Kguillemette | 1,548 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 18 minutes ago, ThePhleo said: Doesn't hurt as bad as when Burger King removed the Chicken Fries (THANK GOODNESS they've brought them back), but I officially have no reason to go to Taco Bell anymore without the beefy nacho loaded griller. It's the only decent thing on the menu there since it always came out hot. ... Now when will I see a McRib again. I understand. Taco bell, or really any fast food place isn't all that cheap. I wish there was a nice Mexican street food truck around here. I would take that any day over for quick service Mexican. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,755 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 13 hours ago, fcgamer said: Yeah, we already discussed that earlier, if you remember Obviously I do. So who are you to say that Trader Joe’s shouldn’t make that change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWunderful | 2,927 Posted July 22, 2020 Author Share Posted July 22, 2020 America might suck, but my house is still worth enough to sell it and buy a whole city (maybe a couple?) in a 3rd world country like Taiwan And I Can have guns too!! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,265 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 18 minutes ago, Kguillemette said: I understand. Taco bell, or really any fast food place isn't all that cheap. I wish there was a nice Mexican street food truck around here. I would take that any day over for quick service Mexican. IIRC, didn't the 'Bell several years back try to open up shop in Mexico, but totally bombed because Mexicans generally consider Taco Bell to be a big joke compared to real Mexican food. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,265 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 43 minutes ago, ThePhleo said: Doesn't hurt as bad as when Burger King removed the Chicken Fries (THANK GOODNESS they've brought them back), but I officially have no reason to go to Taco Bell anymore without the beefy nacho loaded griller. It's the only decent thing on the menu there since it always came out hot. ... Now when will I see a McRib again. Don't they typically do the McRib every year? Then again I thought they did Monopoly every year but I haven't seen it around lately either. What disappointed me most at McD's was when they took away their chicken biscuit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,265 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Gloves said: Wrong thread, we can @ you all we want! What's with this @ thing all of a sudden? What did I miss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,604 Editorials Team · Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 5 minutes ago, Estil said: What's with this @ thing all of a sudden? What did I miss? Who knows. Definitely not some hypothetical place to air cat grievances either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kguillemette | 1,548 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 5 minutes ago, Estil said: IIRC, didn't the 'Bell several years back try to open up shop in Mexico, but totally bombed because Mexicans generally consider Taco Bell to be a big joke compared to real Mexican food. Well to be fair, taco bell is pretty obviously americanized mexican food. Kinda like your average Chinese takeout is no where near authentic Chinese. While I don't know the history of taco bell in Mexico, I wouldn't be surprised to hear of it failing. You have to know what your customers want before you can sell food to them. For example, look at all the exotic McDonald's items they serve in foreign countries. It's not a standardized global menu. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsped09 | 223 Moderator · Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 1 hour ago, ThePhleo said: Doesn't hurt as bad as when Burger King removed the Chicken Fries (THANK GOODNESS they've brought them back), but I officially have no reason to go to Taco Bell anymore without the beefy nacho loaded griller. It's the only decent thing on the menu there since it always came out hot. ... Now when will I see a McRib again. They only had chicken fries for a limited time in the North East (at least by me). It was a wonderful time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arch_8ngel | 1,597 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 1 hour ago, ThePhleo said: Now when will I see a McRib again. Well, McRib was originally developed as a way to deal with a chicken shortage, wasn't it? (where they instead developed a pork product as a non-beef option) And over the past year, pork markets have been crazy. (wild swings up and down, at least from what I've seen at the grocery store) I'd be willing to bet that they don't have sufficient price stability to offer it at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,755 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 4 hours ago, fcgamer said: Saw this one today, while looking out the window at the world that is the fish pond at my workplace. Dead turtle floating around in a pond full of large and small fish, smaller fish eager and already starting to pick at his head, tasty dinner I guess? Thing is, there's only about two turtles in the pond, and a large number of fish. Think one of the fish somehow farted in the water or something to kill the turtle? I mean, it's common for fish to eat other fish, but to see this guy floating about randomly? Definitely see majority / minority racism here. Fish on turtles. #turtlelivesmatter You think fish farts kill turtles? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,755 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 6 hours ago, Silent Hill said: What makes you think that if that exact situation happened with a black teenage female, that it wouldn't have resulted in the same outcome? That's the problem. Absolutely no proof or pattern that suggests she was taken into custody without being killed just because she is white. Talk about a racist mindset... I bitched about people using examples like this to prove "white privilege" when I can easily provide extremely similar examples of the same outcome, but with a black suspect. By that logic, wouldn't it prove "black privilege"? My point was that it's not as simple as claiming "white privilege" when plenty of black suspects are treated the same in similar situations. Just like plenty of white people have been unjustly killed by police. Their "white privilege" tank must've run dry at that point I guess? Are you familiar with the concept of dispropotionate effects? It’s been mentioned several times ITT. What do you dispute about it? You think it’s just not true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,265 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 (edited) 57 minutes ago, Kguillemette said: Well to be fair, taco bell is pretty obviously americanized mexican food. Kinda like your average Chinese takeout is no where near authentic Chinese. Yet it doesn't seem to bother the Chinese people who run these takeouts to sell "fake" Chinese food? On that note, DYK that so-called "Chinese" Checkers is actually an American creation inspired by a German game? There's nothing "Chinese" about it at all! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_checkers Now there IS an honest to goodness Chinese chess. As well as Japanese chess and Korean chess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi (Chinese chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi (Japanese chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janggi (Korean chess) Edited July 22, 2020 by Estil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,192 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 49 minutes ago, arch_8ngel said: Well, McRib was originally developed as a way to deal with a chicken shortage, wasn't it? (where they instead developed a pork product as a non-beef option) And over the past year, pork markets have been crazy. (wild swings up and down, at least from what I've seen at the grocery store) I'd be willing to bet that they don't have sufficient price stability to offer it at the moment. I'll gladly pay the burgers and sandwiches they sell are what...$5-$6 on average? $7 maybe even $8 for a McRib right now :V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kguillemette | 1,548 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, Estil said: Yet it doesn't seem to bother the Chinese people who run these takeouts to sell "fake" Chinese food? Why would it? They make money selling food to people who enjoy it. There's a time and place for authentic Chinese cuisines, but I can't imagine bringing it home and having my kids eat it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kguillemette | 1,548 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 @Estil, I know you are a history and trivia guy, check out the Netflix documentary "the search for general tsao." It details the history of Chinese food in America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,547 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 25 minutes ago, Estil said: Now there IS an honest to goodness Chinese chess. As well as Japanese chess and Korean chess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi (Chinese chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi (Japanese chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janggi (Korean chess) I have a Xiangqi set, as well as a Shogi set. Though Shogi isn't as popular in Japan as Go. I have been looking for the Famicom ROM of Xiangqi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,651 Administrator · Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 1 hour ago, MrWunderful said: America might suck, but my house is still worth enough to sell it and buy a whole city (maybe a couple?) in a 3rd world country like Taiwan And I Can have guns too!! Your house is worth enough to sell it and buy a fucking mansion around me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino | 105 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Link said: He also said not to call one another trolls, and yet there you are And you call other people hypocrites. Ok. Hey man if I'm getting trolled, I'll call it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,768 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 21 minutes ago, Tulpa said: I have a Xiangqi set, as well as a Shogi set. Though Shogi isn't as popular in Japan as Go. I have been looking for the Famicom ROM of Xiangqi. Sachen (well JoyVan) did a nice Xianqi game. Actually, Micro Genius did one as well, and had planned a sequel with Three Kingdoms characters, which seems to have gone unreleased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,768 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 1 hour ago, MrWunderful said: America might suck, but my house is still worth enough to sell it and buy a whole city (maybe a couple?) in a 3rd world country like Taiwan And I Can have guns too!! Hey bud, I think you're making the rookie mistake of getting us mixed up with Thailand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino | 105 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 54 minutes ago, Link said: Are you familiar with the concept of dispropotionate effects? It’s been mentioned several times ITT. What do you dispute about it? You think it’s just not true? What @Silent Hill is getting at is that you can't generalize this. There are plenty of instances where cops arrest minorities without killing them. Cops aren't out there hunting down and slaughtering people in the middle of the night like a bunch of predators. Maybe there are disproportionate effects. I haven't looked up the data myself but it doesn't mean a certain scenario always happens for a certain race every single time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,768 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 It's been discussed before, we've seen stats that 75% grow up in broken homes, of course that will lead to a lack of a role-model and poverty, it also leads to less priority over education. It just creates one giant, non-stop circle. If instead of protesting cops and tearing down statues we were trying to teach the importance of family structure, a lot of these problems would be solved. Yet it's easier to place the blame on outside forces. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Hill | 276 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 3 hours ago, Link said: Are you familiar with the concept of dispropotionate effects? It’s been mentioned several times ITT. What do you dispute about it? You think it’s just not true? Please correct me if I’m off base, but are you referring to disparities in outcomes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,755 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 5 hours ago, Rhino said: Hey man if I'm getting trolled, I'll call it out. And when you spend an entire day getting on my nuts that is called what? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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