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OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Blade Runner posted:

Is it a camera in the toilet that records you pissing or a camera stealthily inserted into your urethra before the event to be pissed out into said toilet

Neither. It's a camera that allows you to spray piss on people remotely

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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO
Feb 28, 1985


a mysterious cloak posted:

Last time I went to olive garden some kid was running around naked showing everyone his butthole

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.
Lots of that kiss cam stuff is staged anyway, at least the ones with ridiculous reactions. Same with the fan walking down the aisle with a bunch of popcorn and then having a mascot or something hilariously fall into them causing poo poo to just fly into the air.

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

Leon Einstein posted:

Lots of that kiss cam stuff is staged anyway, at least the ones with ridiculous reactions. Same with the fan walking down the aisle with a bunch of popcorn and then having a mascot or something hilariously fall into them causing poo poo to just fly into the air.

i bet you tell little kids santa isn't real

BIG-DICK-BUTT-FUCK
Jan 26, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Peter Daou Bundy posted:

i bet you tell little kids santa isn't real

He goes to Olive Garden and tells the guests their food isn't actually Italian

Do it ironically
Jul 13, 2010

by Pragmatica
gatekeeping pasta is a pretty autistic thing to do

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!

Aesop Poprock posted:

I feel like the majority of the dudes who go for the super awkward public marriage propositions are just acting out tropes from movies and are either just friends with, barely have been dating or severely misread their girlfriend. Like if you’re casually seeing someone maybe not try to force a ring on them on the Jumbotron

I worked on a case where this happened at an amphitheatre at a jam band show (the guy was rich and had a connect with the band and got them to announce it during the show), and the lady said no. The guy jumped off the top of the parking deck after the show, landing on his head and instantly killing himself.

I don't think that was scripted.

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
here it comes :ohdear:
https://www.pastapass.com/

ShortyMR.CAT
Sep 25, 2008

:blastu::dogcited:
Lipstick Apathy

oh god yes :yeshaha:

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
the buy button became active before the timer went down and thats when you were supposed to hit it. bullshit man. bullshit!

Dick Fagballzson
Sep 29, 2005

Miserable Maid posted:

I think another big thing, besides what had been said earlier, is that the consistency is a big thing. Chain restaurants are pretty much exactly the same quality every visit, more or less. Same factory ships the stuff, chefs must follow exact cooking directions from corporate, etc.

Local restaurants can sometimes be a crapshoot, where quality varies wildly depending on which head chef is working that day, where they received that weeks supplies, stuff like that.

A lot of people will be that, just look at places like McDonald's

The appeal of this depends on where you are. There are large parts of the Midwest and Deep South that are basically food deserts where the local restaurants are like something out of Kitchen Nightmares. A national chain that is safe and consistently mediocre is going to be appealing in one of these places. However in civilized parts of the US, almost any local place will be better than a chain. If you are in a wealthy upscale coastal area and eat at chains over fresh local restaurants, you are a complete retard.

Dick Fagballzson fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Aug 23, 2018

Thots and Prayers
Jul 13, 2006

A is the for the atrocious abominated acts that YOu committed. A is also for ass-i-nine, eight, seven, and six.

B, b, b - b is for your belligerent, bitchy, bottomless state of affairs, but why?

C is for the cantankerous condition of our character, you have no cut-out.
Grimey Drawer


For Halloween I'm gonna be that guy who explodes from a mint in Monty Python

Thots and Prayers
Jul 13, 2006

A is the for the atrocious abominated acts that YOu committed. A is also for ass-i-nine, eight, seven, and six.

B, b, b - b is for your belligerent, bitchy, bottomless state of affairs, but why?

C is for the cantankerous condition of our character, you have no cut-out.
Grimey Drawer
Also - the Kiss Cam rules and shame on you grinches who cannot feel love.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
*kiss cam centers on dog and cat*

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
I've lived most of my life in NJ or NY so I've only had decent italian food. What I'm trying to say is lol @ flyover states

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!

Thots and Prayers posted:



For Halloween I'm gonna be that guy who explodes from a mint in Monty Python

So can you like mail this around and we can all have a taste of italy?

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

1redflag posted:

I worked on a case where this happened at an amphitheatre at a jam band show (the guy was rich and had a connect with the band and got them to announce it during the show), and the lady said no. The guy jumped off the top of the parking deck after the show, landing on his head and instantly killing himself.

I don't think that was scripted.
Talk about dedicated to his craft. I salute that actor.

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

Blue Train posted:

Exactly what it sounds like

I think I had a brain fart because instead of the vouyer porn stuff I was thinking some weird stadium camera thing

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

I'm going to come right out and say it outside of pizza and lasagna Italian food sucks

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Blue Train posted:

I'm going to come right out and say it outside of pizza and lasagna Italian food sucks

Dats a'spicy opinion.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Aesop Poprock posted:

I think I had a brain fart because instead of the vouyer porn stuff I was thinking some weird stadium camera thing

This would rule

Just a close-up face shot of the guys pissing in the troughs

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Blue Train posted:

I'm going to come right out and say it outside of pizza and lasagna Italian food sucks

Check out the worst pizza thread: not even Italian pizza is safe

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Dick Fagballzson posted:

I'd also like to add that almost none of the food that Americans think of Italian is actually Italian. The following foods aren't Italian:

Spaghetti and meatballs (never ever eaten together in Italy)
Chicken Parm - Eggplant parm is authentic. Chicken parm is not
Pepperoni Pizza - Italians don't even eat pepperoni
Alfredo sauce - this was made by one guy at one restaurant in Rome for American guests. No one in Italy eats this crap
Putting any kind of chicken with pasta
Garlic bread
Alla Vodka Sauce
Italian Dressing

It's still Italian in the sense that most of it's made by and comes from the Italian diaspora you dingus.

Dick Fagballzson
Sep 29, 2005

Blue Train posted:

I'm going to come right out and say it outside of pizza and lasagna Italian food sucks

I'm just going to leave this right here for you Mr Pizza Lover. Oven is kept going using trash, toppings on pizza are mayo and corn (I think?), and it is cut with a spackle knife.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5gTx1fVU4

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Dick Fagballzson posted:

I'm just going to leave this right here for you. Oven is kept going using trash, toppings on pizza are mayo and corn (I think?), and it is cut with a spackle knife.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5gTx1fVU4

This is Argentinian or something not American Italian which is the only real Italian

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

Blue Train posted:

This is Argentinian or something not American Italian which is the only real Italian

I thought it was Brazilian but having seen the horrors of actual Italian pizza I support you on the latter

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

Blue Train posted:

I'm going to come right out and say it outside of pizza and lasagna Italian food sucks

Lasagna is garbage and Italian food has so much more to offer than that outside of garbage rear end chains. Like arancini, real buffalo mozzarella, cacio e pepe, any amazingly delicious fish, pasta arrabbiata, eggplant parmesan, ricotta gnudi, gnocchi, anything made with ricotta, basically anything fresh that isn't Americanized bullshit slop.

Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Aug 23, 2018

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

Lasagna is garbage and Italian food has so much more to offer than that outside of garbage as chains. Like arancini, real buffalo mozzarella, cacio e pepe, any amazingly delicious fish, pasta arrabbiata, eggplant parmesan, ricotta gnudi, gnocchi, anything made with ricotta, basically anything fresh that isn't Americanized bullshit slop.

These all suck except arrabbiata and gnocchi is Middle Eastern

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

Blue Train posted:

These all suck except arrabbiata and gnocchi is Middle Eastern

Gnocchi was maybe possibly introduced to Romans by Middle Eastern people and modern gnocchi is about as far from Arabic/Persian/etc as possible today. You suck and have no tastebuds.

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

Gnocchi was maybe possibly introduced to Romans by Middle Eastern people and modern gnocchi is about as far from Arabic/Persian/etc as possible today. You suck and have no tastebuds.
Potato pasta is hardly something that could only have been invented by one specific culture.

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost
I kind of wish I could try the american chain restaurants that everyone hates

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

Leon Einstein posted:

Potato pasta is hardly something that could only have been invented by one specific culture.

Right. There are variations on gnocchi all over Europe in places like Poland and Croatia, but to say that it's Middle Eastern is absurdly dumb.

Thots and Prayers
Jul 13, 2006

A is the for the atrocious abominated acts that YOu committed. A is also for ass-i-nine, eight, seven, and six.

B, b, b - b is for your belligerent, bitchy, bottomless state of affairs, but why?

C is for the cantankerous condition of our character, you have no cut-out.
Grimey Drawer



Oh well, guess I'll have to boil my own noodles like some sort of pleb

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
LoLling absolutely forever at that

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!

Thots and Prayers posted:



Oh well, guess I'll have to boil my own noodles like some sort of pleb

I think you'll find that actually makes you part of the 1%, you elitist rear end in a top hat

Miserable Maid
Apr 22, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

Dick Fagballzson posted:

The appeal of this depends on where you are....

.....If you are in a wealthy upscale coastal area and eat at chains over fresh local restaurants, you are a complete retard.

Well... Yeah. Of course places like New York and Los Angeles, and other cultural melting pots, will have tons of incredible and tasty selections at great prices too. You'd be an idiot, or have no taste, to still go for the crappy chain.

But for a ton of America, a lot of local places still just kinda suck, sure to things like high overhead causing equivilant or worse pricing, lack of established infrastructure causing them to have less then fresh ingredients, lack of corperate oversight leading to dirty or lacking kitchens, etc., A few (of the many many) reasons something crazy like 80% or 90% of restaurants fail in the first year of business.



Also people are lazy and just don't like to take risks about stuff like that in general, for the most part. They'd rather pass up a potentially amazing new place for an old standby, rather then potentially having a crappy experience.

dev286
Nov 30, 2006

Let it be all the best.
Some hedge fund did a super detailed presentation about why Olive Garden sucks.

They wanted to replace the board of directors by embarrassing them I guess?

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-hedge-fund-presentation-on-olive-garden-is-a-masterpiece-2014-9

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Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

dev286 posted:

Some hedge fund did a super detailed presentation about why Olive Garden sucks.

They wanted to replace the board of directors by embarrassing them I guess?

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-hedge-fund-presentation-on-olive-garden-is-a-masterpiece-2014-9



Finally, a hedge fund run by goons.

toiletbrush
May 17, 2010

dev286 posted:

Some hedge fund did a super detailed presentation about why Olive Garden sucks.

They wanted to replace the board of directors by embarrassing them I guess?

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-hedge-fund-presentation-on-olive-garden-is-a-masterpiece-2014-9


that's undeniably a wretched plate of food but tbf taking a picture of 'bad food' with a cellphone flash is cheating

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dev286
Nov 30, 2006

Let it be all the best.

toiletbrush posted:

that's undeniably a wretched plate of food but tbf taking a picture of 'bad food' with a cellphone flash is cheating

Yeah true.

The hedge fund was basically trying to say that OG's food/packaging costs are too high and they have too many menu items to do any of them well.

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