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[NobodyHere]

I think director Denis Villeneuve said they're going with two movies.

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by Edward64

Thanks for the heads up! Dune is one of my favorite books (but not #2 or #3, way too weird).

The David Lynch movie version really sucked but thought the Sci-Fy (?) series was pretty decent.

TBH, I'm resigned to be disappointed. I don't think you can put Dune into a 2 or 2.5 hour movie. I would much prefer a Netflix season.

You think #2 and #3 are weird, try #4.

[NobodyHere]

So I finished the first week of a new job this week. I've finally moved from the world of fast food into the world of JR level IT department!

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

You think #2 and #3 are weird, try #4.

I don't really remember God Emperor but am pretty sure I liked it better than #2 and #3.

When I read Dune in like a day, I remember rushing to get the other 2 that had been published at that time and being thoroughly disappointed (and confused).

TBF, I should give them all a try again but there is so many good books out there now.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

So I finished the first week of a new job this week. I've finally moved from the world of fast food into the world of JR level IT department!

I wore pants today. That was my victory.

[NobodyHere]

Season 13 better happen

Though from my understanding Mst3k isn't doing shorts because netflix requires everything a certain format standard such as widescreen.

[CrimsonFox]

lol McD's lost big mac trademark

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-m...-idUSKCN1P92JA

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

lol McD's lost big mac trademark

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-m...-idUSKCN1P92JA

If you read the article however the decision makes zero sense.

If it's as bad as the article makes it appear (and it's a Reuters article) honestly I'd like to see some old fashioned retaliation in U.S. trade policy.

[stevew]

So somewhere in the studio, the guys in Foreigner must have been all like "fuck writing the rest of this song" just keep repeating "cold as ice". And then they did rails off a teenage girl's stomach?

[RainMaker]

Does anyone get dreams where they have to pee really bad in it and then wake up having to pee really bad?

[cuervo72]

Yes. They typically involve trying to find a semi-private bathroom but either they are all occupied or they are not private at all but are basically in plain view. I figure that's my mind's way of preventing me from letting go and pissing the bed.

[Lathum]

My wife is watching 90 day fiancé. Wtf.

[bhlloy]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Yes. They typically involve trying to find a semi-private bathroom but either they are all occupied or they are not private at all but are basically in plain view. I figure that's my mind's way of preventing me from letting go and pissing the bed.

Mine are the exact same except normally needing to take a dump. I can’t comment on whether that means I’m full of shit or not, but it seems likely. In all seriousness, those dreams are the worst.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

If you read the article however the decision makes zero sense.

If it's as bad as the article makes it appear (and it's a Reuters article) honestly I'd like to see some old fashioned retaliation in U.S. trade policy.

I'm with Jon on this one - that sounds like a horrible decision. My (admittedly non-professional) initial thought is that the decision has to be something along the lines of a trademark on "Big Mac" shouldn't stop a store named "Supermac's" from expanding, but it certainly seems to sound like the ruling invalidates the entire "Big Mac" trademark.

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Vince, Pt. II

I'm with Jon on this one - that sounds like a horrible decision. My (admittedly non-professional) initial thought is that the decision has to be something along the lines of a trademark on "Big Mac" shouldn't stop a store named "Supermac's" from expanding, but it certainly seems to sound like the ruling invalidates the entire "Big Mac" trademark.

There was a reddit comment on this that got a ton of attention. I can't for a moment validate the truth to this, but it offered some additional explanation:

To explain it a bit further:

McDonalds trademarked "BigMac" as a name for products and locations. The important part is "AND LOCATIONS".

So then they stopped Irish chain "Supermacs" from expanding into Europe, because "people might get confused when a "Supermac"-restaurant opens up next to a "Big Mac"-restaurant"

Supermacs and later european courts said "Wait a minute...There are no restaurants called "Big Mac"! We are going to cancel your trademark, because not only did you lie about usage, you also friviously used this lie to damage the business of a competitor"

And now we are back to the original trademark, that talked about locations...AND PRODUCTS. Because products and locations were included under one trademark, they now have lost BOTH. Not only can everyone now open a restaurant called "Big Mac", they also can sell burgers called "Big Macs"

[Lathum]

Texas zoo will name cockroach after your ex, feed it to meerkat on Valentine's Day | | kptv.com

[PilotMan]

It's funny to look back now and remember that I thought that a mail order book company was a stupid idea.

[RainMaker]

Albert Finney's death reminds me how much I love Big Fish.

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

It's funny to look back now and remember that I thought that a mail order book company was a stupid idea.

My mom likes to tell the story of when she first saw McDonald's advertise the Egg McMuffin and thought to herself "I don't know much about business, but I know one thing for sure. Breakfast at a fast food restaurant is a horrible idea and will fail miserably."

[Lathum]

I thought Netflix would fail miserably. Wondered why people would wait theee days to get a dvd in the mail when they could just go to blockbuster.

[Kodos]

I remember laughing at the Patriots for picking Belichick as their coach. He was so terrible in Cleveland, I knew that the Patriots were doomed.

Maybe we should start a Shitty Predictions thread.

[stevew]

I loved that anthony bennett pick

[bhlloy]

I feel like we need a forum cone of shame. I definitely laughed long, long and hard about Aaron Rodgers, and then I feel like I probably vocally doubled down on Goff as well after year 1 too...

[spleen1015]

I think we've all had those.

I thought Joe Gibbs was going to win more Super Bowls with the Redskins when they brought him back.

[PilotMan]

I think Ed Helms in The Office, has ruined Ed Helms in literally everything else for me, forever. As in he's fucking awful.

[PilotMan]

dola



I should offer a caveat. When he's not trying to carry the show (Hangover) he's fine, but if he's the lead, forget about it.

[CU Tiger]

Shitty prediction...
My wife and I were driviggn home from the Music City Bowl when Clemson played Kentucky. We didnt have sat radio so we were stuck with the only channel we could pick up in far eastern TN/western NC...and they were doing one of those old school radio preview shows of Taylor Swift's 1st album. Her first single was rocketing up the country charts out and the full album was due that week (IIRC)


Anyway something about her voice just grates my wife's nerves. The first tiem she heard her he said "nails on a chalkboard" so we are listening to this show and I said
'I think she has a real nice voice but you will never hear from her again in another year or so. Her whole hook is young naive teenager, that cant carry on very long. Shes a 1 hit wonder.'


My wife still hates her and reminds me how wrong I am everytime we hear her.

[RainMaker]

I thought the iPad was a dumb idea and that people wouldn't get rid of their laptops.

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

I thought the iPad was a dumb idea and that people wouldn't get rid of their laptops.

The only people who like think tablets are replacing laptops, don't properly use their laptops. It's nice and all, but it can't hold a candle to my laptop for productivity.

[Critch]

I remember years ago a lady I worked with telling me about setting up a wireless network in her house. I listened but was thinking "hah, what a pointless waste of time, is plugging your pc into the router really so much bother?".

[Edward64]

"iPhone? No thanks I'll hang on to my Crackberry"

(circa 2008)

[albionmoonlight]

Continuing the bad predictions:

I was at a sports bar in 1999, and they had on a Bengals/Browns game, and I happened to watch what must have been one of Akili Smith's only good drives. He threw with authority, and after they scored, he was high-fiving his teammates and showing real leadership/emotion. And I thought to myself "Wow, he's really good. I see why the Bengals drafted him so high. Good for them."

(I just looked it up. He had five career TD passes, so it really was one of his only good moments).

[Kodos]

I was definitely in the "why would anyone want a tablet?" camp.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Kodos

I was definitely in the "why would anyone want a tablet?" camp.

I still am

[Jstraub]

Originally Posted by Kodos

I remember laughing at the Patriots for picking Belichick as their coach. He was so terrible in Cleveland, I knew that the Patriots were doomed.

Maybe we should start a Shitty Predictions thread.

Regarding predictions... This one came to me today.

The Browns will be on the verge of a dynasty and/or super bowl appearance and either A.) Armageddon occurs or B.) The NFL will cease operating because of ... pick your reasons.

This would be so Browns.

[cartman]

How did parchment paper come to be used in kitchens? Who had the bright idea to run paper pulp through sulfuric acid, then put food on it and into the oven?

[molson]

I hate it when restaurants don't print out what beers they have on tap. We get a 40 page menu of wine and cocktails but have to rely on the waiter's sometimes spotty memory for beer. And these are casual restaurants where plenty of people are ordering beer. So I have to wander up to the bar and and try to eyeball the tap handles.

What are you going to do about this, 2020 presidential candidates!?!?

Edit: I'll add that the local Whole Foods upstairs bar as their beers listed on a video screen, which is great, but the view of the screen is obstructed from where you actually buy the beer. So you have to wander over to the screen first before getting in line. Damn it. Fortunately there my girlfriend works as the bartender a lot so I just ask her to pour me something I'd like.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by molson

I hate it when restaurants don't print out what beers they have on tap. We get a 40 page menu of wine and cocktails but have to rely on the waiter's sometimes spotty memory for beer. And these are casual restaurants where plenty of people are ordering beer. So I have to wander up to the bar and and try to eyeball the tap handles.

What are you going to do about this, 2020 presidential candidates!?!?

TBH that happens because many restaurants change out their taps often, so a list becomes obsolete pretty quickly. If I owned a bar/restaurant I would have a chalkboard where people could see it easily and update that.


On the flip side, I hated when I worked in restaurants, someone asks what beer we have, I rattle off 18 different drafts, and they order a bud lite.

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by molson

I hate it when restaurants don't print out what beers they have on tap. We get a 40 page menu of wine and cocktails but have to rely on the waiter's sometimes spotty memory for beer. And these are casual restaurants where plenty of people are ordering beer. So I have to wander up to the bar and and try to eyeball the tap handles.

Oh, and the worst is when the server goes "lemme check what we have". Why can't they at least provide you with a printed list?

[molson]

Originally Posted by Lathum

On the flip side, I hated when I worked in restaurants, someone asks what beer we have, I rattle off 18 different drafts, and they order a bud lite.

I can kind of understand that - sometimes in these situations I completely blank out over the course of of the long reading and then just end up ordering something I'm sure they have rather than make them read it again.

I've definitely been to restaurants that either print out a daily list or have some kind of sticker in the menu, and I understand that a keg may be kicked by the time I get there and may only get my 3rd or 4th choice. That's cool, but it's just easier to have that info, in any format, before the waiter comes over (a chalkboard works fine too if it's visible from most of the tables). Especially if I'm traveling somewhere and they have something local, I might pull up a beer I don't know on ratebeer.com or something to get a sense of what it is. So I don't want to necessarily make a decision only in the seconds after a waiter rattles off 18 options, some of which I've never heard of.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

Oh, and the worst is when the server goes "lemme check what we have". Why can't they at least provide you with a printed list?

yeah. No excuse not to know

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by Lathum

On the flip side, I hated when I worked in restaurants, someone asks what beer we have, I rattle off 18 different drafts, and they order a bud lite.

Just urinate in a bottle and no one will know the difference.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Lathum

TBH that happens because many restaurants change out their taps often, so a list becomes obsolete pretty quickly. If I owned a bar/restaurant I would have a chalkboard where people could see it easily and update that.


On the flip side, I hated when I worked in restaurants, someone asks what beer we have, I rattle off 18 different drafts, and they order a bud lite.

If this were Facebook, I would "Love" this, and then start fove fake accounts just to add more Loves.

And that doesn't even touch the fact that the go-betweens ate usually college kids who care a lot less to get it right than older adults would.

[RainMaker]

There is a bar here that has a giant chalkboard that lists the current beers. So much better than asking.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

There is a bar here that has a giant chalkboard that lists the current beers. So much better than asking.

There's a small brewpub here that does the same. It's rather amazing to just be able to look up and pick a beer off the board.

[stevew]

This Kuchar caddie story is wild.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by stevew

This Kuchar caddie story is wild.

What a tone deaf moron. His agent tried to protect him and he still made it worse.

He needs to find a way to make it right before he costs himself endorsements.

[stevew]

Yeah, i don't know what the "right" amount is, but you need to resolve this immediately.

[CU Tiger]

I secretly wonder if this is a shell story to protect the caddy from it being known/thought that he has a large sum of money.

[stevew]

He coughed up another 45k.