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Choco1980 posted:Speaking of Taco Bell getting their customers better, apparently a new one opening in the Wicker Park area of Chicago has applied for a liquor license. I don't care if they are getting their customer base better. Their old breakfast commercials were at least tolerable. Every time I see those " breakfast defector" commercials I want to break my TV.
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The White Dragon posted:If you think that's bad... yah but, Dem Feet
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May 19, 2015 04:19
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BumikiIsFreaky posted:I don't care if they are getting their customer base better. Their old breakfast commercials were at least tolerable. Every time I see those " breakfast defector" commercials I want to break my TV. The one for Nashville is awful. Two smug middle class white tools who "speak for the whole South," just utterly punchable.
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May 19, 2015 16:26
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Bluemillion posted:Wait, are they really trying to market a third pound burger? Take into consideration what happened when A&W tried that: Hahahaa yessss, I knew all about this. Americans are so loving bad at math. Phanatic posted:Smith & Wesson makes a line of handguns called the M&P. Sidestepping the name issue, I don't want any gun ad to picture a gun pointed towards me in any fashion. That's a huge no-no. jojoinnit posted:I can't believe taco bell is somehow the only one who "gets it". It's like if RC Cola suddenly figured out how to outmarket Coke. Its funny how Jack and the Box directly targets Stoners, trying desperately to do what Taco Bell has done, and yet it doesn't quite work. Maybe because they're too overt about it.
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The Lone Badger posted:I don't want to experience bullets, or feel them. In fact I have dedicated a significant portion of my life to not doing so. There's nothing like the feeling of a well-oiled bullet something something I never played that game. Choco1980 posted:Speaking of Taco Bell getting their customers better, apparently a new one opening in the Wicker Park area of Chicago has applied for a liquor license. Waiting for one in CO, WA, AK, or OR to apply for a retail marijuana license.
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May 19, 2015 16:56
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BumikiIsFreaky posted:I don't care if they are getting their customer base better. Their old breakfast commercials were at least tolerable. Every time I see those " breakfast defector" commercials I want to break my TV. I don't think I've seen those, but there've been absolutely insufferable radio spots, treating things like you've tuned into some pirate signal talking about a secret rebellion to take down the man...by eating Taco Bell for breakfast. Right.
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May 19, 2015 16:58
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Waiting for one in CO, WA, AK, or OR to apply for a retail marijuana license. There was a great story in Texas a few years back about a mcdonalds that was selling weed straight out of the drive-thru. Like people would just pull up, order weed, and then get it and drive off.  This went on for some time before they got busted.Obviously it wasn't legal, though. I have to imagine the manager was in on it 
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May 19, 2015 17:00
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Choco1980 posted:Speaking of Taco Bell getting their customers better, apparently a new one opening in the Wicker Park area of Chicago has applied for a liquor license. poo poo, the only better location would be a combined Taco Bell/ weed dispensary EDIT: gently caress, I need to refresh before posting
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May 19, 2015 17:20
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Zaphod42 posted:There was a great story in Texas a few years back about a mcdonalds that was selling weed straight out of the drive-thru. Like people would just pull up, order weed, and then get it and drive off. I worked at a pizza place where one of the shift managers would sell weed out of the store. He kept it in a paper bag out in the open, along with his pipe and grinder. He would go behind the store and smoke with one of the drivers. The Glumslinger posted:poo poo, the only better location would be a combined Taco Bell/ weed dispensary 
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May 19, 2015 17:31
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Zaphod42 posted:There was a great story in Texas a few years back about a mcdonalds that was selling weed straight out of the drive-thru. Like people would just pull up, order weed, and then get it and drive off. There's a gas station chain here in Northeast Ohio that locks the doors ad midnight and you have to interact with the person through a window with a little slide out drawer for everything. The one by me had the midnight guy selling weed through the window. When I worked at a different gas station this Jimmy Johns driver would come in and turns out she dealt weed while delivering sandwiches.
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Bluemillion posted:Wait, are they really trying to market a third pound burger? Take into consideration what happened when A&W tried that: This sounds like bullshit, and Google is turning up tons of sites calling it bullshit but none that even claim there to be a source.
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Len posted:There's a gas station chain here in Northeast Ohio that locks the doors ad midnight and you have to interact with the person through a window with a little slide out drawer for everything. The one by me had the midnight guy selling weed through the window. How does it feel to live in heaven? Jimmy Johns AND weed...
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Blue Footed Booby posted:This sounds like bullshit, and Google is turning up tons of sites calling it bullshit but none that even claim there to be a source. 'snopes mcdonalds third pound' has this as the first link: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=90037 which has a link to: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/07/great-third-pound-burger-ripoff where the head of A&W at the time is quoted: quote:UPDATE: Elizabeth Green tweets that her source for this anecdote is Threshold Resistance by Alfred Taubman, who owned A&W in the 80s. Here's the relevant passage, after Taubman has called in Yankelovich, Skelly and White to figure out what was wrong with their burger: Granted, he might be full of poo poo, but at least he's a source.
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May 19, 2015 23:50
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Davfff posted:i buy the one with the anthropomorphised toilet rolls on the packaging. what does that say? I buy mine in a 250 grit. That seems the most comfortable.
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I hate the ever progressively creepier Charmin commercials with the bears. We get it, you REALLY like wiping. "Everyone goes, so why not enjoy the go?" Cue closeup of bear smiling as he wipes.
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We're not better at maths across the pond either. The National Lottery had to withdraw a series of scratchcards because the British public were incapable of understanding negative numbers and thought they were being defrauded: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cool-cash-card-confusion-1009701quote:Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.
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A million pages back, but back when I worked for McD's, they said at orientation that some people will literally pick McD's as a rest stop off the interstate, primarily because of the prided cleanliness of the bathrooms. Once they're in, they'll usually buy something. It was basically "Keep the place white-glove clean, because that matters in all facets of the company." On paper, it looks really dumb, but it's essentially "I just came in to the use the bathroom, and the next thing I knew, I was lovin' the McFlurrys! Who would've thought!?"
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May 21, 2015 16:58
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Some people just buy something wherever they stop as a sort of voluntary bathroom fee. That's what I was raised to do, at least.
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May 21, 2015 17:05
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Some people just buy something wherever they stop as a sort of voluntary bathroom fee. That's what I was raised to do, at least. Yep. One McChicken sandwich please and I'll be right back.
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Maybe I'm the crazy one but I'd definitely rather go to a fast food place to use the bathroom than a gas stations on a road trip. And yeah, while I'm there I might buy an ice cream or something. It might not be McDonalds unless I specifically wanted a McFlurry or whatever but it's not that crazy for any fast food place to recognize this and take advantage of it.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Some people just buy something wherever they stop as a sort of voluntary bathroom fee. That's what I was raised to do, at least. Not everybody was taught/believes that but for a lot of other people it's "well, since I'm here I am kind of hungry so I'll get some fries, it's like $2." How long does it really take to clean a bathroom? Even if it means you have to have somebody there all day, every day just repeatedly cleaning the bathrooms in a good enough location it will basically always make the company money in the end. Especially if it's consistent; if every McDonald's has a clean bathroom, all the time, forever soon that's where people go to poo poo on the road which increases traffic. Not everybody will buy something but no business is going to turn down extra traffic in their doors. That's kind of the point of doing anything to increase traffic and visibility; you don't need everybody to buy something just enough of them.
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MindlessHavok posted:Maybe I'm the crazy one but I'd definitely rather go to a fast food place to use the bathroom than a gas stations on a road trip. And yeah, while I'm there I might buy an ice cream or something. It might not be McDonalds unless I specifically wanted a McFlurry or whatever but it's not that crazy for any fast food place to recognize this and take advantage of it. I worked at a gas station that prided itself on clean bathrooms. Each bathroom has a sheet the employee had to sign off on every hour showing they cleaned it and every Sunday that sheet got faxed off to corporate. If there was a box missing it was Bad News. What that really meant was we would just sign off without actually doing anything and fill in any missing boxes. Unsurprisingly the place cared only about the most outward appearance. I got wrote up without any questions asked one day. It wasn't until I came back from my vacation and was handed a write up to sign that I pointed out I wasn't even there that day. A coworker had taken my name tag and worn it and failed a secret shop. But since he had my name tag on that was all that mattered and nobody even questioned how I failed the shop from four hours away.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b38kUOOJUN0 I can't help but feel that this is somehow extremely offensive.
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MindlessHavok posted:Maybe I'm the crazy one but I'd definitely rather go to a fast food place to use the bathroom than a gas stations on a road trip. After one bad gas station bathroom experience I made this my policy, too. It was late at night and the restroom was outside the store, so the clerk handed me a key with one of those enormous wood blocks chained to it. The area around the door was poorly-lit, but thankfully I had a handy wooden morningstar in case someone decided he or she needed my wallet more than I did. Didn't even need the key--the lock was busted and had been for quite a while. Inside looked like a set from Law & Order. Someone had taken a bat or a pipe to everything in there and there was what looked like either dried blood or poo poo all over the walls. Even the stainless steel "mirror" was warped and dented to hell (and also covered in some ridiculously offensive graffiti). I had a truly horrible travel poo poo ready to ruin my day within the next five seconds so imagine my horror when I noticed that the toilet seat was in two pieces in the corner next to the toilet. You don't have these problems at McDonald's. Well, and Casey's--their bathrooms are usually pretty clean, with the exception of this one time I tried to flush and the toilet was clogged. I went to plunge it out and discovered someone had taken a poo poo on the floor and carefully covered it with the plunger 
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:bathroom chat I've seen some nasty gas stations bathrooms, but the trucker gas stops and chain gas stations are usually pretty good. I can't remember which one it is, but there's a chain of trucker stops that has full showers, a connected restaurant, coin-operated massage chairs, and a decent sized store. Pretty much paradise for the road weary. On the flip side, the only thing worse than a gas station with a disgusting bathroom is a gas station that has NO bathroom for customers to use. Employees only! 
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I had a handy wooden morningstar in case someone decided he or she needed my wallet more than I did. When was this, 1273 AD?
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Karma Monkey posted:I've seen some nasty gas stations bathrooms, but the trucker gas stops and chain gas stations are usually pretty good. I can't remember which one it is, but there's a chain of trucker stops that has full showers, a connected restaurant, coin-operated massage chairs, and a decent sized store. Pretty much paradise for the road weary. That's just license to piss on the wall behind their station. It's a legal compact I'm pretty sure.
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NLJP posted:When was this, 1273 AD? Have you never had to go to one of those bathrooms? They usually have a giant stick or wooden block of some kind attached to the key.
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theironjef posted:That's just license to piss on the wall behind their station. It's a legal compact I'm pretty sure. Judging by the look of the side of the building, many agreed with you. There was also evidence of er, squatting. 
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NLJP posted:When was this, 1273 AD? Battle of the Golden Showers
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Karma Monkey posted:I've seen some nasty gas stations bathrooms, but the trucker gas stops and chain gas stations are usually pretty good. I can't remember which one it is, but there's a chain of trucker stops that has full showers, a connected restaurant, coin-operated massage chairs, and a decent sized store. Pretty much paradise for the road weary. Pilot, I think?
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Most of the big truck stop chains are reliably pretty great, but there's usually a fast food place attached or at the very most across the street so it's kind of a moot point.
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Flying J and Love's are both good ones
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Wanamingo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b38kUOOJUN0 I think that's more frightening than offensive. An insta-pregnancy potion that makes a woman 8-months pregnant in a second? Sounds like Maury's got a lot of new guests
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Have you never had to go to one of those bathrooms? They usually have a giant stick or wooden block of some kind attached to the key. Oh for some reason that parsed in my head that the morningstar was a whole separate thing. That's way less fun 
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Karma Monkey posted:I've seen some nasty gas stations bathrooms, but the trucker gas stops and chain gas stations are usually pretty good. I can't remember which one it is, but there's a chain of trucker stops that has full showers, a connected restaurant, coin-operated massage chairs, and a decent sized store. Pretty much paradise for the road weary. Flying J's are always good. Casey's as well if you're heading south on 29. Tesoro's are usually pretty good and often have restaurants attached.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Have you never had to go to one of those bathrooms? They usually have a giant stick or wooden block of some kind attached to the key. Now you just reminded me of The Jerk where the bathroom key was on a steel car wheel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ig5vcY9R50 Some items I've seen gas station keys attached to over the years: feather duster old 1920s monkey wrench small frying pan flyswatter scissors giant novelty nail cutters a beat up Converse shoe You Are A Werewolf has a new favorite as of 04:36 on May 23, 2015 |
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You Are A Elf posted:Now you just reminded me of The Jerk where the bathroom key was on a steel car wheel: I've been given a plastic lid, a pasta strainer and a plush elmo that's seen better days
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lt_kennedy posted:I've been given a plastic lid, a pasta strainer and a plush elmo that's seen better days Plush? To take into a bathroom?
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