Chick-fil-A cooking up new “family-friendly” video streaming service
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I once had plain ice cream. No vanilla, just cream, sugar, etc. Surprisingly underwhelming. At the time I hadn't really understood that when they said "plain", they really meant "plain", instead of "vanilla" which, as you say, is the default.
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Actually, I've only been to Pennsylvania once, and I didn't check many licence plates.
I have, however, been to the Friends' Meeting House on the Euston Road in London, when the Fortean Times used to hold their UnConvention there. Disappointed I couldn't get oats in the cafe downstairs.
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I like to go back sometimes and watch Jon Stewart trouncing bowtie-wearing Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. Allegedly this exchange led to CNN cancelling the show.
Ah, Maud Flanders' infamous unflavored icemilk.
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Vanilla is a base flavouring in many, many desserts, including those that aren't vanilla flavoured like, say, chocolate mousse.
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I am in an area with a lot of Amish. They vary, a lot. I had an Amish crew roof my house. They all had cell phones (flip) and used cordless power tools. I see Amish at Aldi all the time, but they have someone else drive them. One of the farms out by my mother-in-law's place has solar panels and a wind generator, and they use a really old tractor with steel wheels. One other thing, their buggies have bright LED lights all over them.
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Say what you like about the Amish. No, really, they're never going to read this.
Even if they somehow hear about it, what are they going to do?
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Hehehheeh- AHAHAHAHAH!
I like them, especially lately. The attitude of not letting technology dominate your life is a good one. Now, I may not like everything about religious sects of course, but I can respect that general attitude, whether it be from Amish with LED lit buggies, Amish with old flip phones purely for phone calls, or Amish that still forgo all those trappings and keep to their rural communities.
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I mean, I don't agree with them on technology, but I do respect them for sticking to it. And especially the non-violence stuff. A lot of Christian sects preach peace and turning the other cheek, but few of them actually stick to it.
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Unfortunately it's not all rainbows and kumbaya. There's the meidung, or shunning. It's exactly what it sounds like.
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Or to take another view, the Cathy family have enough money to be ripped of by grifters at epic scale.
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Unlike ChikFilA, it's unlikely to be something you'd want to consume on Sundays.
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Well, it does seem to be true that people from colder regions tend to prefer bland food. It doesn’t have anything to do with skin color, except to the extent that Caucasian ethnic groups usually hail from colder regions. The Mongols, who are definitely not white but live in very cold climate, use almost no seasoning other than salt and an occasional pinch of garlic. In China, which features a diverse array of regional cuisines, subtropical regions like Sichuan and Hunan are the ones best known for their spicy dishes. Traditional Japanese cuisine rarely uses heat, other than as condiment. Korean cuisine, kimchi and all, is the only exception to this trend that I can think of.
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My favorite Pennsylvania joke is, "Virginia may be for lovers, but Pennsylvania has Intercourse."
Also, "Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Between Blue Ball and Bird-In-Hand."
Keep in mind Intercourse, Pennsylvania is deep in Amish country and the region where the movie Witness was filmed.
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Well, I can just imagine all the pro-LGBT and women's oriented shows that's going to deliver... /s
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Scary Devil Monastery
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Well, if you're feeling uncomfortable around someone because of their skin color, gender or sexual orientation then the dictionary definition of that is "bigotry". This should answer the question as to where mjohnson27401 is coming from.
Sane, well-adjusted and rational people know such discomfort to be a matter of primitive baseless xenophobia - the fear of what is strange to you - and try to grow as people by learning enough so as to no longer feel that discomfort. The racist instead chooses to double down and begins defending their right to be a bigot.
That, in essence, is the difference between normal people and the racists. The latter choose to be awful people. Normal people find something out about themselves they do not like and then choose to be better.
As history proves conclusively we are indeed changing as a species. Centuries ago it would have been unthinkable to go beyond and above primitive tribalism. Today bigotry and racism is enshrined only by a very small minority of people who try to compensate for their lack of numbers by clinging to their twisted beliefs and being disproportionally loud about them.
We may never be completely rid of bigotry and racism simply because we will as a species never be completely rid of assholes. But we certainly are gradually coming closer to a paradigm where the racist and bigot will be left insulated, despised and cast out from the vast majority of society until they acceptably learn to people.
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The conservative set of core values has shifted a bit over time but it has aways been centered around the concept that there must be an in-group the law protects but does not bind and an out-group the law binds but does not protect.
Which led to that famous tweet;
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Have you seen "A Recipe For Seduction", KFC's Lifetime movie starring Mario Lopez as Colonel Sanders? And no, this isn't an AI generated poster..
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So in other words, food prices will increase at their stores to supplement this new streaming service? Count me out, I don't need to be eating that junk food anyways. I can only imagine what propaganda this streaming service is going to have.
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IMO, mayo is a fine ingredient, but not as the condiment on a burger or meat and cheese sandwich!
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No I haven't, and I'm flabbergasted, but still sane enough to point out that at least KFC didn't create their OWN network for that... roadkill of a movie.
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Yeah, and the other day I was on The Register and some wanker acted like a deep familiarity with Spitting Image is a universal human experience. I was very upset, don't they even know Americans might read their comments? Horrible!
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What's really amazing is that they still waste so much time they could tell the story in half the time. I'm watching Sweet Tooth right now and it's incredibly frustrating when they sit around whining for ten minutes. That and somehow the writers/directors don't know how deer work. Or how geography works. Or how bats work. Or how time works. Or how snow works. Or how LITERALLY ANYTHING works. I haven't read the comics, I would imagine the author would at least have read a Wikipedia about deer but I'm not wanting to start reading comics. I don't have time for all the stuff I'm already into.
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Not as much as your post count. Tip o' the hat to you, sir! It was a British mainstay for decades but they actually made Spitting Image for the US market for a few years. I watched it a little bit because I thought the puppets were great but I was too young to get the jokes. I wish I had understood, because it's apparently pretty good. If you've seen that one Genesis video with puppets you've seen what their puppets look like. Distorted but much more realistic than Muppets. They would do political satire with Ronnie Reagan, Maggie Thatcher, etc.
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I live in reality already and it's horrible! TV shows about it? No thanks!
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Right (and left) wing narratives and talking points notwithstanding, "woke" does have a real and fairly specific definition. It's not even as leftward as you think, and it bears no resemblance whatsoever to the caricature that the republicans try to portray. To be woke, one must be aware of the systematic legal and social injustices which marginalize and discriminate against non-majority segments of the population. And that is it. Anything else is nothing more than a made-up agenda-driven fiction. And any action to be taken to address those injustices is entirely separate from whether or not someone is woke. In fact, a dyed-in-the-wool racist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe, or other kind of bigot could still technically be woke. Because it's just the awareness to the injustice that matters, not whether one is fighting or opposed to the injustice... OR actually fully in favor of and working to propagate the injustice.
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You just, to be sure. But Dominos Pizza actually did release a platformer game for NES back in the day. They didn't hire in-house devs or anything. They licensed and re-skinned some otherwise unremarkable game from the Japanese market. But to this day, you can fire it up and play as The Noid to smash some unwitting pizza pies.
https://www.retrogames.cz/play_256-NES.php
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10,000?! I don't believe it. There's no way I've made THAT many posts.
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Oh it's not even quite that! In this game, you play as the Noid trying to stop something worse than the Noid. Some green cloaked monster who, I guess, wants to not just ruin pizzas, but the pizza chefs too? It's a little unclear, but you're the relative good guy in this scenario.
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You don't know Spitting Image? (Not missing much, really. I always thought it was a bit heavy handed.)
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I find it endlessly amusing, but equal parts frustrating, that members of the dominant cultural social group are somehow able to unironically complain about "having others' politics shoved in [their] faces" and people "instill[ing] orthodoxy" as if that's not literally what the cultural hegemony they are advocating for already does to the people they are complaining about.
Y'all really can't help telling on yourselves, huh? You know that oppression of gender, sexual & other minorities can only be maintained by enforcing it as normative on a cultural level, so you project onto those seeking to dismantle it the idea that it is them seeking to manipulate and brainwash others. But it's you. You're the ones who not only want that, you're the ones doing it.
But we figured you out. We all know now. We all got crowns. You need to calm down.
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I dunno. An old British coin? A checkers reference?
Fortunately, it was not vital to understand his point, which is that "every accusation is a confession.":
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Oh yes, it doesn't take away from the point, but I was hoping for clarification from the poster I was replying to because that expression eludes me.
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