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a fatguy baldspot posted:Y’all must have incredibly mindless jobs if you can listen to and comprehend vast video essays while doing them Or have a morning/afternoon commute.
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My mom was telling me she encountered a group of anti circumcision protestors a year or two ago and was completely baffled. That’s when I unzipped my hoodie revealing my “GIVE ME MY DICK BACK” t shirt
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Jul 12, 2021 04:21
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I can't listen to music or whatever during work, but I love having podcasts or video essays when I have a sewing project.
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Jul 12, 2021 04:26
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a fatguy baldspot posted:Y’all must have incredibly mindless jobs if you can listen to and comprehend vast video essays while doing them my last job was so mindless that i spent 80% of my shift playing my switch, so
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Jul 12, 2021 04:27
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AITA for telling my friend she is reaping what she sowed?quote:At the beginning of quarantine my friend Bella (f/30) proposed open marriage to her husband Mike (m/28). The timing was off, obviously, but she had thought about it a lot and she said it was the only way for her relationship with Mike to survive because she loved him dearly but felt unfulfilled. Mike hesistantly agreed because he didn't want to lose her. When I asked him about it, he seemed very much not thrilled about the whole thing.
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Jul 12, 2021 04:36
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AITA for being mad at my friend's significant other for not splitting the dinner check evenly?quote:Context: we are all in our 30's and are employed.
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Jul 12, 2021 04:40
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Propaniac posted:AITA for telling my friend she is reaping what she sowed? I kept waiting for her to reveal it was some sort of test she heard about online but nope.
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Jul 12, 2021 04:41
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Did someone mention Circumcision?
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Jul 12, 2021 05:16
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for being mad at my friend's significant other for not splitting the dinner check evenly? How hard is it to understand that the guy who doesn't drink didn't feel like paying for yours?
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Jul 12, 2021 05:23
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Inceltown posted:How hard is it to understand that the guy who doesn't drink didn't feel like paying for yours? So it wasn't that he wasn't helping pay for drinks, he wasn't even contributing towards his partner's birthday dinner. That's fuckin' cheap.
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Jul 12, 2021 05:25
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(F27) My boyfriend (M27) has NOT had sex and NOT datedquote:My boyfriend is still a virgin and only had one girlfriend when he was 15. I noticed that something was up when his kissing consisted of a few pecs and a tiny bit of tongue. He told me last night when I tried to jump him that he's a virgin and wants to take it slow with me! Not sure if this should be a bad thing but its different to my exs. ???
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Jul 12, 2021 05:43
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Kenshin posted:OTOH it was that guy's partner's birthday dinner and her dinner was being paid for by the group as a whole. I agree with this, this stuff is really irksome in person and almost always results in the cheapskate paying less than their fair share. Deciding how to pay/paying the check takes place pretty quickly and then people who feel wronged have nothing to do but stew afterwards, with the Uber afterwards in this case being salt in the wounds. I am personally always in favor of separate checks after spending a weekend with friends a few years ago where one person after another picked the bill up at each restaurant or bar and then the by far highest earner told the waitstaff we would be getting separate checks when it was his turn to pay, which I am still irrationally irritated about as evident by my posting about it here. Separate checks also amicably resolves the situation where the five members of your party order 5, 5, 4, 1, 0 drinks. I hate to bring up tipping but it does factor into my mind that separate checks is a little bit of a pain in the rear end for the waitstaff and will tip a little higher in that case.
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Jul 12, 2021 05:43
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Winter Stormer posted:(F27) My boyfriend (M27) has NOT had sex and NOT dated quote:fairy castle Goddamn, I hate this.
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Jul 12, 2021 05:48
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Winter Stormer posted:(F27) My boyfriend (M27) has NOT had sex and NOT dated Guy makes me cum so much I peed all over his bed but doesn’t make enough money and is a virgin? I guess is the issue?
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Jul 12, 2021 05:53
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He also drives a repainted decommissioned police suv.
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Jul 12, 2021 06:03
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YggiDee posted:I can't listen to music or whatever during work, but I love having podcasts or video essays when I have a sewing project. Do you sew the foreskins back on?
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Jul 12, 2021 06:04
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Kenshin posted:OTOH it was that guy's partner's birthday dinner and her dinner was being paid for by the group as a whole. OP doesn't even know how much the bill was, let alone birthday girl's. BF bought a pizza that he split with her ($6 for him, $6 for her), $3 for a Coke, apparently, and chucked in an extra $5. It's a bit cheap, sure, but there's no way, NO WAY, he should have had to pay $40 more than that to cover his portion of her bill.
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Jul 12, 2021 06:07
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Sagebrush posted:The mere fact that they think $25,000 is a significant investment in starting a restaurant is reason enough to not give it to them. A quarter of a million is more realistic and that's just for your average middle-class-fancy bistro or whatever. some fast food franchises cost 250k to open and i dont mean "high end" ones i mean like jack n box and mcdonalds and poo poo. a food truck alone costs more then 25k
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Jul 12, 2021 06:31
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snergle posted:some fast food franchises cost 250k to open and i dont mean "high end" ones i mean like jack n box and mcdonalds and poo poo. a food truck alone costs more then 25k I'm pretty sure I've read that you need at least 1 million to open a McDonald's.
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Jul 12, 2021 06:36
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Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:I'm pretty sure I've read that you need at least 1 million to open a McDonald's. And the rest goes on a mortgage?
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Jul 12, 2021 07:22
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emptyspace posted:He also drives a repainted decommissioned police suv. They are a pretty decent purchase if you can get them. Maintenance of performed regularly and any issues corrected straight away. They will generally also be a top spec performance wise. Your main issue will generally be high mileage, but otherwise great. "It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas."
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Jul 12, 2021 07:29
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Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:I'm pretty sure I've read that you need at least 1 million to open a McDonald's. Yeah, I'm not sure about McDonald's, but I looked into buying a Whataburger franchise. They wanted proof of 1 million in liquid assets in addition to the franchise fees.
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Jul 12, 2021 07:35
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snergle posted:some fast food franchises cost 250k to open and i dont mean "high end" ones i mean like jack n box and mcdonalds and poo poo. a food truck alone costs more then 25k Even some casual thought about a restaurant makes it pretty easy to imagine how this goes if you've ever seen what goes on in one. There's a shitload of moving parts at every step, and it's hard work at even a casual pace.
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Jul 12, 2021 07:42
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snergle posted:some fast food franchises cost 250k to open and i dont mean "high end" ones i mean like jack n box and mcdonalds and poo poo. a food truck alone costs more then 25k Little Caeser's is famous as being the cheapest, most cost effective franchise to start quote:To buy a franchise with Little Caesars® Pizza, you'll need to have at least $50,000 in liquid capital and a minimum net worth of $150,000. The best way to make a small fortune in the food industry is to start with a large fortune.
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Jul 12, 2021 07:59
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Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:I'm pretty sure I've read that you need at least 1 million to open a McDonald's. https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/about-us/franchising/franchising-faq.html They want proof you've got $1-2 million depending on location, that must be your personal funds (no partnerships) and you have to have $500k of it in liquid cash without loans. Oh, and you have to pay your own way to Hamburger University, too. Opening a McDonald's is really expensive. Most big fast food companies are way more selective than you'd think about who they allow to run a franchise. They really, really don't want some sketchy owner in financial trouble to start cutting corners, because no matter how much PR work they do, people aren't going to blame a specific franchisee when they hear that somebody got sick at a McDonald's.
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Jul 12, 2021 08:03
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This is why when going out as a group you agree how you’ll be paying before you start drinking or eating. If you don’t drink and don’t have much of an appetite then you agree separate bills. If you’re not worried about it then you agree to split it equally.
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Jul 12, 2021 08:05
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Space Gopher posted:Most big fast food companies are way more selective than you'd think about who they allow to run a franchise. They really, really don't want some sketchy owner in financial trouble to start cutting corners, because no matter how much PR work they do, people aren't going to blame a specific franchisee when they hear that somebody got sick at a McDonald's. I was looking through the restaurant health grades here and the fast food franchises consistently did better than most local restaurants. They would typically have grades like "99/100, one count of personal item stored in the kitchen" vs. "78/100, several incidences of 'food kept at wrong temperature' and 'undated food in fridge, reportedly made yesterday.'" I was a little surprised by how well the fast food places did but I guess there's enough money in the franchises for it to be more cost-effective for them to enforce/follow guidelines.
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emptyspace posted:Yeah, I'm not sure about McDonald's, but I looked into buying a Whataburger franchise. They wanted proof of 1 million in liquid assets in addition to the franchise fees. I think a typical restaurant takes 12 months to start turning a profit? (excluding ones that never make a profit at all). So even once you've bought everything you need plenty of liquid cash to keep running it. having fun posting posted:I was looking through the restaurant health grades here and the fast food franchises consistently did better than most local restaurants. They would typically have grades like "99/100, one count of personal item stored in the kitchen" vs. "78/100, several incidences of 'food kept at wrong temperature' and 'undated food in fridge, reportedly made yesterday.'" I was a little surprised by how well the fast food places did but I guess there's enough money in the franchises for it to be more cost-effective for them to enforce/follow guidelines. It's also possible that the very fact that it's a franchise means the megalomaniacal auteurs who populate most small business refuse to sully themselves with it, leaving you with people who are comfortable following rules The Lone Badger fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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The Lone Badger posted:I think a typical restaurant takes 12 months to start turning a profit? (excluding ones that never make a profit at all). So even once you've bought everything you need plenty of liquid cash to keep running it. I thought it was 5 years to recoup the initial investment and truly be a "profit" It's true for a lot of small business in general that even if they make money when they start there's a massive hurdle to make profit over the first few years as owners get either complacent or lazy when their fantasy of being an owner isn't as pretty as they thought. The oft-quoted Toronto Life guy decided to celebrate by shutting down for a week after a busy summer as a reward for everyone and every single industry person pointed to that as one of the stupidest things you could ever do. Here's an idea of what it takes to be a successful chef-owner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmIwxqdwgrI It's brutal hard work you do because you love it, not because you dream of chilling at the bar with the regulars, strutting around town as a local celeb.
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Jul 12, 2021 08:21
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a fatguy baldspot posted:Y’all must have incredibly mindless jobs if you can listen to and comprehend vast video essays while doing them I have literally spent the past 9 hours being paid to post
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Jul 12, 2021 08:41
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 minor teen witch announcement So, it appears that Reddit is having a bit of a hard time doing the whole “try to be there for your more vulnerable members” (tw for transphobia and racism *sigh*). Like more than the horrifying norm. How you individually try to approach it, whether not frequenting subreddits, this thread, or posting ripe content from *other* sources - this is up to you. Do what thou will. Not that Something Awful can call itself a prize pig in comparison but Christ Reddit, loving come on. But again, I’m totally cool with other sources being used, like within reason here. If stormfront had an advice column maybe don’t post that? (Hyuck hyuck you mean Reddit?) Open to discussing this (and apologies for any potential derailment), or not, and goons do what they need to.
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Jul 12, 2021 09:18
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Soysaucebeast posted:Update: AITA for not letting my best friend have her wedding on my property after being uninvited? Wonder if OP was referring to this from the original: > Not only that but apparently Carla said a couple years ago she was still in love with me when she was already dating Rick. Don’t have actual confirmation if that’s exactly what he was told.
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Jul 12, 2021 09:31
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Husband (37 M) concealed something important from me (30 F) for years. Am I right to be upset?quote:Throwaway account. My partner and I have been together for 5 years. He is from another country and was previously married there. He still keeps in touch with friends there as well as his ex-wife (no kids). Occasionally he talks about them to me and they all seem a bit weird / off somehow. Today I searched his ex-wife's name on a whim and found an article in his native language which I can also read. It was from a few years ago. Apparently she was sentenced to prison in her country for attempted murder when she and 4 other guys lured a man to a house, stabbed him 10+ times, shot him and left him to die. He never mentioned this to me yet it happened while we were together and talking every day. 
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Jul 12, 2021 09:55
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teen witch posted:
drat who would have thought that the site that hosted places “jailbait,” “chimptown,” “alt-right” and “beatingwomen” for a decade until doing a tiny bit of moderation would turn out this way
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Jul 12, 2021 09:58
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I went and had a look at the stormfront.org dating board and it's one thread of nazis who complain endlessly they can't find women. There's also the weirdest homemaking/gardening section I've ever seen. How to Grow Gorgeous Sunflowers: Plant Care Tips right next to Armbands for National Socialism. Surreal is the only word I can come up with. There's also a bunch of posts in a legal subforum, but the posts are basically "I went to racially charged place, did nothing wrong, and was arrested" which is hardly worth posting. I never thought I'd write it, but Reddits premier quality is that their users really tell on themselves.
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Boiled Water posted:I went and had a look at the stormfront.org dating board and it's one thread of nazis who complain endlessly they can't find women. There's also the weirdest homemaking/gardening section I've ever seen. How to Grow Gorgeous Sunflowers: Plant Care Tips right next to Armbands for National Socialism. Ok Y’know what if the poo poo is really* off the wall and bonkers, I’m ok with an occasional poke fun at stormfront post because I mean…stormfront. gently caress em and their interpersonal failures. *I mean like party sub dude bonkers
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The far right tend to be often this kind of thread's material because one of their key tenets is glorifying a total lack of impulse control, tact or shame. They have no conscience, no common sense and no self-awareness. That said, best to keep a careful distance from those places and bring back anything useful with metaphorical tongs.
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Which means someone will immediately open-palm slap both hands into the pile of poo poo, because goons similarly have very poor impulse control.
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I mean on one hand, yes, its best to not give them the traffic, which I think this thread serves the purpose of, a lot of people don't have to actually go to reddit. Like that's the point. Also I can't imagine that anyone in this thread is going to go to bat for the reddit community, but if you think its harmful to the cause in any way that we keep posting stupid poo poo from reddit then I'm not really in a position to challenge that. In summary the r/retationships thread is a land of contrast.
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