 148 Iger's been stepping on his dick since he came back, at least on this topic. He won't quit digging, much less put the shovel down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Iger can't fix what ails Disney because he was in a large part responsible for it himself.
Posted by: whig at June 07, 2023 04:54 PM (S5wBQ)

It was probably here where I read about even after he "left" he was a big reason his replacement didn't succeed.

Posted by: Inogame at June 07, 2023 04:55 PM (53oGX)

157 Yeah... 320 HP is now a PERFORMANCE Car? Hell, my truck has that much out of its V6.
Posted by: Romeo13

Scroll down

"With 576 horsepower, 545 lb.-ft. of torque, and a 3.4-second 0-60 mph time, the EV6 GT "

Posted by: DaveA at June 07, 2023 04:56 PM (FhXTo)

158 "They want to artificially boost demand just to keep the valuable shelf space in markets. Maybe it's worth it to them to spend millions and millions just to keep all those precious feet of shelf space."

There is more - beer has a shelf life. Unsold beer has to be taken back by the distributer. That has a cost - the time, the trucks, disposal, etc. Better to give away what's on the shelf now than risk having to take it back.

Who here hasn't drunk a five year old can of beer and thought...yeah, that could have been better. Beer is perishable - unsold beer costs a lot more money than you think. Giving it away might be a very attractive option.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at June 07, 2023 04:56 PM (nJ1bF)

159 "damn I missed the time fork and got stuck in the wrong world. Explains a lot."

It was within the past year. I ordered one at a local Mexican restaurant and they were out.

Couldn't find it anywhere.

Oh, it's back, and it's "Negra", like "Negro" was a filthy word.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 07, 2023 04:56 PM (vg8N1)

160 I wanna be a fly on the wall for the TB "win-back" pitch meetings.

Exec 1: "So what if we got Florida-Georgia line to play in the commercial, with a bunch of hot chicks in Daisy Dukes, with some F-15's flying over, while some WWII vets (any of those guys still alive?) tear up staring at the American flag. And a lone, bald eagle screams in the distance?"

Exec 2: "But... with penises, right? The hot chicks have to have penises."

Posted by: SMFH at June 07, 2023 04:56 PM (vGZLX)

161 Cairo (kayroh), and so on. BTW those are in S. IL.
Posted by: Ciampino -- I stopped ironing my clothes. I have less pressing concerns at June 07, 2023 04:41 PM
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Care-ro.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 07, 2023 04:57 PM (ju2Fy)

162 Occasional Commenter: "So, pride has its own month now. I presume then that the six remaining Deadly Sins will soon each have their own month?"

I want November. All the turkey makes me logy.

Posted by: Sloth at June 07, 2023 04:57 PM (aXxgO)

163 Iger can't fix what ails Disney because he was in a large part responsible for it himself.
Posted by: whig at June 07, 2023 04:54 PM (S5wBQ)
+++
True, but this particular topic - the Reedy Creek disaster - is something with no upside to be had by talking about it, much less the way he talks about it. He keeps openly stating that the District was a subsidiary operated by the corporation, which is a big no-no and has the potential to expose Disney to massive liabilities in the form of the municipal bonds that it turns out a corporation - not a government entity - was issuing.

It's breath-taking how badly he's doing on this topic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:57 PM (DU+/6)

164 154 Bud Light needs to come up with a cogent strategy to win back customers in the next few months, a former executive warned, or its market share losses could become permanent.

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Maybe go back to their original strategy of funny superbowl commercials. I know funny commercials are not a big thing anymore, but it worked once.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 04:55 PM (sX1BW)

Funniest commercial I can think of would be a longstanding national brand killing itself by working with a mentally ill dude who thinks he's a girl. Every time I think about this I just laugh and laugh.

Probably not a great commercial, though.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 07, 2023 04:57 PM (KbCG3)

165 So, pride has its own month now. I presume then that the six remaining Deadly Sins will soon each have their own month?

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You got your one day for you mom, one day for dad, one day for Jesus, one day for all the presidents, one day for the men who died at Normandy and Inchon and all the other conflicts.

Shut up and celebrate men who eat feces for sexual pleasure, hater. It's only one month.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness Month! It's a bash! at June 07, 2023 04:58 PM (/BX3R)

166 Bud Light still has the Mexican roofer demographic. And with the price decreases they’re going to keep them.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 04:58 PM (MNhXM)

167 42 Me like beer.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (BL1uJ)

It are go good with pizza!

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 07, 2023 04:58 PM (VGRuw)

168 128 So, pride has its own month now. I presume then that the six remaining Deadly Sins will soon each have their own month?

february should obviously be lust month, because of valentine's day

Posted by: anachronda at June 07, 2023 04:58 PM (sGtp+)

169 "Open wide and commit!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer"

Make way for the iron sausage.

Posted by: Bald Headed John at June 07, 2023 04:58 PM (iayUP)

170 Who names their kid "Bump?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 07, 2023 04:32 PM (fxrF

William and Melissa Capp

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2023 04:58 PM (xhaym)

171 I want November. All the turkey makes me logy.

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Fair warning: that's when we celebrate No Nut November, so Lust is out

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 07, 2023 04:58 PM (VTu1l)

172 > Note, for the first time a Camaro will run this weekend at 24 Hours of Le Mans... and it's running competitive times for most of the divisions (just not the Super Cars).

So, we finally get it right, and they Kill it.
Posted by: Romeo13
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And it sounds... glorious. Honking 'murican V-8.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2023 04:58 PM (Q4IgG)

173 Maybe go back to their original strategy of funny superbowl commercials. I know funny commercials are not a big thing anymore, but it worked once.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 04:55 PM (sX1BW)

Thing is the original ad that kicked this off? None of us saw except in internet posts making fun of it.

I've cut the cord on TV... only commercials I see come up when I'm streaming something... and I don't think I've ever seen a Beer ad, while Streaming.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 04:59 PM (oHd/0)

174 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee · 8h
Colin Kaepernick Transitions In Order To Make Carolina Panthers Cheer Squad
https://buff.ly/3qntrSq

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 07, 2023 04:59 PM (Vwz3I)

175 Turns out that Modelo is not ABInBev in the USA. I thought that it was but J. Frank Parnell enlightened me that Constellation Brands not only distributes but brews the Modelo for America. ABInBev had to sell the Perdras Negras due to anti-Trust issues.

https://tinyurl.com/ymwdmj24

Whew, Negra Modelo is my favorite and I've been boycotting.

Posted by: Doktor Josef Mengele at June 07, 2023 04:59 PM (17s+e)

176 "Bud Light needs to come up with a cogent strategy to win back customers in the next few months,"

More country music commercials with pickup trucks and 'Murican flags!!! That'll bring the uneducated sister humping hicks back to us.
- Bud Light Execs

Posted by: Montec at June 07, 2023 04:59 PM (OalnH)

177
In German it's "oy". As in Prinz Eugen. Americans just decided it was "eye."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

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Mispronunciation -- FUCK YEAH!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 07, 2023 04:59 PM (lCaJd)

178 Girls can sleep in the same bed together and it's only a little bit gay.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2023 04:59 PM (iayUP)

179 The real funny part is none, absolutely none, of this advertising was ever needed nor does it work.

But I’m not smart like those ceo fellas.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (R/m4+)

180 Was May Hispanic history month?

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (MNhXM)

181
Funniest commercial I can think of would be a longstanding national brand killing itself by working with a mentally ill dude who thinks he's a girl.

You failed to add that the mentally ill dude now wants to give birth (himself) to a child.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (pNxlR)

182 Regardless of who distributes it, Modelo is owned by AB. It would be like saying GM doesn't really own Cadillac because Cadillac dealers, not GM, sell Cadillacs.

Posted by: Montec at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (OalnH)

183 Planet Fitness was off the list for the same reason

It is amusing to go in, grunt, drop weights, and see how many "lunk alarms" you can trigger before they ask you to leave.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (pwGpV)

184 Doktor Josef Mengele sock fail

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (17s+e)

185 Nike's brand isn't built around families - Bud (tailgate parties), Target, and Disney are.

Nike is built around narcissism - your body, focusing on your performance, being your best version of you. Probably won't get impacted as much.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (nJ1bF)

186
Downing a Yuengling, an old time Pennsylvania brewery, while chewing on a Philly soft pretzel? You'll forget all about that trannie trying to lure you into a life of debauchery. Ahoy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (enJYY)

187 As everything changes around us I am reminded of this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aeQ3DmKU7A

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (ncXxy)

188 Off-track question: I've always heard the name of BL's parent company pronounced as "ann-HAI-zer bush." Though as I understand German pronunciation, the "eu" diphthong is usually pronounced "oy," as in "Freund" ("froind") or "neu" ("noy"). Why is Anheuser any different?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (J2vNu)

Now complain about the spelling for the names of President Dwight Eisenhower and Walter Cronkite

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (xhaym)

189 The real funny part is none, absolutely none, of this advertising was ever needed nor does it work.

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One of the most valuable things I've learned over the last few years is that pretty much everything done at the corporate level with government and advertising and finance is just money laundering.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness Month! It's a bash! at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (/BX3R)

190 whig: "Iger can't fix what ails Disney because he was in a large part responsible for it himself."

Like Licht at CNN. Zucker rammed the Titanic into the berg and said to Licht, "She's all yours." Destination was predetermined.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (aXxgO)

191 Regardless of who distributes it, Modelo is owned by AB. It would be like saying GM doesn't really own Cadillac because Cadillac dealers, not GM, sell Cadillacs.

Posted by: Montec at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (OalnH)
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that's what I thought too. Read the article in the tiny url

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (17s+e)

192 This busty bikini brunette is pretty pleased when she imagines the ongoing flop-sweat terror of Tranheuser-Busch's executives:
https://tinyurl.com/2fw9h624

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (DU+/6)

193 169 "Open wide and commit!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer"

Make way for the iron sausage.
Posted by: Bald Headed John at June 07, 2023 04:58 PM (iayUP)

Y'all stand back or ya might get hurt!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (KbCG3)

194 Only way to get back is something they won’t do.

This is their only way back. They won't take it:
"America, we screwed up with Dylan Mulvaney. We apologize. It's been 75 days since that ad. As of today, effective immediately, we are donating $75 million dollars to (group that fights trannys in womens sports/rest rooms/locker rooms/showers). We also pledge to donate any profits we make on Bud Light for the next 365 days. This will come at a cost for us. We will lose our ESG lines of credit. We are asking some billionaire not tied to ESG to help us out. Also, we are publishing on our website all of the ESG threats we have received from Blackrock, the Feds, etc"

Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:02 PM (xttsV)

195 I heard girls practice kissing on each other. That could be a dangerous gateway to lesbianism cause girls kiss real good.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:02 PM (MNhXM)

196 Nike's brand isn't built around families - Bud (tailgate parties), Target, and Disney are.

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Let's be honest. Jordan and Tiger prop Nike up, because the generation with the most disposable income (relatively speaking) is Gen X and they both still like Jordan and Tiger who have both avoided (for the most part) the political arena.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 05:02 PM (sX1BW)

197 174 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee · 8h
Colin Kaepernick Transitions In Order To Make Carolina Panthers Cheer Squad
https://buff.ly/3qntrSq
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 07, 2023 04:59 PM (Vwz3I)

Dang, should have had him transition to get a spot on a new Pro Team... in the Lingerie League.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 05:02 PM (oHd/0)

198 I heard girls practice kissing on each other. That could be a dangerous gateway to lesbianism cause girls kiss real good.

Dangerous Gateway To Lesbianism opened for AC/DC on their '82 tour.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 07, 2023 05:03 PM (ZGrMX)

199 Planet Fitness was off the list for the same reason

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I dont know about you, but the whole point of me going to the gym is so I can leer at average looking women wearing 5 sizes too small outfits surrounded by 30 cameras theyre using to make their next TikTok video where they complain about men being pigs as they pretend to work out

it's the american way

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 07, 2023 05:03 PM (VTu1l)

200 192 This busty bikini brunette is pretty pleased when she imagines the ongoing flop-sweat terror of Tranheuser-Busch's executives:
https://tinyurl.com/2fw9h624
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (DU+/6)

Something is wrong with her head.
It seems mis-sized for the photo. Is it photoshopped in?

Posted by: Inogame at June 07, 2023 05:03 PM (53oGX)

201 In German it's "oy". As in Prinz Eugen. Americans just decided it was "eye."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

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Mispronunciation -- FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 07, 2023 04:59 PM (lCaJd)

You know what?

Meh.

I have yet to be in a foreign country where they get themselves all wound-up to pronounce American English words and names with just the right pronunciation and just the right emphasis on the syllables.

None. Not a one.

Guess what? I lived through the horror of all the mispronunciation. I'm sure all the Foreign Folk can live through it as well.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2023 05:03 PM (fb7jX)

202 Nike is built around narcissism - your body, focusing on your performance, being your best version of you. Probably won't get impacted as much.

The name of the company should have been your first clue: 'Nike' is Greek for 'victory', the Greeks also named a goddess Nike, who was victorious in everything.

So, yeah, narcissism.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 07, 2023 05:03 PM (YXHzG)

203 Ran to liquor store at lunch to buy some beer (not for lunch, for the golf-fun bus later). Offering a $1 rebate on BL. Pricing of BL was about the same as the rest. I was surprised it wasn't cheaper/larger rebate offer.

Bunch of Busch Light drinkers 'round these parts, but they ain't getting that on the golf bus tonight.

Posted by: scampydog at June 07, 2023 05:03 PM (2bFN5)

204 I think if you really wanted to hurt Nike, start having red states ban them from sponsoring your state universities. Make the SEC schools look to someone other than Nike.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 05:04 PM (sX1BW)

205 Note, for the first time a Camaro will run this weekend at 24 Hours of Le Mans... and it's running competitive times for most of the divisions (just not the Super Cars).

Well, a "Camaro". It's a NASCAR stock car, so it has about as much in common with an actual Camaro as a Ford Focus does.

GM's run GT Corvettes competitively at Le Mans for decades now.

Posted by: spindrift at June 07, 2023 05:04 PM (ivvNA)

206 194 Only way to get back is something they won’t do.

This is their only way back. They won't take it:
"America, we screwed up with Dylan Mulvaney. We apologize. It's been 75 days since that ad. As of today, effective immediately, we are donating $75 million dollars to (group that fights trannys in womens sports/rest rooms/locker rooms/showers). We also pledge to donate any profits we make on Bud Light for the next 365 days. This will come at a cost for us. We will lose our ESG lines of credit. We are asking some billionaire not tied to ESG to help us out. Also, we are publishing on our website all of the ESG threats we have received from Blackrock, the Feds, etc"
Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:02 PM (xttsV)

If they fired everyone involved in it, hired some hard ass conservative and did all that you said there...

I'd still avoid it like the plague.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 07, 2023 05:04 PM (KbCG3)

207 Dang, should have had him transition to get a spot on a new Pro Team... in the Lingerie League.
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He tried but he was dumped from Training Camp.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 07, 2023 05:04 PM (Vwz3I)

208 Regardless of who distributes it, Modelo is owned by AB. It would be like saying GM doesn't really own Cadillac because Cadillac dealers, not GM, sell Cadillacs.
Posted by: Montec at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM
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Not sure that's accurate. Constellation Brands is brewing it for US market not a distributor. Tend to agree with @175 comment.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 07, 2023 05:04 PM (ju2Fy)

209 Regardless of who distributes it, Modelo is owned by AB

Because of anti-trust, AB sold Constellation Brands rights to Modelo in the US. AB has the global, excluding US, rights.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:05 PM (xttsV)

210 Yeah I never understood why McDonalds has to spend as much as they do on advertising. It’s a waste. They should only spend advertising money on new products or announcing the return of the McRib.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:05 PM (MNhXM)

211 Maybe go back to their original strategy of funny superbowl commercials. I know funny commercials are not a big thing anymore, but it worked once.

How do you do that in a world where everything is political and nothing is therefore funny?

Look at what's happened to stand-up comedy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 07, 2023 05:05 PM (ppBhU)

212 I heard girls practice kissing on each other. That could be a dangerous gateway to lesbianism cause girls kiss real good.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:02 PM (MNhXM)

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Way back in '96 my stepdaughter went to Chico State for college. She said virtually every female teacher there encouraged the female students to sexually experiment with each other.

I imagine even by then it was pretty universal nationwide in the colleges and universities.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 07, 2023 05:05 PM (h1mO4)

213 183 Planet Fitness was off the list for the same reason

It is amusing to go in, grunt, drop weights, and see how many "lunk alarms" you can trigger before they ask you to leave.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2023 05:00 PM (pwGpV)

10 years ago, I walk in to do my normal workout but they had removed all the benches and free weights. Asked what was up and they said they were done with all that stuff. I cancelled on the spot.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 07, 2023 05:05 PM (KbCG3)

214 Well, a "Camaro". It's a NASCAR stock car, so it has about as much in common with an actual Camaro as a Ford Focus does.

GM's run GT Corvettes competitively at Le Mans for decades now.
Posted by: spindrift at June 07, 2023 05:04 PM (ivvNA)

More, the team rebuilt the suspension above and beyond NASCAR norms, and cut another 450 Lbs from it...

But still very cool IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 05:06 PM (oHd/0)

215 Well, a "Camaro". It's a NASCAR stock car, so it has about as much in common with an actual Camaro as a Ford Focus does.

Yup. The NASCAR Camaro is largely functionally indistinguishable from the NASCAR Camry.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 07, 2023 05:06 PM (ZGrMX)

216 Iger's been stepping on his dick since he came back, at least on this topic. He won't quit digging, much less put the shovel down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Iger did a lot of stepping on his own dick before he left.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 07, 2023 05:06 PM (17s+e)

217 200 192 This busty bikini brunette is pretty pleased when she imagines the ongoing flop-sweat terror of Tranheuser-Busch's executives:
https://tinyurl.com/2fw9h624
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (DU+/6)

Something is wrong with her head.
It seems mis-sized for the photo. Is it photoshopped in?
Posted by: Inogame at June 07, 2023 05:03 PM (53oGX)

Didn't realize hot chick body with a baby deer head was a thing but apparently, it is.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 07, 2023 05:06 PM (KbCG3)

218 Andy Ngo posted pictures of the school "Pride display" in Glendale that got the Armenians upset.

The "Pride" materials were arranged in the shape of a cross, and a couple of the graphics displayed were of "Pride" symbols, with the Armenian flag in the background, plus a map of Armenia in rainbow colors.

Deliberate, conscious, provocation.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 07, 2023 05:06 PM (2tUFv)

219 LIB, suckas!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2023 05:07 PM (jyjp5)

220 How does spotlighting a flat chested male in a sports bra mocking women's exercise encourage women to go out and buy the bra? I need something to support this rack, and its obvious that nike doesn't want to address my female form needs.
Posted by: Moki at June 07, 2023 04:39 PM (JrN/x)

He is a Tiktokker with an audience of mostly pre-teen girls.
Bud Light was an attempt to sell to minor girls that went sideways and then burst into flames, breaking in half and sinking.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2023 05:07 PM (xhaym)

221 This busty bikini brunette is pretty pleased when she imagines the ongoing flop-sweat terror of Tranheuser-Busch's executives:
https://tinyurl.com/2fw9h624
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM

I am in awe of your ability to find consistently lasses whose stated zeitgeist matches the theme of the Thread. This is truly a superpower of superpowers!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2023 05:07 PM (pwGpV)

222 Didn't realize hot chick body with a baby deer head was a thing but apparently, it is.

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Nailed it.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 05:07 PM (sX1BW)

223 Yeah I never understood why McDonalds has to spend as much as they do on advertising

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My favorite is when they advertise their "healthy" menu because that everyone knows when we eat broccoli we think of Mickey Ds

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 07, 2023 05:07 PM (VTu1l)

224 Guess what? I lived through the horror of all the mispronunciation. I'm sure all the Foreign Folk can live through it as well.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2023 05:03 PM (fb7jX)

You know how I pronounce "quiche?"

Egg pie.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2023 05:08 PM (ZCCyW)

225 Not sure that's accurate. Constellation Brands is brewing it for US market not a distributor. Tend to agree with @175 comment.
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 07, 2023 05:04 PM (ju2Fy)
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InBev owns Modelo outside of the United States. Any US-brewed and US-distributed Modelo is Constellation Brands, as InBev had to sell the rights to domestic brewing and distribution to Constellation when it bought AB, for antitrust reasons (it would have resulted in a Mexican beer monopoly for InBev). If you manage to buy Mexico-brewed Modelo in the US, then it was brewed by InBev and they got paid for it, but that should be rare.

It is easy to tell by the packaging. If "Constellation Brands" is on the label, it isn't InBev. If it was brewed in the United States, it isn't InBev.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 05:08 PM (DU+/6)

226 210 Yeah I never understood why McDonalds has to spend as much as they do on advertising. It’s a waste. They should only spend advertising money on new products or announcing the return of the McRib.
Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:05 PM (MNhXM)

What if it was Dylan Mc-she-rah in a McRib ad, but they toss in a reference to the garden of eden and Adam's Rib?

Posted by: Inogame at June 07, 2023 05:08 PM (53oGX)

227 It's You-jen in French and You-gen-ee-o in Italian.

||Prince Eugene of Savoy
Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano,[1] (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736) better known as Prince Eugene, was a field marshal in the army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty during the 17th and 18th centuries. He was one of the most successful military commanders of his time, and rose to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna.

Born in Paris, Eugene was brought up in the court of King Louis XIV of France. Based on the custom that the youngest sons of noble families were destined for the priesthood, the Prince was initially prepared for a clerical career, but by the age of 19, he had determined on a military career. Based on his poor physique and bearing, and perhaps due to a scandal involving his mother Olympe, he was rejected by Louis for service in the French army. Eugene moved to Austria and transferred his loyalty to the Holy Roman Empire.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 07, 2023 05:08 PM (Vwz3I)

228 The newton (symbol N) is the unit of force in the SI system. It is defined as 1 kg⋅m/s^2, the force which gives a mass of 1 kilogram an acceleration of 1 meter per second per second.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (pwGpV)

I don't give a fig, Wesley

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2023 05:08 PM (xhaym)

229 Bonhomme, I'm all in for March being Wrath Month. Put me down for a dozen flags

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2023 05:09 PM (Uv0D2)

230 Eu vey!

Posted by: Exasperated German Jew at June 07, 2023 05:09 PM (fiChp)

231 Yup. The NASCAR Camaro is largely functionally indistinguishable from the NASCAR Camry.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 07, 2023 05:06 PM (ZGrMX)

Do you even realize how different the stickers that are supposed to look like headlights are between the two?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:09 PM (9UlRk)

232 with the Armenian flag in the background, plus a map of Armenia in rainbow colors.

Some school in a Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis needs to post a map of Somalia in rainbow colors.

Imagine the reaction!

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (2tUFv)

233 229 Bonhomme, I'm all in for March being Wrath Month. Put me down for a dozen flags
Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2023 05:09 PM (Uv0D2)

So November can be Gluttony Month ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (bs+z0)

234 Pride doesn’t have 1 math there are **145** days designated for some sort of Lgbtq celebration on the calendar. 1/3 of the days of each year they demand your affirmation and enthusiastic support.

😮

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (jyjp5)

235 Didn't realize hot chick body with a baby deer head was a thing but apparently, it is.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 07, 2023 05:06 PM (KbCG3)

Loos like one of those vodoo shrunkin head deals...

Posted by: Inogame at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (53oGX)

236 The Mannix girl is pretty cute except for the two caterpillars over her eyes…

Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (PCK5/)

237 the ridiculous "pride" whopper from Burger King is why I havent gone to that restaurant in 5 years

bunch of fucking idiots, also i heard they were closing half their restaurants

as nelson would say

ha ha

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (VTu1l)

238 223 Yeah I never understood why McDonalds has to spend as much as they do on advertising

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My favorite is when they advertise their "healthy" menu because that everyone knows when we eat broccoli we think of Mickey Ds
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at June 07, 2023 05:07 PM (VTu1l)

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That's funny because I swear the last time I sent through a McD's drive through (many months ago) they were promoting a "Cardi B Meal", that includes Hi-C. Not healthy IMHO.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (ssESX)

239 This busty bikini brunette is pretty pleased when she imagines the ongoing flop-sweat terror of Tranheuser-Busch's executives:
https://tinyurl.com/2fw9h624
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM

That girl has some serious junk in the trunk.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (ncXxy)

240 "Bonhomme, I'm all in for March being Wrath Month. Put me down for a dozen flags
Posted by: Eromero"

Then what will we do for April?

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (iayUP)

241 So November can be Gluttony Month ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (bs+z0)

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'Tis the season to be a fatty!

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (DRSnL)

242
Didn't realize hot chick body with a baby deer head was a thing but apparently, it is.

She may look like Bambi, but-

i'd like to Thumper.

IYKWIMAISYD.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (fb7jX)

243 @237 Does it taste like ass?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (ssESX)

244 > Well, a "Camaro". It's a NASCAR stock car, so it has about as much in common with an actual Camaro as a Ford Focus does.
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A heavily modified NASCAR stock car at that. And looks insanely out of place among the smaller GT cars. Finishing the 24 hour race would be an accomplishment. I doubt it'll have the pace to be competitive, but early practice lap times were in GT mid-pack times. So... 👀

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (Q4IgG)

245 237 the ridiculous "pride" whopper from Burger King is why I havent gone to that restaurant in 5 years

Hate to think of what the secret sauce is

Posted by: It's me donna at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (bs+z0)

246 Look up Edward Munch’s nude woman Houston Museum. I think Joe’s girl was the model.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (MNhXM)

247 #218

Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo
Local sources tell me it was this use of Armenian colors/symbols mixed with LGBTQI+, pup play pride in the shape of a Christian cross that incensed Armenian-American families in Los Angeles & caused them to mobilize against the school boards. This eventually led to yesterday’s second violent clash against #Antifa.

https://tinyurl.com/4c4xc6us

[I also assume that's a map of Armenia striped in the fag colours.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (Vwz3I)

248 McDonald's lost me when they changed the Hot Apple Pies. I wanted the lava-filled lard crisp. They said it was too unhealthy. Sheah, I know. I'm at McDonald's.

The love affair ended.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (aXxgO)

249
The "Pride" materials were arranged in the shape of a cross, and a couple of the graphics displayed were of "Pride" symbols, with the Armenian flag in the background, plus a map of Armenia in rainbow colors.

Deliberate, conscious, provocation.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts!

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Those Armenian precincts vote 70% Democrat. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (lCaJd)

250 Iger can't fix what ails Disney because he was in a large part responsible for it himself.

Exactly. Almost all the crap we complain about now, thats woke and terrible he greenlit, he got rolling. Then he stepped down just before the Wuhan Flu panic and let the other guy take that in the teeth, then they brought him back.

This stuff was his idea. He promoted it and put the people destroying Disney into the positions they are in. Its all on him.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (0hOvj)

251
I buy .99 cola which tastes almost exactly like the .99 cent cola that Coke and Pepsi make but have to charge an extra .99 cents for to pay for the incessant advertising.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 07, 2023 05:12 PM (enJYY)

252 Loos like one of those vodoo shrunkin head deals...
Posted by: Inogame at June 07, 2023 05:10 PM (53oGX)

I finally watched Beetlejuice recently, and the headshrunk hunter was one of the few things that got a laugh out of me.

Posted by: spindrift at June 07, 2023 05:12 PM (ivvNA)

253 Tell me the Pride Whopper is made with the Impossible Burger. Please. Lie if you have to.

No meat, but really wants you to act like it totally has meat, and will castigate and shun you for not playing along.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:12 PM (9UlRk)

254
245 237 the ridiculous "pride" whopper from Burger King is why I havent gone to that restaurant in 5 years

Hate to think of what the secret sauce is
Posted by: It's me donna at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (bs+z0)

Mannaise

Posted by: One Yelper's Special coming up! at June 07, 2023 05:12 PM (fiChp)

255 You know how I pronounce "quiche?"

Egg pie.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2023 05:08 PM

Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder in France?

Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 07, 2023 05:12 PM (pwGpV)

256 the ridiculous "pride" whopper from Burger King is why I havent gone to that restaurant in 5 years

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What got me was their promotion where they encouraged customers to order a hamburger with two tops or two bottoms.

Blatant gay sex themes on food they're trying to sell to children.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness Month! It's a bash! at June 07, 2023 05:13 PM (/BX3R)

257 Sorry . Munch’s painting is called Nude Female (Anna)

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:13 PM (MNhXM)

258 A pride cross? Srsly?

Yup, paired with those drag nuns they are not aiming for “tolerance,” they demand submission and destruction of our vale’s.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2023 05:13 PM (jyjp5)

259 My son works in a local brew-pub, and he says he's had lots of guys come in and ask for BL-equivalents. for which he is happy to guide them to local brands that are (cheap) and similar.

i don't think BL rebounds from this. You have a massive industrial output that is now heading for a boutique customer base. It's dead, Jim.

Posted by: goatexchange at June 07, 2023 05:13 PM (APPN8)

260
255 You know how I pronounce "quiche?"

Egg pie.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2023 05:08 PM

Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder in France?
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 07, 2023 05:12 PM (pwGpV)

Huh. I thought quiche was pronounced “ gay”… who knew??

Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:13 PM (PCK5/)

261 187 As everything changes around us I am reminded of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aeQ3DmKU7A
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (ncXxy)

plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose - although that's a different song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9dHL7GA1nk

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 05:13 PM (i9ffA)

262 It surprises me that Modelo is number 2 (number 1 now). I’d think Miller Light or something else domestic would be next.

Posted by: Advo at June 07, 2023 05:14 PM (VHN21)

263 the ridiculous "pride" whopper from Burger King is why I havent gone to that restaurant in 5 years

Well that and their food and service sucks. Around here, at least. There's a reason Burger King is dying as a brand.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:14 PM (0hOvj)

264 I never bought Bud Light. I don't buy Modelo because I didn't like when I tried it years ago. Winning!

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2023 05:14 PM (AMIL/)

265 Bud Light needs to come up with a cogent strategy to win back customers in the next few months, a former executive warned, or its market share losses could become permanent.
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I just can't see that happening.

It's a middling beer. The "Give me a Light" campaign convinced enough people that it was cool and fun, and that created a aura of enough coolness that it became a popular seller.

That aura has evaporated and now the people you suckered in with your fun and light campaign know how much the current corporate leaders hate them.

I just can't see people coming back after that. Maybe if you make it consistently the cheapest brand of lite beer o the market, after years, you might become a solid seller.

Posted by: Axeman at June 07, 2023 05:14 PM (krQz2)

266 167 42 Me like beer.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2023 04:34 PM (BL1uJ)
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It are go good with pizza!
Posted by: Bacon Jeff

You asked for it.
Beer! by PSYCHOSTICK [OFFICIAL VIDEO] "Beer is good and stuff"
https://youtu.be/O-jOEAufDQ4

Posted by: BifBewalski at June 07, 2023 05:14 PM (3CCua)

267 Woke Corporations, just before jumping off to their death: "It all for you, Transdamian!"

Posted by: Boswell at June 07, 2023 05:14 PM (K+UlC)

268 It surprises me that Modelo is number 2 (number 1 now). I’d think Miller Light or something else domestic would be next.
Posted by: Advo at June 07, 2023 05:14 PM (VHN21)
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It tastes like #2.

Posted by: Axeman at June 07, 2023 05:15 PM (krQz2)

269 It surprises me that Modelo is number 2 (number 1 now). I’d think Miller Light or something else domestic would be next.

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Modelo does have a clever advertising theme going on. Consistent and has a manly quality lacking in the other brands. Miller Lite and Bud Light were built on funny male advertising.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 05:15 PM (sX1BW)

270 It's a middling beer. The "Give me a Light" campaign convinced enough people that it was cool and fun, and that created a aura of enough coolness that it became a popular seller.

Yeah, it was a Muppet Show-level gag that was fun and appealing, and people would riff on it. That's back when they knew how to do ads.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:15 PM (0hOvj)

271 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (DU+/6)

Well, at least she's smiling, instead of looking like either her grandma was about to die or her dog just did.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (Keyt1)

272 Wasn't there a beer with the slogan "why ask why"? I can't remember it... just this vague recollection... "Why ask why? Drink ___ Dry." Maybe it was from a sketch comedy thing or something. Maybe i'm losing my marbles. Maybe both.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (9UlRk)

273 the ridiculous "pride" whopper from Burger King is why I havent gone to that restaurant in 5 years

Well that and their food and service sucks. Around here, at least. There's a reason Burger King is dying as a brand.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

That and their burgers taste like sawdust.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (RnmtJ)

274 https://tinyurl.com/4c4xc6us

[I also assume that's a map of Armenia striped in the fag colours.]
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 07, 2023 05:11 PM (Vwz3I)

But the Kardashians said it was OK with them!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (i9ffA)

275 The Cigna home page does indeed have the requisite gay marriage stock image. WTF?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (XMwZJ)

276 Well, at least she's smiling, instead of looking like either her grandma was about to die or her dog just did.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (Keyt1)

Ha!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (9UlRk)

277 I took all my retirement money out. Penalties be damned. Cost me 30,000 (which I hear I can make in a week or two sometimes in here). Now I have my money and not Blackcock or Vanguard or whoever.

Makes the matress lumpy though.

Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (XLUB7)

278 The best Camaro is a Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing. It's a Camaro you can actually see out of.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:17 PM (ZLI7S)

279 271 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 05:01 PM (DU+/6)

Well, at least she's smiling, instead of looking like either her grandma was about to die or her dog just did.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (Keyt1)

But those caterpillars are just so… large and black!!

Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:17 PM (PCK5/)

280
Or the guy who came up with baby carrots

Aborted baby carrots

Posted by: Bump Stock at June 07, 2023 05:17 PM (63Dwl)

281
The Mannix girl is pretty cute except for the two caterpillars over her eyes…

Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:10

She looks like she has to shave under her 'pits' every hour. Too manly for me.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 07, 2023 05:18 PM (enJYY)

282 Aborted baby carrots
Posted by: Bump Stock at June 07, 2023 05:17 PM (63Dwl)

Oh man. Are we about to have a Engrish Chinese Menu thread now?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:18 PM (9UlRk)

283 Well that and their food and service sucks. Around here, at least. There's a reason Burger King is dying as a brand.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:14 PM (0hOvj)

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Here, too. At pretty much every single one. Several times I've been in the drive thru behind people who just gave up and left.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (DRSnL)

284 Or the guy who came up with baby carrots ……

Or renaming all the ocean trash fish to sound like something that is appetizing.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (MNhXM)

285 Oh man. Are we about to have a Engrish Chinese Menu thread now?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:18 PM (9UlRk)
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Didn't we just have one about an hour ago?

Posted by: Axeman at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (krQz2)

286 >>Wasn't there a beer with the slogan "why ask why"?

Bud Dry

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (ZLI7S)

287 Wasn't there a beer with the slogan "why ask why?"

Bud Dry

Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (xttsV)

288 On the one hand I'd love to see these lawsuits erupt all over the place against woke corporations. On the other hand, the law firms that would handle this litigation, and make a fuckton of money from it, are pretty much all woke themselves.
Posted by: Horns of a dilemma at June 07, 2023 04:27 PM (fiChp)

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And that's where we are at, lawyers being too scared to sue the bastards or defend our side. Thing will get uglier.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (3JfbU)

289 Wasn't there a beer with the slogan "why ask why"? I can't remember it... just this vague recollection... "Why ask why? Drink ___ Dry." Maybe it was from a sketch comedy thing or something. Maybe i'm losing my marbles. Maybe both.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (9UlRk)

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You're not. It was Bud Dry.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (DRSnL)

290 The "Whazzzup" ad campaign didn't just confuse me, it made me rush to change the channel. I have no idea who the hell that was supposed to appeal to.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (0hOvj)

291 Bud Dry
Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (ZLI7S)

Bud Dry
Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (xttsV)

Hooray, i'm not losing my marbles!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (9UlRk)

292 Modelo is brewed by Grupo Modelo owned by ImBev. Constellation brands also has Cornoa and Pacifico too. Imbev gets less profit from Modelo than Bud and US brewed beers. Note Modelo ads are aspirational with strong men, women and family. Using a Sissy with a Latino focused brand is a kiss of death. Something woke Ivy league and coastal female marketers are too arrogant to admit.

Posted by: standfast24 at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (iSh76)

293 The Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing looks like a Kia Optima, but costs more, breaks down all the time, and was built by union goons who don't give a shit.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (XMwZJ)

294 You're not. It was Bud Dry.

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Bud was trying anything in the 90's. Bud Dry, Bud Ice.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 05:21 PM (sX1BW)

295 Blackrock and whatever have the votes of all the shares they manage in their funds (indexed or actively managed).
Zero real financial stake but they represent the people with everything to lose... and if they lose everything for a little tranny social justice grooming that is a small price for Blackrock to suffer - nothing.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 07, 2023 04:28 PM (jFrE2)

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Nothing will change until those who lose investors money are jailed. Fines paid by the company is simply further punishing the investors.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2023 05:21 PM (3JfbU)

296 The "Whazzzup" ad campaign didn't just confuse me, it made me rush to change the channel. I have no idea who the hell that was supposed to appeal to.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (0hOvj)

Apparently one of my friends who couldn’t stop doing it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:21 PM (MNhXM)

297 i don't think BL rebounds from this. You have a massive industrial output that is now heading for a boutique customer base. It's dead, Jim.
Posted by: goatexchange at June 07, 2023 05:13 PM (APPN

The biggest barrier to microbrews is probably getting attention for market share. The big breweries deal with economies of scale and crowd everyone out. I wonder if this is a new day for local breweries now.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (xhaym)

298 You're not. It was Bud Dry.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (DRSnL)
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An ominous name given Bud's recent past.

Posted by: Axeman at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (krQz2)

299 286 >>Wasn't there a beer with the slogan "why ask why"?

Bud Dry
Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (ZLI7S)

287 Wasn't there a beer with the slogan "why ask why?"

Bud Dry
Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM

And people say advertising doesn't work. Bud Dry was introduced in 1990 and discontinued in 2010, so it's been 13 years since this slogan was used.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (xttsV)

300 Makes the matress lumpy though.
Posted by: Reforger at June 07, 2023 05:16 PM (XLUB7)

Welcome my friend!

Posted by: Ravadem Patel at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (R/m4+)

301 "The best Camaro is a Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing. It's a Camaro you can actually see out of.
Posted by: JackStraw"

The the #2 thing I don't like about Camaros.

Posted by: fd at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (iayUP)

302 291 Bud Dry
Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (ZLI7S)

Bud Dry
Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM (xttsV)

Hooray, i'm not losing my marbles!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (9UlRk)

That is a known side effect of drinking bud dry though...

Posted by: Inogame at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (53oGX)

303 293 The Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing looks like a Kia Optima, but costs more, breaks down all the time, and was built by union goons who don't give a shit.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 07, 2023 05:20 PM (XMwZJ)

Yup, you can drop into a new 2SS LT1 Camaro for the mid 60's... Cadi? MSRP of $92K

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (oHd/0)

304 At my local grocery today there was a yuge Bud Light display with a picture of I don't know what kind of he-she on top and they are NOT passing that $2.99 a case price on to customers.

Pabst. 'Merica's #1 non-tranny beer.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (iOt02)

305 >> The Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing looks like a Kia Optima, but costs more, breaks down all the time, and was built by union goons who don't give a shit.

I like the look. And it supposedly is a monster on the road, fast as fuck and with great handling and a Tremec manual. Gets rave reviews from just about every reviewer. Even the CT4-V Blackwing is a great car.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:23 PM (ZLI7S)

306 Bud Light needs to come up with a cogent strategy to win back customers in the next few months...

Why would they? Winning-back the millions of customers that Corporate HQ weenies despise will require a campaign that will reduce A-B's ESG score. The Corporate weenies who may get fired no doubt have massive golden parachutes. Why risk their memberships in country clubs and making their AWFL wives angry?

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2023 05:23 PM (AMIL/)

307
Or renaming all the ocean trash fish to sound like something that is appetizing.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:19 PM

'Swai' is something that's in every frozen case in my area and really cheap. Strike #1 is it comes from commie Vietnam. Strike #2 is it's farm raised. Strike #3 is it's basically bottom feeding catfish.

Pretty sure that eating a bottom feeding catfish from Vietnam is gonna be on my 'Not gonna do it' list.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 07, 2023 05:23 PM (enJYY)

308 Why would they? Winning-back the millions of customers that Corporate HQ weenies despise will require a campaign that will reduce A-B's ESG score. The Corporate weenies who may get fired no doubt have massive golden parachutes. Why risk their memberships in country clubs and making their AWFL wives angry?

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And that is the truth.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at June 07, 2023 05:23 PM (sX1BW)

309 Oh and woke Burger King, it’s crap food and getting destroyed by better food from scores of better regional burger chains and other options.
McDonalds, Bking and others on the decline, woke won’t help them.

Posted by: standfast24 at June 07, 2023 05:23 PM (iSh76)

310 And people say advertising doesn't work. Bud Dry was introduced in 1990 and discontinued in 2010, so it's been 13 years since this slogan was used.
Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (xttsV)

I remember Head On too . Didn’t make me buy it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:24 PM (MNhXM)

311 Modelo is brewed by Grupo Modelo owned by ImBev.

Note for Modelo in the USA. It is brewed at the plant in Pierdas Negras that Constellation owns. This was due to anti trust issues. For the rest of the world yes but not in the USA.

Please read: https://tinyurl.com/ymwdmj24

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 07, 2023 05:24 PM (17s+e)

312 If I got paid $20 for each case of Bud out the door, I'd take it. That will more than compensate me for the drive over to the dumpster.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 07, 2023 05:24 PM (Fqejv)

313 Tuborg in a glass. That's class!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2023 05:24 PM (63Dwl)

314 I wonder if this is a new day for local breweries now.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 07, 2023 05:22 PM (xhaym)

It certainly is in the Lehigh Valley area. Scads of local breweries popping up over the last ten years or so. All pretty damn good. All getting their stuff into local restaurants, even big chains. It's impressive. And it's all fascinating stuff, by really good brewers, not just fifty different fruit-based variations on "juicy cloudy hazy 420x High-PA" that every other damn microbrewer has been obsessed with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:24 PM (9UlRk)

315 Tuborg in a glass. That's class!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2023 05:24 PM (63Dwl)
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It's Gold! Jerry, Gold!

Posted by: Axeman at June 07, 2023 05:24 PM (krQz2)

316 Christopher Taylor: "The 'Whazzzup' ad campaign didn't just confuse me, it made me rush to change the channel."

You too?

It was chalk on a chalkboard to me. Yet it persisted.

I can't even recall the brand. I recall just that annoying, grating phrase.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 07, 2023 05:25 PM (aXxgO)

317 OT: CJN Speaks with Kurt Schlichter is EXCELLENT!
Well done guys.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2023 05:25 PM (e4fEA)

318 From the Battle of 9/11,
To the Shores of Timbuktu,
If you're a real American,
Bud Light's the Drink for you.

If you like some Clydesdales,
And patriotic decor,
Bud Light is America's Beer,
And you should drink it more.

Posted by: Bud Light's New Ad Campaign at June 07, 2023 05:25 PM (rQF5a)

319 The Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing looks like a Kia Optima

This bothers me a lot about Cadillac. They are making some really hot, luxurious cars, but they seem to have no style or design sense at all any longer. Cadillacs used to look badass and striking, beautiful and distinctive. You knew it was a very special car just by looking at its amazing presence.

They lost that mid 80s and have failed ever since. They went from the number one premier luxury car on earth to "is that a caddy?"

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:25 PM (0hOvj)

320 wiki on Modelo/Constellation:
In 2013, Constellation acquired Grupo Modelo's US beer business from Anheuser-Busch InBev. The transaction included full ownership of Crown Imports LLC which provided Constellation with complete, independent control of all aspects of the US commercial business; a brewery in Mexico; exclusive perpetual brand license in the US to import, market and sell Corona and the Modelo brands and the freedom to develop brand extensions and innovations for the US market. Constellation had formerly imported Corona and other Modelo brands to the United States and acquired the US rights to those brands as a part of an anti-trust settlement permitting Modelo's acquisition by Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 07, 2023 05:25 PM (xttsV)

321 Yup, you can drop into a new 2SS LT1 Camaro for the mid 60's... Cadi? MSRP of $92K

Posted by: Romeo13
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WOW!!! That is getting up into F-250 costs.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 07, 2023 05:26 PM (17s+e)

322 Damn. I'm craving a rare steak and a potato right now.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2023 05:26 PM (ecxfm)

323 Dungeness crab? No, KING crab!

Posted by: Marketing at June 07, 2023 05:27 PM (dnUaO)

324 I am really picky about fish… farm raised from any third world country is muy no bueno…

Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:27 PM (PCK5/)

325 It's You-jen in French and You-gen-ee-o in Italian.

It is OY-gen (hard G, of course!)!!!!

Posted by: The Krauts at June 07, 2023 05:27 PM (AMIL/)

326 Speaking of Chinese food-someone did in post above- here is an amusing video of Joe Biden ordering Chinese food:

https://tinyurl.com/yxwrchx4

And I got a laugh, because the website that had this video of Biden also had an ad for adult diapers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2023 05:27 PM (Keyt1)

327 Damn. I'm craving a rare steak and a potato right now.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2023 05:26 PM (ecxfm)

Nachos.
Just sayin'

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2023 05:28 PM (e4fEA)

328 Patagonian tooth fish and a slime head became Chilean Sea Bass and Orange Roughy.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:28 PM (MNhXM)

329 Well done guys.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2023 05:25 PM (e4fEA)

Thanks! It was fun...Kurt Schlichter is a hoot!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2023 05:28 PM (ZCCyW)

330 It's You-jen in French and You-gen-ee-o in Italian.

It is OY-gen (hard G, of course!)!!!!
Posted by: The Krauts at June 07, 2023 05:27 PM (AMIL/)
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Yevgeny, nyekulturny bastards.

Posted by: Russkis at June 07, 2023 05:29 PM (fxrF8)

331 Best fish are halibut and salmon, for me…

Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:29 PM (PCK5/)

332 Pretty sure that eating a bottom feeding catfish from Vietnam is gonna be on my 'Not gonna do it' list.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 07, 2023 05:23 PM

Your tummy rumble foah owa. You go now!

Posted by: Mama San at June 07, 2023 05:29 PM (pwGpV)

333 Speaking of Chinese food-someone did in post above- here is an amusing video of Joe Biden ordering Chinese food:

https://tinyurl.com/yxwrchx4

And I got a laugh, because the website that had this video of Biden also had an ad for adult diapers.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2023 05:27 PM (Keyt1)

Crackhead Bob from the Howard Stern show ordering from a Chinese restaurant is the funniest thing Stern ever had on his show.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:30 PM (MNhXM)

334 October should be Sloth Month cause it takes forever to get here.

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2023 05:30 PM (Uv0D2)

335 I wasn't even trying to bad-mouth the Kia Optima, which looks pretty good to me, TBH. But I'd never by a Cadillac anything--their reputation for poor quality is legendary. And having made the mistake of buying a GM vehicle once--and only once--I swore I'd never make that mistake again.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 07, 2023 05:30 PM (XMwZJ)

336 >>I am really picky about fish… farm raised from any third world country is muy no bueno…

How about pen raised tuna from Australia?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:30 PM (ZLI7S)

337 316 Christopher Taylor: "The 'Whazzzup' ad campaign didn't just confuse me, it made me rush to change the channel."

You too?

It was chalk on a chalkboard to me. Yet it persisted.

I can't even recall the brand. I recall just that annoying, grating phrase.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 07, 2023 05:25 PM (aXxgO)

*nods*

True, true....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy Ammo, food, water at June 07, 2023 05:31 PM (xcxpd)

338 Best fish are halibut and salmon, for me…
Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:29 PM (PCK5/)
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On a related subject, I had sardines for lunch.

Posted by: Axeman at June 07, 2023 05:31 PM (krQz2)

339 Target is owned by the Draytons. One of them was the former leftist idiot governor of Minnesota. Explains a lot about Minnesota and about Target

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 07, 2023 05:31 PM (OhpJy)

340 336 >>I am really picky about fish… farm raised from any third world country is muy no bueno…

How about pen raised tuna from Australia?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:30 PM (ZLI7S)

Hmmm.. not familiar with that.. the tuna, not Australia.

Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:31 PM (PCK5/)

341 How does spotlighting a flat chested male in a sports bra mocking women's exercise encourage women to go out and buy the bra? I need something to support this rack, and its obvious that nike doesn't want to address my female form needs.
Posted by: Moki

Go on.....

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2023 05:32 PM (T4tVD)

342 338 Best fish are halibut and salmon, for me…
Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:29 PM (PCK5/)
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On a related subject, I had sardines for lunch.

Posted by: Axeman at June 07, 2023 05:31 PM (krQz2)

Free Range Sardines??

Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:32 PM (PCK5/)

343 October should be Sloth Month cause it takes forever to get here.
Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2023 05:30 PM (Uv0D2)
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Wrath Month is gonna be LIT!!!

Posted by: That guy who think Wrath Month is gonna be LIT at June 07, 2023 05:32 PM (fxrF8)

344
Dungeness crab? No, KING crab!

Posted by: Marketing at June 07, 2023 05:27 PM

Just bought some snow crab at 9.99 per pound while King Crab was north of 24.99 per pound. Dungeness only appears in my area a few times a year and is overpriced but delicious when occasionally reasonable.

With properly prepared drawn butter the difference between crabs is hardly noticeable.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 07, 2023 05:32 PM (enJYY)

345 Halibut is fine, but swordfish is the bomb.

Posted by: JEM at June 07, 2023 05:33 PM (8erNz)

346 nood

matt walsh

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 07, 2023 05:33 PM (Vwz3I)

347 Damn. I'm craving a rare steak and a potato right now.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2023 05:26 PM

Wednesdays are Ladies' Night!

Posted by: River Otter's Steak & Surprise Corral at June 07, 2023 05:33 PM (pwGpV)

348 How about pen raised tuna from Australia?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:30 PM (ZLI7S)

My favorite sushi restaurant gets spectacular fatty tuna from Australia.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2023 05:33 PM (ZCCyW)

349 331 Best fish are halibut and salmon, for me…
Posted by: tubal at June 07, 2023 05:29 PM (PCK5/)

Red Snapper and Cobia for me, and they're as much fun to catch as they are good to eat!

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 07, 2023 05:33 PM (VGRuw)

350 Had some fish in a restaurant on a flyer, never had it before, i think they called it "alaskan rockfish" or something... whatever, i'll try anything once.

I think they must have got some Chilean Sea Bass in and mixed up the lids on the totes, or something. Big, dumb, oily, white fish with no redeeming qualities other than its size.

My disappointment was immeasurable, and my day was ruined.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 05:34 PM (9UlRk)

351 I can't even recall the brand. I recall just that annoying, grating phrase.

One of my favorite slams on advertising: usually you remember the details like the emu or the tag line... but not the brand. Which raises the question: is anyone but the ad agency benefitting here?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:34 PM (0hOvj)

352 It's like chalk on a fingernail file.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2023 05:34 PM (63Dwl)

353 Since this shit started, I have seen exactly two guys carrying Bud Light, and one was a Food Lion employee, removing some to make room for real beer.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 07, 2023 05:34 PM (TgBWG)

354 I get fried catfish from my grocery store deli every week. At least I think it’s catfish because I don’t want to ask because it’s good . Ignorance is bliss sometimes.

Posted by: polynikes at June 07, 2023 05:35 PM (MNhXM)

355 You want low interest loans today? Then mutilate your children to show us how bad you want it.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 07, 2023 04:35 PM (YXHzG)

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So the big money is now into full paganism with this child sacrifice. Vatican will have to come out against this or face a schism.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2023 05:35 PM (3JfbU)

356 >>Hmmm.. not familiar with that.. the tuna, not Australia.

Years ago the tuna industry was in trouble in Australia and it was big bucks because of the Japanese trade. So they made huge pens in the middle of the ocean and raise tuna in them.

Saw a video of the "tuna cowboys" who dive in the pens to get the sharks out. Crazy dangerous job but the Japanese love their tuna and they will pay for it.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2023 05:35 PM (ZLI7S)

357 Was it pj O'Rourke who said lobster in butter is indinguishable from butter in butter?

Posted by: JEM at June 07, 2023 05:35 PM (8erNz)

358 Disney and Nike will be rewarded for their diligence by future customers when hate is finally eradicated, after you are all dead and buried. The right side of history is the side that wins, and whose values shine into the future. The wrong side holds values that will be passed by and forgotten.

Posted by: Sid at June 07, 2023 05:35 PM (Vm25s)

359 Burger King is the peak of this effect. The ad company that came up with Breakfast With the King won tons of awards, got paid hundreds of millions of dollars... but Burger King lost market share.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:36 PM (0hOvj)

360 Halibut is fine, but swordfish is the bomb.

Posted by: JEM at June 07, 2023 05:33 PM (8erNz)
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Swordfish is the beef of the sea.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 07, 2023 05:36 PM (17s+e)

361 Besides Modelo, Constellation Brands also brews Corona for the US.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 07, 2023 05:36 PM (ju2Fy)

362 Jucy's Burgers in ETEX, hate to admit better than Whataburger, but more expensive.

Posted by: Eromero at June 07, 2023 05:36 PM (Uv0D2)

363 Was it pj O'Rourke who said lobster in butter is indinguishable from butter in butter?

Somebody should have said it, because its basically right. A lot of seafood is like that; octopus, for example.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:37 PM (0hOvj)

364 You haven't lived until you've had a headache in a can!
Ever seen the Tecate River? Smells better in the winter.

Posted by: wth at June 07, 2023 05:37 PM (v0R5T)

365 Who's Sid?

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 07, 2023 05:38 PM (ju2Fy)

366 Why would they? Winning-back the millions of customers that Corporate HQ weenies despise will require a campaign that will reduce A-B's ESG score.
_______

Here's my proposed ad-

(Scene - riverside, young and middle aged fit men and women dressed for outdoors but also sexy)

Chad-"Hi, I like my beer like I like my women, full bodied, refreshing, and authentic. No artificial ingredients, like fake boobs or a fake tranny vag. Next time you're at the store, pass up those gay rainbow supporting brands and try a cold refreshing Bud Light. Share a few with your real lady friends, who knows, you may get lucky!"

Nice young lady comes up to Chad, gets close and puts hand on his chest.

Lady-"I like a man who knows what he wants in his woman, and in his beer!"

Chad-"So try some Bud Light, and have good child-making sex with your lady. Bud Light, get back to basics!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 07, 2023 05:39 PM (Fqejv)

367 When it comes to getting sued by stockholders Musk is an expert.
Twitter stock list 66% of it value because of him
And
Right-wing erupts in National Day of Celebration after learning of the death of Iranian born The Iron Sheik.
He fought his way to becoming World Champion (holding title for only 30 days) overcoming racism and anti Muslim bigotry

Posted by: Paul at June 07, 2023 05:39 PM (F7nKC)

368 Catfish is amazing if its fried right. Nasty otherwise. Halibut is terrific, and so was the original Tilapia we got at first from New Zealand was good but the Chinese stuff is bad. I tried Swordfish once at McGrath's but it had a really weird acidic aftertaste

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:40 PM (0hOvj)

369 It shore looks like rain out thar.....

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2023 05:41 PM (T4tVD)

370 132 Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 07, 2023 04:50 PM (pwGpV)

Would someone tell this rate of change of acceleration to shut up, please?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2023 04:51 PM (9UlRk)
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That would be (shut up)^2

Posted by: Ciampino --- I stopped ironing my clothes. I have less pressing concerns at June 07, 2023 05:43 PM (qfLjt)

371
Late in the thread to be asking this question, but has a company ever suddenly and drastically reversed course on its branding and survived?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 07, 2023 05:46 PM (lCaJd)

372 Halibut is fine, but swordfish is the bomb.

Posted by: JEM at June 07, 2023 05:33 PM (8erNz)
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Swordfish is the beef of the sea.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 07, 2023 05:36 PM (17s+e)

All the parasites give it that extra Zing!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2023 05:47 PM (fb7jX)

373 Here's my proposed ad

Here is mine:

*all the execs at Bud stand in a group facing upward at the camera with sad faces*

"We apologize for our terrible ad campaign and everything that goes along with it. We apologize for not apologizing sooner. We beg your forgiveness for trying to pander to you all with rah rah flag waving ads. We know that this cannot ever be taken back but please accept this as a token of our abject misery..."

Then, one of them pulls a gun and shoots every 10th exec, including the ones most directly responsible

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 07, 2023 05:47 PM (0hOvj)

374 Catfish is amazing if its fried right. Nasty otherwise.

The big thing about catfish is that it doesn't stay fresh in the case very long.

If you can get it the first day it arrives, you're in for a treat.

After that...you're on your own.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2023 05:49 PM (fb7jX)

375 136
It's a phase girls can withstand with no problem. But fixing a leak doesn't make you a plumber and fixing your brakes doesn't make you a mechanic. But you get caught sucking one dick and you're gay forever.

Posted by: DanMan at June 07, 2023 04:52 PM (DB6tu)
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Sounds like that joke about ....... but you get caught shagging one sheep and ........

Posted by: Ciampino - Why are elephants so wrinkly? They won't fit on the ironing board at June 07, 2023 05:49 PM (qfLjt)

376 Bud Light doubles down. .... Bud Light is co-sponsoring an 'all-ages' drag show party: 'Safe space' 'family festival event'

They haven't learned a thing. Good job they/him/her.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 07, 2023 05:49 PM (Ml6sx)

377 How does spotlighting a flat chested male in a sports bra mocking women's exercise encourage women to go out and buy the bra? I need something to support this rack, and its obvious that nike doesn't want to address my female form needs.

Posted by: Moki at June 07, 2023 04:39 PM (JrN/x)

I have...how you say...the support for your rack.

Posted by: Paolo at June 07, 2023 05:50 PM (fnmJK)

378 Late in the thread to be asking this question, but has a company ever suddenly and drastically reversed course on its branding and survived?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 07, 2023 05:46 PM

If the they/them/their idiots at Butt Lite and Targhey had any brains they would come out and say, look. We hear you. We respect ALL opinions. That's why we won't be taking a stand on any issue or selling anything other than regular clothes and beer. We're sorry to have offended our customers. They won't. And they will die, good.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 07, 2023 05:52 PM (Ml6sx)

379 They are permanent. It's too late now. The time to deal with this was in the first week or two. It's dragged on too long. The habits have changed. The pall of customer contempt and corporate impotence has now settled over the brand. The things they could have done right out of the gate - apologize, publicly fire people, hold customer-appreciation events, etc. - probably won't work now. If they come out and do those things, the attitude will likely be, "you're a day late and a buck short. You made your positions and your opinions of me known, and you're only backtracking now that you're in free-fall. Call me up two months ago."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 07, 2023 04:31 PM (DU+/6)

29 Nike is like Disney in that they are so big and world wide it will be hard to significantly damage them. That’s why I look at my boycotts as a personal stand not dependent on whether it’s successful in doing any damage.
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I think this is now a whole new world. And NIKE's China exposure in this world is a bit more serious. Disney could save themselves - but apparently won't. This is different. Markets lost now won't be regained. Lose too much, you're done.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 07, 2023 05:53 PM (HdBH7)

380 345 Halibut is fine, but swordfish is the bomb.

Posted by: JEM at June 07, 2023 05:33 PM (8erNz)
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Well, each has its plaice.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Why are elephants so wrinkly? They won't fit on the ironing board at June 07, 2023 06:04 PM (qfLjt)

381 "No standing to sue."

Posted by: Mhandisi at June 07, 2023 06:33 PM (IXANy)

382 Here's mine.

A buff dude gets off a hard day's work down at the Mexican Weather Girl factory, and cracks open an ice cold bud light.

*zoom in on frosty can*

*Pshhhhh*

Then he wakes up in a bathtub full of ice, with his dick missing. At first he's super pissed off, but then he reads some books about Queer Theory and finds out his dick was donated to a needy genderfluid BIPOC girl by Anheuser-Busch. So he chills out, and he thanks them for their commitment to equality while he rides on a Clydesdale with Jake Gyllenhaal.

Fin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 07, 2023 06:44 PM (oINRc)

383 Queer Beer delenda est.

And calling Maggot Mulvaney a "woman" is an insult to all of us REAL WOMEN.

Posted by: Beverly at June 07, 2023 08:13 PM (Epeb0)

384 Who decided Nike's 'values' should be Left-wing?
Nike was founded by 2 Republicans FFS.
The truth is that Donahoe is using company money to support his own politics. Not the politics of his workers, or the Vietnamese children stitching his shit shoes together in their tiger cages.
The best thing Republicans could do if they get back into the presidency is get money out of politics. It would knee-cap the Democrats.

Posted by: stv at June 07, 2023 11:15 PM (7Ff9U)

385

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