Yeah there's a bunch of companies that duplicate The Waffle House model like huddle House and Waffle King and places like that. I've worked at a bunch of them but this one was a Waffle King.
But it takes a special kind of comedic genius to reach the point where you go from being raunchy and edgy and counterculture to being a milquetoast "adult" for kids comedy movies.
Happened to lots of comedy greats. They get a following, they make some money and then a movie opportunity comes along that fits them and their comedy style well and then they get addicted to the money and then they sell out.
Eddie Murphy, Bob Saget, Steve Martin, Andy Kauffman (kinda maybe), George Carlin for a while before he came to his senses and went back to comedy, almost happened to Dave Chappele.
I feel safe in saying that we can add Jack Black to the mix, I wonder if he'll return to his roots or if he'll just stay a sellout.
Hard disagree. Like I can understand not liking the incredibly strong vinegar and mustard condiment combination but mustard itself is a seasoning that is used in lots of different dishes and can be very delicious without any of the zest of yellow mustard sauce.
I was on a smoke break on my job as a chef at an imitation Waffle House one day and I saw a police officer take his cruiser into one of those automatic drive-through car washes.
The spinny brush thing ripped the antennas off the top of the car and turned them into a flail rotating at 40 RPM.
His car looked like it had been attacked by an angry jackhammer by the time he jumped the curb and drove it out of the car wash.
It smashed out the back windshield completely, left dents all the way across the hood and trunk, and had sprayed soapy water into the cab of the car.
I heard not too much later that that police officer no longer worked for the city.
He was supposed to take it to that car wash but he was also supposed to use the little jet-powered sprayer to hand wash the car and him choosing to be lazy destroyed a police car with less than 10,000 miles on the odometer.
This is cobbled together from a potentially sketchy memory, but doesn't Satan technically mean accuser? Like his whole role was to tell a whole bunch of goody goody saints in heaven what a piece of crap you are so that they would have something to compare and contrast the goodness that they see in everyone with?
But also going back to opie's original question, I do remember that one of the reasons for so many Kurdish massacres is that the Kurds have a belief that Satan after the fall fell to Earth and cried such tears that they put out the flames of God's wrath.
And so they occasionally have ceremonies where they pray on behalf of Satan that God would forgive him in hopes that if God can forgive Satan then God can forgive them for their sins as well.
The reason they are massacred is because the other people in the area have equated that concept with devil worship and so they are attempting to get holy +1 damage to their attacks buy first killing a bunch of devil worshipers and accruing the benefits of executing the wrath of God against sinners.
I guess part of it also comes from wanting to be important.
Like, sure your life may have sucked but if your life ended at the rapture and then branched off into eternal Paradise because you were one of the good ones then it was all worth it right?
That's sort of what I think is going on for people that are over 60 right now. They know that life sucks, they just are hoping for a way out because there isn't any solution to the current suckage that the elders are going through.
My aunt somehow managed to wedge Kamala and North Carolina into a conversation about my grandmother.
She said, it's not doing anything and I wanted to tell her, as the vp, the vice president shouldn't be doing anything other than directing other people to do things.
But you can't argue with crazy, you can't feed the trolls, so I just told her I don't pay attention to the news because all anyone wants to do on the news is tell you the most horrible things they can imagine so that you'll keep listening to the news and that got her off that topic to Armageddon or something.
I am a straight guy and I have used a woman's restroom.
But only in the context that it was a single restroom and the men's was occupied. I just unilaterally executed my male privilege and declared that the woman's restroom was unisex for the time period that I needed it.
There was nobody else in the room and if there had been first the door would have been locked or I would have been absolutely mortified.
The problem with freezing them at their price is that that essentially becomes an interest-free loan to the company that partakes in the system.
The interest needs to be somewhat punitive.
I would say three points above the federal rate compounded daily, and they have to pay off all of the accumulated interest before they can start buying their stocks back.
And, if Congress had not given themselves interest-free loans out of social security to bolster the economy then we wouldn't be having any worry about whether or not we can afford to pay social security.
The real danger is that the money for social security that would have been growing and earning interest as it was properly invested was not properly invested.
They have phrased it as they didn't expect people to live so long, but it's not that. It's because they don't know where they're going to get the money to repay social security, when the reason why there's any danger of social security running out is that the money was mismanaged.
There's a lot of reasons why someone might choose to be a republican that has nothing to do with being a soulless monster.
A lot of them are stupid or have intestinal parasites that prevent them from thinking correctly.
And the world is not the United States, so if you have the power to wipe out an entire group of people, you should just destroy all of the assholes on the planet. Anyone who's like more than 40% asshole just poof they're gone.
I think I'd be in the clear cuz I believe I'm only in like the 30% range myself, but if I had to take one for the team that's okay. (Totally not saying that just to put myself below the 40% line)
Being as that we have the tools now, any person who wants to run for a public office in a position of leadership, I.e mayor, vice mayor, sheriff, judge, Congress person or president, should have to undergo a psychological evaluation and if they show any of the three dark traits they should be rendered invalid and unable to participate in politics.
We don't need any narcissistic psychopaths running the government, but narcissistic psychopaths are the ones that are the most likely to get elected because they're the best at manipulating people into voting for them in popularity contests.
The playbook as I understand it is that they offer a community improvement for free at first to get you hooked and then once everyone is entirely reliant upon it that's when they do the rug pull.
So there is a good chance that Google search will improve for the next 6 to 18 months while they are doing this just know that this is a temporary reprieve from the enshittification solely to prime the engine for the enshittification to get massively worse.
I don't get this. I know the person on the left is the trans employee from Linus tech tips, and I saw in the comments who the person on the right is but I don't get this meme at all
On my 18th birthday I was homeless and living in a truck.
But it was okay cuz I was out of a terribly abusive situation and my mental health was improving.
And I went to my friend's house only to find out that they had all been arrested for robbing a McDonald's.
Truth is, I had known about the robbery after the fact, they had told me about it two days before my birthday.
I had cautioned my friends that they should not go out and spend the money they had stolen right away, if their activities change and it made them look suspicious, it increased their chances of getting caught.
This was a small time deal, they each got like $600.
They went out the very next day and blew it all.
They were arrested that night after the detective that McDonald's had hired to follow them kept track of all of their purchases and showed up at their door with the police in tow.
It's so pathetic it still makes me cringe.
So anyway I spent my birthday alone in my truck. It made me sad because you know that was the day I officially became an adult and all these years later I'm kind of still alone so I guess maybe it set a bad precedent that I could not overcome.
Yeah there's a bunch of companies that duplicate The Waffle House model like huddle House and Waffle King and places like that. I've worked at a bunch of them but this one was a Waffle King.