Feed troughs and dodos by Wishimay

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Feed troughs and dodos

POSTED BY: WISHIMAY
UPDATED: Thursday, January 26, 2012 04:39
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Friday, January 20, 2012 4:27 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/buffets-restaurants-seeks-bankruptcy-protection-
213811268.html

I've been saying the last five years that in another 10-15 years there won't be anymore of 'em. Not that I'll be cryin' tooo much. My first real job was a Pondogrossa, and we go there once a year outta nostalgia, but I've never liked any of the rest, bland... and standin' in line at one always felt like pigs at the trough...

I think my grandkids are gonna say "Grandma, what was a buffet??"

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Friday, January 20, 2012 4:35 AM

CAVETROLL

Smorgasbords used to be big in the part of Illinois I used to live in. I understand they're all gone. "All you can eat" places must be disappearing as fast as American waistlines are ballooning. Then again, the last time I was at one of these places I remember shaking my head at the amount of carbohydrates laid out. Everything was either a starch or breaded and fried. Only the carving station held actual meat. and the number of unadultered vegetables was very small.

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Friday, January 20, 2012 4:54 AM

WISHIMAY

Oh, and here's a captain that's either ball-zy or craz-y... and it's about albatrosses

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089319/Pictured-The-metre-hol
e-smashed-aeroplanes-nose-ALBATROSS.html

Picture included...Try not to faint

Now with buffets going out where will the parents go now so they can let their kids slap food all over the floor, the table the chairs, ughh. I can't imagine what some people houses look like... Several times I had to clean up after people that filled dozens of plates and only took a bite or two off of them. Humanity is nasty...

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Friday, January 20, 2012 7:46 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

"Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars."

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Friday, January 20, 2012 2:53 PM

WISHIMAY

Demolition man!

Talk about Dodos...I talked to an old asian friend who said that her kid gets constantly picked on FOR BEING ASIAN...Aren't we kinda past that shit by now?? She said they steal her stuff and constantly mock her.

I'm tellin ya, Indiana is fulla the dumbest schmucks on Earth. There is more IQ supressant in the water here THAN WATER!

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Friday, January 20, 2012 4:21 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Not just stupid, mean too.

I wound up falling afoul of the family and good old boys network of Wakarusa/Napanee by rescuing one of thems pet punching bag, aka offspring - and that devolved into a fiasco where they cut power to a chunk of the town in order to prevent me from calling in reinforcements, thankfully I had a self-powered laptop with a richochet modem...

A later followup to that was an attempt to file charges for a supposed incident I wasn't even in the state during, which fell apart rather quickly when Michigan demanded supporting documentation which didn't exist for an obviously bogus warrant.

I stay the hell AWAY from IN/IL - too much bad history there, even now, and the unbelievable levels of corruption which occur when a single church congregation happens to have an iron grip on the local police, court, social services and other infrastructure can make it really bad for you if you run afoul of them, cause there's no way to call them to heel and using violence or other nefarious means is likely to backfire unless you can do so without leaving any evidence pointing to you, cause even defending yourself against their malice can draw down the Feds on your ass since they're the "legitimate" authorities no matter how corrupt and criminal they are.

Compared to most of rural IN/IL, Boss Hogg was a downright benevolent fellow!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CorruptHick

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Friday, January 20, 2012 5:54 PM

WISHIMAY

When I was a kid I constantly felt like I didn't fit here. Now I think that's a good thing...

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Friday, January 20, 2012 6:36 PM

WISHIMAY

More dodos...

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/baltimore-elementary
-school-kids-wear-purple-sit-library-180953556.html

Reminds me of a conversation I had with my kid. She didn't understand why people have different religions and holidays.
I said "Do you think everyone should think the same way and like the same things?"
"Ummmm. yeah?"
"Ok, well my favorite color is green and my favorite animal is the lizard, so if we should all think alike YOUR favorite color is green and YOUR favorite animal is the lizard, I'm gonna buy you all green clothes, and you can ONLY have lizards as a pet"
"BUUUT I DOOON'T LIIKE GREEEEN!"
"Well then who gets to pick what person we all get to think like???"
She sat there for a minute and then said.
"Ohh."

I read the article and thought "BUT I DON'T LIKE PURPLE!"
Heh.

More dodos of the day... From a few weeks ago, I musta missed this one. WHO IN THE yes- HELL- was he hanging out with in the 70's??

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/220257-Vatican-Christmas-Shocker-Pop
e-says-child-rape-isn-t-that-bad-was-normal-back-in-his-day

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Saturday, January 21, 2012 6:21 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Aren't we kinda past that shit by now?? She said they steal her stuff and constantly mock her.

You ARE, of course, joking. Past it? It's regenerated BIG TIME in the past few years, surely you've noticed that. It's called xenophobia, and of course fear of the "other" turns to hate. It's all over this country...and England and other places. At least the kid isn't Muslim...just imagine!

I'm pretty convinced South Carolina is mostly insane...watching what little I did of the debates, etc., I think they're completely off their rocker. Gingrich's discretions are okay because he's "repented"??? Are they fucking KIDDING?!

Why is it we didn't let the South secede, again? I can't remember, but I'm not sure it was such a good idea...let'em go, they're WEIRD! ...and they call us Californians "crazy"...some of the things those people applauded made my eyes cross! "Code", "red meat", they ate it UP...brrrrrrr.

By the way, child rape WAS common in the church, but it was WAY back "when"; that he can say it continued in HIS day speaks volumes...and not good ones!

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:14 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I tend to not like buffets as a general rule. Izzy's is okay though if you only eat the pizza. When I go to things like that I only get one plateful anyways because the food isn't good enough to warrant another plateful. I have to admit that I do like Hometown Buffet's cheesecake though. My grandparents were/are big on buffets.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:40 AM

WISHIMAY

We used to have some great independant buffets when I was a kid, they actually bothered to cook things to go on it. Not that it mattered, I filled up on sweet midget pickles, grapes, and cottage cheese with crackers most of the time.

I'm still a pickle junkie

We still have a Western Sizzler, a Shoneys, a Golden Corral,a Ponderossa, a Cece's, a Gatti's, and several Chinese buffets in our proxemity. And in every one of 'em you'll find people who look like they have never left.

My nine year old is now officially taller than the little chinese waitresses

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:06 AM

BYTEMITE

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Why is it we didn't let the South secede, again? I can't remember, but I'm not sure it was such a good idea...let'em go, they're WEIRD!

Well, arguably neither economy would really have been able to survive on its own, and then there's the slavery thing, though I've heard good reasons to suggest that slavery would have ended on it's own in 1880 if it hadn't ended in 1865. (only question is if slaves would've been able to endure 20 more years, conditions were pretty horrible)

But on the other hand, fighting the most violent and bloody war in American history, with more American deaths than any other? Pretty dumb, and also ignoring the 10th.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:09 AM

BYTEMITE

Mine did/do too, not sure why. Might be a generational thing.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:59 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

My grandma likes to try and sneak food home in her purse. At Sizzler's she takes her meal home, eats the salad bar and tries to add little salad bar things into her take home box, even though she's been told no.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:45 PM

BYTEMITE

I've wondered if it has to do with a reaction of living in a time when the Great Depression wasn't just a distant memory.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:07 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

That may be part of it, such behavior is common in elders of that generation. My grandma's family faired better than most since during the worst of it they were living on ranches, her father had work and they always had fresh good food to eat. In 37 or so they moved to California to the city but she has never talked about not having enough to eat during that time. I suppose one could measure whether the lack of food during the Depression is a cause, do people from other cultures who have faced poverty behave the same way about food when later in a good situation where it is plentiful?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:02 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
I've wondered if it has to do with a reaction of living in a time when the Great Depression wasn't just a distant memory.

My dad grew up during the Depression. One thing I remember was that when we were traveling and went to a restaurant, he would ask if they could serve him a smaller sized meal, since he was a light eater and hated to send food we had nowhere to keep back to be thrown away. It was also interesting how few places would actually serve a smaller portion.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:39 AM

BYTEMITE

I guess people had all different ways they coped with the memory. My grandparents believed in a full Sunday meal every day for breakfast (eggs, bacon and waffles) because they never wanted their own family to go hungry like they did.

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