Let me at 'em!!
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Old Old Spice, meet the New Old Spice.
Then he went on to make lemonade with strawberries and heavy water. Deuterium, you get me? Strawberry fusion lemonade.
Who took this picture, Legolas?
One does not simply enter Akihabara.
False flag! 8D Cheese Chess! Yadda yadda yadda!
The truth of the matter can be much simpler - the peak of the wave has passed, third campaign of the same shit have many republican-leaning voters fatigued and numb.
Do NOT get me wrong here. It's still a clear and present danger, both internal and foreign powers who wish governmental chaos/weakness upon the United States are pumping resources into the campaign, every truly patriotic and intelligent American still has GO AND VOTE DEMOCRAT THIS NOVEMBER.
If it happens, the following sentiment, a few decades down the road:
"Look at this shitty nursing home my daughter shipped me off to. AFTER ALL I'VE DONE FOR HER!"
And it could even be a good nursing home barely within the means of a son or daughter, suffering from some sort of Stockholm Syndrome sense of duty. The narcissistic, miserable, martyrdom complex is a goddamned guarantee.
April 12, Yuri Gagarin Day, that is Cat Day in our family's life.
that they polled customers afterwards points to this being a simple corporate fuckup
Yes, this is my thought as well. They bought their way into the market, somehow thinking it was the chunk of real estate and not the services provided that kept customers coming back over and over again. They didn't even bother to see what these services were, came in like a bull in a china shop, indifferent to the point of oblivious about it, even as the accounting department back at the home office had to process out all the kitchen equipment, the self-service soda and ice cream machines, etc., from every store in Baja.
Nowadays, 7-11 is still there, puttering along, as a generic clone of Oxxo, the other large mini-market chain in Mexico, offering nothing special, except maybe along the lines of - "Hmm... Oxxo is three blocks this way, 7-11 is one block that way, I guess I'll go to 7-11", and Oxxos are everywhere, Jesus... like somebody gleefully abused the copy/paste function.
Now this truly does sound like a horrifying story.
Move over McRib, 'cause here comes Georgie "Please Let Me Die" Pie, even less often than you do!
Imagine if McDonald's had actually defeated Jollibee in the Philippines, absorbed them, then resuscitated their menu once a year.
But that didn't happen, I wonder how did Jollibee not only survive, but thrive? What was their crucial chessboard move there?
Gather round, children, and let me tell you a story of the same type of mindless corporate stupidity that happened in my state, about how something successful was ruined because all they could see was at the surface level...
When the mini-market chain AM/PM opened some stores in Baja California, they came up with a hybrid concept that also included a made-to-order fast food kitchen serving burgers, and a sizable seating area, they called this Dave's Kitchen. It was a huge, huge hit.
Enter 7-11 into the scene. Getting wind of this new phenomenon and armed with corporate cash from their Mexico offices in... Monterrey I think it was... they bought every AM/PM in the state and converted them to 7-11s, surely salivating at the prospect of this large client base that was supposedly built-in with their acquisition.
So what was the first thing they did?
They shuttered Dave's Kitchen. Poof... gone!
They got rid of the soda machine, the ice cream machine... instead of assimilating the business model of what they had bought, they got rid of everything that made these AM/PMs unique in the market, replaced it with their own bland and generic way of doing things according to the home office in Monterrey.
Within a month, the new 7-11s had lost around 3/4 of their customers. Their emergency response was to send in a squad of corporate poll takers to pester the customers still there and see... why the other ones had gone, I guess?
Asking the wrong questions (why did the customers leave in droves?) to the wrong people (the few remaining clients who didn't leave). And thus, nothing of value was learned, because when your corporate business school suits are clumsy unthinking hammers, every situation and problem look like a goddamned nail.
Pac-Man's & Sons Original Famous
two blocks away from
Pac-Man's Original
which is a block and a half away from
Pac-Man's Famous
across the street from
Pac-Man's & Sons Famous
etc.
HELLOOOO TULSA OKLAHOMA!!!
TONITE I'M GONNA ROCK YOU TONITE!!!
I am unable to differentiate between the signal and the ambient stochastic background.
The analemma.
Then since that 8-figure is diagonal, the earliest sunset and latest sunrise are about two weeks on either side of the shortest day of the year. Same in summer with the latest sunset and earliest sunrise being a couple of weeks on either side of the longest day.
Oklahoma the prototypical red state shithole.
Where if the black community becomes peacefully prosperous, it's too much for the numerous white inferiority-complex shitkickers to take, they boil and fester like an infection until one night they swarm like a biblical plague of locusts to burn and raze the black community to the ground.
Hollow and ignorant, lazy and angry white madness is synonymous with republican-voting states.
The moment I wrote it, I was hearing it in the voice of Benny Safdie in his first scene as weirdo Edward Teller, in "Oppenheimer".