Can we have a "It's not all bad news" thread?
Not bad, but not a knockout either.
Im sorry
You should be.
#winning
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Jimmy Carter admits son smoked pot with Willie Nelson on White House roof
Former President Jimmy Carter admits in a new documentary that one of his sons smoked pot with Willie Nelson on the roof of the White House. Carter, 95, was asked about the legendary country croone…
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Some actually vaguely good news:
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Investors that manage US$47tn demand world’s biggest polluters back plan for net-zero emissions
Climate Action 100+ group put 161 fossil fuel, mining, transport and other big-emitting companies on notice in latest campaign by shareholders
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Well, we got this going for us.
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As Disasters Roil Earth, A New Sun Cycle Promises Calmer Weather — In Space
The sun can affect people's electronics, the power grid and communications and navigation systems. But scientists predict that for the next decade or so, the sun's activity will not be too disruptive.
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Federal Judge just told Trump and the head of the Postal Service. Oh Hell No!!!!!~
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US judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail
SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes...
Pennsylvania Supreme Court election rulings are big wins for Biden | CNN Politics
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday made two significant rulings for November's Election Day in a sweeping victory for Democrats that included extending the deadline of absentee ballots and the addition of more dropboxes across the state.
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Octopuses on ecstasy just want a cuddle
Molluscs’ reaction to popular party drug echoes humans’ response.
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Sizzler restaurant chain files for bankruptcy, says move is a 'direct result' of coronavirus pandemic
Sizzler, the steakhouse chain known for its grilled meats and giant salad bars, filed for bankruptcy Monday after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered its restaurants and strained its finances.
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Man, my folks loved sizzler. When ever we would drive down the hill to Visalia or Fresno for groceries or whatever as a family, what to eat at Sizzler was a hot topic. I can honestly say I was stunned to learn Sizzler was even still a thing. I haven't eaten in one since I moved out of the house.Sizzler restaurant chain files for bankruptcy, says move is a 'direct result' of coronavirus pandemic
Sizzler, the steakhouse chain known for its grilled meats and giant salad bars, filed for bankruptcy Monday after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered its restaurants and strained its finances.
Good riddance to bad food.
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Our equivalent in the Midwest was Bonanza. It appears there *may* be a few hidden around the U.S. still...
there was a Sizzler near my client in SAC .... ate there just this past Winter. RIP
fyi: Sacramento generally is strip mall wasteland as far as fine dining options.
fyi: Sacramento generally is strip mall wasteland as far as fine dining options.
Same here with my family. It was supposedly a rare treat. I was probably 25 years old before I understood why people liked steak. Up until that point my experience was that steak was tough planks of tasteless meat.
Actually growing my exposure to any good food was limited to mom and pop Italian restaurants.
I too was convinced of it's culinary superiority when I was a young kid in NorCal, begging my parents to take me there. You could get the salad bar and EAT FOREVER!
This definitely needs to die, along with the Golden Corral. I'd put GC a few steps above Sizzler in the shitty food department. A lot of different food...all of it shit. Here's a good test: Would you get take out? If the answer is no...it should go.
Our version was the Pondagrossa, err, Ponderosa.
Last time I was forced to eat there, I had the Managers Special.
Well, the ongoing joke is if had seen the manager first...
They were all closed or converted to Red Lobster eons ago.
Which is somewhere else I would never set foot into.
Last time I was forced to eat there, I had the Managers Special.
Well, the ongoing joke is if had seen the manager first...
They were all closed or converted to Red Lobster eons ago.
Which is somewhere else I would never set foot into.
Our version was the Pondagrossa, err, Ponderosa.
Last time I was forced to eat there, I had the Managers Special.
Well, the ongoing joke is if had seen the manager first...
They were all closed or converted to Red Lobster eons ago.
Which is somewhere else I would never set foot into.
My father also loves Red Lobster. A long time a go I had a girlfriend who worked at one for a very short period of time. When she came home here clothes smelled like rancid butter and old people.
I think we had all these shitty restaurants in Bleed-more (Sizzler, Pondarosa,; Bonanza) but as a youth Horn and Horn Smorgasbord was the shiznet.
It was always a challenge to save room for the DIY ice cream sundae / dessert bar.
RIP...
In my later (drinking) youth it was all about 3:00 AM Steak and Eggs or Little Tavern mini burgers...
It was always a challenge to save room for the DIY ice cream sundae / dessert bar.
RIP...
In my later (drinking) youth it was all about 3:00 AM Steak and Eggs or Little Tavern mini burgers...
Where in the hills did you live? I grew up in Fresno and Clovis. And in my bicycle racing years, me and my team destroyed many a Sizzler buffet.
Three Rivers. Went to HS in Woodlake.
pretty sure golden corral still exists.
It does...I just rode by it a few days ago
Yup. There is one I pass twice a day on my commute.
i passed a cracker barrel yesterday going to ride, there was a concerningly high number of cars in the parking lot
We have a cracker barrel, golden corral, and ultimate buffet here town. The parking lots are always jammed full after about 3:30 most days. Bringing my daughter home from violin practice yesterday, the Chipotle had a HUGE line outside, everyone jammed together like it was a concert, nary a mask to be seen.
didn't get close enough to look, but its a pretty safe assumption
found out there is still a roy rogers near where i lived in virginia...
there's one at one of the rest stops on the PA turnpike. haven't seen a standalone one in years.
i just remember their breakfast bisquits being about as big as your fist....ate breakfast at one just about every morning for 4 months while we were in a hotel waiting on our house to be technically lived in before actually being finished...
I just have to say, this is the BEST misspelling of any word that I've even seen. I'm going to start using it. Fucking BRILLIANT!
can't blame fat fingering it....I just have to say, this is the BEST misspelling of any word that I've even seen. I'm going to start using it. Fucking BRILLIANT!
The Golden Corral near me always had large numbers of obese standing in the parking lot waiting for tables.
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I have litterally zero experience with, not have I ever stepped foot in a White Castle. For all I know, they don't even actually exist.
When I was a Jersey punk we'd sometimes get 25 cent tiny hamburgers at one in, perhaps, Patterson.
We used to eat like, ten at a time.