Chick-fil-A cooking up new “family-friendly” video streaming service
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The Prince of Egypt is amazing, arguably still one of the best movies Dreamworks has ever made. I still watch it from time to time; instead of treating it as an adaptation of a "true story" (which is what was pushed on me by adult Christians from an early age), I now just think of it as "a story, steeped in cultural significance, morphed into mythology" and just enjoy the fantastic animation, music, and acting.
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This is such an odd pairing.
Kind of like Quaker Oat's video game division before the 1983 Video Game Crash.
Kind of like Quaker Oat's video game division before the 1983 Video Game Crash.
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I do not live in an area with a high density of CFA outlets, so have refrained from comments about their food.
But the idea of a business having "religious values" is still totally fucked up.
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I tried them when I first moved to the Midwest, and I've occasionally been at an event catered by them since. They're fine, I guess. But I put them on the level of a Wendy's chicken sandwich, and way below a lot of other places (Popeye's, for example).
No idea why people go nuts for them. Definitely not a difficult thing for me to do without, especially when their leaders insist on being so awful towards people I consider friends.
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My wife's grandma made chili soup (rural Illinois). 1lb hamburger, 1 can tomato sauce, 1 can diced tomatoes a pinch of salt and pepper. Coming from that, my wife is a spice fiend. Cayenne pepper goes in everything.
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My wife and I also came from those kinds of families. Her mom is a "black pepper is spicy" kind of person.
Meanwhile we're growing reapers and scorpions to use whole in recipes. We go through cayenne pepper faster than any other spice by far.
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That's a respectable base-line for "spicy". I barely register Jalapeno; Serrano goes in my chili for common consumption, then I add a dash of hotter sauce to my bowl.
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I feel like we have had close to a decade of April 1sts every single day.
Just think about how many times you see some variation of "this is the worst timeline ever" in comments re biz or political articles.
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Ah! Ben Shapiro will have a new market then for his "creative" endeavors.
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It's because conservatives don't understand humor. Like, they don't actually get it. They understand laughing at others' pain, but not self-effacing humor.
A ton of right-wing people thought The Daily Show was actually poking fun at Liberals and that The Colbert Report was winking at they, the Fox viewership, knowingly the whole time.
Edit: See what I mean?
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Once Disney princes admitted that the whole point of chasing princesses was that boys can do it together, I suppose a homophobic streaming service was inevitable.
2) Art is irrelevant. And whether moralizing is profitable isn't really open for debate.
1) So much for Les Misérables.
2) Art is irrelevant. And whether moralizing is profitable isn't really open for debate.
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I'll choose to interpret that as a joke, in spite of lack of additional indicators. I am certain that you understood that he was making fun of himself, not that he actually cannot tolerate any spice, that you know paprika and green chili is not significantly spicier than black pepper, and you believe that your comment was too obviously facetious to include an indication of sarcasm. I'll remind you of Poe's Law
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Indeed, vanilla is just the default, but it's still a flavor, and one I love. Now, that "plain white" icing that isn't vanilla? That stuff's bland.
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I could argue that those are by definition values, I COULD do that, but what I can't argue is that conservatives have done to the word "value" what the nazis did to the word "purity", so the point is taken.
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Just do what every radio station does and announce before your dumb April Fool's prank that "Actually, the real April fool's is (insert some other date here)".
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Agreed, but all I was trying to say is it's technically possible to be religious and have an entertaining story at the same time. The key is to not promote regressive nonsense at the same time. Heck, King of the Hill comes from a genuine place as well, and it manages to work because Hank is actually allowed to be wrong from time to time, or rebel against asinine conservative extremes, which frankly seem pretty mild by today's low standards.
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I looked into it, they did, it "went commercial" because the original creator is no longer a part of the project at all, the heart is gone. Sometimes, dead is better.
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I understand there are numerous sects of Amish, and some of them even get online, while others are the purists who forgo even gas driven machinery. Of course, when I think of Amish, it's the latter I think of. Any Amish here care to correct me on that? Oh wait...
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Homestar?
No, I mean when you go to the baking section and you see the plastic cans of icing, some of them are marked "vanilla" but others are just marked "white icing" and nothing else, the latter is bland sugar.
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Have you seen that taco hotdish recipe? It's like the definition of "white guy spicy".
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Also foreseeing any number of "confused" young people being gently steered away from terrible decisions, like figuring out that they are in fact gay. We might even get to see the confused young person's essentially good heart demonstrated by him or her standing up for a discriminated minority person against some particular act of racial/ethnic bigotry (just, you know, so the audience can be sure the show isn't bigoted itself, but presenting a legitimate moral lesson).
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Hell, I make my family's "famous zero alarm chili" every year, and I love it. Part of it may be culture, but many of us simply do not like spicy foods and joking about that's not really a problem. Heck, I know for a fact a lot of the people shocked and appalled and pretending to be upset about this have listened to and laughed at Weird Al's "White and Nerdy".
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Also there's tendency for people to conflate lack of heat with lack of flavor. Mayonnaise may not be hot, but it does have flavor, and there's a reason it's used extensively in food, not just by American white people but in other cultures as well.
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Doo doo doo!! The number you have reached is not... your boyfriend calling you... uh... right now. Doooooo do do do do dooooooo this is the dial tone dooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Okay, bye!
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I'm surprised about the fax.
The Amish/Mennonite philosophy is to only use technology that has a inarguably positive benefit, and then minimize its intrusion on the rest of life. They famously used to avoid zippers and snaps because buttons are good enough. But phones and electricity can have major positive benefits. In the past if a household needed a phone, it was installed outside on the porch. Electricity might be run only to the barn, or to the porch and barn.
Printing and using a fax seems to the opposite of that -- extra stuff you don't need.
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Not sure why that seems so strange, most companies have some sort of "values statement" to convince you they aren't going pure sociopathic profit seeking. The nature of those values and whether they actually follow them is another story.
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It's used for communication and their business. If you allow them sell riding lawnmowers there's no real reason to disallow some of the supporting business functions. It seems like an arbitrary distinction but allowing them to electronically communicate with the manufacturer, but in a decidedly less convenient way* makes sense.
edit: Also be careful about claiming something is a Mennonite philosophy. The sects of Mennonite that are low tech/Amish adjacent in dress etc, are a decided minority among Mennonites.
*Our parts department hated it to. The ability to print out the selected part list wasn't even an advertised feature of the program. It was basically a hidden keystroke built in just for the Amish because manually entering parts orders faxed in was so much more hassle and error prone than receiving it electronically.
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I remember once playing a game of Balderdash, where you have to make up fake definitions for words. I tried to pass off fulgurite as an obscure 19th century utopian sect. Which might have worked reasonably well on a cross section of the general populace. Unfortunately for me, I was in a room full of Quakers at the time.
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Fox News hosts are notorious for their lack of humour, and inability to cope with irony.
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Ha ha. I was dating a Quaker at the time, and they were her friends.
But you've probably seen the old Pennsylvania slogan on license plates: "You've got a friend in Pennsylvania."
Is it a double entendre?
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