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food court bailiff posted:I don't think that's true at all, dude. I mean Uber has only been around for a few years and we've already had a literal mass shooting incident where a guy was driving around picking up fares in between killing people. Why have I never heard of this, Collateral is one of my favourite movies
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Lambert posted:Pizza Hut in Europe I'm at the Pizza Hut I'm at the Taco Bell Ev-ery res-taurant's a Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Also KFC doesn't serve biscuits wherever I've lived in Canada, though there was one in Saskabush that had a buffet and did do biscuits)
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Goober Peas posted:A good Asian buffet is like a diamond in the rough. Once you find the diamond, you always go back. Toronto's got some incredible loving Chinese buffets. Like, legit expensive and you're still getting your money's worth because the food is so good. I still think about the place my FIL treated us to one time.
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No, but I've been to one of those too Not sure what/where it was, I get super lost in TO unless I'm driving myself
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Toilet paper, flour and milk propping up the ecnomy
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I care about wicker inasmuch as it makes up the seat and seatback of the Cesca chair
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bunnyofdoom posted:I guess he can cross-fuckoff crossfart
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BigDave posted:my guess is he starts a human hunting preserve On Mars?
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Zesty posted:He could give everyone just shy of 600 bucks. Which is still a crazy huge number. 
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theironjef posted:Black Angus is like that. It's almost like eating alone in a lighted alcove of a cowboy cave. It's so dark in there you'll find yourself instinctively scared of the glowering phantoms in the other booths. My favourite local steak place used to be like this, complete with massive highbacked wooden chairs for everyone to sit in, like a jarl's throne from skyrim but on casters so you could actually get up from the table They made the lighting a bit brighter about a decade ago, and I still feel like something important was lost They're still closed due to covid when a lot of restaurants here have reopened, and I really hope they survive.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Pretty sure Douglas Adams wrote this already. It took me something like twenty-five loving years to figure out that when Adams wrote "hyperdrive was unpleasantly like being drunk", and had Arthur ask "why's that bad?" and Ford respond "Ask a glass of water", he meant it felt like you were the water Sometimes I think I shouldn't be allowed near heavy machinery
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Volmarias posted:The only problem with getting rid of the engineer on the train altogether is that then there's no one to throw under the bus for the giant chlorine gas spill in the middle of town. Oops, Grandma's dead, who's eating the negligence charge now? Who's getting sued? The poor sap in the truck: Tex Avery posted:have one or two conductors in trucks driving around and covering a territory. When a train is ready to leave the yard, they'd drive there, put the train info in, hit start, then leave the train.
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The only reason I know about Tab at all is that episode of the Simpsons where Homer gets muumuu-fat, is given a computer so he can work from home, and tries to order one by hitting the Tab key
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redgubbinz posted:I don't know, but if you end up breaking it you should probably run. 
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Pope Corky the IX posted:It's always interesting how some buildings are never fully renovated when a new unrelated business moves in. I grew up close to a little community mall that was anchored by a Zellers. For the Americans in the audience, they were like Canadian K-Mart. Maybe not as trashy as K-Mart, but they sold the orange-tag Levis if that tells you anything. (Also they were a subsidiary of Hudson's Bay Company, a corporation formed in the 1600s to exploit the fur trade, that pivoted in the 1900s to run department stores). Anyway, HBC sold off the entire Zellers chain about a decade ago, with most of them being turned into Targets for that company's disastrous expansion into Canada. The Zellers I grew up near got sold instead to Walmart, who moved all the shelves around but never redid the floor or the ceiling drop tiles or the front doors. I can still walk into that place and be taken back to shopping for my first pair of orange-tag Levis, or killing time playing the Star Wars Podracer demo with my brother, or...
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bowser posted:The other problem is that Walmart Canada doesn't have quite the same trashy vibe as it does in the US. No one was willing to pay more for Target when they didn't offer a noticeably different shopping experience, except the aforementioned empty shelves. TBH, even knowing about how lovely Walmart is as a company, and also desiring to spend more of my money where it'll stay in Canada, I'd rather shop there than at Canadian Tire I'm hitting the point I'd rather go to London Drugs than Canadian Tire, and London Drugs are like a world out of time. Some of them still have photo labs that develop film.
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in the vein of goods-as-a-service/internet of things tomfuckery, this made it into Cycle Asylum earlier this week: https://jalopnik.com/this-dystopian-biker-airbag-crash-vest-only-saves-your-1846823791 It's an airbag vest for motorcyclists. You can pay $12/mo or $120/year (or a $400 one-time fee) to activate it, and if you forget to, or your cell service is poo poo, or you forget to charge it, uh, oops, guess it doesn't airbag when you need it This is on top of $400 for the equipment alone. Or, you can buy a vest from a different company that costs $650 and just activates by a tether to your bike! It won't help so much if you go down and slide next to the bike, but if that happens there's a good chance you wouldn't have needed the airbag, and the company can't revoke a tether. (I guess this isn't really a "companies circling the drain" event, because Klim aren't going anywhere any time soon. They make decent if expensive motorcycle gear otherwise, especially for the BMW and KTM-riding "adventure bike" set, it's just, this is bullshit)
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fartknocker posted:Yeah, them and Target were a big part of it and became their biggest direct competitors. Up in Canada we managed to kill Target and keep Toys R Us
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Ofecks posted:I wonder what the American Foodscape (and our collective waistlines) would look like if big sugar hadn't bought that study. I bet they'd be a lot less hoity toity about making people stand for Oh Canada at their concerts
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bunnyofdoom posted:Pity me oh goons. I live in Canada, and the only place I can find that does chicken fried steak is dennys. IHOP does them too, though that's not really better
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vyst posted:I just make sure my cereal uses freerange mice Oh, sure, I assume most of us were in the fieldmouse procurement business before we got accounts here
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GoutPatrol posted:This is the millennial version of being nostalgic for baseball cards in the spokes and catching frogs by the creek. I can't say that riding my bike down to the creek to catch frogs doesn't halfway sound like a good time right now
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I watched that last year and came to the conclusion that my family's two visits to the mouse parks were somehow during periods of relatively low ticketing-induced bullshit It was nice
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Akratic Method posted:I wish to consume from Beverage Orb They've sold those as Christmas tree ornament-styled Cokes before, without the dorky star wars bottlecaps. They're plastic bottles. I bought a pack a few years ago. It's a bit weird drinking from an orb. I kept feeling like I was swigging a mana potion.
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Icon Of Sin posted:That’s too big/awkward to throw, hard pass If Adam We can do it, so can you 
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Schubalts posted:When you bought an InstantPot, you probably weren't buying a second or a third any time soon. At some point, everyone who wanted one would have one and sales would slow down. I always figured that's why Corningware (same loving owners, surprise surprise) pivoted from its pyroceram glass bakeware to regular stoneware for years. At some point you've got enough and it'll probably get passed down to your grandchildren, which is great for your company reputation but not for your shareholders' quarterly dividends.
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fartknocker posted:To be fair, the "pushy salespeople who work on commission" thing can be true about some places. There's a South Florida chain of electronics stores called BrandsMart USA, which basically sells all the same stuff as Best Buy only their stores as usually in/connected to malls, that is infamous down here for years for that very reason. You'd walk in just to browse or get one specific thing (Or literally just passing through the store to get into the mall) and you'd have 6-7 guys in shirts and ties approaching you at almost every step, unless you were actively being escorted by another salesman already. If you didn't want/need help, it's a very uncomfortable experience, and the chain has carried that reputation for literal decades at this point, to the extent a lot of people won't even consider going unless there is literally no other option or they need to turn every stone trying to find something specific/immediately. Can you tell this used to be a computer store in the mid-late 90s?  I set foot in there exactly once. Went there with my dad to look at mice or joysticks or something. Within a couple of minutes we'd fended off three or four separate salespeople who watched the previous guy walk away only to sidle up and ask us if we needed any help finding anything today. We left and went somewhere quieter. To this day, though, when I'm out in the woods getting attacked by mosquitoes, this storefront immediately leaps into my brain.
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Knormal posted:Hell yeah, Incredible Universe. Oh my god I'm in Canada, we never had those up here. And this was just a regular computer store inside. It must have been a knockoff. Of an entire store! Holy poo poo!
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Chaotic Flame posted:I hate that human psychology makes this work. So many "sales" that aren't worth anything. I'm sad JCPenney (I think) failed when they just lowered prices instead of having sales. Seems like something Star Trek should have a Ferengi call us out on. Forget about the root beer thing, stupid hyu-mons can't pass up a "sale"
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Why would the Ferengi ever want to complain about that, let alone to bring it up in front of some of their best customers? I didn't say "complain", I was thinking "gloat"
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The Moon Monster posted:How long until NASA moves away from SpaceX because their rockets are cringe? I don't think that can happen at this point unless something profoundly stupid happens. Starship adventurism aside, the reusable rockets are just too economical to abandon.
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