What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[fastbilly1]

I will admit that I'm going to Red Robin this afternoon. It's the perfect place to take out my baby. The service is extremely fast and it's so damn loud that no one will be able to hear her if she cries.

That is the exact same reason why my family started going to Waffle House every Saturday.

[Luke]

We have some great restaurants here in Augusta (seafood, Thai, Mexican, whatever) but all my folks want is Ruby Tuesday/Applebees/Friendly's.... and yes, the Olive Garden.

I will admit that I'm going to Red Robin this afternoon. It's the perfect place to take out my baby. The service is extremely fast and it's so damn loud that no one will be able to hear her if she cries.

I can relate. My in-laws are the same way. Well, my Father in law is the same way. When my Mother-in-law celebrates her birthday we dine in downtown Raleigh.

My Sister and her co-workers are basically banned from Red Robin, and I agree with the restaurant. The Scheme: She'd order the endless french fries, and one after another her friends would join her. So, four people eating one plate of endless fries.

What ticks me off about this is that my Sister has more than enough money to not resort to such cheapness, but what really ticks me off is that she only tipped about two bucks each visit.

Finally the restaurant told them that either everyone had to buy their own fries or they had to leave.

[Jmustang1968]

Glad to see you gave the Olive Garden a second chance.

My wife's Grandmother gave me a gift card to the Olive Garden last year because she knows I love "Italian food".

There is no other way to put it, the clientele there consisted of fat slobs. The food was gross, but I spent more time wondering what the average weight of their customers would be. 250lbs.? 275 lbs.?
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Nice to know that someone 250 or more is a 'fat slob'

[Luke]

Nice to know that someone 250 or more is a 'fat slob'

5'0" 250 lbs.? These gals aren't body builders.

[aaron]

yo, luke, calling people fat slobs really isn't okay, no matter what your opinion on the matter might be. but do ya thang, homie.

also i chuckled pretty heartily at the teachers v. construction workers analogy, too, but then i realized that oversimplifying the correlation between two factors down to the basic facets (in this case, and in most cases when this happens, money) aligns very well with the same ideology that would place a nuclear engineering major at more value to society than an elementary education major. kinda like saying that corn syrup is more valuable to food production than, say, water or sunlight.

anyway.

smile: the TG16 and the Master System i got in the auction yesterday work, and i found matching controllers and compatible power supplies for them both!

frown: i have zero time to sort through this shit.

[Luke]

My bust: Extremely obese people with no table manners and poor hygiene.

[aaron]

My bust: Extremely obese people with no table manners and poor hygiene.

i mean, that's cool, but i know a bunch of skinny folks with no table manners and poor hygiene. and i don't call them "limpdick skinny fucks" or whatever.

[Luke]

My bust: Extremely obese people with no table manners and poor hygiene.

i mean, that's cool, but i know a bunch of skinny folks with no table manners and poor hygiene. and i don't call them "limpdick skinny fucks" or whatever.

I was trying to describe them the best way possible. I agree "fat slobs" was a poor choice of words, but they were in fact extremely obese people with no table manners and poor hygiene.

[aaron]

there is no correlation between body type and poor table manners, though. "slob" would have been sufficient. the fact that they were obese doesn't really factor into it.

i mean, it's cool, whatever, but i've just seen too many people cry over being called fat or feeling bad about their body type to let shit like that slide without saying something. and i realize that's a personal thing, so it's all good, whatever.

[Luke]

there is no correlation between body type and poor table manners...

I never said all obese people are slobs, however, at this Olive Garden the overwhelming number of obese, disgusting people was overwhelming.

I said "bad table manners" because our table was surrounded by other tables with people eating with their mouths open, speaking while chewing, sneezing without covering their mouths, stuffing their faces like they hadn't eaten in days, talking so loudly I could barely think...That's my regular local Olive Garden patron.