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Besesoth posted:"Just saying 20 ounce" is literally what you're doing when you order a venti. You're just doing it in Italian. "Kan ek asseblief 'n een-en-twintig stuk emmer diepgebraaide hoender kry?" "Jy bedoel 'n "21-piece bucket"?" "Oooh! Fancy!"
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quote:asseblief This might be my new favorite foreign word.
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Mouse Dresser posted:Marineland is awesome. There is a pit full of the laziest bears on earth and you can feed them special bear snacks. Toss what looks like a corn pop at a lazy fat bear and it catches it in its mouth. If it doesn't catch it it just looks at you like you threw it badly. Marineland has been in and out of the news lately for some pretty gross mistreatment of their animals, though tbf I don't remember anything about the bears.
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Meltathon posted:Way way back, Pizza Hut used to do a lunch rush special, but it was for in-restaurant only. They were smart enough to put a timer on your table once you ordered though, so at least there was nothing to argue over. Plus it was pizza, so it was simple, and not a bunch of different menu options like a regular restaurant. The best thing Pizza Hut did to get the lunch rush was just have a pizza buffet. Like really, buffets are popular lunch places for a drat reason.
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AtomD posted:"Kan ek asseblief 'n een-en-twintig stuk emmer diepgebraaide hoender kry?" Oh god, I can hear the accents!! Son of Thunderbeast posted:This might be my new favorite foreign word. Much like Tokyo Sexwale, it's not nearly as fun when you hear it spoken out loud.
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:Racist pedo I always come back to cars. What other product actually shows the product or service being used in an illegal and unrealistic way as the only means to sell the product? HIGH PERFORMANCE 400 HORSE POWER ENGINE! (illegal to use it!). SUPER SPORT SUSPENSION! (Please don't drive this fast) CAN GO FROM 50 TO 0 WITH OUR MEGA BRAKE PACKAGE IN 5 FEET( can't really do this, drive safely!  )There are other products that use cgi to sell, like cosmetics for example. But I can't think another type of product thay is explicitly illegal and unrealistic about itself and be completely serious about it.
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bobjr posted:Probably inspired by the 30 minutes or less thing Pizza delivery did before, thinking people would want their food fast and not expect people to be pedantic about time. Of course that stopped when pizza delivery people were getting in crashes desperately trying to make time and pizza companies being liable for the accidents. I forget if that was already talked about in this thread or not but I've seen it discussed in one thread in PYF. There was this weird pseudo arms race between the pizza delivery companies and the 30 mins thing was supposed to be the silver bullet. The pizza companies started getting sued into oblivion by victims of car wrecks caused by pizza delivery drivers and suddenly someone in legal realized that by making drivers financially liable for any late delivery they created an atmosphere where the employees were essentially forced to break traffic laws constantly in order to get paid and the company as a whole could be held accountable for that one guy in Ohio who hit and run a small child on his delivery route.
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Pulled up Shazam the other day and saw the weirdest ad. It looked like it was for a luxury car or something at first. Nope. Turned out to be an ad for a Lockheed Martin stealth bomber. The hell?
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Jastiger posted:I always come back to cars. What other product actually shows the product or service being used in an illegal and unrealistic way as the only means to sell the product? HIGH PERFORMANCE 400 HORSE POWER ENGINE! (illegal to use it!). SUPER SPORT SUSPENSION! (Please don't drive this fast) CAN GO FROM 50 TO 0 WITH OUR MEGA BRAKE PACKAGE IN 5 FEET( can't really do this, drive safely! It's all about dick waving around the office water cooler, really. Nobody ever really uses the high performance on the vehicles they use but they like to brag about because, you know, I have this just in case I need it (you will never need to go 200 miles an hour you dumb poo poo). Oh your car goes 0 to 60 in 5 seconds? Mine does it in 4.8. No I've never actually tested it but I'm sure it does they can't lie in advertisements can they?
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hyperhazard posted:Pulled up Shazam the other day and saw the weirdest ad. It looked like it was for a luxury car or something at first.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Wow, dumb move in marketing is an understatement here. My favorite Twitter comment so far: Best one I've seen is "I don't have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you and still make my train." Article about the hands-on experience thus far: http://www.fastcocreate.com/3043852/this-is-what-happens-when-you-walk-into-starbucks-and-talk-to-the-barista-about-race quote:When I make my final coffee order, from another barista who is black, I have the following exchange:
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Ego-bot posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marineland_(Ontario) Bro did you miss that they have a bear pit? I'm only human.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Bro did you miss that they have a bear pit? I'm only human. If it's bears you want, I know of this guy Tim who'll take you right up to 'em in the wild. Even grizzlies!
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mind the walrus posted:I used to work in a Starbucks. I never once heard anyone correct anyone over referring to a Venti as a Large because no one gave a flying gently caress and everyone understood what they meant. I'm envious that you've never worked with or encountered jackasses or zealots even once in your entire life.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:02
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Grey Fox posted:The ads are for the rich politicians that control the military's budget (i.e., people that already respond positively to that kind of ad), not the people that would actually work with the planes. Take the subway to the Pentagon and Capitol Hill and you'll see poo poo like that everywhere. If you want fighter jets just save up your pepsi points.
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What size soda would you like? Medium. Is Regular OK? Probably!
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I used to work at a non-Starbucks coffee shop. About ten percent of the people who asked for a "tall" drink actually wanted a large.
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What was that newspaper comic that had a week-long shitfit about cup sizes in small and large? The protagonist went on and on and on and on about how those sizes couldn't exist without a medium to compare to? Or something like that. I feel the series should be posted here.
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Picnic Princess posted:What was that newspaper comic that had a week-long shitfit about cup sizes in small and large? The protagonist went on and on and on and on about how those sizes couldn't exist without a medium to compare to? Or something like that. I feel the series should be posted here. Dustin. The same comic where the writer or artist thinks baggers makes $20 an hour and the entire premise is Dustin can't keep a job because this generation is sooooo lazy.
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Picnic Princess posted:What was that newspaper comic that had a week-long shitfit about cup sizes in small and large?
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R.C. Pro Am Porn posted:I used to work at a non-Starbucks coffee shop. About ten percent of the people who asked for a "tall" drink actually wanted a large. Did your large compare volumetrically to a tall? I find a lot of independent coffee shops have smaller sizes that Starbucks.
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Picnic Princess posted:What was that newspaper comic that had a week-long shitfit about cup sizes in small and large? The protagonist went on and on and on and on about how those sizes couldn't exist without a medium to compare to? Or something like that. I feel the series should be posted here. I thought it was the other way around, where they were offering "medium" and "large" but no small (this was actually a thing with fast food places for a while, but naturally I think that most of them had gone back to small/medium/large a couple of years before the infamous comic strip meltdown.)
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Gabriel Pope posted:I thought it was the other way around, where they were offering "medium" and "large" but no small (this was actually a thing with fast food places for a while, but naturally I think that most of them had gone back to small/medium/large a couple of years before the infamous comic strip meltdown.) Yeah, it was medium and large, and there were multiple strips (and even more edits) devoted to the "how can you call something 'medium' if there's no 'small' tirade?
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I am actually curious why it is that way. Is it because they had a small and discontinued it or is it some mental thing? I guess this is pointed more at McDonald's than anything else. Pretty sure their sizes are M/L/XL (or supersize). Why not just call them S/M/L? Is it because people believe that bigger = better and will tend to order the even "larger" size?
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MindlessHavok posted:I am actually curious why it is that way. Is it because they had a small and discontinued it or is it some mental thing? It varies by place. Some places will reduce the portion sizes but call things M/L/XL afterwards. McDonald's removed super size because of the criticism that their food was unhealthy and enormous. Some places just embrace the gluttony and say "yeah you can have big, bigger, or elephantine."
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MindlessHavok posted:I am actually curious why it is that way. Is it because they had a small and discontinued it or is it some mental thing? I believe at one point S/M/L/XL was standard, but that needlessly complicated the menu and added logistical overhead. I think they dropped "small" because their target audience does indeed believe bigger = better, plus as mentioned if you give people 3 options they tend to be drawn to the middle one. So by making large the "default" option they get to sell more fries and soda, and by sticking with M/L/XL instead of just re-naming the larger sizes S/M/L they maintain continuity in their menu (so that people don't go "hey why is the medium suddenly $0.30 more?!") I'm pretty sure they dropped back down to S/M/L a while back, though.
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Picnic Princess posted:What was that newspaper comic that had a week-long shitfit about cup sizes in small and large? The protagonist went on and on and on and on about how those sizes couldn't exist without a medium to compare to? Or something like that. I feel the series should be posted here. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3372712&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=733#post398236707
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It varies by place. Some places will reduce the portion sizes but call things M/L/XL afterwards. McDonald's removed super size because of the criticism that their food was unhealthy and enormous. Some places just embrace the gluttony and say "yeah you can have big, bigger, or elephantine." 
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When I worked at McDonalds in 1995, we had small, large, and super sized fries. People loving hated that sizing convention.
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Leon Einstein posted:When I worked at McDonalds in 1995, we had small, large, and super sized fries. People loving hated that sizing convention. I still don't like it. No medium / regular makes it seem like a choice between itty-bitty and HUGENORMOUS.
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Phanatic posted:Best one I've seen is "I don't have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you and still make my train." Ha, that is a good one. Thanks for the article, though I find this comparison a bit off: quote:Now that I've experienced this campaign in action, I realize why it's familiar. Although the trend seems to have tapered off recently, Trader Joe's must have at one point urged its cashiers to always have a friendly chat with customers. There's a big difference, there. One is having a little chit chat while the cashier rings up your cart full of groceries --- an interaction that takes a few minutes, you're both stuck there anyways, why not make it pleasant? The other is having a discussion on race relations when the goal should really be "take order, move on to the next customer as quickly as possible". (Disclaimer/source: my boyfriend worked for TJ's for many years. It's not a "trend"; they hire outgoing people, and the company treats them well, so for the most part they are actually happy to be there and have a chat with you, if only to break up the monotony of swiping things over a scanner for hours.)
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Ha, that is a good one. Hell, it was the same at my super lovely grocery store job. You chat with customers during the slow times to escape having to work their.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Ha, that is a good one. Counterpoint, I worked at TJ's for years, and since all anyone ever said was "Weather huh?" Or "this thing doesn't have a price on it so it's free, right? Haha I am joking unless this somehow results in free cheese in which case I am not" I would have always preferred if they just shut the hell up instead.
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Goosed it. posted:Did your large compare volumetrically to a tall? I find a lot of independent coffee shops have smaller sizes that Starbucks. No, our large was a 20oz.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:(Disclaimer/source: my boyfriend worked for TJ's for many years. It's not a "trend"; they hire outgoing people, and the company treats them well, so for the most part they are actually happy to be there and have a chat with you, if only to break up the monotony of swiping things over a scanner for hours.)
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Tiggum posted:I hate when supermarket staff do this. Particularly when I buy something like a slab of beer and a couple of bottles of wine and they're like "Having a party, eh?" and I'm not. Obviously I'm not going to go home and drink all of that right now, but your friendly small-talk just turned into "Hey, that seems like too much alcohol for one person to buy all at once!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsNq3nQ612c
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Tiggum posted:I hate when supermarket staff do this. Particularly when I buy something like a slab of beer and a couple of bottles of wine and they're like "Having a party, eh?" and I'm not. Obviously I'm not going to go home and drink all of that right now, but your friendly small-talk just turned into "Hey, that seems like too much alcohol for one person to buy all at once!" The benefit of living in a control state: Never worry about what the checkout guy thinks, because if you're buying liquor, you're in a liquor store.
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hyperhazard posted:The benefit of living in a control state: Never worry about what the checkout guy thinks, because if you're buying liquor, you're in a liquor store. 1) That, I guess 2) ???
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Grey Fox posted:The ads are for the rich politicians that control the military's budget (i.e., people that already respond positively to that kind of ad), not the people that would actually work with the planes. Take the subway to the Pentagon and Capitol Hill and you'll see poo poo like that everywhere. That's incredible.
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Tiggum posted:I hate when supermarket staff do this. Particularly when I buy something like a slab of beer and a couple of bottles of wine and they're like "Having a party, eh?" and I'm not. Obviously I'm not going to go home and drink all of that right now, but your friendly small-talk just turned into "Hey, that seems like too much alcohol for one person to buy all at once!"
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