Octopus Overlords

Ah the mayo really makes it though. I was eating it without any before. Really changed the flavor. I use Hellmann's and its the lemony flavor I think and the creaminess. Of course I love mayo and eat a spoonful every time I go to the kitchen just about. I go through a big jar a month.

In celebration of the artistic creations of 1924 entering the public domain, a Slate writer has compiled a delightful selection of reviews of that year's worst.

A new play called Across the Street has just come to Broadway and while it would be excessive to place it beside Survival of the Fittest, it is easily bad enough to hold an audience spellbound from beginning to end. Unless we are much mistaken the author has written it with full sincerity. These unconscious burlesques beat the premeditated article every time. Possibly there is something just a little cruel in enjoying bad work. It may well be that the spectator is amused by noting the gap between what the author is trying to do and what he has actually accomplished.

It's refreshing to see that "so bad it's good" was a thing nearly a century ago.

CNN

Several people got trapped in their cars Tuesday after strong winds blew a thicket of tumbleweeds into a portion of a state highway, according to Washington State Patrol Trooper Chris Thorson.


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Crews from the Washington state Department of Transportation worked through the night to help clear the roadway. The road was closed for about 10 hours and reopened around 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Thorson said.

One car was found trapped in the tumbleweeds after the sun rose, but it had been abandoned by its driver, he said. No injuries were reported.

Really? Tumbleweeds? If tumbleweeds can trap you in your car plz never leave the house again.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:24 pm Really? Tumbleweeds? If tumbleweeds can trap you in your car plz never leave the house again.

Sounds like someone who lives where they ain't.

They can really pile up.

Always did find the 'experts' a tad pretentious.....

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 64136.html

Antiques Roadshow expert drinks 180-year-old urine, rusty nails and a human hair after mistaking liquid for port

stessier wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:42 pm They can really pile up.

Second-story tumbleweeds are the worst.

CANNONBALL!

Just kidding. It's not called a thistle because it's fluffy and soft.

Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 12:06 pm

Kasey Chang wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 2:08 am It's basically an at-home eye exam that gets you your eye prescription, after multiple tests, using their device and your smartphone.

And I am quite surprised that it works.

Interesting. I had read that optometrists are at the top of the list to be replaced by AI. Ophthalmologists are still safe, though.

Also a Otolaryngologist ....thats a new one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comment ... erm=eh6qg6

See the planets in Google Maps all Star Wars style.

Danny Elfman is playing Coachella this year, and that's a thing making the internet go nuts tonight.

Burger joints! You tell them to take off the pickle and onions but they dont lower the price. Tell them to add tomato they raise the price!!

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:00 pm

stessier wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:42 pm They can really pile up.

Second-story tumbleweeds are the worst.

I have a snowblower in my garage. Do you use a snowblower for that? It looks like something you'd want a flamethrower for, but I'm pretty sure that would cause more damage than intended given the nature of the object ... dry, flammable, and highly mobile.

For those not into heavy metal, you'll want to mute the audio:

I do not have a lifestyle or the biology that affords me the luxury of being able to eat fast food often. This week, poor planning on my part has seen me eat fast food, not once, not twice, but three times. Twice at two different McD's and once and Burger King. All three venues have converted their drive through menus into slide show display kiosks. One huge display has a stable frame of $8+ combo meals. The other is a slide show of 5 second slides, every third slide or so, shows a partial menu for five seconds.

In what world is this a good idea? (I guess the world of pressure where you get your $8+ combo meal and move on)

My choice are now

1) Get an $8+ Combo Meal. Nope.
2) Ask for food that may or may not be on the menu and hope the price is acceptable or change my order (They change menus and prices a lot where I am at)
3) Wait for the kiosk cycle through display partial menus and pricing enough that I can make up my mind, ordering "a la carte". Making the clerk wait, me wait, and the people behind me wait. That's a lot of "opportunity cost" wasted.
4) Go inside
5) Go somewhere else where the drive thru makes sense or where I can get a more traditional food for $8+

Anyhoo, I'd guess of both BK and McD are doing it and this change is occurring NOW NOW NOW, most people much just order their combo meals and have adapted to "the convenience of fast food for lunch means paying $10 for a fast food lunch" and they fast food is raking in the case hand over fist.

I'm old. It's time to start learning where all the Chinese Carryout places are. If I'm going to pay $8+ for my fast food, I'm upgrading to Chinese carryout.

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4, 5, or 6

6. Look up the menus online before you leave your computer or do it on a smartphone. Hell, you may even be able to place the order through the website/app.

Who goes to McDonalds or Burger King and doesn't know what they want before they get there?

I have to go in. My window hasn't worked in 3 or 4 years.

stessier wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 2:39 pm Who goes to McDonalds or Burger King and doesn't know what they want before they get there?

Try to go to BK and get the King Value meal or 10 nuggets for $1.49 today.
Try to go to McDs and get the McDouble off the $1 menu or the two cheeseburger value meal today.

Their a la carte menus (and pricing) change regularly. I don't enjoy either place enough to know "I want what I want and I don't care about changes."

Sadly, I go to regular restaurants knowing what I want before I get there and too often find it's no longer on the menu. Red Robin had a Cajun Cluck "burger" that was the best and it went away. Applebees had Santa Fe salad that rocked. Gone.

Bastards. This is why I grocery shop and eat at home or bring food with me... Or get pizza. Pizza will kill me in the end but it would never betray me.

I do not remember the last time I used a drive through at a fast food restaurant. (I have used the drive through at the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions, though.)

I used to work the drive through at Portillo's summers during college, though. The lines would snake around the building at lunch so I'd go out there with a headset and take orders relaying them to the people inside. There was another person following me (or sometimes the positions were reversed) getting the prices relayed back to them and taking payment (it was pretty much a cash operation at that point - no one really used credit cards for fast food). Because we weren't anywhere near the menu most of the time, we would carry around paper menus to hand to the drivers in the event they didn't already know what they wanted.

This concludes today's episode of ImLawBoy Pointlessly Remembers His Distant Past.

The busier Chick-Fil-As in my area do that during rushes, complete with laminated menues and card swipers.

It was fun to be the money guy because I got to tie one of those bitchin' change dispensers onto my hip and I would end up with a large wad of cash. I'm sure it's mostly done with card swipers these days.

Counting cash is fun. I was a grocery store cashier and it was cash or check.

A busy day would leave $10-20,000 in the till (and many bags of cash sent to the safe). Getting to count the safe and the cashiers was fun. $500-650,000 for the day back in the late 80s.

I went to a BK drive-thru just last week. It wasn't hard. It wasn't very good, either, so it will most likely be years before I do that again.

Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:37 pm I went to a BK drive-thru just last week. It wasn't hard. It wasn't very good, either, so it will most likely be years before I do that again.

Not hard, just an inefficient use of everyone's time where efficient use of time is at the heart of appeal.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:40 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:37 pm I went to a BK drive-thru just last week. It wasn't hard. It wasn't very good, either, so it will most likely be years before I do that again.

Not hard, just an inefficient use of everyone's time where efficient use of time is at the heart of appeal.

I had a coupon, so all I had to say was the coupon #.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:40 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:37 pm I went to a BK drive-thru just last week. It wasn't hard. It wasn't very good, either, so it will most likely be years before I do that again.

Not hard, just an inefficient use of everyone's time where efficient use of time is at the heart of appeal.

I would hate to suggest using the app to old man Mortis, but that's pretty damn efficient.

coopasonic wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:45 pm I would hate to suggest using the app to old man Mortis, but that's pretty damn efficient.

As work forced OMM on to a smartphone he has considered that route and will likely pursue it, especially if he finds himself need to resort to fast food more often. He sincerely hopes that weekly fast food in his diet (much less thrice weekly) will not be the case.

Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:45 pm I had a coupon, so all I had to say was the coupon #.

Yes having a coupon would have made things cheaper and faster where I would have known exactly what I was ordering before I got to the drive thru. That was not an option.

I have so far refused to install fast food apps. Im old and refuse to join young hipsters and millennials.

Nothing like refusing to use a new tool because you don't like a group of people that use it.

I look forward to your App Riot manifesto.

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:13 pm It was fun to be the money guy because I got to tie one of those bitchin' change dispensers onto my hip and I would end up with a large wad of cash. I'm sure it's mostly done with card swipers these days.

In high school I bagged groceries at the Air Force Base commissary. The work was tips-only, no paycheck or salary.

If you worked a full Saturday that followed a payday (1st or 15th) you could earn quite a bit. The downside was since it was all tips, that meant a lot of change. By the end of the day my pockets would be bulging and I clinked and clattered with every step.

Just imagine $50-$60 just in change (and the occasional bill) and you'll get the idea.

Luckily, the standard floor in my bagging days was $1. All the quarters wound up in the BX pinball and arcade machines.

E Online

On Friday morning, Cameron Diaz had a big announcement to share on Instagram. As it turns out, the Hollywood actress and her husband Benji Madden recently welcomed a baby girl into the world.

"Happy New Year from the Maddens! We are so happy, blessed and grateful to begin this new decade by announcing the birth of our daughter, Raddix Madden," the couple shared in a post. "She has instantly captured our hearts and completed our family."

I wonder what the base value is.

47..too old.

Is there a way to find mutual funds your in laws invested in? I remember the guy coming out and them investing a few thousand bucks back in the 90s. Is there any hope of finding them when you dont recall what they were or who they used?

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:41 pm47..too old.

Yeah, she should've waited until she was younger.

https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/41517782/f ... -deer-hunt

30 year old father and 9 year old daughter mistaken for deer and shot and killed.

Im really sick of seeing this happen. How can you not tell a deer from a person?? Why are you shooting at something you cant even tell is not a deer to start with? They should put them away for murder. Screw this "I didn't know" bullshit. A grown man and a little girl? Really you blind moron?