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Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost
Lost weight, botox, and shooped to edit out wrinkles.

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Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
I still don't get the chud fetish for shopping Trump head on to buff young guy bods. Like, it's ok to think an old has the best ideas, Bernie is one of the best senators and is an old bald fucko. It's fine. Why do they need to deny reality and pretend everyone's creaming their panties for the fat old guy who can't stand?

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I still don't get the chud fetish for shopping Trump head on to buff young guy bods. Like, it's ok to think an old has the best ideas, Bernie is one of the best senators and is an old bald fucko. It's fine. Why do they need to deny reality and pretend everyone's creaming their panties for the fat old guy who can't stand?

Aren't all of Trump's wives/mistresses models or pornstars?
That's probably it there.
"Ha, he only fucks supermodels, it must be because he's a golden sex god and not because of money."

Plus the whole fantasy that as a conservative, he is obviously super virile and strong, since all liberals are weak effeminate soyboys in drag.

borkencode
Nov 10, 2004
Biden is secretly worth 18 billion.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

Absolutely WILD, who would pay $18bn bones for The Sniffler

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
I like that they specify american lives.

Especially given that the what, 13 dead americans, even if that's all you care about, is kinda a drop in the bucket compared to the overall casualties of the forever war? My cousin lost a leg there when I was in middle school. drat that Joe Biden! This is all his long con!

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I like that they specify american lives.

Especially given that the what, 13 dead americans, even if that's all you care about, is kinda a drop in the bucket compared to the overall casualties of the forever war? My cousin lost a leg there when I was in middle school. drat that Joe Biden! This is all his long con!

17 I think? Anyway the Afghan National Army had been operating without US air and logistics support for over a year, taking something like 14x the casualties during that period than the US did during the entire occupation. Also almost no AFN service members had been paid in well over six months.

“Stay in your barracks until we dissolve the army, we won’t torture you or your family to death like we’re about to do with a lot of the other collaborators, and maybe you’ll even get a bit of cash for your trouble,” is the kind of deal everyone ought to be able to understand the appeal of, to pretend not to is to literally pretend to be too credulous and simpleminded to understand basic incentives.

Pointing this out never helps, but thinking about it that way helps me laugh at CHUDs

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

Dr. Red Ranger posted:

I've had this conversation a billion times since the pandemic began; Big Pharma is absolutely evil, but in a very mundane, Gordon Gecko Greed is Good manner. If Satan Himself went to the CEO of Pfizer or Merck or Novo Nordisk or whoever and said "hey guy, I've got a patent with manufacturing exclusivity for the rest of your life for a sure fire cure for (common cancer x) , you've just got to feed your whole family into a wood chipper to hell feet first" they'd be halfway through mulching their own firstborn before he finished the sentence and bitching that Satan took too long to come up. Big Pharma doesn't leave money on the table if they can help it.

Honestly the number one reason why I don't believe the idea that Big Pharma is suppressing the cure for cancer to make money off treatment is because of the complete inability for businesses to forgo short term gain for long term. They will always take any profits they can get immediately, even if they could have much higher profits by waiting a few years. The idea that pharmaceutical companies would hide a cure that could make them billions because they think they'll make more money by waiting for people to get chemo or whatever is absurd, they would be falling all over themselves to patent it and rush it out the door so they could start raking in the cash right away.

U.T. Raptor
May 11, 2010

Are you a pack of imbeciles!?

Also I doubt there's a pharmaceutical company in existence who wouldn't want to be known forever as "the one that cured cancer".

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Sure yeah if they invented a silver bullet cancer cure they'd rush the patent out the door and they'd put all their competitors out of business even if it hosed them long term. BUUUUUT

they can't patent mangosteen juice, morons

Dr. Yinz Ljubljana
Nov 25, 2013

The one I just got is this :

email posted:

the us govt is not investigating McDonald's
for broken ice cream machines.
ice cream is a pedophile code word.
the Feds are investigating McDonald's
for #CrimesAgainstHumanity & many
have
shut down completely already.
40% human meat from a clown
wearing red shoes.
tell the truth

Wow.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:

The one I just got is this :

Wow.

Even thought there's been a huge debacle about the ice cream machines that's well documented.

Lol
The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken YouTube · Johnny Harris

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou..._j9GilqNbEeUSRY

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
I thought the "real" reason they were always broken is because the machines are a pain in the rear end to clean and it's easier for the employees to just lie and say it's broken than clean them. I put that in quotes because while it's plausible, it seems like a way to say "Those lazy minimum wage workers!" and put the blame on them.

It really is bad though, I remember last year I was driving back from my brother's house in Florida and I wanted a vanilla latte, I had to stop at four McDonalds because the first three said the machine was broken.

mllaneza
Apr 28, 2007

Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952




Twelve by Pies posted:

It really is bad though, I remember last year I was driving back from my brother's house in Florida and I wanted a vanilla latte, I had to stop at four McDonalds because the first three said the machine was broken.

The machines McDonalds requires its franchisees to buy doesn't throw an error code of "clean machine again", anything that goes wrong is "spend $1000 to call a service tech" even if it could be quickly and easily fixed by staff.

Professor Beetus
Apr 12, 2007

They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus
Tbh I think mcflurries kinda suck and I will always go to DQ for a blizzard over a mcflurry any day of the week. Of course neither is a good option for someone with type 1 diabetes, but I digress.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

Twelve by Pies posted:

I thought the "real" reason they were always broken is because the machines are a pain in the rear end to clean and it's easier for the employees to just lie and say it's broken than clean them. I put that in quotes because while it's plausible, it seems like a way to say "Those lazy minimum wage workers!" and put the blame on them.

It really is bad though, I remember last year I was driving back from my brother's house in Florida and I wanted a vanilla latte, I had to stop at four McDonalds because the first three said the machine was broken.

It has an automated clean system like a dishwasher. Sometimes it doesn't get hot enough to be food-safe. If that happens, the machine locks out with a generic error message and the only way to diagnose the critical problem of "run the clean cycle again" is to pay a company-licensed tech to come use his company code to get the specifics and say "ayup, run the clean cycle again." The tech will stay for the duration of the 8 hour clean cycle and bill the franchisee the whole time. I'm not weeping for someone rich enough to own a McDonald's but it's objectively bullshit, just like Apple pulls.

Ask me about all the bullshit that happens in fast food restaurants.

DarkHorse
Dec 13, 2006

Nap Ghost

mllaneza posted:

The machines McDonalds requires its franchisees to buy doesn't throw an error code of "clean machine again", anything that goes wrong is "spend $1000 to call a service tech" even if it could be quickly and easily fixed by staff.

The company is called Taylor, the same people who make their grills, and is the ice cream equivalent of a high-performance Ferrari - it can turn liquid ingredients into dozens of soft serve desserts in seconds, getting the consistency texture and temperature right every time, plus mix flavors in on the fly. And then it does its own sanitation cycle, a perpetual problem with refrigeration in general and food delivery in particular since mold loves cold and wet.

However they have a deal with McDonald's that has insulated them from any kind of pressure to improve, and what's worse is they seem to have turned it into a profit center for repair calls. So even simple errors like "clean drum" or "sanitation cycle failed" are gated behind obscure error codes, and franchisees are forbidden from doing any work on the machines. The sanitation cycle still requires a bunch of disassembly of dozens of parts, and if you screw up any one step it will not complete the overnight process correctly or tell you what specifically is wrong. So what typically happens is that the owners will spend unpaid hours and hours after work disassembling and reassembling the machine hoping that this time it will work. Even worse, a lot of the stuff needed is already built in, but is gated behind a secret button combo that technicians use.

They're extremely highly designed, and do not have consumer (as in franchise-owner) ease of use in mind, and their captive customers mean they've felt no pressure to improve it. When a start up made a wireless tool that diagnosed problems and let you change settings remotely (after they discovered the button combo, and confirmed nothing violated policy to use it as an end user), Taylor made using it void their warranty and then offered their own inferior version.

https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/

DarkHorse fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Sep 9, 2021

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS





Had to include the first response.

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Jan 13, 2008




America: we are a melting pot, no, not that kind of melting pot!

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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America: we are a melting pot, no, not that kind of melting pot!

Why, one needs must skim off impurities from their melting pot!

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

It's always great seeing people declare the need to "assimilate to American culture". America has no culture, it just has mechanisms and traditions. Shopping malls aren't culture.

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

CuddleCryptid posted:

It's always great seeing people declare the need to "assimilate to American culture". America has no culture, it just has mechanisms and traditions. Shopping malls aren't culture.

These people are saying that meaning "Speak English and be Christian like us even though we haven't been to a church in 20 years"

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
I think you'll find the culture is the Constitution, and also the Bill of Rights.

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

loving immigrants coming into my neighborhood and quartering troops

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS
My dad posted a "mandatory school prayer" meme a while back and one of his friends called him out on it that the US isn't a christian nation, his response was along the lines of "I'm very tolerant to other religions. I don't care what their religion is, as long as they're praying to god in school!"

V-Men
Aug 15, 2001

Don't it make your dick bust concrete to be in the same room with two noble, selfless public servants.

CuddleCryptid posted:

It's always great seeing people declare the need to "assimilate to American culture". America has no culture, it just has mechanisms and traditions. Shopping malls aren't culture.

YOU NEED TO ASSIMILATE TO AMERICAN CULTURE. Now to put lederhosen i bought on ebay and head to an Oktoberfest party.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

*chomp chomp chomp*


WoodrowSkillson posted:

just lol if he botox'd himself to hell and back

more like... ADRENOCHROME :chaostrump:

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

Mercury_Storm posted:

more like... ADRENOCHROME :chaostrump:

It was actually....REGENERON!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjsneQMuT5o

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

CuddleCryptid posted:

Shopping malls aren't culture.

I think maybe they mean guns, bibles and backyard games of cornhole.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

CuddleCryptid posted:

It's always great seeing people declare the need to "assimilate to American culture". America has no culture, it just has mechanisms and traditions. Shopping malls aren't culture.

That's like saying you don't have an accent.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

That's like saying you don't have an accent.

It’s like saying “my accent is insipid, corrupting, and bland”

tek79
Jun 16, 2008

Guavanaut posted:

I think you'll find the culture is the Constitution, and also the Bill of Rights.


I like how "SPEAEEEEK ENGLISH!!!" is right next to 'ARE CULTURE IS THE CONSTITUSHION!!!!" - which literally says in the opening lines you can speak whatever the gently caress language you want.

Medullah posted:

My dad posted a "mandatory school prayer" meme a while back and one of his friends called him out on it that the US isn't a christian nation, his response was along the lines of "I'm very tolerant to other religions. I don't care what their religion is, as long as they're praying to god in school!"

Ask him if "Hail Satan, death to America" is acceptable.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

LonsomeSon posted:

It’s like saying “my accent is insipid, corrupting, and bland”

It's doing the extremely american "american exceptionalism except the USA is the worst thing ever, am I right guys I am very worldly"

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

It's doing the extremely american "american exceptionalism except the USA is the worst thing ever, am I right guys I am very worldly"

The fact that folks from here who hate US culture refer to it as “not really a culture” for short as an expression of disgust doesn’t make us eager cultural imperialists lmao

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

That's like saying you don't have an accent.

I speak Midwestern, aka the superior one used for broadcasts everyone else tries to match tyvm :smuggo:

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

PhazonLink posted:

i object to your head of state exception. notable leaders should be keept alive as long as possible so they dont get canonized. kept alive long enough their star power were fades into nothing and they become a no body footnote either when they die from their lifetime sentence or they actually get released.

Yeah or maybe deny reactionaries a figurehead to rally around.

It honestly depends. Like, China did the right thing with the last emperor, but I'm not going to judge anyone for shooting Czar Nicky.

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

Guavanaut posted:

I think you'll find the culture is the Constitution, and also the Bill of Rights.


That's some pretty sweet Microsoft Publisher graphic design on that bad boy. Also, suuurreeee that's "ALL YOU WANT". I mean "ALL YOU WANT!!!!"

How about mandatory drug screening for members of congress, cops and CEO's? On the other hand, gently caress drug testing.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Drug dealers spend more of their income than the idle rich, thus boosting the economy. Checkmate boomers.

The Islamic Shock
Apr 8, 2021

BiggerBoat posted:

How about mandatory drug screening for members of congress, cops and CEO's? On the other hand, gently caress drug testing.
I have the unenviable honor of being fired from a company that very much didn't want to fire me because I tested positive for THC on a mandatory UA. Meanwhile, a co-worker smoked weed on the clock and wasn't canned until he beat his wife. The only problem these idiots would have with this scenario is I am white and he is Mexican.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Drug dealers spend more of their income than the idle rich, thus boosting the economy. Checkmate boomers.
They also pay their bills with money orders, everything else with cash, don't pay taxes, are big on agriculture, and hate government intrusion into their personal lives.

The Islamic Shock fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Sep 9, 2021

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Jan 13, 2008




I guess chewing on viagra and oxy aren’t drugs cause their doctors prescribe them.

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