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Milo and POTUS posted:Chain pub sounds like the saddest poo poo imaginable Edgar Wright made a movie that touched on this and tbh I kind-of wish it went harder on that. The few jokes he had about it were funny.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Chain pub sounds like the saddest poo poo imaginable I see you've played Wetherspoon-y before Edit: nah, there are a lot of nice Wetherspoons pubs and I'm looking forward to going out and drinking in them again with my friends. Not my favourites by a long shot, but better than gastropubs. Chris Pistols has a new favorite as of 00:31 on Nov 4, 2021 |
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mind the walrus posted:Edgar Wright made a movie that touched on this and tbh I kind-of wish it went harder on that. The few jokes he had about it were funny. I presume you're referring to The World's End? Now I have to rewatch it.
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Nov 4, 2021 00:17
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I haven't seen it since it was in theaters but I took all the pubs now looking exactly the same because they'd been bought up by the same company to be foreshadowing for the aliens hive mind taking over the town and making all the people exactly the same.
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Nov 4, 2021 00:26
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Robobot posted:It's gotta be #2. I'm just gonna assume that they decided to add one or two machines in each of their stores when it became legal or something and since they had so many stores it launched them above everyone else. I think it's actually "an Australian grocery giant started buying up all the bars so they could own the takeaway liquor businesses and those bars had slot machines and they started making insane amounts of money so they kept lobbying to keep them legal and expand them". The supermarkets are getting out of them now because of all the bad press, but every year it seems there's another big online gambling app launched and we dump billions into them betting on every sport possible. We have a serious gambling problem in this country, to go with our serious drinking and racism problems.
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Nov 4, 2021 00:30
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As it happens, two days ago the state I live in had a public holiday because of an important annual horse race, most of the point of which is to bet on the horses.
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Memento posted:We have a serious gambling problem in this country, to go with our serious drinking and racism problems. It's called sporting culture.
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Memento posted:We have a serious gambling problem in this country, to go with our serious drinking and racism problems. Is there somewhere on earth that doesn't have these problems? Or at least that last one. Some places presumably have banned gambling and/or drinking but racism seems to be universal.
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Nov 4, 2021 00:56
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Milo and POTUS posted:Chain pub sounds like the saddest poo poo imaginable I mean that's basically what Applebee's is, so you're not wrong.
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Nov 4, 2021 01:03
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Gromit posted:Is there somewhere on earth that doesn't have these problems? Or at least that last one. Some places presumably have banned gambling and/or drinking but racism seems to be universal. I heard tell of a small farming community in some remote mountain range where everyone born there is blind. They probably still wouldn't like the Dutch though.
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Nov 4, 2021 01:06
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Gromit posted:Is there somewhere on earth that doesn't have these problems? Or at least that last one. Some places presumably have banned gambling and/or drinking but racism seems to be universal. Yeah banning alcohol always works. Illegal gambling is unheard of, too.
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Nov 4, 2021 01:16
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No. 1 ANIME HATER posted:The good news is if Nana is about to die you can run up her credit cards and then just don't answer the phone for 2 years and now all that stuff is yours. That happened to my Mom's 'boyfriend' (really common-law husband; they were together over 20-years): after he died, she found out that he has $35K in horse-race gambling debts when her phone started to ring. It didn't stop for three years, as his debt was sold from one collection agency to another, each one convinced they could persuade better than the last. It was five years at least before all of the calls stopped. 
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Nov 4, 2021 02:20
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Robobot posted:I heard tell of a small farming community in some remote mountain range where everyone born there is blind. Then they'd just discriminate against people with different accents.
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Nov 4, 2021 02:43
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Considering how old the image is this is probably not a new observation, but I love how stoned off his rear end Flash looks.
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You can get a direct loan at the casino right at a gaming table. It's called a marker. If you've already established a line of credit with the casino you can walk in the door, sit at a blackjack table, hand the dealer your loyalty card, say, "Gimme a thousand dollar marker." They will then call their supervisor, a form will be generated, you will sign, and the dealer will give you $1000 in chips to bet. No cash, no check, no extra steps. The idea is that you'll win a bunch of money and then pay off your marker that day. Of course, that's not how it usually works out. And win or lose, you owe the casino that money. And trust me, the interest on that loan is not good.
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Gromit posted:Is there somewhere on earth that doesn't have these problems? Or at least that last one. Some places presumably have banned gambling and/or drinking but racism seems to be universal. People will always racism, no matter what. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagot quote:Cagots were shunned and hated; while restrictions varied by time and place, they were typically required to live in separate quarters in towns,[6] called cagoteries, which were often on the far outskirts of the villages. Cagots were excluded from political and social rights. They were not allowed to marry non-Cagots,[4][9] leading to forced endogamy, and were not allowed enter taverns, use public fountains,[6] sell food or wine, touch food in the market, work with livestock,[1] or enter mills.[10] The marginalization of the Cagots began at baptism where chimes were not rung in celebration as was the case for non-Cagots and that the baptisms were held at nightfall. Within parish registries the term "cagot", or its scholarly synonym "gezitan", was entered. Cagots were buried in cemeteries separate from non-Cagots[11][6] with reports of riots occurring if bishops tried to have the bodies moved to non-Cagot cemeteries.[6] Commonly Cagots were not given a standard last name in registries and records but were only listed by their first name, followed by the mention "crestians" or "cagot", such as on their baptismal certificate.[12] They were allowed to enter a church only by a special door[6] and, during the service, a rail separated them from the other worshippers.[6] They were forbidden from joining the priesthood.[9] Either they were altogether forbidden to partake of the sacrament, or the Eucharist was given to them on the end of a wooden spoon,[13] while a holy water stoup was reserved for their exclusive use. They were compelled to wear a distinctive dress to which, in some places, was attached the foot of a goose[3] or duck (whence they were sometimes called "Canards"), and latterly to have a red representation of a goose's foot in fabric sewn onto their clothes.[9][13] So pestilential was their touch considered that it was a crime for them to walk the common road barefooted or to drink from the same cup as non-Cagots. The Cagots were often restricted to the trades of carpenter,[4][11] butcher, and rope-maker.[14][15] Teriyaki Hairpiece has a new favorite as of 07:30 on Nov 4, 2021 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:But even in that case, the adult child is signing on as a guarantor. Possibly as a condition of being admitted there, but still a voluntary (potential) debt they are taking on. As jesus WEP posted, this isn't true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws posted:Typically, these laws obligate adult children (or depending on the state, other family members) to pay for their indigent parents’/relatives' food, clothing, shelter and medical needs. Should the children fail to provide adequately, they allow nursing homes and government agencies to bring legal action to recover the cost of caring for the parents. Adult children can even go to jail in some states if they fail to provide filial support.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I haven't seen it since it was in theaters but I took all the pubs now looking exactly the same because they'd been bought up by the same company to be foreshadowing for the aliens hive mind taking over the town and making all the people exactly the same. Yeah, but that's also the joke
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Nov 4, 2021 08:08
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Subtext is for cowards.
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KillHour posted:As jesus WEP posted, this isn't true. Yeah it’s hosed. Pennsylvania’s is the worst. SCOTUS ought to rule this to be unconstitutional, but they’re too busy owning the libs.
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Chris Pistols posted:Edit: nah, there are a lot of nice Wetherspoons pubs and I'm looking forward to going out and drinking in them again with my friends. Not my favourites by a long shot, but better than gastropubs. They're run by an extremely brexity rear end in a top hat who treats his workers like poo poo, don't go to Wetherspoons.
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Carthag Tuek posted:Yeah, they have big signs in Denmark with "88% payout!" That's because they're used for money laundering.
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Groda posted:That's because they're used for money laundering. Why would you use a puggie for money laundering? They just make tons of money by themselves. It's like those adverts about how buying knock off dvds funds drug dealers because dealing drugs is so tough they need some supplementary income. Tanning Salons, now there's a good money laundering scheme.
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No. 1 ANIME HATER posted:The good news is if Nana is about to die you can run up her credit cards and then just don't answer the phone for 2 years and now all that stuff is yours. Ok boomer, like anybody ever answers the phone already.
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Just remember: credit card fraud statute of limitations is 3 years so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khqUZmdXzV0
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you can't post about UK chain pubs without posting a picture of the owner of wetherspoons behold, the "hosed up thundercat" that is Tim Martin
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Nov 4, 2021 12:29
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Advanced stages of charlie kirk face.
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The weird genetic soup that made the English sure had some interesting outcomes
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I've heard of couples getting divorced while one is in hospice so they don't saddle their spouse with medical debt when they die. Dunno if it actually works, but it's worth a shot. Cool system we have in the US.
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Nov 4, 2021 12:36
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Nov 4, 2021 12:49
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A better movie than Dune.
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AceClown posted:you can't post about UK chain pubs without posting a picture of the owner of wetherspoons lol @image title Also I love him on Have I Got News For You
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minato posted:Y'all with your outdated digital fruit machines, get with the times, upgrade to SPICE For one blissful second I thought that because of the overhead bit it was a movable arcade cabinet like Afterburner and my mind constructed a phantasy wherein the whole booth would spin and the slots stayed still Now I'm back to my regularly scheduled fretting about stuff I can't control
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Nov 4, 2021 13:56
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Coulda used some lengthly vomitsposition but yeah
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Nov 4, 2021 13:57
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Hell from the thumbnail it looks like a velocipede you get to drive around the casino while you play it
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Late to the derail, but there is an excellent book about slot machines and their evolution into pure, psychologically-optimized cash-extraction devices called Addiction by Design. It is exhaustive while also being very readable; anyone with more than a passing interest in the subject ought to check it out.
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I did Pokie payouts for a few years. It killed a part of my soul. You know who the addicts are. You know they are putting their entire pay packet into a machine. You know their kids won't be eating. And you can't say anything to them, or you cop a massive fine.
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For real every time I go to a casino I'm just gobsmacked by the level of tech in the slot machines year over year. I feel like all the AAA PC and arcade game companies in the world are a drop in the industry bucket next to whatever giant corporate machine silently pumps out the dizzying array of casino hardware and software on an endless treadmill.
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