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Breetai posted:That said, there's also a bunch of people talking about how olive garden is 'the nummiest'; now correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not American and I've never eaten there, but isn't Olive Garden basically a trash-tier chain that acts as the McDonald's of lovely Italian food? OG is a "fancy night out" for people who have literally never eaten a good meal in their lives, and/or who subsist primarily on fast food. It's arguably the shittiest "sit-down restaurant" in the United States. edit: If that sounded classist AF, I can throw a rock and hit half a dozen local restaurants in my neighborhood where you can eat an infinitely better meal for a price point in roughly the same ballpark. OG ain't cheap enough to make their garbage gussied up fast food worth it. Trustworthy fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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n8r posted:Learn to differentiate between when someone is just telling you something and when someone is asking for your opinion. gently caress that. If you're a friend and can't deal with opinions, guess you're more of an ex friend.
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To get in on the Taco Bell chat AND the marriage cost derail that everyone loves:http://on.rgj.com/2lh3YHq posted:Not everyone dreams of a wedding at Taco Bell, but if you met your significant other in line for late-night tacos, this might be for you. From http://on.rgj.com/2lh3YHq And now for my humblebrag: I got married at a chapel for $50 or something similar. I think it even has drive through if you want it.  . Embrace the Nevada marriage system.
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baquerd posted:gently caress that. If you're a friend and can't deal with opinions, guess you're more of an ex friend. I say get some clarification first. Are they gymnasts? Could she be talking about a pommel horse?
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Modest Mouse cover band posted:To get in on the Taco Bell chat AND the marriage cost derail that everyone loves: I'm getting married within the year and my mom texted my fiancee and I that today. Good poo poo. I want a colossal Doritos taco cake.
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pig slut lisa posted:It's very rare that I check a bag, but I recently had to check a garment bag for a flight. I was booked in a fare class that including "priority" bag tagging so that my bag would be one of the first ones out. Instead it was literally the last bag out of the carousel. This was an international arrival at JFK too, so I got to stand in line behind the entire plane (and a few others) for customs and immigration Global Entry is GWT (and therefore GWM) if you do any amount of international travel, or even if you just fly internationally once every few years but regularly fly domestically. It wouldn't have helped you with the bag, but there's nothing sweeter in the world than breezing past the interminable lines of sullen, jet-lagged plebs standing in the regular lines for immigration and customs. They don't really advertise it but it confers TSA Precheck benefits as well, so you can go through the shorter lines in security without the doing the shoes-off, laptop-out-of-the-bag, dick-out-of-your-pants dance of the regular lines. I fly overseas a few times a year through the hell that is border control at San Francisco and JFK and it is so, sooooo worth it.
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Rurutia posted:
dear god compared to what, loving Mogadishu? The loving ttc is an absolute disgrace and it's at least 30 years behind what the city needs. Metropasses are $147 each, and it only makes sense to buy one if you ride more than 45 times in a month. Price goes up yearly, they haven't built poo poo since that idiotic Sheppard line, and now they're going to dump the best part of 5 billion loving dollars to put a subway line into the lowest density part of the city. Meanwhile the Yonge line is at 120% capacity and they're sticking 15 condos between college and yonge right now. You're better off riding here, and even riding is horrible because they put those stupid bike lanes in and you can't pass in them. It all adds up to where driving is the only option if your time is in at all valuable to you.
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olylifter posted:dear god compared to what, loving Mogadishu? The loving ttc is an absolute disgrace and it's at least 30 years behind what the city needs. I mean... I understand why you might feel that way if you've never lived in the US. Lol. Outside of a very VERY few exceptions, public transit here is a travesty.
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Rurutia posted:I mean... I understand why you might feel that way if you've never lived in the US. Lol. Outside of a very VERY few exceptions, public transit here is a travesty. Nothing made me love the TTC like living in the US for 5 years.
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Known Lecher posted:Global Entry is GWT (and therefore GWM) if you do any amount of international travel, or even if you just fly internationally once every few years but regularly fly domestically. It wouldn't have helped you with the bag, but there's nothing sweeter in the world than breezing past the interminable lines of sullen, jet-lagged plebs standing in the regular lines for immigration and customs. They don't really advertise it but it confers TSA Precheck benefits as well, so you can go through the shorter lines in security without the doing the shoes-off, laptop-out-of-the-bag, dick-out-of-your-pants dance of the regular lines. I was (and really still am) opposed to the whole profiteering aspect of Global Entry/NEXUS/Sentri, but a couple years ago I broke down and finally signed up. It's hella worth it. I only travel domestically maybe half a dozen times a year, and internationally maybe once every 1-2 years, but Pre-Check alone is worth it. Getting to skip the immigration lines is icing on the cake. Plus even if I'm with other people without it (so have to use the general purpose lane), our car seems to get hassled less at the Canada/US border if at least one person has their GE/NEXUS card. Also if you book tickets together with your significant other but only one of you has Pre-Check, you'll almost always both get it. I was BWM and did Global Entry for $100 when I could have done NEXUS for $50, though. All 3 programs give you all the same important benefits. But still worth it. Guinness fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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Guinness posted:I was (and really still am) opposed to the whole profiteering aspect of Global Entry/NEXUS/Sentri, but a couple years ago I broke down and finally signed up. I would be surprised if the NEXUS fees even cover the processing costs, tbh. It can't be much of a revenue source. (Sentri? Really?)
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Subjunctive posted:I would be surprised if the NEXUS fees even cover the processing costs, tbh. It can't be much of a revenue source. Perhaps, but you're still paying to be treated special and avoid all the security theatre the plebs have to go through. quote:(Sentri? Really?) Yeah, that's the program that has fast-access at the Mexican border. NEXUS is the one for the Canadian border. But both still get your TSA Pre-Check and IIRC you can use the Global Entry kiosks in airport customs terminals. They really ought to consolidate all 3 into just one program. They're drat near the same anyway.
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n8r posted:Learn to differentiate between when someone is just telling you something and when someone is asking for your opinion. Twerk from Home posted:The horse that my sister used to ride all the time impaled itself on a fencepost and died.
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Guinness posted:Perhaps, but you're still paying to be treated special and avoid all the security theatre the plebs have to go through. Sure. There are fees for passports and driver's licenses too. I would hardly call it profiteering.
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Guinness posted:They really ought to consolidate all 3 into just one program. They're drat near the same anyway. Except NEXUS requires you to be cleared by Canadian officials (since it lets you use the fast lane into Canada as well.) Not sure how they'd combine that with Sentri assuming it works similarly, you'd need Canadian and Mexican immigration officials all through the US to interview someone who just wants the fast lane so they can visit their aunt in Cleveland or something.
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God there is nothing like plane chat to set off the goontism.
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n8r posted:God there is nothing like plane chat to set off the goontism. As someone who just caught up on the thread, i have to say that it beats the hell out of bike vs car chat.
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Known Lecher posted:They don't really advertise it but it confers TSA Precheck benefits as well, so you can go through the shorter lines in security without the doing the shoes-off, laptop-out-of-the-bag, dick-out-of-your-pants dance of the regular lines. Just don't forget to register your Global Entry number with your airline when you make your reservation, or else you'll be like me and wonder why you didn't get TSA Pre-check access to the security line in any of the legs of my last flight despite having Global Entry. 
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Vox Nihili posted:As someone who just caught up on the thread, i have to say that it beats the hell out of bike vs car chat. We narrowly avoided yet another wedding derail, too, so.
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the best wedding story is the recent Kenyan couple who had a $1 USD wedding, got famous from that, then used donations from their fame to hold a real, $35,000 wedding (which, in Kenya, i imagine is the equivalent of a million dollar wedding) that's good with money no matter how you cut it
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http://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/yahoopresentation.pdf Buying your mentee's company for $230 million when it's worth $0 is BWOPM (I got to meet Mayer once, she is a pretty remarkably cool person and, owing to having DGAF money, Doesn't GAF. Sucks for the shareholders tho) curufinor fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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Switchback posted:BWM and BWParenting (dailymail so click at your own risk) Eh, there's something else going on there definitely because even the most expensive national levels of karting cost at the very most Ł50k a year. Hell I doubt even the international superkart teams are spending that much. Cadet level (which is the highest he can be competing in at that age) is a claim rule class which puts a pretty brutal upper limit on the costs - sure you could spend 20 or 30k on tuning the engine and chassis to the absolute limit and then anyone behind you in the championship can buy your kart off you for ~Ł2k. I'm willing to bet the >Ł100k he's spending is going on all sorts of other poo poo to keep it out of his ex-wife's hands.
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Breetai posted:Ahahahah The presentation slides are so good. This story is wonderful.    
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GWM: Taking a consulting contract that's so simple your summer interns can do it.
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Residency Evil posted:GWM: Taking a consulting contract that's so simple your summer interns can do it. Yeah, exactly. "Make Olive Garden look bad" is not exactly a challenging assignment.
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Modest Mouse cover band posted:To get in on the Taco Bell chat AND the marriage cost derail that everyone loves: Here's your first taco couple. https://twitter.com/DanRyckert/status/831894799741513728
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Lysandus posted:Here's your first taco couple. https://twitter.com/DanRyckert/status/831894799741513728 Why the gently caress does that spaz get a a blue checkmark 
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Grumpwagon posted:Yeah, exactly. "Make Olive Garden look bad" is not exactly a challenging assignment. You couldn't pay me enough to eat there
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That's Dan Ryckert he's a video game journalist. For more context he is quite well known for his love of Taco Bell, he regularly gets dragged to the best Mexican food available in California and NY and says very nice things about the experience but maintains Taco Bell is far superior to anything else he's tried. He's averaged more than one meal a day there for like 20 years I think? Also if you think that sort of chucklefuck is super interesting or amazing you haven't met many midwesterners, people who honestly believe that are a dime a dozen.
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Pryor on Fire posted:That's Dan Ryckert he's a video game journalist. I was wondering why the hell he got a blue checkmark, Twitter's Verified Cool Guy VIP standards couldn't be that low
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Pryor on Fire posted:That's Dan Ryckert he's a video game journalist. For more context he is quite well known for his love of Taco Bell, he regularly gets dragged to the best Mexican food available in California and NY and says very nice things about the experience but maintains Taco Bell is far superior to anything else he's tried. That's not too far out there, some people just like familiarity over quali-- quote:He's averaged more than one meal a day there for like 20 years I think? 
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There was a whitecastle near uptown in Chicago that was advertising valentine's day dinner reservations.
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Grumpwagon posted:Yeah, exactly. "Make Olive Garden look bad" is not exactly a challenging assignment. That's one part of 10. The other parts include an executive search dealio (which you need to have the know-a-guy-who-knows-a-guy network but with incredible depth) and a financialization dealie of the real estate and a lot of random penny-pinching. It's not like the Yahoo slides I linked where the penny pinching was, "don't have $7 million parties m'kay"
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Tomfoolery posted:There was a whitecastle near uptown in Chicago that was advertising valentine's day dinner reservations. Depressing / Fun Facts: The 3 best sales days for Olive Garden are: 1) Valentine's Day 2) Christmas Eve 3) Thanksgiving / Black Friday Blockbuster Video's best sales day was New Year's Eve almost every single year it was in business. Cinco De Mayo and the Super Bowl are consistently among the best sales days for Taco Bell. Most grocery stores make about 25% of their yearly pre-cooked Chicken Wing sales for the year during the week of the Superbowl. McDonald's has hosted over 6,000 weddings since 2014. This does not count "unofficial" McDonald's weddings. Moe's is the most successful Mexican restaurant or supplier of any type of Mexican food in America. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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Switchback posted:The presentation slides are so good. This story is wonderful. I had to go look up the whole thing. http://www.shareholderforum.com/dri/Library/20140911_Starboard-presentation.pdf Priceless.
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Tomfoolery posted:There was a whitecastle near uptown in Chicago that was advertising valentine's day dinner reservations. That's a thing. They even do table service. It's pretty hilarious.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Also if you think that sort of chucklefuck is super interesting or amazing you haven't met many midwesterners, people who honestly believe that are a dime a dozen. To be fair, Ryckert is kind of sweetly retarded in a "I'm just happy to be here" way, which has its charms compared to the more common scumbag hick variety of my Midwestern brethren.
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