I ran an after hours on the weekends while working in residential construction for six years. Dough boy flipping pancakes in a Waffle House ain't got nothing on that...
I have a lot of nostalgia for Denny's from my high school days. Middle of the night, just left the ACDC concert, where else you gonna eat?
All you've done is contrived a ridiculously stacked version of "experience" and acted like you've accomplished something. My experience doesn't count because it doesn't include a prison, a mosque or a pride event. Fuck off with that nonsense.
Patton Oswalt does a great bit on Denny's in his I Love Everything Netflix special from 2020. The most depressing Denny's I've ever been to is in the city where I worked for my second teevee job. When I went back to that town a few years after I got another job, I saw that the bar where we all used to get drunk after work had been turned into a fucking Denny's.
College days we ate at Dennys. In town when I was in HS we had a cool local place called The Wagon Wheel.
Denny's has fallen far from its glory days decades ago. They used to be a middling-quality place that was fairly common in the US. Something happened in the 90s, and they began closing locations at a fairly rapid clip. Those that remained open didn't have a reputation for quality, as I understand it. I say this, because I haven't eaten in a Denny's this century as there's not any near me any more. Waffle House, by contrast, has always been, and always will be, Waffle House. They've never tried to go upscale, they've never had a scandal where they've over-expanded the number of places, and as someone who's eaten in them since the early-70s, I can tell you that the biggest innovation they've ever introduced was the digital jukebox.
It's pretty sad that that's your definition of "Ridiculously stacked". And that, once again, proves my point. Everything you know about 90% of the human race comes from what you see on a screen, and somehow you think that is enough to qualify you as knowledgeable about people in general. I mean, hell, when's the last time you even watched a foreign language film? The last time you tried a dish that you've never had before? The last time you went somewhere you've never been before (And I don't mean the new Piggly Wiggly down the street)? You bitch and bitch and bitch about trans people, but have you ever shared a meal with one? Have you ever even had a face to face conversation with one? So why should someone like me, who's done all of those things, take you seriously? If I told you that I know more about Jeeps than you do, even though I've never owned one, never driven one, I've only seen other people drive them and read what other people say about them on the internet, you'd think that was idiotic. But by the sane token, you expect me to take you seriously about things like child rearing, LGBT issues, crime, education, and in and on, even though my experience in all of those subjects vastly dwarfs yours.
no it's not that it doesn't count it's just that it is incomplete and that is exacerbated by the fact that you will make judgement calls of people you have no experience with at all and i might add that seeing them with blue hair across the parking lot is not 'getting to know them' so your experience does count it just does not add up to much
Yes, I know that you were talking about it. Your claim is false though, and an ineffective deflection from the fact that grocery prices are far more driven by profiteering and spoilage. No, not covered wagons-although housing quality also factors in. People with a lack of basics... which does add the dimension of why unhoused folks don't cook. You're always on about saving money to people who don't have/get paid enough to keep up in the first place. "anticipate bad times" when "bad" would be an improvement. Given the "plenty of experience" you enumerated in your response to Crosis, you'll pardon me while I laugh hysterically. Your imaginary three job welfare queens barely makes sense, let alone passes the reality check. Still, let's look at that... someone working three jobs is also likely to be working more than 40 hrs/week. How is that right? Seems to me that 40hrs a week should at least pay enough to afford the quality of life you or I have.
'minds me of the (Republican) Idaho politician who while arguing against Medicaid expansion told an expansion supporter that everyone could afford medical insurance if they would "just work a little harder"... expansion lost that round, but later 60% of Idaho voters passed an expansion initiative. Ever since the Republicans have been 1) trying to defend and sabotage it 2) do away with the initiative process.
The judges would have accepted "Romeo & Juliet laws! I have a special card!". (Transformers 4 reference. Goddamn that fuggin' movie. )
You are wrong. I watch plenty of foreign language programs, and I traveled widely to places I'd never been just a year and a half ago. You cannot specify what you think I would learn by attending a mosque or a pride event or any other cherrypicked hoop-jumping that I don't already know, because your undeservedly smug ass fucking well knows any answer you can supply would be a poorly camouflaged repackaging of "If you understood, you would agree with meee! " If I need help diagramimg a sentence, you might be marginally more useful than a fucking Google search. Beyond that, your petty little opinions aren't worth a greasy pinch of shit.
Talking about an issue because you have real-life, first hand experience with it might mean that your opinions are actually given some consideration, even if you're in disagreement with someone. I'm sure it's difficult to grasp, but giving people a reason to believe you actually know what you're talking about often (not always) leads to a respectful exchange of ideas instead of outright dismissal.
Consider it or don't. I don't give a shit. You know damned well nobody else follows this "never comment without firsthand experience" rule, so you can piss off with pretending to be the voice of reason. Same question to you. What is it you imagine I would learn that you think I don't already know?
On what basis do you assume superficial? Is it because I don't react the way YOU think I should? By what arrogance do you think you get to decide that for anyone else?
This is as close to a surrender flag as your ever gonna washcloth-squeeze out of UA. Consider it a fucking trophy.