Ah yes of course, like the all you can eat shrimp was simply too generous sounded like a fucking dumb explanation
Also their largest shareholder, a seafood distributor, maneuvered things so they became the sole supplier of breaded shrimp for the chain. Think of how much breaded shrimp Red Lobster buys.
One of the other fun tricks of private equity firms is to charge the company to be managed by them. Imagine if your boss charged you literal actual dollars to be managed by them.
It’s kinda funny how often people think there are machinations behind the scenes, but as long as there’s a good joke, they don’t look further. A big chain doesn’t go bankrupt because of a single $11 million loss due to a shrimp promotion. (Also, btw, they were forced to make that losing promotion permanent instead of time limited.)
Ah yes of course, like the all you can eat shrimp was simply too generous sounded like a fucking dumb explanation
Also their largest shareholder, a seafood distributor, maneuvered things so they became the sole supplier of breaded shrimp for the chain. Think of how much breaded shrimp Red Lobster buys.
One of the other fun tricks of private equity firms is to charge the company to be managed by them. Imagine if your boss charged you literal actual dollars to be managed by them.
It’s kinda funny how often people think there are machinations behind the scenes, but as long as there’s a good joke, they don’t look further. A big chain doesn’t go bankrupt because of a single $11 million loss due to a shrimp promotion. (Also, btw, they were forced to make that losing promotion permanent instead of time limited.)
ok so I had some stupid bitch say my “give the girl a snout” post is promoting beastiality(?) which is huh and I go to their blog and yeah their a trans exclusive bigot the jokes wrote themselves…
The core appeal of Willy Wonka is that he’s a nigh-omnipotent maniac who uses his near limitless powers over reality to trick shitty people into killing themselves. You can’t make him the protagonist of a whimsical coming of age tale - you have to treat him like Jason Voorhees, or Dracula, or any other horror icon. Give him some new victims and new interesting kills and set him loose, that’s all audiences want.
I feel like I watched a somewhat different movie…
That’s actually not an inaccurate reading of the book, except that his victims are only maimed or humiliated, not actually killed. (Verucca Salt and her parents are publicly covered in garbage, Mike Teevee is overcorrected in the stretching machine to counteract being shrunk and ends up a skinny giant, Violet Beauregarde is permanently dyed purple, and Augustus Gloop is squeezed out thin IIRC.) And the sequel bears this out, although he actually does kill aliens there — the mauled but left alive characters are Charlie’s grandparents (some of them are turned into babies, while one of them is so de-aged that she is un-birthed, then super-aged to become a sort of living mummy). And the whole point of the exercise is that he was looking for somebody to take over from him and keep the tradition alive, apparently.
Please give evidence beyond “I hate them” or “I like sleeping in” or “I have to get up early”, none of which is actual evidence
Signed
an actual morning person
Night person who needs to see a doctor/get your car worked on/go to the bank/buy groceries, etc? You’re gonna have to sacrifice sleep for it. Because for some reason it was decided that most places of business should open in the morning and close in the evening. Fewer and fewer places are 24/7. Wanna go for a nice stroll in the park? Tough shit, they close at sundown. Hell, want to just go for a walk in general? Fair chance of being harassed by the cops because being out and about in the dark is “suspicious” behavior. Want something that’s not fast food and don’t want to/can’t cook for yourself? Best we can do is a diner like Denny’s or IHOP. Got a loved one in the hospital you want to visit between work and sleep? Either gotta get up early or stay up late to meet visiting hours.
And let’s not forget, no matter how little you actually sleep and how much you actually get done, if you’re not awake during certain hours it means you’re a lazy good-for-nothing. Express a desire for more places open 24/7? Selfish and entitled. Complain about how noisy your neighbors are during your sleep hours? Well you can’t expect the world to tiptoe around you. But also you’d better keep it down at night because other people are sleeping!
But don’t worry! There are plenty of guides on how to “fix” your sleep schedule out there! You just have to follow a strict, often disruptive routine that you can never stray from even a little or else you’ll fall back to your natural sleep schedule lazy, undisciplined ways.
And at that, good luck finding a job that doesn’t expect you to be in by 9 AM at the latest. Which means getting up at 7:30 AM at the latest, earlier if you have a commute. Which means getting to bed at 11:30 PM at the latest.
Which means night owls have a straight choice between self-employment/freelance work, with all its insecurities, or constant self-torture. (Oh yeah, sleep deprivation does count as torture, per the UN.)
Was hesitant to share a rare W by Piers Morgan, but the Israeli spokesperson’s dumbfoundedness at the tiniest bit of journalistic integrity is worth the watch
Stuff like this radicalizes me. How is this the best system we have?
Could you imagine how fucking awesome food service would be if your annual salary was $162,000 a year? And you’re just making pizzas and shit?
The worst part about working food service was the pay, I actually didn’t hate it that much and slinging out food that I knew actually tasted good gave me a sense of pride I don’t get in my job now. It was just not worth it for what I took home every week.
Please don’t ask me for relationship advice unless you are prepared to receive some truly upsetting information because some people are ready for the “He’s exhibiting the literal textbook signs of a psychological abuser and you need to get away from him before he successfully cuts you off from your support network” talk and some people aren’t
FOR WHOEVER NEEDS A REMINDER:
There is never any justification for someone putting their hands on you in any way without your consent short of immediate risk of harm or death.
If someone tells you that “the way I’m acting is your fault because you know that doing X thing would make me do it and you chose to do it anyway” is just fancy bullshit talk for, “I know my behaviour is wrong, but I don’t want to be held responsible for it so I’m pushing it on you”
Nothing good ever, ever comes from someone who tells you, “I don’t want you talking about our relationship with anyone”. This person cannot handle accepting responsibility and processing criticism so they need you to never, ever question them. That’s easier if they control the narrative and your friends aren’t there to cut in.
Nothing constructive comes from screaming.
“It’s not like that all the time” is optimistic and sweet, but the truth is, it shouldn’t be like that at all. Sweet words and gifts and gestures don’t erase being frightened for yourself or for your loved ones. That is not normal. Don’t minimize it.
It is not healthy or normal to be genuinely afraid of saying “no” to someone, for any reason at all. Violence, outbursts, retaliation, anything. You should not have to be afraid of someone’s reaction to your boundaries.
You are not responsible for saving anyone. Even if you love them. Even if they have nobody else. At the end of the day, if they want to hurt themselves in any way, they will, and you can’t stop them forever. People need to want to improve before they can actually improve, and if they’re threatening to harm themselves to keep you around, they’re using your love to hold themselves hostage. You do not decide their choices for them, and they don’t get to shunt that off on you.
There will always be other people who can love you better. You will not be alone forever. This will not be the last time you care for someone like this and it will not be the last time someone cares for you
people on this website be like “support addicts!” and then in the next breath post the most dehumanizing shit ever treating addicts like bad children who need to be put in time out
i swear it would be easier to explain if someone looked over my shoulder and saw me watching porn than to explain some of the posts on my damn dashboard…this being one of them
*Takes you by the shoulders* I ADORE character profiles and character trivia and likes and dislikes sections. I love knowing this ruthless, heartless, cruel man of a character has a childish dislike for mandarin oranges. I believe in the inherent beauty of making all characters, no matter the background or moral stance, being made fundamentally human by assigning them insignificant culinary preferences. I stand by the supremacy of humanizing villains by giving them relatable tastes and trivial interests and ordinary hobbies. I treasure the hidden reminders that everyone is inherently human even when everything else we know about a character might suggest the contrary.
Here’s the character you’ve only ever known as cruel and violent. All you know him for is mercilessly slaughtering the protagonist and his friends. He looks heartless and inhuman, and seems one with the shadows. He’s the incarnation of a nightmare.
By the way, he likes antiques. His favourite food are figs, the fruit you find in summer, the one you might recall eating with your family on a warm evening, all sugary and sweet. His favourite drink is tea. He dislikes bonsai trees, he’s scared of dogs, and he doesn’t like taking baths. His blood type is A, and he’s 172cm tall. He’s made of blood and bones, like you and me.
It’s still kinda wild how Phineas and Ferb managed to completely hijack an idiom. Now whenever someone hears a sentence leading with “If I had a nickel for everytime […]”, odds are their brain auto fills with “I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice,” rather than “I’d be rich,” or “I could [action that requires purchasing something requiring an obscene amount of money]”. Y'know, what the idiom originally was
the thing is, the phineas and ferb version is just so much funnier and more actually applicable
original idiom is “anything that happens a lot”
p&f version is “weirdly specific thing that happens more times than would really make sense”
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A lot of the time when I see people talk about aromanticism they bring up the way a lot of us tend to think that romance is just exaggerated in fiction and are surprised that people feel that way in real life and not just in the movies and that’s honestly kind of funny, imagine just going about your life and one day finding out that most people’s high school years were actually like disney channel and you’re the exception
Imagine finding out that musicals are 100% realistic, people do in fact start singing and dancing out of nowhere every single day and you just happen to be one of the few people who are never in that situation
It’s hard to comprehend large numbers when it involves money. So instead, let’s compare it to time.
Imagine that you received $1 every second.
It would take you about 4 hours to receive what a full time minimum wage worker receives in a year.
In 1-2 days, you’d receive an upper middle class yearly salary.
In just under 12 days, you’d be a millionaire.
But it would still take you almost 32 years to be a billionaire.
And to become the richest person in existence, it would take 5-10 millenniums (the exact number fluctuates).
A little wealth inequality is understandable. Some people work twice as hard and it would make sense that they’d have twice as much. Some people may just happen to have skills that society considers more valuable. Some people may be lucky enough to receive a little help from their families. Some people took a risk that happened to pay off.
But if the ratio between a minimum wage worker’s full time annual salary and the richest person’s net worth is literally the ratio between 4 hours and several millenniums, that can’t be caused by hard work, useful skills, or a little luck. That can only be caused by the system being intentionally rigged.
The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe
…OH.
I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.
By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:
Lake Michigan has never fully frozen. Leading to some absolutely terrifying images
Layers of ice created, shattered, and built up like this.
Hey, here’s a picture of that lighthouse in 2015, when we had a polar vortex
I love the Great Lakes, you know how all boats look like shit, like just rusty hulks, you don’t get that on the Great Lakes because it’s fresh water, like the shipwrecks are incredibly well preserved
Superior is so cold, bodies don’t decay. It’s beautiful and terrifying and I love it.
I grew up in Chicago and Milwaukee, and loved every moment I spent on the shores of Lake Michigan.
not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀
We NEED to put sex and magic back on the pride flag right now
I’m fed up of people being like yea we need magic but not the sex one, sex positivity is vital to the lgbtq+ community it is not invalidating to asexual people to celebrate gay sex as something that is positive and beautiful and natural. We should be celebrating all the aspects of our community and this can include both asexuals and sex positivity
We NEED to put sex and magic back on the pride flag right now
I’m fed up of people being like yea we need magic but not the sex one, sex positivity is vital to the lgbtq+ community it is not invalidating to asexual people to celebrate gay sex as something that is positive and beautiful and natural. We should be celebrating all the aspects of our community and this can include both asexuals and sex positivity
When the anti “LGBT propaganda” law passed in Russia, all of you were going insane and cared. Give Georgia the same energy. If you can have sympathy for our oppressors on the basis of them being queer, you should keep the same energy for us, if not more.
If this law passes, every Georgian queer person I know is so severely fucked, myself included. If you make jokes about “being illegal in several countries” you better fucking care about the countries you’re apparently illegal in, or going to be illegal in.
Make sure to spread this around. This is important.
Also worth mentioning
ALT
No but seriously reblog this. If you actively reblog about LGBT rights you can also reblog this post you know. Also look through notes. Unless I see more activity on posts from Georgians I’m going to be aggressive about this
i hate these motherfuckers so much. our sewer system used to be infested with them. they;d crawl out of my fucking toilet at night looking for warmth, standing up from the bowl waving their shitass little arms at me. they don’t have eyes but you can feel them staring back at you, asking for hugs or god knows what with that pathetic whine that permeates their entire way of existence. uppies! uppies! i’m not giving you uppies you wet toilet freak
In Yemen the death count stagnated at 15,000 until the war ended and the people were able to count their dead. Today, it’s commonly accepted that over 300,000 Yemenis have been killed by war and famine. We will see a similar situation in Gaza after a ceasefire.
Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.
What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.
Please, reblog! IIt’s called self defense. Apart from having here, in the US, one of the highest cases of homicide and rape in the world and high rate of GBV, think about how this could help your mother or sister
It’s a shame I have to reblog, but please do the same
Let’s play a game. Type the following words into your tags box, then post the first automatic tag that comes up. you, also, what, when, why, how, look, because, never
Fallout needs more body horror. The Master is excellent and centaurs are good but “monsters roam the wastes. They have human faces and scream in voices we recognize” should be the focal point of about half the in-universe folklore
