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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's not even an insult, it's just confusing. Because it's not even trying to imitate anything. They apparently just made random poo poo up. It's a deep fried onion with a name that is really funny to say in a horrible Australian accent.
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Kojiro posted:There's a pret in Bradford, mate Bunch of pret-a-philes
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Air Skwirl posted:Typing that out I realized there's no restaurant that's the equivalent of Olive Garden, but French.
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BioEnchanted posted:Probably Pret A Manger No it's Cafe Rouge. Pret A Manger at least has passable croissants. Josef bugman posted:One of the funniest things about them is that they basically don't exist outside of London. lol what they're all over the UK and have been for like fifteen years, Manchester has like a dozen, hell they even exist in the US somehow
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:lol what they're all over the UK and have been for like fifteen years, Manchester has like a dozen, hell they even exist in the US somehow Wierdly they also exist in France
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Aramoro posted:Wierdly they also exist in France
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Aramoro posted:Wierdly they also exist in France Of course they're called 'Ready to Eat' there.
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grittyreboot posted:https://twitter.com/vandevenesque/status/1776291275085332923?t=CX7_FcDE7MqEN5AzKK0PXQ&s=19 Came here to post the same idiot. His bio is certainly something:  The hashtag refers to former English footballer Joey Barton, who is mostly known for his repeated diatribes about television broadcasts bringing in women to commentate on men's football, likening it to him being brought in to commentate on 'professional knitting'. He's currently embroiled in a legal battle because he called radio host Jeremy Vine a 'bike nonce' on Twitter. Vine is suing him for libel, and Barton is trying to crowdfund his legal defence on the promise that he'll donate the money he's going to win in this case to charity.
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Pret feels London specific because of the sheer density of locations compared to other cities. Branches per City, UK London - 274 Manchester - 14 Birmingham - 11 Edinburgh - 8 Bristol - 7 Don't think any other chain has quite so many locations packed into a single area. No idea why because their coffee is crap and the food is overpriced.
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I didn’t realise sriracha was so prevalent in Australian food. I am learning a lot about my culture from that menu - not really, Australians don’t have culture. I honestly didn’t realise they had them here though, thanks for pointing that out.
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Skios posted:The hashtag refers to former English footballer Joey Barton, who is mostly known for his repeated diatribes about television broadcasts bringing in women to commentate on men's football, likening it to him being brought in to commentate on 'professional knitting' As much as he tends to run his mouth these days, I think he’s still more known for putting out a cigar in Jamie Tandy’s eye. The guy is an absolute oval office.
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It's hard for me to put a pin quite on what the criteria of the demographic is, but at least in Sydney there seems to be this demographic of consumers of American brands that never really took off in Australia like Hooters, Costco and Outback Steakhouse that seemingly exists exclusively in a handful of locations no closer than 40km but also no further than 80km from the Sydney CBD.
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Kojiro posted:There's a pret in Bradford, mate Must have been a few years back, or I'm thinking of another one. It was probably some time ago actually but I think there were about 18, tops, outside of London? I never liked them when I lived there because they were poo poo and charged too much for rubbish food.
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DRINK ME posted:Australians don’t have culture. well not the white ones anyway
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Redezga posted:It's hard for me to put a pin quite on what the criteria of the demographic is, but at least in Sydney there seems to be this demographic of consumers of American brands that never really took off in Australia like Hooters, Costco and Outback Steakhouse that seemingly exists exclusively in a handful of locations no closer than 40km but also no further than 80km from the Sydney CBD. We have these in the UK, and they seem to be predominantly suburban middle-class white folk under 40 raised on American movies and TV. The kind of folk who went to Disneyland in Florida on holiday as kids.
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Regarde Aduck posted:lol at trying to bring london prices to the destitute wastelands of 'rest of country' I mean I get paid more up north than I did in the metropolis because this country is a nightmare run by dickheads. Rockman Reserve posted:this would be pretty impressive, how on earth did they pull that off Any disney park is "Disneyland". It's only if you are into either Disney or theme parks that folks would make a distinction.
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Peanut Butter posted:The kind of folk who went to Disneyland in Florida on holiday as kids. this would be pretty impressive, how on earth did they pull that off
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FFT posted:La Madeleine is a smaller chain, mostly New Orleans? One time I was in New Orleans very briefly and needed a good place to eat, so I asked a friend who had lived there more recently than I had where I should go. He told me to go here. We do not speak any longer.
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Cool Dad posted:One time I was in New Orleans very briefly and needed a good place to eat, so I asked a friend who had lived there more recently than I had where I should go. He told me to go here. We do not speak any longer. Yeah, that's hosed up.
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It says here the state of emergency is because a lot of people are traveling to Arkansas to view the eclipse and they're releasing emergency funds as a precaution.
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oh sure that's what THEY want you to believe, real patriots staying prayed up 
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:No it's Cafe Rouge. Pret A Manger at least has passable croissants. Ha yeah, when I was working in NYC I noticed Prets all over the place, even ate there a few times. Then I went to London for work and lolled at the fact that you could stand at a Pret and see 2-3 other Prets within visual range down various streets, like Lewis Black's joke about Starbucks darkwasthenight posted:Pret feels London specific because of the sheer density of locations compared to other cities. lmao ok that tracks
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FFT posted:how the gently caress is she the governor of Arkansas Because of her dad?
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Henchman of Santa posted:Because of her dad?
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wash bucket posted:It says here the state of emergency is because a lot of people are traveling to Arkansas to view the eclipse and they're releasing emergency funds as a precaution. I think every state in the trajectory is doing state of emergency for the eclipse too
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Rockman Reserve posted:this would be pretty impressive, how on earth did they pull that off As a poor who does not regularly get a Cheeky Popeye's on Deliveroo I wouldn't know the difference tbh
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kazil posted:I think every state in the trajectory is doing state of emergency for the eclipse too tbf, yeah i kinda get it, pop tourism can be hell of a stressor. I didn 2017 and decided to just enjoy things from a mcd parking lot which was still packed. e for a dig against dumb places: man maybe some of the next places can use the fact that astronomers predict things decades in advance and maybe make long term investments for 2044?
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kazil posted:I think every state in the trajectory is doing state of emergency for the eclipse too Yeah, makes sense, when the one in 2017 happened a lot of small towns in like Wyoming and Montana that were in the path of totality got completely overwhelmed by the massive surge of tourists.
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My wife spent the day of that last one at a tiny airport, doing air traffic control with a pair of binoculars and a handheld radio while standing in the bed of a dump truck (the “tower”), because so many people decided to fly small aircraft in.
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Maybe I'm just internet brained but I've never seen the appeal of eclipses, at least not enough to spend actual human dollars to travel to Arkansas to see it. It was kinda cool when I got to leave work for a few minutes when we had one near me, but it wasn't exactly a core memory. Just watch a Livestream and spend that money on something more important, like drugs.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Whenever people bring that up they forget that it was actually controversial amongst goons at the time. Quite a few (myself included) thought that, regardless of if it was funny, it was over the line. e: I've been through two eclipses, one partial and one whole. What a video can't give you is the sensory experience of the sky being black, of it being midnight during the middle of the day. It's eerie. IIRC the birds suddenly stopped singing. Arsenic Lupin has a new favorite as of 18:55 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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tokin opposition posted:Maybe I'm just internet brained but I've never seen the appeal of eclipses, at least not enough to spend actual human dollars to travel to Arkansas to see it. It was kinda cool when I got to leave work for a few minutes when we had one near me, but it wasn't exactly a core memory. Just watch a Livestream and spend that money on something more important, like drugs. im a astronomy nerd so im bias, but was it actually totality? 100% or bust. like yeah that last 1% is important. im sure some better science nerd can explain the poetry and sublime of eclipse better than me but there's a difference better their live and a video stream.
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