Kafiyeh-Wearing Rainbow Warriors Bravely Unionize to Get High Wages at a... Coffee Shop.<br>Eight Days Later, the Owners Close Their Three Coffee Shops.

Kafiyeh-Wearing Rainbow Warriors Bravely Unionize to Get High Wages at a... Coffee Shop.
Eight Days Later, the Owners Close Their Three Coffee Shops.

And then they started protesting outside the now-shuttered coffee shops, demanding the owners re-open them.

The coffee house management released a statement:

It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the closure of all three OCF Coffee House locations. After 13 wonderful years of serving our beloved community, the time has come to say goodbye.
Throughout the years, our passion for creating a welcoming and warm space in our neighborhoods has driven us forward, despite operating at a loss. We pushed forward because we understood the positive impact we were making in our communities and the importance to maintain a level of compensation and benefits (health, vision, dental, life, matching 401k) that each staff member deserved. Rising operational costs, reduced sales and the expiration of a couple of our leases this summer have made it difficult to continue operating the coffee shops, and the administrative and legal costs associated with our staff's desire to organize has regrettably moved us beyond any cost that we could sustain.

Sounds like they were pretty generous with employees -- but parasites gonna parasite until the host is dead.

I've seen this behavior in the comics industry -- low-skilled, interchangeable clerical workers unionized at (I believe) IDW, demanding higher wages at a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy. They even demanded that they be granted veto authority over any comic book IDW intended to publish that they considered politically problematic.

IDW is losing all of its licenses and has been delisted from the stock exchange. It's just a matter of time before it goes bankrupt.

The left is just a cargo cult of very stupid and fundamentally broken people. They do not accept that a company needs to make money before any workers' demands can be satisfied. They view money the way all leftists view electricity -- you just stick the thing in the socket and the money comes flowing out, by magic.

Workers have no leverage in a Biden economy, especially these very low-skilled workers (some of whom allegedly even intentionally drive customers away with hostile antisemitism).

We documented how a keffiyeh-wearing 'barista' in one of these OCF coffee shops turned on an #antiSemitic song when she recognized a Jewish customer come in. OCF coffee shop is Jewish as well. These workers deserve exactly zero sympathy. @harlanrosen https://t.co/jKQRn2zOAH
— Dana Pico (@Dana_TFSJ) June 17, 2024

Macklemore is an openly antisemitic rapper. Like old-school Nazi-propaganda-poster hatred for Jews. He just released a full album of pro-Hamas raps.

If you're just hearing about this, that's because the left covers up for its own many, many racists and antisemites.

This is taking place in Philadelphia -- does everyone remember the coffee shop where the bratty (and very LGBT) child of landowning parents decided to boot them out of the space because they weren't turning a profit and the parents got sick of letting them keep the space for zero rent? They got very, very angry about that. They even protested their parents.

Black Orchid explains:

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

Philadelphia "baristas" sure seem to have a very exaggerated sense of their economic necessity.

Especially like this rabble-rouser who just shut down three coffee houses with her (or "her") extravagant appraisals of her value in a customer-facing operation:

She (or "she") has more metal in her face than the Statue of Liberty.

Would you like your coffee with a splash of accidental nasal discharge? With just a spritz of Hep C?

And wasn't it in Philadelphia where Starbucks, under pressure by BLM grifters, first implemented its policy of allowing every franchisee's bathroom to be used as a hobo's craphouse/traphouse?

WTF is going on Philadelphia? Do they just want to drive all small shops out of business?

Oh right -- it's a Soros Zone. Soros intends to destroy the cities and immiserate the population. But we can't say that because he'll order his paid media shills to claim that I'm antisemtic, even though he's not Jewish and is actually a Nazi collaborator.

Maybe George Soros should open some coffee shops in Philly. And run them on "Soros values," paying "baristas" $50/hour or whatever he claims is a "livable wage."

You gonna step up, George?

Meanwhile, Pizza Hut is in serious trouble.

Best economy in history, Jack!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:04 PM

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1 SPONGEWORTHY!

Posted by: Elaine at June 19, 2024 02:04 PM (53oGX)

2 I nooded

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2024 02:05 PM (53oGX)

3 And then they started protesting outside the now-shuttered coffee shops, demanding the owners re-open them.

That's the funniest part. Okay guys, you killed the golden goose, now make it lay more eggs. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:06 PM (ynpvh)

4 Should have kept it open for a day or two but jacked the price for a cup to $50.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2024 02:06 PM (cOq4q)

5 The consequences of their actions kicked in.

Posted by: huerfano at June 19, 2024 02:06 PM (VGOMa)

6
IDW is losing all of its licenses and has been delisted from the stock exchange. It's just a matter of time before it goes bankrupt.

Hm. I didn't know unions were listed on a stock exchange.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2024 02:07 PM (nOjd9)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 19, 2024 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Pizza Hut is in serious trouble.

I don't give a f**k about Pizza Hut after the way they treated that delivery driver that defended himself with a gun. Pizza Hut can such on their tranny Bud Lites while wearing kiddie trans clothes from Target for all I care.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:08 PM (ynpvh)

9 >>>Hm. I didn't know unions were listed on a stock exchange.

IDW is a comic book company.

Posted by: The Book of Skelos at June 19, 2024 02:08 PM (KRtlO)

10 Dumb question: What's a traphouse? And why does it have its own genre of music?

Posted by: pookysgirl needs to be put some knowledge at June 19, 2024 02:08 PM (dtlDP)

11 She (or "she") has more metal in her face than the Statue of Liberty.

Another tragic victim of a freak tackle box explosion!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (nOjd9)

12 In order for this to work, you gotta have the government backing you.

Then, when you kill the company, the government keeps you whole.

Posted by: The UAW at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (Ncjgr)

13 Philadelphia "baristas" sure seem to have a very exaggerated sense of their economic necessity.

This is a hallmark of leftists everywhere.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (xCA6C)

14 No bagels! No bagels! No bagels! Hey!

Posted by: cosmo kramer at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (ZdexC)

15 4 Should have kept it open for a day or two but jacked the price for a cup to $50.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 19, 2024 02:06 PM (cOq4q)

And lose more money? No. Let the Leftist rabble live with the consequences of their behavior. Nobody can be forced (yet) to run a business against their will.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (ynpvh)

16 Sounds like they were pretty generous with employees -- but parasites gonna parasite until the host is dead.

They were OVERLY generous. SO MANY don't get those kinds of benefits in their jobs. These assholes SERVED COFFEE. There's not many that would get those in a damn coffee shop.

Good for them for cutting their losses and living to fight another day, elsewhere. The protesters should should learn to $5 handie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

17 13 Philadelphia "baristas" sure seem to have a very exaggerated sense of their economic necessity.

This is a hallmark of leftists everywhere.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (xCA6C)

Marxist labor theory of value.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (ynpvh)

18 Barely qualified to pour coffee.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (Q4IgG)

19 I haven't stopped laughing since my husband first shared the story with me!

Good for the owners, I hope that losing the constant drain on their finances makes them happy.

Posted by: Dianna at June 19, 2024 02:10 PM (dO/yD)

20 he (or "she") has more metal in her face than the Statue of Liberty.
.......

Looks like warts.

Posted by: wth at June 19, 2024 02:10 PM (v0R5T)

21 IDW is a comic book company.
Posted by: The Book of Skelos at June 19, 2024 02:08 PM (KRtlO)

Ah. Makes more sense now.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2024 02:10 PM (nOjd9)

22 From the grinder to the cup
Here's your coffee, now shut up!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2024 02:10 PM (W/lyH)

23 19 I haven't stopped laughing since my husband first shared the story with me!

Good for the owners, I hope that losing the constant drain on their finances makes them happy.

Posted by: Dianna at June 19, 2024 02:10 PM (dO/yD)

Indeed. Sometimes, Atlas Shruggs.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:10 PM (ynpvh)

24 The left is just a cargo cult of very stupid and fundamentally broken people. They do not accept that a company needs to make money before any workers' demands can be satisfied. They view money the way all leftists view electricity -- you just stick the thing in the socket and the money comes flowing out, by magic.
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It's kinda how corporations like to say they are a family.
And the lefties show up like it is--free money from dad, whine to mom until you get what your want.
And it's so stupid you can't help but root for injuries to all.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2024 02:10 PM (M8j2e)

25 Maybe George Soros should open some coffee shops in Philly.

Please! That's Convicted Felon George Soros!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (uxCna)

26 "Meanwhile, Pizza Hut is in serious trouble."

Ace, I'm not sure about that. The link is to a problematic franchisee of the chain who was in trouble before Joey Shitpants fucked the economy in the poofter. I don't think it suggests the entire chain or brand is in trouble.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

27 So, Triggleypuff lost her make believe job?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (pohLc)

28 I truly enjoy it when socialists get slapped by the invisible hand.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (lTGtQ)

29 Sounds like they were pretty generous with employees -- but parasites gonna parasite until the host is dead.

Guess they're now making the minimum wage. The real minimum, not the fake government-defined one.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (/y8xj)

30 Coffee House employees protest after all of their workplaces closed, 1 week after they unionized.

“I am pretty crushed especially when it’s such a blatant response to our union process. Like this comes a week after we publicly announced our union.”

Characterizing them as "employees" or "workers" is overgenerous. In any case, metalhead doesn't look like she's missed a lot of meals.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (xCA6C)

31 Learn to Hook !

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (SHMXB)

32 I think people look terrible with facial studs. They particularly look awful with metal things hanging out of their nose, and it seems dangerous to me .If they get caught on something couldn't it rip off part of their nosel?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (XkYcA)

33 OUT: Soupnazi

IN: CoffeeSharia

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (W/lyH)

34 25 Maybe George Soros should open some coffee shops in Philly.

Please! That's Convicted Felon George Soros!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (uxCna)

Notsee Collaborator and Convicted Felon.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (ynpvh)

35 Maybe George Soros should open some coffee shops in Philly. And run them on "Soros values," paying "baristas" $50/hour or whatever he claims is a "livable wage."

Soros is all tied up buying district attorneys who won't prosecute criminals.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2024 02:12 PM (nOjd9)

36 Coffee House employees protest after all of their workplaces closed, 1 week after they unionized.

Congratulations on your win!

Posted by: t-bird at June 19, 2024 02:12 PM (7FFC8)

37 28 I truly enjoy it when socialists get slapped by the invisible hand.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (lTGtQ)

Hey, that's sexual harrassment in the workplace! Get the EEOC involved stat!--Joey's Admin

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:12 PM (ynpvh)

38 The coffee house closures are the feel-good story of the early summer. I never tire of seeing pseudo-hippies take it in the neck.

Posted by: The Bums Lost, Lebowski at June 19, 2024 02:12 PM (DctLG)

39 Nose ring* chubby may have eaten more than her share of the scones.

* It's not a ring, technically, but I don't know what to call those gross things hanging from theythem's nostrils.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:12 PM (fs1hN)

40 I think people look terrible with facial studs. They particularly look awful with metal things hanging out of their nose, and it seems dangerous to me .If they get caught on something couldn't it rip off part of their nosel?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (XkYcA)

You'll find that nipple rings can be incredibly useful next time your girlfriend gets stuck in the mud.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2024 02:13 PM (nOjd9)

41 I have two things of mind, first Karma !!! and second why do they always look like that, every single time ? Okay, one other thing, do they all have to be antisemitic pigs, really ? What a bunch of air wasting turds, geez.

Posted by: Edward at June 19, 2024 02:13 PM (93DJn)

42 That fat bitch with all the hog rings in her face could be a possible cure for priapism.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:13 PM (pohLc)

43 31 Learn to Hook !

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (SHMXB)

They need to worry about being hooked by Japanese whaling vessels...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:13 PM (ynpvh)

44 WTF is going on Philadelphia? Do they just want to drive all small shops out of business?

--

Philly is a cesspit

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 19, 2024 02:13 PM (Ka3bZ)

45 >>Sounds like they were pretty generous with employees -- but parasites gonna parasite until the host is dead.

Yes.

Posted by: tapeworm and strangler fig at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (VGOMa)

46 Maybe if these workers saved their money instead of "investing" in facial bling, they'd be more financially secure...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (BpYfr)

47 They can't be dumb enough to try and demand the owner re-open. Is there a method to the madness?

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (3kPZW)

48 I stopped calling the local Pizza Hut about 15 years ago after several occasions of a pizza being delivered after an hour and a half or two hours+ late... cold.

I switched to Dominos for awhile, and now it's Marco's Pizza or a local joint run by a transplanted New Yorker.

Pizza Hut has been dead to me for years.

Posted by: JustSpitballin at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (6ydKt)

49 i can mix a coffee with my left hand or my right hand so i'm worth double, right?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (CWTWj)

50 How dare you cease to exploit us with your wage slavery!

... er ...

Posted by: commie retards at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (llON8)

51 They view money the way all leftists view electricity -- you just stick the thing in the socket and the money comes flowing out, by magic.
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True. I had an intern one time, a real bright spark. No, like an actual one. She was maybe 19 and smart as a whip and a hard worker too.

I showed her a large format plotter and told her it cost about 8,000 dollars. She said, "oh that should cost a lot less".

I think she ended up at Berkeley.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (lX8VI)

52 These three OFC coffee shops were run by a real estate company mostly as a service to their tenants.

When they decided to unionize, the real estate company decided that they really weren't in the coffee shop business that required complicated dealings with unions.

Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (GITLP)

53 Portland used to have an anarchist coffee shop called the Red and the Black, before it inevitably collapsed.

They had some notoriety for refusing to serve a Portland cop before they shut down.

Never went into the place myself, but Yelp reviews frequently mentioned two things: 1) it was the surliest, least helpful staff in existence; and 2) the place reeked of body odor.

I don't know why they didn't franchise the concept.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (uxCna)

54 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 19, 2024 02:13 PM (nOjd9)

O.K. but I don't have a girlfriend. I have friends who are women, but I'm not dating any of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (XkYcA)

55 32 I think people look terrible with facial studs. They particularly look awful with metal things hanging out of their nose, and it seems dangerous to me .If they get caught on something couldn't it rip off part of their nosel?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (XkYcA)

I wonder about having colds with toro-nose rings. Brother had a co-worker that had a SpongeBob stud on her tongue...one day she tells him, sadly, that she swallowed SpongeBob...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (ynpvh)

56 When a tranny-lovin', customer-berating, antisemitic coffee shop can't stay open, what hope is there for us?

Posted by: Washington Post at June 19, 2024 02:15 PM (hqVaF)

57 What would stop Biden from issuing an EO granting presidents unlimited terms, thus allowing Obama to run again? Nobody has standing to sue to stop it. Nobody would be able to prove material harm by a 3rd obama presidency before the election, and it would be moot after.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 19, 2024 02:15 PM (rsqyi)

58 Pizza Hut should be in trouble.

I'm pretty close to being an "any pizza is good pizza" kinda guy. But even I turn my nose up at the Hut.

Posted by: Pizza Slut at June 19, 2024 02:15 PM (DctLG)

59 I believe a traphouse is where one would go to shoot heroin...
Might have expanded to other offerings at this point I don't pay attention.

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (53oGX)

60 I somehow doubt these baristas turned those coffee shops into a shelter of joy and peace.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (JLq/1)

61 46 Maybe if these workers saved their money instead of "investing" in facial bling, they'd be more financially secure...
_____

How's the market on used nose rings?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (fs1hN)

62 I never understood the appeal of coffee shops or how they were able to explode in the 1990s despite charging obscene amounts for mediocre coffee. I always thought this was another money-laundering scheme. At one point, there was a high-end coffee shop on practically every block in Manhattan.

The only time I ever frequented a coffee shop was this New World Coffee around the corner from my first apartment in Manhattan. For whatever reason, there were like five hot girls who also went there every morning. I just so coincidentally happened to go at the same times they did. My plan worked.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

63 Unpossible and illegal!

The U.S. Congress has repealed both the Law of Causality and the Law of Gravity ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (NGa9E)

64 The business owners need to find a way to fire all of the entitled youngsters and reopen with retirees who just want to work 20 hours a week or so.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (tT6L1)

65 They can't be dumb enough to try and demand the owner re-open. Is there a method to the madness?

Nothing stopping them from opening three new coffee shops to hire them and all of their friends. $25/hr or fight!

Posted by: t-bird at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (7FFC8)

66 So here is the thing, you idiots who organized. You negotiate in good faith, and you start from ground zero. So when the union tells you they are going to get you higher wages and better benefits? It may or may not be fake news. Because the union doesn’t have the checkbook, the company does. Oh, and no one has to agree to this contract. Just negotiate in good faith. Should you get to true impasse , that’s your contract. This is a legal unicorn, mind you, and happened all of once in my entire career. Those employees decerted right after. It was labor relations nirvana. Good times.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (pZEOD)

67 48 I stopped calling the local Pizza Hut about 15 years ago after several occasions of a pizza being delivered after an hour and a half or two hours+ late... cold.

I switched to Dominos for awhile, and now it's Marco's Pizza or a local joint run by a transplanted New Yorker.

Pizza Hut has been dead to me for years.

Posted by: JustSpitballin at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (6ydKt)

Ah, Marcos Pizza. Good Pizza, but not inexpensive! Have one not too far (maybe 10 or 15 minutes away). My default is Costco pepperoni pizza, then I add shrooms, black olives, artichoke hearts, onions, and if I have any, bacon to it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (ynpvh)

68 Ain't no skim milk in that fatty's latte, that's for sure

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (BpZ5k)

69 Hey the crew shooting dope under the EL can help these victims of corporate greed her cope!

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 19, 2024 02:17 PM (7keno)

70 I can't say I like ANY of the current offerings by national pizza chains, and I don't really like any of the small guys either. Wait a minute! Maybe I just don't like pizza!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:17 PM (xCA6C)

71 >>> 28 I truly enjoy it when socialists get pimp slapped by the invisible hand.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (lTGtQ)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 19, 2024 02:17 PM (llON8)

72 For whatever reason, there were like five hot girls who also went there every morning. I just so coincidentally happened to go at the same times they did. My plan worked.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

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Go on ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:17 PM (NGa9E)

73 Pizza slut used to be the main player. Too many players in the field to sit on your hands.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:17 PM (pohLc)

74 Why would you go anywhere but WaWa for coffee in Phila?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2024 02:17 PM (RIvkX)

75 Big Boss Lady lmao.. delusional Asswipe.. ha ha ha

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 19, 2024 02:18 PM (7keno)

76 Brother had a co-worker that had a SpongeBob stud on her tongue...one day she tells him, sadly, that she swallowed SpongeBob...

It'll all work out in the end.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 19, 2024 02:18 PM (/y8xj)

77 Frozen pizza is just fine for me. Even the inexpensive 5.99 brands.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:18 PM (SHMXB)

78 61 46 Maybe if these workers saved their money instead of "investing" in facial bling, they'd be more financially secure...
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How's the market on used nose rings?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (fs1hN)

Really not large enough for bulls.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:18 PM (ynpvh)

79 The business owners need to find a way to fire all of the entitled youngsters and reopen with retirees who just want to work 20 hours a week or so.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (tT6L1)

Excellent idea!
Call it Geezer Grounds.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2024 02:18 PM (W/lyH)

80 I believe a traphouse is where one would go to shoot heroin...
Might have expanded to other offerings at this point I don't pay attention.

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2024 02:16 PM (53oGX)

Ah, a modern opium den.

Posted by: pookysgirl has read Sherlock Holmes at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (dtlDP)

81 73 Pizza slut used to be the main player. Too many players in the field to sit on your hands.
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They sat on their hands between making pizzas? Gross.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (fs1hN)

82 Pizza should be made in real ovens. Most chains use this conveyer-belt heat-blower system, because they don't want their dipshit 17 year old employees sticking their hands in a real oven.

But a real oven cooks dough better. Maybe because of direct transfer from the oven's floor. These blowers just blow heat around the pizzas.

Posted by: ace at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (KRtlO)

83 For whatever reason, there were like five hot girls who also went there every morning. I just so coincidentally happened to go at the same times they did. My plan worked.

A long time ago, my car broke down, so I had to ride the bus to work for a few weeks. There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (xCA6C)

84 I just want a cup of coffee. A wack job w/ a bullhorn, looks like she had a tragic accident with a tackle box, yeah no.

Stay Away. Danger.

I'm sure shutting down 3 retail outlets is just an unfortunate coincidence. Robotics makes slinging coffee a bit of a luxury job anyway.

We're probably this close to Star Trek replicators. Wave your card at the machine, or blink three times for retinal scan, and out comes your favorite brew. Or burger. I want people to make good money too, but these folks want something that went away a long, long time ago.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (3kPZW)

85 39
* It's not a ring, technically, but I don't know what to call those gross things hanging from theythem's nostrils.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June

It’s a septum piercing

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (pZEOD)

86 15
And lose more money? No. Let the Leftist rabble live with the consequences of their behavior. Nobody can be forced (yet) to run a business against their will.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (ynpvh)
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I thought Kalifornia did that already. Doesn't the State (city?) require prior notice of closure and all that?

Posted by: Ciampino - California Incubus #12 at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (qfLjt)

87 So when's the next 'union' meeting? ha ha

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (7keno)

88 I'm not sure how the Pizza Hut where I live stays in business. Most people go with Papa John's or Domino's for delivery.

Even Little Caesar's does better business, I think.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (BpYfr)

89 Why would you go anywhere but WaWa for coffee in Phila?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2024 02:17 PM (RIvkX)

Because in a Philly area wawa, you can never exactly determine where the restroom ends and the rest of the store begins.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (BpZ5k)

90 Best economy in history, Jack!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:04 PM

That asshole in the interview with Pierced Morgan (DICK!) that declared Biden created millions of jobs, had record low unemployment and inflation below 3% was lying?

No way.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

91 >>> 57 What would stop Biden from issuing an EO granting presidents unlimited terms, thus allowing Obama to run again? Nobody has standing to sue to stop it. Nobody would be able to prove material harm by a 3rd obama presidency before the election, and it would be moot after.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 19, 2024 02:15 PM (rsqyi)

It's MY turn!

Posted by: Hillary! at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (llON8)

92 Something doesn't make sense here.

What union wants to bother with a few rando coffee shops that nobody ever heard of that all between them maybe have a dozen raggedy-muffin bozo employees??

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

93 Why doesn't the loud-mouth fat-body open a coffee shop and show us all how it's done?

Posted by: Halfhand at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (wra9p)

94 Wifey hated pizza until I turned her on to Papa Murphy's (have one five minutes from home, and get to bake it ourselves).

But man, it's gotten expensive (like $20 for a large), so only order one for pickup on Tuesdays when they offer it for $12 (and I always throw in a $2 tip).

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (NGa9E)

95 I’ve never bought a coffee from a coffee shop. I used to buy hot chocolate from Starbucks long ago when it was connected to a Barnes and Nobels.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (SHMXB)

96 >>>There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?

I banged her then she got shot by a man with a claw for a hand.

Posted by: James Bond at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (KRtlO)

97 My default is Costco pepperoni pizza, then I add shrooms, black olives, artichoke hearts, onions, and if I have any, bacon to it.

Sounds like you make your own pizza.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (xCA6C)

98 85 39
* It's not a ring, technically, but I don't know what to call those gross things hanging from theythem's nostrils.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June

It’s a septum piercing

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (pZEOD)

Deviated Septum >>> Deviant Septum

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (ynpvh)

99 It doesn't really matter how much jewelry you hang on a face like that. It still looks like a bejeweled shaved hog.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (pohLc)

100 >>>Why doesn't the loud-mouth fat-body open a coffee shop and show us all how it's done?

because the Patriarchy would never give a woman a loan!!!

Posted by: duh you hater at June 19, 2024 02:21 PM (KRtlO)

101 At some point even the trendy AWFLs, with their pink Stanley mugs, realize that they can make coffee in their unused but prominently displayed Keurig and take it with them.

There's actually no need for a coffee house .
Life could go on without skipping a beat.

Of course that would mean NOT being seen in the right places, but there's plenty of other places to take a selfie.

A little humility would be good for baristas, to understand how tenuous their positions are.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 19, 2024 02:21 PM (FCbAQ)

102 Today, June 19, is the day the United Nations will observe the annual International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. Another token feel-good gesture.

Probably doesn't apply to Israeli women.

Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:21 PM (GITLP)

103 86 15
And lose more money? No. Let the Leftist rabble live with the consequences of their behavior. Nobody can be forced (yet) to run a business against their will.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:09 PM (ynpvh)
----
I thought Kalifornia did that already. Doesn't the State (city?) require prior notice of closure and all that?

Posted by: Ciampino - California Incubus #12 at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (qfLjt)

Dunno. Probably. Doesn't mean you have to be "open"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:21 PM (ynpvh)

104 Why would you go anywhere but WaWa for coffee in Phila?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2024 02:17 PM (RIvkX)

Because in a Philly area wawa, you can never exactly determine where the restroom ends and the rest of the store begins.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (BpZ5k)
***

I wonder how long before moron Wyatt has to go before retirement?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 19, 2024 02:21 PM (W/lyH)

105 Ah, Marcos Pizza. Good Pizza, but not inexpensive!
-jim

Our usual large "The Works" runs around $26 or so with taxes, fees and tips.

Ain't noting cheap anymore except Ramen.

Posted by: JustSpitballin at June 19, 2024 02:22 PM (6ydKt)

106 I saw Deviant Septum open for Bad Brains at the Roxy.

Posted by: Guy who sees a lot of obscure bands at June 19, 2024 02:22 PM (KRtlO)

107 For whatever reason, there were like five hot girls who also went there every morning. I just so coincidentally happened to go at the same times they did. My plan worked.

A long time ago, my car broke down, so I had to ride the bus to work for a few weeks. There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (xCA6C)
_________

"She is, how you say it, being very satisfied"

-- The Paolo

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:22 PM (iFTx/)

108 Had a 'niche' pizza chain come through he a while back. Mello Mushroom or some shit. Went there a couple times on recommendations from friends.

The pizza itself wasn't world beating, but at $28 for a 16" meat lovers, they can keep their shit.

The local one here lasted almost a year.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 19, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

109 There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?

I banged her then she got shot by a man with a claw for a hand.

Well that's disappointing.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:22 PM (xCA6C)

110 93 Why doesn't the loud-mouth fat-body open a coffee shop and show us all how it's done?

Posted by: Halfhand at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (wra9p)

Loud-Mouth Fat-Body Coffee. Yeah, no.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:22 PM (ynpvh)

111 BabylonBee:
Trump Polling At 100% After Hosts Warn He Would Cancel 'The View'

Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:23 PM (GITLP)

112 The coffee shop I went to in the early 90's was owned by the guy who helped pioneer the so-called "Third Wave", so I guess I'm biased because the drinks were awesome.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 02:23 PM (lX8VI)

113 Had a 'niche' pizza chain come through he a while back. Mello Mushroom

==

yeah, "Pizza" chain....

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2024 02:23 PM (V13WU)

114 I used to buy hot chocolate from Starbucks long ago when it was connected to a Barnes and Nobels.
Posted by: polynikes

--

BN cafes sell Starbucks brand drinks but they are not part of Starbucks at all.

The Starbucks stands inside Target store are Starbucks owned but staffed by Target employees,

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 19, 2024 02:23 PM (Ka3bZ)

115 I believe a number of "fast food" franchises are in trouble. Pizza Hut included. Red Lobster got bought out by a company that's interested in the properties the restaurants are on... Red Lobster owns many of them. Or did. They were played. Otherwise I think they'd stay in business.

Elsewhere you've got crime issues in most blue shitholes that are forcing businesses out, bankruptcy due to increased wages and the basic fact that the economy is in the crapper.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2024 02:23 PM (Q4IgG)

116 97 My default is Costco pepperoni pizza, then I add shrooms, black olives, artichoke hearts, onions, and if I have any, bacon to it.

Sounds like you make your own pizza.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (xCA6C)

Kinda, just with the bread/sauce/cheese base from Costco. Still cheaper than buying the equivalent elsewhere.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:23 PM (ynpvh)

117 I frequently a coffee shop where the baristas are a couple of lovely and thoroughly pleasant Asian girls. They please me.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (JLq/1)

118 I only eat "artisan" pizza.

Posted by: An unemployed Brooklyn hipster whose $200,000 in Education Debt you'll be paying at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (KRtlO)

119 Only place you can buy a slice of pizza in Houston is at the mall’s Sbarro.

One thing I liked about living in NY is all the small pizza shops sold by the slice.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (SHMXB)

120 High Burger

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (V13WU)

121 Am I though only one who despises the term "barrista?" Talk about making a slacker job with a pretentious title sound like upscale employment.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (tT6L1)

122 It's not a ring, technically, but I don't know what to call those gross things hanging from theythem's nostrils.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June

It’s a septum piercing
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (pZEOD)
----------
Prevents her from rooting.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (3Fz6p)

123 I walk into an establishment for a specific thing that THAT'S what's making it for me, I will turn around and walk right back out.

You look like that, I'm betting cleanliness and hygiene aren't in the top 10 of your priority list.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

124 There's actually no need for a coffee house .
Life could go on without skipping a beat.

Of course that would mean NOT being seen in the right places, but there's plenty of other places to take a selfie.
_____

Apparently there is really good coffee at the local Sheetz. The geezers in the neighborhood get to keep track of who is still up and around. I'll probably do the same when I reach geezerhood.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (fs1hN)

125 Workers have no leverage in a Biden economy, especially these very low-skilled workers (some of whom allegedly even intentionally drive customers away with hostile antisemitism).

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

* The 100-million strong turd world peasant, criminal, and terrorist illegal alien invasion -- including the largest drug, sex, and child trafficking operation in history sponsored, encouraged, and enabled by the U.S. Feral Government -- has entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (NGa9E)

126 Whenever I see people with a lot of piercings, I just imagine them falling face-first into a tackle box and that makes me giggle.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (JTwsP)

127 Eating out has become expensive. But the dangers of being out and vulnerable to various illegals and bums and BLM/Antifa style "protesters" -- makes for a great incentive to take up cooking at home.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (Cus5s)

128 BabylonBee:
Nation Unsure Why Buffalo Bills Starting Gay Football Team When Dallas Cowboys Already Exist

Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (GITLP)

129 121 Am I though only one who despises the term "barrista?" Talk about making a slacker job with a pretentious title sound like upscale employment.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (tT6L1)

Coffee Jerk

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (BpZ5k)

130 The business owners need to find a way to fire all of the entitled youngsters and reopen with retirees who just want to work 20 hours a week or so.
Posted by: blake

Excellent idea!
Call it Geezer Grounds.
Posted by: Diogenes

Ground Geezers.

I like my coffee like I like my women. Ground up & in the freezer.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (OuWLw)

131 There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (xCA6C)

My view on that was always nothing ventured, nothing gained. I would approach them in a parking lot and tap on their window.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (pohLc)

132 Everything about this story is hilarious. And sad. But hilarious.

Cargo cult thinking gets cargo cult results.

"We'll just unionize, then we can get all the money we want!"

"Oops, business died."

"Those greedy bastards!"

Posted by: Gaff at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (jPS2y)

133 Today, June 19, is the day the United Nations will observe the annual International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. Another token feel-good gesture.
-----
Europa found it very mooving.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (ZdexC)

134 92 Something doesn't make sense here.

What union wants to bother with a few rando coffee shops that nobody ever heard of that all between them maybe have a dozen raggedy-muffin bozo employees??
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM

Dues is dues, Elric! And the UFCW salivates over a national Starbucks contract. They can go to those ee and tell them they represent others in the coffee field if it’s them. USW isn’t picky, either.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (pZEOD)

135 All the fired imbeciles be like. I knew we shouldn't follow that fat skank ho.. ha ha I bet she was selling noise working behind the counter.. ha ha

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (7keno)

136 We make our own pizza at home. It's not hard to do but it is by no means cheap.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (tT6L1)

137 113 Had a 'niche' pizza chain come through he a while back. Mello Mushroom
==
yeah, "Pizza" chain....
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2024 02:23 PM (V13WU)

Saw those in Phoenix. Pizza was okay.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (ynpvh)

138 Frozen pizza is just fine for me. Even the inexpensive 5.99 brands.
Posted by: polynikes

We're Red Baron people over here. Supreme, classic crust.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (iRX3h)

139 But a real oven cooks dough better. Maybe because of direct transfer from the oven's floor. These blowers just blow heat around the pizzas.

Posted by: ace at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (KRtlO)

I don't have one of those fancy pizza ovens but I do get by with partially cooking it in a roaring hot cast iron pan that I've transferred to a stove top, then finishing it on a pizza screen under the broiler. Total cooking time is like 7 minutes but it's the best I can do without hacking my oven like an idiot.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (lX8VI)

140 118 I only eat "artisan" pizza.

Posted by: An unemployed Brooklyn hipster whose $200,000 in Education Debt you'll be paying at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (KRtlO)

So does Cannibal Bob...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

141 I am a great grandmother(!)now but I have had my nose pierced with a tiny gold hoop for years. It's something I had wanted since I was a child so I did it. Most people don't even notice. I don't know how anyone pierces their face, the pain would take me out.

Posted by: Megthered at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (49Sxk)

142 Look for the union label
when you are hearing
us gripe and grouse.

Remember somewhere
our union's going
to wind up closing
the coffee house.

Posted by: fd at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (vFG9F)

143 I make pretty damn good pizza myself. Just use good, fresh ingredients and don't go overboard on any one ingredient. The key to a good pizza is balance. Too many pizzas have way too much cheese. That's not a pizza. That's cheese with a side of bread.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

144 My view on that was always nothing ventured, nothing gained. I would approach them in a parking lot and tap on their window.
==

these days ?! like to live dangerously ?

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (V13WU)

145 BabylonBee:
Nation Unsure Why Buffalo Bills Starting Gay Football Team When Dallas Cowboys Already Exist
Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (GITLP)

Not a Cowboys fan, but it appears that jealousy is a bitch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

146 122 It's not a ring, technically, but I don't know what to call those gross things hanging from theythem's nostrils.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June

It’s a septum piercing
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (pZEOD)
----------
Prevents her from rooting.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (3Fz6p)

She any good at finding truffles?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

147 Workers have no leverage in a Biden economy, especially these very low-skilled workers (some of whom allegedly even intentionally drive customers away with hostile antisemitism).

If you want equality with management, you have to send those foreign "visitors" home

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (D7oie)

148 Human rights expert: UNHRC report a 'case-study in antisemitism'

Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:27 PM (GITLP)

149 The UN wants to end rape in conflict like Wile E. Coyote wants to ban road runner hunting.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 02:27 PM (lX8VI)

150 There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (xCA6C)

My view on that was always nothing ventured, nothing gained. I would approach them in a parking lot and tap on their window.

What if they're armed?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:27 PM (xCA6C)

151 129 121 Am I though only one who despises the term "barrista?" Talk about making a slacker job with a pretentious title sound like upscale employment.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (tT6L1)

Coffee Jerk

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (BpZ5k)

Oh, so like Starbucks in Idiocracy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:27 PM (ynpvh)

152 So always look for
the union label,
it says we're able
to destroy the U.S.A.!

Posted by: fd at June 19, 2024 02:27 PM (vFG9F)

153 I saw Deviant Septum open for Bad Brains at the Roxy.
Posted by: Guy who sees a lot of obscure bands

Only because Urethral Meatus cancelled last minute.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 19, 2024 02:27 PM (iRX3h)

154 BN cafes sell Starbucks brand drinks but they are not part of Starbucks at all.

The Starbucks stands inside Target store are Starbucks owned but staffed by Target employees,
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 19, 2024 02:23 PM (Ka3bZ)

20 years ago they were Starbucks and connected to the BN I frequented. They actually closed before BN did which I still go to . Except now it’s the home of the famous in gun circles, Collector’s Firearms.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:27 PM (SHMXB)

155 I honestly can't remember the last time I had Pizza Hut; maybe some work function ordered a batch at some point in the last few years.

There is a place nearby that is run by an ex NYC guy which is fabulous, and when you order, he just asks what you want on it and tells you to be there in twenty minutes. Never had a wrong order or a pizza not fresh out of the oven.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (lTGtQ)

156 Breitbart:
Panic: Biden Campaign Creates Taskforce to Combat Videos of His Brain Malfunctioning in Public

Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (GITLP)

157 99 It doesn't really matter how much jewelry you hang on a face like that. It still looks like a bejeweled shaved hog's hairy azz!!.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (pohLc)

here ys go FIFY.. ha ha

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (7keno)

158 Prevents her from rooting.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (3Fz6p)

She any good at finding truffles?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)
----------
No one will know, now.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (3Fz6p)

159 She any good at finding truffles?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

Growing them, maybe.

Posted by: Lift a flap and scrub once in a while, eh, fatty? at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (BpZ5k)

160 141 I am a great grandmother(!)now but I have had my nose pierced with a tiny gold hoop for years. It's something I had wanted since I was a child so I did it. Most people don't even notice. I don't know how anyone pierces their face, the pain would take me out.
Posted by: Megthered
____

Congrats!

(also, where is your nose, if not on your face?)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (fs1hN)

161 these days ?! like to live dangerously ?
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2024 02:26 PM (V13WU)

I suppose, but the last girl I pulled that on became my wife for 36 years until her death.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (pohLc)

162 I'm not surprised Pizza Hut is in trouble- I can't remember the last time I was in one that seemed clean and welcoming.

Meanwhile, there are a LOT of very good local/regional chains around here that are doing pretty well.

Among them, Jet's Pizza is amazing. And tomorrow is "National Detroit Style Pizza Day". (DURING PRIDE MONTH!???)

If you like Pizza hut deep dish, Detroit Style is the superior product.

If you don't like think, crunchy crust, Detroit Style isn't for you.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (JMAcK)

163 Metal Face: Walk into a coffee shop and see that as a server/waitress/staff he turns for the exit.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (/Rqse)

164 If I could force schools to teach ONE Lesson... just ONE...

Freshman of High School... TANSTAAFL... There aint no such thing as a Free Lunch... Basic Realities of the Economy, 101.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (xaFKb)

165 I don't generally drink coffee. I prefer tea. But I will say this - any coffee shop that calls its employees 'baristas' is, by definition, an uber-woke, badly-managed, customer-hating, pretentious waste.

Just like bars that have 'mixologists.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (Q0kLU)

166 I stopped calling the local Pizza Hut about 15 years ago after several occasions of a pizza being delivered after an hour and a half or two hours+ late... cold.

Pizza Hut has been dead to me for years.
Posted by: JustSpitballin
____________

Love the crust on their pan pizza when it's made just right, but that's a 1 in 10 proposition.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (Dm8we)

167 Is that a keffiyah or a shemagh?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (D7oie)

168 Buffalo sports teams suck so bad, elementary peewee leagues can't win local city championships, never playing anyone outside their city.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

169 Heart of stone, laughter, some assembly required.

Posted by: butch at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (0NCuP)

170 150 There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (xCA6C)

My view on that was always nothing ventured, nothing gained. I would approach them in a parking lot and tap on their window.

What if they're armed?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:27 PM (xCA6C)

If it was Michelle Fields, it wouldn't be a problem.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (ynpvh)

171 Kappa Kappa Gamma Women Lose Last-Ditch Appeal To Remove “Voyeuristic” Trans-Identified Male From Their Sorority House

Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (GITLP)

172 >>>What if they're armed?
Posted by: Archimedes

I'll pretend I didn't hear that!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at June 19, 2024 02:30 PM (KRtlO)

173 i]Breitbart:
Panic: Biden Campaign Creates Taskforce to Combat Videos of His Brain Malfunctioning in Public

It's all a ruse. He's really playing possum and will become Superman at the debates.

*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:30 PM (xCA6C)

174 She (or "she") has more metal in her face than the Statue of Liberty.

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

More metal in "her" nose than Don Henley.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:30 PM (NGa9E)

175 Panic: Biden Campaign Creates Taskforce to Combat Videos of His Brain Malfunctioning in Public
Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (GITLP)

A dozen odd j-school dropouts going "nuh-uh" on reddit does not a task force make.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:30 PM (BpZ5k)

176 167 Is that a keffiyah or a shemagh?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (D7oie)

It's a they/themagh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:31 PM (BpZ5k)

177 171 Kappa Kappa Gamma Women Lose Last-Ditch Appeal To Remove “Voyeuristic” Trans-Identified Male From Their Sorority House
____

Only option left is to leave the sorority. They already abandoned you, not much of a sisterhood is it?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:31 PM (fs1hN)

178 Congrats!

(also, where is your nose, if not on your face?)

Could be anywhere.

Posted by: Pablo P. at June 19, 2024 02:31 PM (xCA6C)

179 94 Wifey hated pizza until I turned her on to Papa Murphy's (have one five minutes from home, and get to bake it ourselves).

But man, it's gotten expensive (like $20 for a large), so only order one for pickup on Tuesdays when they offer it for $12 (and I always throw in a $2 tip).
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (NGa9E)

My better half has taken to making it herself at this point. She calc'd it out at a Cheese and a cheese and peperoni for dinner is under $10.

Better than anything I've ordered in as well.

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2024 02:31 PM (53oGX)

180 Best cup of coffee I ever had was at the chain La Madeleine.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (SHMXB)

181 100?

Berlin has realized that it can no longer afford to ignore Indo-Pacific issues, while Tokyo has sought to forge a united front of “like-minded” partners to deal with an “increasingly severe” global security environment.
_japantimes

Ja, ich bin Berliner

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (/Rqse)

182 I don't understand. The coffee bean is not native to Pennsylvania or, as far as I know, any part of the United States. That makes coffee prima facia cultural appropriation! How could they ever think to work in such an establishment? They should be NOT protesting the closure but celebrating it! Come on! Pull your collective heads out!

Posted by: JB1000 at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (VQp0k)

183 There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (xCA6C)

My view on that was always nothing ventured, nothing gained. I would approach them in a parking lot and tap on their window.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (pohLc)
_____

I'm ruthless and very very outgoing when it comes to hitting on ladies, but I don't think I'd confront them in their car like that. They might think it's a carjacking. The key to picking up girls is to be non-threatening and have some interesting or clever angle to the pick-up. Don't be the usual sketchy guys.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

184 The staff of the Pizza Hut near my office does not have a full mouth of teeth between the lot of them.

Posted by: TexasDan at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (z/ifB)

185 The rabble-rouser's picture makes me wonder if Sam Kinison stuck his dick in crazy a few times...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (O7YUW)

186 "So what do you do for work?"

"I'm a barista."

"Yeah, but, I mean, for a career."

"Career?"

"Uh, I guess you can make a career out of being a barista."

"I could. But the business closed."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (KbCG3)

187 Hey everything worked out great the last time Germany and Japan got chummy with each other.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (BpZ5k)

188 * It's not a ring, technically, but I don't know what to call those gross things hanging from theythem's nostrils.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:12 PM (fs1hN)

I have said it before, it is to keep her from rooting.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (D7oie)

189 Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:28 PM (fs1hN
Oh Chuck, the person that did my nose piercing had her cheeks pierced, her lower lips and the br bridge of her nose had a bar through it. Those piercings would kill me.

Posted by: Megthered at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (49Sxk)

190 The key to picking up girls is to be non-threatening and have some interesting or clever angle to the pick-up.

Yeah, that was never a strength of mine.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (xCA6C)

191 Meanwhile Panera Bread continues to flourish.

Posted by: Results at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (Oe90T)

192 That picture looks like someone hit Junior Samples with a staple gun.

Posted by: The_Hoser at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (N66D6)

193 32 I think people look terrible with facial studs. They particularly look awful with metal things hanging out of their nose, and it seems dangerous to me .If they get caught on something couldn't it rip off part of their nose?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:11 PM (XkYcA)
----
Yes please!!!!!

Posted by: Ciampino - tongue studs are the most disgusting at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (qfLjt)

194 Largest pizza chain in the world?

Hunt Brothers Pizza.

No franchise fees.
You buy and own the equipment the oven, put up the sign and buy their ingredients.
That's why you see them everywhere now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (M8j2e)

195
Ace, please explain the Morons rights and benefits package again.

Posted by: Auspex at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (j4U/Z)

196 182 I don't understand. The coffee bean is not native to Pennsylvania or, as far as I know, any part of the United States. That makes coffee prima facia cultural appropriation! How could they ever think to work in such an establishment? They should be NOT protesting the closure but celebrating it! Come on! Pull your collective heads out!

Posted by: JB1000 at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (VQp0k)

Coffee requires specific soils and climes, so farms requires destruction of rain forrests and lots and lots of fertilizer and pesticide. Then it needs to be processed and shipped, emitting lots of CO2 in the process. If Lefties were TRULY dedicated to the environment, they'd give up their coffee.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (ynpvh)

197 The key to picking up girls is to be non-threatening and have some interesting or clever angle to the pick-up.

Yeah, that was never a strength of mine.

Fortunately, I met my wife at work.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:34 PM (xCA6C)

198 Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (/Rqse)

Germany and Japan?

Gettin the Band back together?

Italy on Bass?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2024 02:34 PM (xaFKb)

199 Anything stopping the staff from renting the property themselves and starting up the business for themselves?

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 19, 2024 02:34 PM (f1kZG)

200 183 There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (xCA6C)

My view on that was always nothing ventured, nothing gained. I would approach them in a parking lot and tap on their window.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (pohLc)
_____

I'm ruthless and very very outgoing when it comes to hitting on ladies, but I don't think I'd confront them in their car like that. They might think it's a carjacking. The key to picking up girls is to be non-threatening and have some interesting or clever angle to the pick-up. Don't be the usual sketchy guys.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

Unless you're this guy.
https://youtube.com/shorts/tc38xG_-VpI

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (ynpvh)

201

Excellent idea!
Call it Geezer Grounds.
Posted by: Diogenes

Ground Geezers.

I like my coffee like I like my women. Ground up & in the freezer.
Posted by: rickb223

Hope no one reverses the name and then there is a sudden drop in the hobo/homeless population...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (UC3nL)

202 It's not even a protest. The very idea of calling this meltdown 'protesting' is just stupid. THEY ARE CLOSING THE BUSINESS.

In the most generous unicorn sugar and rainbows dreamland, how, exactly, do they think this 'protest' is going end with a beneficial outcome?

They don't know, and they don't want to think about it. This isn't a 'protest', its just a public struggle session so they can scream at the sky.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (setIA)

203 Largest pizza chain in the world?

Hunt Brothers Pizza.

No franchise fees.
You buy and own the equipment the oven, put up the sign and buy their ingredients.
That's why you see them everywhere now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (M8j2e)

Not the worst, but not all that good either. Primarily sold in gas stations and convenience stores........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

204 If Lefties were TRULY dedicated to the environment, they'd give up their coffee.

If they were TRULY dedicated, they'd mulch themselves.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (xCA6C)

205 The key to picking up girls is to be non-threatening and have some interesting or clever angle to the pick-up.

Yeah, that was never a strength of mine.

Posted by: Archimedes

Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform to you?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (lTGtQ)

206 *gazes over his empty field of fucks...*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (qZEuM)

207 Best coffee I ever had was at a McDonalds in Chicago O'Hare. I had been drinking coffee in Israel, France, Germany, and Switzerland. I fucking hated all of it. GIVE ME MERICAN JOE!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (pohLc)

208 Pro-tip: Go through life with as few things as possible hanging out of your nose.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (fvNG/)

209 My wife ran a business for awhile. I couldn't do it. The amount of stress you feel over something that your employees won't care about a tenth of what you do.

Now combine that with having to employ woke retards like this?

The quality of life improvement alone for that former business owner will be worth every cent they may have lost having to close.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (KbCG3)

210 Anything stopping the staff from renting the property themselves and starting up the business for themselves?
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 19, 2024 02:34 PM (f1kZG)

Ignorance. Sloth. Can't fit through the town hall's front door. The usual.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (BpZ5k)

211 am a great grandmother(!)now but I have had my nose pierced with a tiny gold hoop for years. It's something I had wanted since I was a child so I did it. Most people don't even notice. I don't know how anyone pierces their face, the pain would take me out.
Posted by: Megthered
____

Sorry I don’t like the hoop but I think a small jeweled stud is very sexy. Yeah weird that I see such a big difference between the two.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (SHMXB)

212 WTF is going on Philadelphia?

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

The City of Smotherly Love and Cheat'em Hall?

Have they torn down or otherwise defaced the "Rocky" statue yet?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (NGa9E)

213 199 Anything stopping the staff from renting the property themselves and starting up the business for themselves?

---

The staff themselves. The property owner tried to offer buyouts to the store managers, but none took it. Most of the staff wouldn't even talk to the guy, because they were all convinced he was just trying to talk them out of unionizing.

Sometimes the free money train just stops. Oops.

Posted by: Gaff at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (jPS2y)

214 In the most generous unicorn sugar and rainbows dreamland, how, exactly, do they think this 'protest' is going end with a beneficial outcome?

They don't know, and they don't want to think about it. This isn't a 'protest', its just a public struggle session so they can scream at the sky.

Look at ME!!!! Pay attention to ME!!!!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)

215 160 Congrats!

(also, where is your nose, if not on your face?)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June

You knew she meant facial piercings and not nose. I have a very small diamond stud. Had it fit awhile, I don’t even notice it anymore. But I do not like septum piercings, bridge piercings, eyebrow piercings, cheek, chin, etc. I don’t even like helix piercings or haith. But earrings on the lobe are fine.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (p4NUW)

216 Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform to you?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (lTGtQ)

LOL.

You have great looking boobs. Wanna go on a date?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (XkYcA)

217 Fortunately, I met my wife at work.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:34 PM (xCA6C)
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Same. She worked for the company in the office suite above ours. She made sure I saw her in the parking lot. Not that she really had to work at it, what with her being slim and elegant in her attire and obviously out of my league. Until it turned out she had noticed me a while back.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (tT6L1)

218 If they were TRULY dedicated, they'd mulch themselves.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (xCA6C)

Tsk tsk.

Never put fats in your compost heap. It'll go rancid and attract raccoons.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:37 PM (BpZ5k)

219 Best coffee I ever had was at a McDonalds in Chicago O'Hare. I had been drinking coffee in Israel, France, Germany, and Switzerland. I fucking hated all of it. GIVE ME MERICAN JOE!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (pohLc)

For a while, I was a big fan of Jack in the Box coffee. It was quite good. Then I went on a Dunkin tear for a spell.

Currently, it's 151 Coffee. Medium Americana, black.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 19, 2024 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

220 205
...
Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform to you?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (lTGtQ)

LOL, so wrong, but LOL...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:37 PM (ynpvh)

221 214 In the most generous unicorn sugar and rainbows dreamland, how, exactly, do they think this 'protest' is going end with a beneficial outcome?

They don't know, and they don't want to think about it. This isn't a 'protest', its just a public struggle session so they can scream at the sky.

Look at ME!!!! Pay attention to ME!!!!
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)

Its like the idiot anti oil folks who just defaced Stonehenge.... like that is going to make you ANY friends.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2024 02:37 PM (xaFKb)

222
You have great looking boobs. Wanna go on a date?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (XkYcA)

I'll get my coat!!!

Posted by: Chris Christie at June 19, 2024 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

223 the person that did my nose piercing had her cheeks pierced, her lower lips and the bridge of her nose had a bar through it. Those piercings would kill me.

Posted by: Megthered

If she sneezes, it will look just like a fountain.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:38 PM (lTGtQ)

224 I think people look terrible with facial studs. They particularly look awful with metal things hanging out of their nose, and it seems dangerous to me .If they get caught on something couldn't it rip off part of their nose?

People look terrible with virtually any kind of facial jewelry. Occasionally, a cute younger chick can pull off something relatively modest. But very few. I'm far more tolerant of alternative looks than most the Horde (dyed hair, tattoos, weird make up). But shiny metal shit in the face is just a bad choice.

Posted by: Two Cents at June 19, 2024 02:38 PM (JqIGQ)

225 I'm a regular Joe, and I like my joe regular.

Posted by: Martin Crane at June 19, 2024 02:38 PM (Oe90T)

226
But man, it's gotten expensive (like $20 for a large), so only order one for pickup on Tuesdays when they offer it for $12 (and I always throw in a $2 tip).
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:20 PM (NGa9E)

My better half has taken to making it herself at this point. She calc'd it out at a Cheese and a cheese and peperoni for dinner is under $10.

Better than anything I've ordered in as well.
Posted by: Inogame

Yup, Betterhalf's brother and family are in town. I have 12 pizza rounds proofing for cooking tonight in the pizza oven. We've prepped all the fixings as well.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 02:38 PM (UC3nL)

227 202 They don't know, and they don't want to think about it. This isn't a 'protest', its just a public struggle session so they can scream at the sky.
Posted by: DudeAbiding

Their time is better spent filling out job applications.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:38 PM (p4NUW)

228 ...Only place you can buy a slice of pizza in Houston is at the mall’s Sbarro.

One thing I liked about living in NY is all the small pizza shops sold by the slice.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (SHMXB)

This is NOT TRUE.

Try "Brooklyn Pizzeria" There's one on FM 1960 at Townsen Rd. Another on Garth Rd. in Baytown. Another somewhere in Sugarland. And a few more (8 in total), but I don't know those.

Fact: They have most all of their ingredients flown in from NYC on a weekly basis.

And they DO sell, by the slice. By the single, delicious, mouth-watering slice.

I took a co-worker there, he's a native of The Bronx. He took one bite of a slice of their Pepperoni Pizza, and said "I've just gone back home!"

Go find the Brooklyn Pizzaria closest to you, and *enjoy!*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (e6UQI)

229 There was a lovely young Asian woman who rode it at the same time, but I never got up enough courage to approach her. I wonder where she is now?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:19 PM (xCA6C)

My view on that was always nothing ventured, nothing gained. I would approach them in a parking lot and tap on their window.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:25 PM (pohLc)
_____

I'm ruthless and very very outgoing when it comes to hitting on ladies, but I don't think I'd confront them in their car like that. They might think it's a carjacking. The key to picking up girls is to be non-threatening and have some interesting or clever angle to the pick-up. Don't be the usual sketchy guys.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

Unless you're this guy.
https://youtube.com/shorts/tc38xG_-VpI
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (ynpvh)
________

Except that is almost certainly fake. You can tell from the multiple cuts and camera angles that it was staged and rehearsed. Good angle, though!

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

230 Yeah, I dunno the laws but I recall a business cannot close up shop due to unionization of its employees.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (kypKT)

231 Meanwhile Panera Bread continues to flourish.
Posted by: Results at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (Oe90T)

When you are given a waiver on minimum wage because of your political contributions it helps. Over priced shitty DEI food imo.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (SHMXB)

232
OUT: Gaslighting.
IN: Laptopping.

[h/t Kurt Schlichter]

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (NGa9E)

233 I've seen this behavior in the comics industry -- low-skilled, interchangeable clerical workers unionized at (I believe) IDW, demanding higher wages at a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy. They even demanded that they be granted veto authority over any comic book IDW intended to publish that they considered politically problematic.
++++
This is common, and it all boils down to one thing: overestimating one's own value.

It *really* sucks to learn that you've overestimated your value. Most people, I think, will go through this at least once, in some context. Reality is a cruel bitch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (d04cU)

234 I don't think my husband had a great pick up line either. We worked in the same place. His was "Want to go to the cafeteria to get a sandwich?". That was sometime in the previous century. We're still together.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:40 PM (XkYcA)

235 People look terrible with virtually any kind of facial jewelry. Occasionally, a cute younger chick can pull off something relatively modest. But very few. I'm far more tolerant of alternative looks than most the Horde (dyed hair, tattoos, weird make up). But shiny metal shit in the face is just a bad choice.
Posted by: Two Cents at June 19, 2024 02:38 PM (JqIGQ)
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*sobs*

Posted by: A Ubangi at June 19, 2024 02:40 PM (3Fz6p)

236 People look terrible with virtually any kind of facial jewelry. Occasionally, a cute younger chick can pull off something relatively modest. But very few. I'm far more tolerant of alternative looks than most the Horde (dyed hair, tattoos, weird make up). But shiny metal shit in the face is just a bad choice.
Posted by: Two Cents at June 19, 2024 02:38 PM (JqIGQ)

Any more piercings than ears, and I'm out of the dating pool...

Same with Tatoos... just don't find them attractive.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2024 02:40 PM (xaFKb)

237 You won't be rabble rousing and unionizing workers with a bull horn when you're living in a van down by the river!!!!

-Zombie Matt Foley

ha ha ha ha

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 19, 2024 02:40 PM (7keno)

238 198 Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (/Rqse)
Germany and Japan?
Gettin the Band back together?
Italy on Bass?
Posted by: Romeo13
------------------------

First thought across my mind especially considering these times.

more:“We have always had a very close relationship but, given the geostrategic and geopolitical changes in recent years, our cooperation is now more intense than ever before,”
_Ambassador Clemens von Goetze

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 02:40 PM (/Rqse)

239 Philadelphia "baristas" sure seem to have a very exaggerated sense of their economic necessity.
++++
Eh, if only it was that limited.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (d04cU)

240 Its like the idiot anti oil folks who just defaced Stonehenge.... like that is going to make you ANY friends.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2024 02:37 PM (xaFKb)

They have no conception of a victory condition. They want to destroy. They want others to be worse off. They are already programed to believe their own life will never, ever be good, because (patriarchy, racism, capitalism, joos, they discontinued the mcrib, etc). There's nothing for them to live for except to destroy. They're Reavers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (BpZ5k)

241 197 The key to picking up girls is to be non-threatening and have some interesting or clever angle to the pick-up.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:34 PM (xCA6C)

Place one arm around her back, under her arms, and the other behind her knees. Lift slowly.

Posted by: Auspex at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (j4U/Z)

242 It *really* sucks to learn that you've overestimated your value. Most people, I think, will go through this at least once, in some context. Reality is a cruel bitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (d04cU)

But.... but.... Mommy ALWAYS told them how Special they were!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (xaFKb)

243 If they were TRULY dedicated, they'd mulch themselves.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (xCA6C)

Tsk tsk.

Never put fats in your compost heap. It'll go rancid and attract raccoons.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
________

Isn't body composting a thing on the left now? And I'm serious. I've got a commie sibling who was talking about it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (Dm8we)

244 Picture

https://tinyurl.com/y6rx8h3m

Posted by: Ciampino - tongue studs are the most disgusting! at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (qfLjt)

245 Ace, please explain the Morons rights and benefits package again.
Posted by: Auspex
______

Whatever it is, we could negotiate for better.

Posted by: Commentators Union, Local #654 at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (fs1hN)

246 The rabble-rouser's picture makes me wonder if Sam Kinison stuck his dick in crazy a few times...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (O7YUW)

from rumors, Sam Kinnison ONLY stuck his dick in crazy.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (D7oie)

247 Sorry I don’t like the hoop but I think a small jeweled stud is very sexy.

Until she sneezes and the shrapnel takes you out.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (OuWLw)

248 Freshman of High School... TANSTAAFL... There aint no such thing as a Free Lunch... Basic Realities of the Economy, 101.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (xaFKb)

Unerringly useful in both politics and life. It's well represented in the Law of Conservation but they probably don't emphasize that one either.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (lX8VI)

249 Oh right -- it's a Soros Zone. Soros intends to destroy the cities and immiserate the population. But we can't say that because he'll order his paid media shills to claim that I'm antisemtic, even though he's not Jewish and is actually a Nazi collaborator.
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Yup. It's a "Soros Zone." Most US cities are, whether because they were actually purchased by Soros or one of his affiliates, or just because the governments are full of fellow travelers who don't need to get bought.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:42 PM (d04cU)

250 Isn't body composting a thing on the left now? And I'm serious. I've got a commie sibling who was talking about it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (Dm8we)
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Dirty smelly hippies have to explain the smell somehow....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 19, 2024 02:42 PM (tT6L1)

251 Yeah, I dunno the laws but I recall a business cannot close up shop due to unionization of its employees.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (kypKT)

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Sounds like Directive 10-289 out of "Atlas Shrugged."

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:42 PM (NGa9E)

252 171 Kappa Kappa Gamma Women Lose Last-Ditch Appeal To Remove “Voyeuristic” Trans-Identified Male From Their Sorority House
Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (GITLP)

I can't believe that is still happening..
Vote him out.
If you can't then everyone should leave...
Pretty sure the national sorority would listen if the house was empty.

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2024 02:42 PM (53oGX)

253 Yeah, I dunno the laws but I recall a business cannot close up shop due to unionization of its employees.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (kypKT)

They can if the unionization leads directly to bankruptcy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:42 PM (BpZ5k)

254 They're Reavers.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (BpZ5k)
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Gee, sure would be nice if we had some GRENADES, don't'cha think?

Posted by: Jayne Cobb at June 19, 2024 02:42 PM (3Fz6p)

255 211
Sorry I don’t like the hoop but I think a small jeweled stud is very sexy. Yeah weird that I see such a big difference between the two.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024

This is what I have, and it was pierced as part of a ceremony celebrating my Native American heritage. It’s special to me, it’s small. And if someone doesn’t like it, that’s okay. I won’t pierce their nose. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

256 Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (e6UQI)

You might as well told me to travel to Dallas. I live in the city and rarely go to those cities outside of Houston city limits.

Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:43 PM (SHMXB)

257 Pepperoni's Pizza in Houston also by the slice.
Was like $5 in 2021.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2024 02:43 PM (M8j2e)

258 Place one arm around her back, under her arms, and the other behind her knees. Lift slowly.
Posted by: Auspex at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM

And lift with your legs.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 19, 2024 02:43 PM (Wnv9h)

259 The rabble-rouser's picture

How do you jump start a millennial?
Touch a 9v battery to those studs.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2024 02:43 PM (OuWLw)

260 230 Yeah, I dunno the laws but I recall a business cannot close up shop due to unionization of its employees.

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I'm sure they'll try to sue the guy (with the local union's help), but if the business is already operating at a loss (and from what it sounds like, it was always operating at a loss and they closed 3 locations since COVID times and were going to close two more prior to all this happening to go down to only one), it's only a matter of time.

Gods of the Copybook Headings and all that.

Posted by: Gaff at June 19, 2024 02:43 PM (jPS2y)

261 But.... but.... Mommy ALWAYS told them how Special they were!
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (xaFKb)
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Yes, and she did them a disservice. But that's to be expected. It's what moms do. It's dad's job to pull you aside and say, "listen, son, what she just told you is bullshit. You're great. I'm proud of you. But you're barking up the wrong tree here. Open your eyes, and let's look at what might be realistic, eh?"

Moms aren't usually the ones to tell kids, "you're not college material." That's not what they do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:43 PM (d04cU)

262 I was recently helping my daughter get her remaining things of out the townhouse she stayed for her senior year at college. I found a Pizza Hut cup and said something like, "Wow. I haven't seen this logo in years."

She replied: "Yeah. They had an event with the college recently. They hosted a thing, and fed us. Like a focus group-type thing about what college students did and did not like about Pizza Hut, after being exposed to it. They lost me moments after I sat down and found dead bugs stuck to the table."

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at June 19, 2024 02:43 PM (JCLJi)

263 Papa Murphy's pizza is even better the next day.
My son's first job was at a newly opened franchise about 10 years ago. They were really really good then.
They have gone the way of hidden inflation with quantities by about 25% and prices have doubled. I've also run out of no expiration date $2 off coupons they were giving out early on.
Still one of the best deals out there on a Tuesday.
The Cowboy is to die for and will make 2 meals for two people.
Franchises available. I've thought about it. $250,000 to get one launched.

Posted by: Reforger at June 19, 2024 02:43 PM (xcIvR)

264 So in addition to being gay Macklemore likes Hamas? Can we arrange to get them to meet in person?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (oZhjI)

265 message to workers from OCF owners- needs to be narrated with an Irish accent. ha ha ha
It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the closure of all three OCF Coffee House locations. After 13 wonderful years of serving our beloved community, the time has come to say goodbye

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (7keno)

266 253 Yeah, I dunno the laws but I recall a business cannot close up shop due to unionization of its employees.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 19

If the company can show they are in financial distress and were seriously looking at shuttering prior to this, they absolutely can.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (p4NUW)

267 It *really* sucks to learn that you've overestimated your value. Most people, I think, will go through this at least once, in some context. Reality is a cruel bitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

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TARP may be long gone, but the locusts have been conditioned to believe there will always be a fresh pot of money.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (Ncjgr)

268 One thing I liked about living in NY is all the small pizza shops sold by the slice.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:24 PM (SHMXB)
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Sigh. Pizza by the slice is a wonderful thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (d04cU)

269 People look terrible with virtually any kind of facial jewelry. Occasionally, a cute younger chick can pull off something relatively modest. But very few. I'm far more tolerant of alternative looks than most the Horde (dyed hair, tattoos, weird make up). But shiny metal shit in the face is just a bad choice.
Posted by: Two Cents

One of the few women on whom I can tolerate jewelry. She'd still look better without it and the tats. The blue hair? I dunno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KKihg3Npug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiW_mvl4FFA

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (xCA6C)

270

Does that slovenly fat pig play for the Eagles?

Last time I was in Philly it was an absolute shitshow.

Smells horrible. The young people scribble all over their bodies and have no future.

The smell….probably close to what comes out of that swollen pigs gunt after a long day standing around.

That said Angelos makes a mean hoagie.

Posted by: Dr Huge Largemeat at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (mzXlG)

271 Kappa Kappa Gamma Women Lose Last-Ditch Appeal To Remove “Voyeuristic” Trans-Identified Male From Their Sorority House
Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:29 PM (GITLP)

I can't believe that is still happening..
Vote him out.
If you can't then everyone should leave...
Pretty sure the national sorority would listen if the house was empty.
Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2024 02:42 PM (53oGX)
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These stupid goofy bitches formally voted this creep into their sorority. He was a candidate like anyone else, and they formally voted to accept him. They fucked around. Now they are finding out. I have no sympathy.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

272 Isn't body composting a thing on the left now? And I'm serious. I've got a commie sibling who was talking about it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (Dm8we)

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IIRC it started -- as all modern Death Cult ideas have -- in Califzuela.

Green Burial and Ecological Death! Live forever as part of a redwood ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (NGa9E)

273 OT: https://youtube.com/shorts/dl8NjP2zVso

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (ynpvh)

274 This is what I have, and it was pierced as part of a ceremony celebrating my Native American heritage. It’s special to me, it’s small. And if someone doesn’t like it, that’s okay. I won’t pierce their nose. 🤣
Posted by: Piper

Much. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2024 02:45 PM (OuWLw)

275 @244/Ciampino: *hyurk*

On to other more pleasant topics, does it look like the launch is going on today around 5 PM? They had to defer yesterday due to high winds.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 19, 2024 02:45 PM (O7YUW)

276 266 If the company can show they are in financial distress and were seriously looking at shuttering prior to this, they absolutely can.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02

But they can’t shut down here and go reopen somewhere else if that wasn’t already in the works.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:45 PM (p4NUW)

277 You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.

Posted by: In the real world at June 19, 2024 02:45 PM (Oe90T)

278 >>>The key to picking up girls is to be non-threatening and have some interesting or clever angle to the pick-up.

May I suggest the technique of "peacocking"?

Posted by: Guy who's got a ferret under his Top-Hat at June 19, 2024 02:45 PM (KRtlO)

279 but parasites gonna parasite until the host is dead.

This covers the whole leeching class, which includes the illegal aliens.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 19, 2024 02:45 PM (+oR7L)

280 213 199 Anything stopping the staff from renting the property themselves and starting up the business for themselves?

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The staff themselves. The property owner tried to offer buyouts to the store managers, but none took it. Most of the staff wouldn't even talk to the guy, because they were all convinced he was just trying to talk them out of unionizing.

Sometimes the free money train just stops. Oops.
Posted by: Gaff at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (jPS2y)

Hard to rent when your credit score is lower than the average IQ

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2024 02:45 PM (53oGX)

281 But they can’t shut down here and go reopen somewhere else if that wasn’t already in the works.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:45 PM (p4NUW)
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They probably know that, and probably don't care. Per my understanding, it is primarily a real estate company. The coffee shops were probably a way to keep empty storefronts occupied or provide toy companies for the executives' wives. Not worth it. Just shut it down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:46 PM (d04cU)

282 you just stick the thing in the socket and the money comes flowing out, by magic.

To be fair, that's worked for me.

Posted by: Stormy D. at June 19, 2024 02:46 PM (w4St8)

283 Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform to you?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (lTGtQ)

I dated a lady for a while who worked in a commercial lab, She regularly denatured proteins with chloroform, and she thought that line was HILARIOUS

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2024 02:47 PM (D7oie)

284 Yeah, I dunno the laws but I recall a business cannot close up shop due to unionization of its employees.
___________

I think there might be a minimum number of employees for that requirement to apply. Title VII has it too. Federal discrimination laws only apply if you employ 15 or more.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2024 02:47 PM (Dm8we)

285 May I suggest the technique of "peacocking"?
Posted by: Guy who's got a ferret under his Top-Hat at June 19, 2024 02:45 PM (KRtlO)

You mean, like, R Kelly?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2024 02:47 PM (BpZ5k)

286 You knew she meant facial piercings and not nose.
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Yes, I knew. I was mildly teasing. I couldn't stop myself before I hit the "Post" button though. Believe it or not, I do stop myself sometimes and erase before posting.

Posted by: Commentators Union, Local #654 at June 19, 2024 02:47 PM (fs1hN)

287 ... The key to picking up girls is to be non-threatening and have some interesting or clever angle to the pick-up. Don't be the usual sketchy guys.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (iFTx/)
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The key to picking up a girl stranger is to be extremely hot, obscenely visibly wealthy, or already have a girl with you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:47 PM (d04cU)

288 I saw Atlas Shrugged Directive open up for the Stupid Dumb Libs in 1997.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 02:47 PM (lX8VI)

289 message to workers from OCF owners- needs to be narrated with an Irish accent. ha ha ha
It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the closure of all three OCF Coffee House locations. After 13 wonderful years of serving our beloved community, the time has come to say goodbye
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (7keno)
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Me mouth is like a dry crust, and the sun is that hot on me pate.

Posted by: Michaeleen Oge Flynn at June 19, 2024 02:47 PM (3Fz6p)

290 gah! off sock

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 19, 2024 02:48 PM (fs1hN)

291 Try "Brooklyn Pizzeria" There's one on FM 1960 at Townsen Rd. Another on Garth Rd. in Baytown. Another somewhere in Sugarland. And a few more (8 in total), but I don't know those.

Fact: They have most all of their ingredients flown in from NYC on a weekly basis.

And they DO sell, by the slice. By the single, delicious, mouth-watering slice.

I took a co-worker there, he's a native of The Bronx. He took one bite of a slice of their Pepperoni Pizza, and said "I've just gone back home!"

Go find the Brooklyn Pizzaria closest to you, and *enjoy!*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 19, 2024 02:39 PM (e6UQI)

I've been to their Atascocita location. Good stuff.

You will have to take out a small mortgage to buy several pies, but it is upper tier pizza.

Posted by: And Now I Want Pizza at June 19, 2024 02:48 PM (JqIGQ)

292 Coffee houses are for fags, europeans and other unwashed weirdos.

Be happy and save money, avoid coffee houses.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 19, 2024 02:48 PM (R/m4+)

293 These stupid goofy bitches formally voted this creep into their sorority. He was a candidate like anyone else, and they formally voted to accept him. They fucked around. Now they are finding out. I have no sympathy.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

And now you know why they fall for all the stupid BS the Feminists feed them.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 19, 2024 02:48 PM (pohLc)

294
I think there might be a minimum number of employees for that requirement to apply. Title VII has it too. Federal discrimination laws only apply if you employ 15 or more.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Micro unions are legal. All you need is 2, and there are cases of 1.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:48 PM (p4NUW)

295 The key to picking up a girl is to make sure the cloth is sufficiently soaked. None of this one or two drops stuff.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 02:48 PM (lX8VI)

296 216 Does this handkerchief smell like chloroform to you?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 19, 2024 02:35 PM (lTGtQ)

LOL.

You have great looking boobs. Wanna go on a date?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (XkYcA)

Before she became my wife (believe it or not), she came to my house and I was showing her around.
She pointed to the basement door and asked where the door lead to. I said the basement, she said lets see it.. and I responded oh you can me my ex if the concrete hasn't dried yet...

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2024 02:48 PM (53oGX)

297 Math is a bioch.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at June 19, 2024 02:48 PM (ytSiK)

298 This is a bat-shit insane story: ( it's a vid, no story link )

@scrowder
BREAKING: Leaked docs reveal cover-up at Ohio jail(
@butlersheriff @BCSOalerts) after Federal inmates coerced underage @ButlerTech interns into sex & felony ‘Illegal Conveyance of Prohibited Items’; Officials hid incident from @USMarshalsHQ to protect multi-million dollar contract

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 19, 2024 02:49 PM (IG4Id)

299 And leftist suck.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at June 19, 2024 02:49 PM (ytSiK)

300 >> They view money the way all leftists view electricity -- you just stick the thing in the socket and the money comes flowing out, by magic

The holes — Cosmo Kramer’s bootleg electrician friend

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 19, 2024 02:49 PM (xT8gx)

301 TBF, Pizza Hut's problems are almost entirely Pizza Hut's. Corporate has tried to make them into another Dominos and don't really need more of those.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at June 19, 2024 02:49 PM (zrlyb)

302 These stupid goofy bitches formally voted this creep into their sorority. He was a candidate like anyone else, and they formally voted to accept him. They fucked around. Now they are finding out. I have no sympathy.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (iFTx/)
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That's my understanding, too, and that they did so out of fear of reprisals from the central organization if they didn't.

Well okay. I'm still with you. Virtue signaling suddenly having consequences is not a bad thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:49 PM (d04cU)

303 The key to picking up a girl stranger is to be extremely hot, obscenely visibly wealthy, or already have a girl with you.

You're missing out on something.

Posted by: Lar G. Codpiece at June 19, 2024 02:49 PM (xCA6C)

304 @273/jim (in Kalifornia): *laughs* That's great.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 19, 2024 02:49 PM (O7YUW)

305 222
You have great looking boobs. Wanna go on a date?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:36 PM (XkYcA)

I'll get my coat!!!
Posted by: Chris Christie at June 19, 2024 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

She was talking to me, sir!
Here, have a burger.

Posted by: Chuck "mantits" Schumer at June 19, 2024 02:49 PM (53oGX)

306 What is, or more likely, was, the last worthy union??

Posted by: tubal at June 19, 2024 02:50 PM (PCK5/)

307 I want to know how they can justify unionizing on stolen indigenous lands?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2024 02:50 PM (M8j2e)

308 We're still together.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Muskrat Love

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 02:50 PM (/Rqse)

309 The key to picking up a girl stranger is to be extremely hot, obscenely visibly wealthy, or already have a girl with you.

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you can totally fake 2/3

Posted by: runner at June 19, 2024 02:51 PM (V13WU)

310 I want to know how they can justify unionizing on stolen indigenous lands?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2024 02:50 PM (M8j2e)
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Because they're doing it in the name of "cooperative economics" like the natives practiced?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:51 PM (d04cU)

311 Unionized Rape and Pillage I guess

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2024 02:51 PM (fwDg9)

312 The tats and piercing stuff on women is odd.

They signal "masculine" and so some times they are appealing on MEN to women. But...on women?

Especially because they have a strong "low class" vibe too.

But then again modern feminism says women should "defeat the male gaze" so I guess it makes sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2024 02:51 PM (oZhjI)

313 The Philadelphia elites are slick, and not all from Philly.

Until other desirable development - the right kind of gentrification - comes along, real estate LLCs often have coffee shops opened in potentially desirable areas of the future. They're charming, draw an interesting clientele, help make a community more walkable, quiet the radical leftists & new americans via jobs and provide a place to see & be seen.

Once gentrification sets in, down go the shops, out go the radicals and new americans - pushed towards the fringes of the city & eventually into the urbanized areas of the ring counties.

>New homes, condos in Philly qualify for a ten year (was double) ownership tax abatement plan. The well-to-do move in, own for about half the length of the plan, then they either sell & move out of the city, often down to the Delaware coast, or rent somewhere else. (Some repeat such moves back & forth multiple times over their lifetimes because Philly isn't outrageously expensive compared to other metropolitan areas.)

Philly may welcome the educated new americans but it keeps the others on a moving (out) cycle, such a NYC practices. (PA's Pocono Mts, etc.)

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 19, 2024 02:51 PM (NFX2v)

314 Muskrat Love
Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 02:50 PM (/Rqse)

We haven't actually been together since 1972-the date of that song. Only since the 80's.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:52 PM (XkYcA)

315 Isn't body composting a thing on the left now? And I'm serious. I've got a commie sibling who was talking about it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (Dm8we)

I used to do fieldwork and I would tell my boss my intended route. He finally asked why, and I told him it was so he ask the Sheriff to investigate elevated sales of quicklime and sailcloth in case I didn't come back.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 19, 2024 02:52 PM (D7oie)

316 We're still picketing the Blockbuster. They refuse to give us a raise.

We're not returning to work because no one should have to live off of 2005 era wages.

Posted by: Minute at June 19, 2024 02:52 PM (LaNzR)

317 NYP: "Alec Baldwin fired blank at crew member before fatal ‘Rust’ shooting"

Sure took a long time for THAT tidbit to drop.

Posted by: gp's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly at June 19, 2024 02:52 PM (MvF+J)

318 Fortunately, I met my wife at work.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:34 PM (xCA6C)

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Met almost all of my girlfriends (and now wife) at school or work.

Fantasized when young of meeting one in a library or athletic event (was always attracted to bookworms and athletes), but alas ... nary a one.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:52 PM (NGa9E)

319 Possum Love>>Muskrat Love

Posted by: tubal at June 19, 2024 02:52 PM (PCK5/)

320 But then again modern feminism says women should "defeat the male gaze" so I guess it makes sense.
_____

Yes!!!

Posted by: Large Marge, Former Barista at June 19, 2024 02:52 PM (fs1hN)

321 you can totally fake 2/3
Posted by: runner at June 19, 2024 02:51 PM (V13WU)
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Easily. Most people in the "obscenely visibly wealthy" category are faking it. To roll like that - designer clothes, flashy jewelry, hot cars, swank apartment, bottle service at the club, etc. - takes serious money. If you're doing that, you're either *actually* stupendously rich and have loads of cash to play around with or you're actually broke because you're spending every penny you own (and probably more besides) just to keep up appearances.

There are way, way more rich people who look and behave like normal joes. That's one of the ways they got - and stayed - rich.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:53 PM (d04cU)

322 NYP: "Alec Baldwin fired blank at crew member before fatal ‘Rust’ shooting"

Sure took a long time for THAT tidbit to drop.

Posted by: gp's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly at June 19, 2024 02:52 PM (MvF+J)

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"Cocking's for closers!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Mean Tweets Great Again! at June 19, 2024 02:53 PM (NGa9E)

323 The key to picking up a girl is to make sure the cloth is sufficiently soaked. None of this one or two drops stuff.

This is the kind of expert advice I come here for.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 19, 2024 02:53 PM (/y8xj)

324 It starts out the same as the other plans: a funeral home picks up the body of your loved one from the hospital, or your house, and takes it to their premises. But then it’s different.The funeral director bathes the body and dresses it in a compostable (cotton or something) garment. The family is invited to attend what’s called the “laying in ceremony”. The body is resting on a bed of straw and alfalfa. The family can say their goodbyes, and if they want, add flowers, favorite foods or other organics in. When they’re ready, the vessel is closed and terramation begins."

Posted by: Composting Facts at June 19, 2024 02:53 PM (vFG9F)

325 , or already have a girl with you.

"Pre-selection" is the term. It shows a new prospective female partner that at least some other women like you. And the higher status the woman you have with you the more the effect works.

So if you are single and have some female friends start trying to go out in public with them more...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2024 02:53 PM (oZhjI)

326 Huh, Adele has a show in Vegas. That's one I'd consider going to see, you know, if I sold my house.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:53 PM (xCA6C)

327 I don't go to Starbucks very often, but some of the kindly parents on FenSpouse's bus route gave him give cards for Starbucks-for transporting their kids safely- and we might as well use them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 02:54 PM (XkYcA)

328 I would not be surprised if a labor charge doesn’t happen, especially if a manager threatened closure during the organizing, but they can’t be forced to reopen, and if they get the right attorney, will be fine.

Or, hopefully, someone was smart enough to get someone else to talk about effects bargaining, which makes the union accepting the closing and just wanting to talk about how to handle the closure itself. Interesting to do this before your first CBA negotiations, but I guess it can happen like that. No need to negotiate if there is no work happening.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:54 PM (p4NUW)

329 While it's not a unionization issue, here are some 'folks' making demands of their employers down here.

Pay attention to the antics of the bullhorn carrying individual.

And understand exactly what it is that they are suffering from.

( If you can)

https://tinyurl.com/yrdajrr7

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 19, 2024 02:55 PM (a1415)

330 I met my wife on a street corner in Tampa at 2 AM.

Of course, it was New Year's night and everyone was out on the street because the bars had just closed.

But it's funnier to tell it my way.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 19, 2024 02:55 PM (KbCG3)

331 These stupid goofy bitches formally voted this creep into their sorority. He was a candidate like anyone else, and they formally voted to accept him. They fucked around. Now they are finding out. I have no sympathy.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

Maybe.

I was in a fraternity: Phi Kappa Psi. We supposedly had a unit rule: one blackball in a vote meant no invitation to join (that is, any one brother could torpedo a candidate). But in reality that's not how it worked at all. After a civil war resulting from failure to observe the unit rule, a majority decided to make up the membership shortfall created by those who left (because the unit rule wasn't being observed) by recruiting gay guys. I shit you not. It was plain that I was going to blackball all of these undesirables. And it was equally clear that my veto would be ignored. So I quit. TL;DR: I would not assume that all the girls had a say in membership.

Posted by: They Likely Did Not at June 19, 2024 02:55 PM (JqIGQ)

332 294
I think there might be a minimum number of employees for that requirement to apply. Title VII has it too. Federal discrimination laws only apply if you employ 15 or more.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Micro unions are legal. All you need is 2, and there are cases of 1.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 02:48 PM (p4NUW)

Aren't we all base unions of one?

Posted by: Deep thoughts at June 19, 2024 02:55 PM (53oGX)

333 Isn't body composting a thing on the left now? And I'm serious. I've got a commie sibling who was talking about it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2024 02:41 PM (Dm8we)
++++
I'm down with that, actually. Return me to the earth my dumping me in a ditch somewhere. Or stick me in a cardboard box. Whatever. I'm dead, it doesn't matter to me. I'll be remembered by people I love or I won't be.

I've never understood elaborate coffins and mausoleums and the like that costs thousands of dollars. Why? It is, in essence, being thrown away. I don't understand the "he was a good man and deserves an inner-spring mattress in a gold-inlayed mahogany box for his trip to eternity" thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:55 PM (d04cU)

334 269
One of the few women on whom I can tolerate jewelry. She'd still look better without it and the tats. The blue hair? I dunno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KKihg3Npug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiW_mvl4FFA

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:44 PM (xCA6C)
----
Funny that I knew who you were referencing before opening a link.
Yes, very hot.
Nice voice. I like their cover of Call Me (Blondie)
The hair will eventually wash out. It's the tats that annoy me.

Posted by: Ciampino - pretty pretty at June 19, 2024 02:56 PM (qfLjt)

335 Easily. Most people in the "obscenely visibly wealthy" category are faking it. To roll like that - designer clothes, flashy jewelry, hot cars, swank apartment, bottle service at the club, etc. - takes serious money. If you're doing that, you're either *actually* stupendously rich and have loads of cash to play around with or you're actually broke because you're spending every penny you own (and probably more besides) just to keep up appearances.

I saw a women talking about this amusingly enough...that most women have no idea what to look for if they want a guy with some money.

The tech company VP is likely wearing no-name jeans and a t-shirt. The guy that's scamming women though? He's got the designer suit and hits the fancy clubs...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2024 02:56 PM (oZhjI)

336 333 Provides habitat for rare lichens.

Posted by: gp's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly at June 19, 2024 02:56 PM (MvF+J)

337 And that was back in the mid90s, before the LGBT mob had everyone too cowed to fight.

Posted by: They Likely Did Not at June 19, 2024 02:56 PM (JqIGQ)

338 Chloroform is apparently really slow-acting, not like in the movies at all. We're talking on the order of tens of minutes to take effect.

Not that I know from any first-hand experience, mind you.

Posted by: spindrift at June 19, 2024 02:57 PM (OguvZ)

339 Someday Mexican roofers, drywallers, lawn maintenance and taqueria workers will unionize… I will point and laugh at the Progs…

Posted by: tubal at June 19, 2024 02:57 PM (PCK5/)

340 Pizza Hut in my AO was owned by a group of Flip Gangstas and they closed up a few weeks ago.

No one knows why and I am happy to see them go.

If you eat Pizza Hut you won't shit right for a week.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 19, 2024 02:57 PM (R/m4+)

341 While Japan and Germany are playing footsie again...

Putin and Kim sign mutual defense pact in dramatic upgrade of ties

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 02:58 PM (/Rqse)

342 Not that I know from any first-hand experience, mind you.
Posted by: spindrift at June 19, 2024 02:57 PM (OguvZ)
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Suuuuuuuuure. I know you were in Chloroform Club in junior high, don't you lie to me. All the kids in Chloroform Club, uhhh, "experimented" with the stuff. In the name of science and education, of course!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:58 PM (d04cU)

343 Funny that I knew who you were referencing before opening a link.
Yes, very hot.
Nice voice. I like their cover of Call Me (Blondie)
The hair will eventually wash out. It's the tats that annoy me.

Here's one of my newer favorites, for obvious reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVQR1Sh48FY

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 02:58 PM (xCA6C)

344 Sure took a long time for THAT tidbit to drop.

Posted by: gp's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly at June 19, 2024 02:52 PM (MvF+J)

Three years.

Right on schedule.

Posted by: ... at June 19, 2024 02:58 PM (lX8VI)

345 Pizza Hut's problems started when they got rid of the pan pizza.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 02:59 PM (UC3nL)

346 Someday Mexican roofers, drywallers, lawn maintenance and taqueria workers will unionize… I will point and laugh at the Progs…

I ended up on an email list for working moms with kids in my very blue area and they were all AWFLs.

I remember in one email exchange an AWFL was *pissed* that an American girl had applied to work for her as a nanny and wanted $20/hr. She pointed out she eventually hired "Maria" for $10/hr who also did the cooking and cleaning and never, ever asked for evenings off.

At the same time the "fight for a living wage" was big with the same subset...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2024 02:59 PM (oZhjI)

347 Chloroform is apparently really slow-acting, not like in the movies at all. We're talking on the order of tens of minutes to take effect.

Not that I know from any first-hand experience, mind you.
Posted by: spindrift

Good old fashioned Halothane. *sketchy eyes*

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2024 02:59 PM (OuWLw)

348 WTF is going on Philadelphia? Do they just want to drive all small shops out of business?
______
That is a big part of the Democrats' schemes. They CLAIM to be for the little guy, but as soon as they have any power, it's Kulaks, watch out.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 03:00 PM (1bNHn)

349 "Pizza Hut in my AO was owned by a group of Flip Gangstas and they closed up a few weeks ago.

No one knows why and I am happy to see them go.
"

I believe that our local Pizza Huts are owned by the same group that owns the ones that got shut down the other day.

Nastiest pizza, served in the dirtiest of restaurants ever.

They can't close up shop soon enough for me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 19, 2024 03:00 PM (a1415)

350 "Chloroform is apparently really slow-acting"

Gotta boof it.

Posted by: gp's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly at June 19, 2024 03:00 PM (MvF+J)

351 *And understand exactly what it is that they are suffering from.

( If you can)*

They're protesting the weather!

Posted by: Where's Greta? at June 19, 2024 03:00 PM (Oe90T)

352 Here's one of my newer favorites, for obvious reasons.
____

Ah yes. The platinum blond highlights do go nicely with the blue hair.

Posted by: Missing the Obvious at June 19, 2024 03:00 PM (fs1hN)

353 Pizza Hut's problems started when they got rid of the pan pizza.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 02:59 PM (UC3nL)
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And it's impossible to give them your money.

If you go to order online, they make you register for an account. Hard pass.

If you call the store, you get dumped into a centralized IVR voice-recognition system where you can laboriously speak like a robot who was taught to talk by Yoda and eventually, after 15 minutes, have the damn computer read back your order correctly so you can place the order.

It is the single most user-hostile ordering system I have encountered at a retail establishment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 03:01 PM (d04cU)

354 306 What is, or more likely, was, the last worthy union??
Posted by: tubal at June

None. But if you made me pick, IBEW.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 03:01 PM (p4NUW)

355 So proud

San Francisco named worst-run city in United States, WalletHub study says
https://tinyurl.com/m8mw323u

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2024 03:01 PM (RIvkX)

356 Question: Is that s/he/it pictured above related to Brian Stelter?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2024 03:02 PM (1bNHn)

357 Ah yes. The platinum blond highlights do go nicely with the blue hair.

And yet, she's insanely talented.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 03:02 PM (xCA6C)

358 I was administered Halothane in the early 1960s, back when they had the 200-proof stuff. Highly recommended.

Posted by: gp's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly at June 19, 2024 03:02 PM (MvF+J)

359 It’s the fault of free trade. Everything is.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 19, 2024 03:03 PM (8sMut)

360 And understand exactly what it is that they are suffering from.

( If you can)

https://tinyurl.com/yrdajrr7
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 19, 2024 02:55 PM (a1415)

Free Shit Army member.

This 'unsafe' stuff is becoming trite and whiny.
If you don't like the heat, call off work and don't get paid.

Basically, fuck off.

Or make yourself more attractive by developing more skillz, yo!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 19, 2024 03:03 PM (ufFY8)

361 "Here's one of my newer favorites, for obvious reasons. "

She's got 'Heft' in all the right locations.

Reminds me a little bit of Cameron Diaz in the face.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 19, 2024 03:03 PM (a1415)

362 It is the single most user-hostile ordering system I have encountered at a retail establishment.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 03:01 PM (d04cU)
====

I've spent the morning surveilling our company's receptionists to see how well they do with prospective customers.

Not good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2024 03:03 PM (RIvkX)

363 Pizza Hut had great creamy tangy Italian dressing. Then the one in my town got rid of the salad bar where I would always get salad with my take out pizza. Then it closed. It was the loss of the Italian dressing that did them in

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 19, 2024 03:04 PM (KhB32)

364 None. But if you made me pick, IBEW.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 03:01 PM (p4NUW)

Or the ISBPW (International Sisterhood of Brass Pole Workers)

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 19, 2024 03:04 PM (ufFY8)

365 I'm down with that, actually. Return me to the earth my dumping me in a ditch somewhere. Or stick me in a cardboard box. Whatever. I'm dead, it doesn't matter to me. I'll be remembered by people I love or I won't be.

I've never understood elaborate coffins and mausoleums and the like that costs thousands of dollars. Why? It is, in essence, being thrown away. I don't understand the "he was a good man and deserves an inner-spring mattress in a gold-inlayed mahogany box for his trip to eternity" thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
__________

I'm with you on the elaborate coffins, but cemeteries provide a valuable link with our past.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2024 03:05 PM (Dm8we)

366 O/T, I finally ran out of protein powder and am trying a new variety. On paper, it's the superior product. More protein, but also with no sugar at all at the same price. Sounded good to me.

The downside is that it doesn't taste anything like as good. It isn't vile or anything, but it's decided inferior in the flavor department. Oh well. I'll be having it for a few months, so maybe it'll go grow on me...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 03:05 PM (d04cU)

367 If you can't get accounts receivable right, might as well close up shop.

Posted by: gp's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly at June 19, 2024 03:06 PM (MvF+J)

368 So apparently every VA facility is closed today.

For Juneteenth.

Who knew?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 19, 2024 03:06 PM (a1415)

369 On the bright side, they are free from job lock and they can leverage their shared experience into setting up their own business...

Why are you people laughing?

Posted by: NR Pax at June 19, 2024 03:06 PM (lXCUP)

370 I'm down with that, actually. Return me to the earth my dumping me in a ditch somewhere. Or stick me in a cardboard box. Whatever. I'm dead, it doesn't matter to me. I'll be remembered by people I love or I won't be.

I've never understood elaborate coffins and mausoleums and the like that costs thousands of dollars. Why? It is, in essence, being thrown away. I don't understand the "he was a good man and deserves an inner-spring mattress in a gold-inlayed mahogany box for his trip to eternity" thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Fist bump.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2024 03:06 PM (OuWLw)

371 I've spent the morning surveilling our company's receptionists

I spent every morning surveilling the receptionists, IYKWIMAITTYD.

Posted by: Don Draper at June 19, 2024 03:06 PM (OguvZ)

372 312
Especially because they have a strong "low class" vibe too.

But then again modern feminism says women should "defeat the male gaze" so I guess it makes sense.
Posted by: 18-1 at June

Women have been tatted and pierced for centuries. I am not a fan of anyone being heavily tatted, or heavily pierced, it’s just not my aesthetic. But as mentioned, I do have a small stud in my nose. I can also promise I don’t give a low class vibe. Even at my poorest, I didn’t give this vibe.

But to each his own, truly. I am not a raging fem, obviously, and not looking to avert gazes. I mean if you want to gaze at my 53 year old self, have at it! ☺️

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 03:06 PM (p4NUW)

373 I'm with you on the elaborate coffins, but cemeteries provide a valuable link with our past.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 19, 2024 03:05 PM (Dm8we)
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Yup, absolutely true. Cemeteries provide a vital function, in whatever form they take (be they graveyards, columbaria, etc.).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 03:06 PM (d04cU)

374 The downside is that it doesn't taste anything like as good.
so maybe it'll go grow on me...
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Add sugar

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 03:07 PM (UC3nL)

375 Women have been tatted and pierced for centuries. I am not a fan of anyone being heavily tatted, or heavily pierced, it’s just not my aesthetic. But as mentioned, I do have a small stud in my nose. I can also promise I don’t give a low class vibe. Even at my poorest, I didn’t give this vibe. ...
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 03:06 PM (p4NUW)
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A small stud in a nostril is the only facial piercing that I not only don't find revolting, I think it can be attractive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 03:07 PM (d04cU)

376 >364 None. But if you made me pick, IBEW.
Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 03:01 PM (p4NUW)

Meta Babci (grandma for youse non-Polaks) was a dress maker. I gotta go with ILGWU. Look for the union label.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at June 19, 2024 03:08 PM (NgqoH)

377 366 The downside is that it doesn't taste anything like as good. It isn't vile or anything, but it's decided inferior in the flavor department. Oh well. I'll be having it for a few months, so maybe it'll go grow on me...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024

My favorite is Kachava. It’s just stupidly expensive. No chalkiness at all.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 03:08 PM (p4NUW)

378 329.

Jordan Barab, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, OSHA, US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
7mo

Florida businesses try to kill workplace heat protections in Miami-Dade County, threatening loss of jobs while workers get sick and die of heat-related illnesses.

In other words: Job Blackmail. Your job or your life. You can't have both.
-------------
There's a specific, recognized/legal manner to measure for heat stress v. employment and helpful guidelines developed.

However, OSHA has recently issued some BS citations for heat stress and would like to spread them nationwide, supporting labor.

Jordan is a nut, imo.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 19, 2024 03:08 PM (NFX2v)

379 You know what we should consider bringing back to the blog....

Fuck-it-all Fridays!!!

Sort of like 'First World Problems threads.

But edgier.

And I got a few...boy, do I got a few to mention.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 19, 2024 03:08 PM (a1415)

380 My working assumption when one of the Horde says he or she has a piercing or tat or whatever is that they look perfectly fine. This isn't a hive of scum and villainy.

Posted by: I'm at June 19, 2024 03:08 PM (JqIGQ)

381 I was administered Halothane in the early 1960s, back when they had the 200-proof stuff. Highly recommended.
Posted by: gp's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

That's what we used to put down critters when I was rehabbing wildlife. Safe. Effective. Painless.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2024 03:09 PM (OuWLw)

382 Add sugar
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 03:07 PM (UC3nL)
++++
No thank you. I'd rather deal with it. My life is so much better since essentially cutting out refined sugar. The old protein powder was the only sugar in my diet that didn't come from fruits or vegetables.

More importantly, I *never* get brain fog anymore. It wasn't commonplace before, but it literally never happens now since cutting out sugar.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 03:09 PM (d04cU)

383 Bangable....

With a truck....

Posted by: Stateless at June 19, 2024 03:09 PM (jvJvP)

384 San Fran Psycho

How far is Oakland from San Francisco? The Oakland Mayor sounds like a nutcase:

tinyurl.com/4jmscmr4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 03:10 PM (XkYcA)

385
When they decided to unionize, the real estate company decided that they really weren't in the coffee shop business that required complicated dealings with unions.
Posted by: SMOD at June 19, 2024 02:14 PM (GITLP)

People forget just what a pain in the ass it is to deal with unions.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 19, 2024 03:10 PM (8sMut)

386 If your replacement can be taught your job skill in less than an hour, you are not skilled labor.

Unskilled labor rare did well in the American Labor Movement.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 19, 2024 03:10 PM (VuZH8)

387 Die pizza. Die. Your pizzas made bad dog food. All the big chains, worse than pizza in a can.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 19, 2024 03:11 PM (J8LnB)

388 I *never* get brain fog anymore. It wasn't commonplace before, but it literally never happens now since cutting out sugar.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

And I remember you've been successful with your weight loss as well.
Congrats (the sugar comment was in jest, really).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 19, 2024 03:11 PM (UC3nL)

389 I've never understood elaborate coffins and mausoleums and the like that costs thousands of dollars. Why? It is, in essence, being thrown away. I don't understand the "he was a good man and deserves an inner-spring mattress in a gold-inlayed mahogany box for his trip to eternity" thing.

I agree.

Unless, against all odds, I realize my ambition to become Lord of the Wasteland. In which event, my pyramid will be really impressive.

Posted by: Humungous at June 19, 2024 03:12 PM (JqIGQ)

390 387 Shakey's was good.

Posted by: gp's Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly at June 19, 2024 03:12 PM (MvF+J)

391 338 Chloroform is apparently really slow-acting, not like in the movies at all. We're talking on the order of tens of minutes to take effect.

Not that I know from any first-hand experience, mind you.

Posted by: spindrift at June 19, 2024 02:57 PM (OguvZ)
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I had my tonsils out as a small child in the early 50s. Chloroform. When I got into Chemistry and Biology I immediately recognized the smell.
It takes about a minute to put me out - we did have CHCl3 parties in boarding school.

Posted by: Ciampino - dangerous games at June 19, 2024 03:12 PM (qfLjt)

392 The key to picking up a girl stranger is to be extremely hot, obscenely visibly wealthy, or already have a girl with you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 19, 2024 02:47 PM (d04cU)

Funny. I only recently started getting the nerve/feeling a need to take myself out to eat now and then. I went to a Texas Roadhouse Friday night with a Mother's Day gift card from my daughter and her fiance. Was finishing up my meal when a man sat down next to me and started making small talk. Within 2 minutes he'd told me that he had two businesses. Alarms went off, and I bolted. Not looking for money. Now, if he'd made me laugh? Might've been different story.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at June 19, 2024 03:12 PM (JCLJi)

393 Did you cut out physical sugar such as a teaspoon in the coffee or food made with sugar also?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 03:12 PM (/Rqse)

394 Florida businesses try to kill workplace heat protections in Miami-Dade County, threatening loss of jobs while workers get sick and die of heat-related illnesses.
In other words: Job Blackmail. Your job or your life. You can't have both.

Years ago I worked in a bottling plant in South Floriduh. Lulu, an older black lady, passed out from the heat on the line. I got her to a cool spot and started to do the Heat Stroke/Heat Exhaustion thing for her to cool her down. All the black guys on the line laughed at her and told her to get her ass back to work.

Savages.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 19, 2024 03:12 PM (R/m4+)

395 Didn’t some Monastery sue the State of I think Louisiana for the right to sell wooden coffins because they didn’t belong to the some dumb organization. They just make wooden coffins for a good price so they had to be shut down

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at June 19, 2024 03:12 PM (FCrpy)

396 "Florida businesses try to kill workplace heat protections in Miami-Dade County, threatening loss of jobs while workers get sick and die of heat-related illnesses. "

Yeh, I get it.

The location these folks are protesting at is a mall.

Three restaurants inside the mall are the closest thing to heat generating businesses in the entire location.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 19, 2024 03:13 PM (a1415)

397 UPS Agreement with Teamsters on Heat Safety
06-13-2023
Agreement includes new measures that build on important actions rolled out to UPS employees in the spring

FJB's guys. It's not going to work. Talk about supply line issues, here's the future.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 19, 2024 03:14 PM (NFX2v)

398 How far is Oakland from San Francisco? The Oakland Mayor sounds like a nutcase:

tinyurl.com/4jmscmr4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 19, 2024 03:10 PM (XkYcA)
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However long it takes to cross the Bay bridge.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2024 03:14 PM (RIvkX)

399 First story out that would make sense, he did it in anger but guess he just didn't know it was a live round.

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2024 03:14 PM (fwDg9)

400 Nice voice. I like their cover of Call Me (Blondie)

That's also very good. She is just incandescent.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 19, 2024 03:14 PM (xCA6C)

401 Baldwin nood...

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2024 03:14 PM (53oGX)

402 Human Body Composting
Now Legal in Rhode Island:
https://tinyurl.com/4jd6vaz7

Posted by: Kathy at June 19, 2024 03:16 PM (p69D5)

403 we did have CHCl3 parties in boarding school.

Posted by: Ciampino - dangerous games
----------------------------

Oh, my.

_said in Jack Benny voice

Posted by: Braenyard at June 19, 2024 03:16 PM (/Rqse)

404 395 Didn’t some Monastery sue the State of I think Louisiana for the right to sell wooden coffins because they didn’t belong to the some dumb organization. They just make wooden coffins for a good price so they had to be shut down
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at

I heard Costco sells coffins.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 19, 2024 03:16 PM (6IAhu)

405 It is the single most user-hostile ordering system I have encountered at a retail establishment.

For contrast, my FIL orders take-out every other week or so from a particular store that is part of a chain or franchise. They recognize his number and answer with "Hi Jim. Your usual?"

Posted by: Oddbob at June 19, 2024 03:16 PM (/y8xj)

406 397 UPS Agreement with Teamsters on Heat Safety
06-13-2023
Agreement includes new measures that build on important actions rolled out to UPS employees in the spring

FJB's guys. It's not going to work. Talk about supply line issues, here's the future.
Posted by: L - If they do it

Teamsters have this safety program they want all the companies they work for to support. I don’t remember details because I tuned out during every presentation, and always ended by asking if they would share in any fines from a safety audit if we were to “partner”. Shockingly, it was a no. So we moved on.

Posted by: Piper at June 19, 2024 03:17 PM (p4NUW)

407 Shakey's was good. I totally blotted that out of my mind.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 19, 2024 03:21 PM (J8LnB)

408 1Meanwhile Panera Bread continues to flourish.

Posted by: Results

I know. Right?

Gavin Newsom

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 19, 2024 03:25 PM (JkCto)

409
Ain't noting cheap anymore except Ramen.
Posted by: JustSpitballin at June 19, 2024 02:22 PM (6ydKt)

I’m old enough to remember when you could get 5 for $1. 2 for $1 now.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 19, 2024 03:28 PM (8sMut)

410 394. Posted by: Hairyback Guy

That's sad. It was good of you, too.

I've been in bottling plants, up on glass tanks, in forging areas, on manufacturing lines, in firerooms of ships under rehab, etc. and they can be so hot & standing while performing a job doesn't help. I've seen people come from working on top of 'tanks' and, hours later, have heart attacks. Proving a legal relationship is difficult.

There's are decent guidelines for rest periods, cooling rooms/areas etc. There should be fitness for duty PEs for many jobs. Unfortunately, there is only one way to take legal measurements - temperature AND humidity - for 'heat stress,' but that doesn't mean a private employer needn't have a decent Occupational safety and health Program for its employees, including ppe, etc. as applicable.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 19, 2024 03:30 PM (NFX2v)

411 20 years ago they were Starbucks and connected to the BN I frequented. They actually closed before BN did which I still go to . Except now it’s the home of the famous in gun circles, Collector’s Firearms.
Posted by: polynikes at June 19, 2024 02:27 PM (SHMXB)

I have been there when it was a B&N and when it became Collector’s Firearms, I know exactly of what you speak.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 19, 2024 03:37 PM (8sMut)

412 Nood!

Posted by: NR Pax at June 19, 2024 03:39 PM (lXCUP)

413 ot:

Tell me teh horde already covered the nutritional value of blood for lichen. Because a head slam into stone is an ancient tradition, esp. of the encumbered.

Posted by: DaveA at June 19, 2024 03:43 PM (FhXTo)

414
"Yeah, but, I mean, for a career."

"Career?"

"Uh, I guess you can make a career out of being a barista."

"I could. But the business closed."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 19, 2024 02:32 PM (KbCG3)

There are no jobs anymore. ONLY careers, Go to any high school or any business’s website to apply for a job. You can’t anymore. They are ALL careers.

Because people can’t figure out that you CANNOT have a CAREER without first having a JOB.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 19, 2024 03:44 PM (8sMut)

415 If Lefties were TRULY dedicated to the environment, they'd give up their coffee.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (ynpvh)

I buy fair trade, shade grown coffee that is RESPONSIBLY RAISED.

Posted by: Leftists at June 19, 2024 03:54 PM (8sMut)

416 Their "union" should make an offer to purchase the shops, they have a real opportunity to show how it's supposed to be done.

Posted by: TC at June 19, 2024 04:26 PM (PeNe0)

417 415 If Lefties were TRULY dedicated to the environment, they'd give up their coffee.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 02:33 PM (ynpvh)

I buy fair trade, shade grown coffee that is RESPONSIBLY RAISED.

Posted by: Leftists at June 19, 2024 03:54 PM (8sMut)

By Underage kids after they finish mining blood diamonds and lithium for your electric cars.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 19, 2024 04:28 PM (ynpvh)

418 My favorite part of the OCF fiasco is the dumbasses complaining that they hadn't even met to discuss what the workers wanted in collective bargaining.

As if you retards hadn't already been bitching at them for what you thought you deserved.

Posted by: deadrody at June 19, 2024 06:10 PM (+iDGk)

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Kafiyeh-Wearing Rainbow Warriors Bravely Unionize to Get High Wages at a... Coffee Shop.Eight Days Later, the Owners Close Their Three Coffee Shops.

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Kafiyeh-Wearing Rainbow Warriors Bravely Unionize to Get High Wages at a... Coffee Shop.
Eight Days Later, the Owners Close Their Three Coffee Shops.