Used to be about weaseling free stuff from Pizza Hut, now about more trifling matters
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I wouldn't have to if he'd answered the first time I asked yesterday.
I assume he figures you're trolling him about it. I can't decide if you're trolling or just as dumb as you appear about this.
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I'm always trolling.
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I explained my rationale like 3 posts up.
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Northwestern University is just north of Chicago, which isn't really north or west... but it was by the northwestern frontier of the U.S. at one time.
Case Western Reserve University is in Cleveland, which is even less west.
Western Reserve refers to the Western Reserve of Connecticut. The original Colonial territories extended westward indefinitely, with overlapping, conflicting claims. (TRWTF, as is so often the case, was the British Crown.) These conflicting claims were resolved in the early days of the US. Connecticut ceded to NY part of its claim, but reserved to itself the rest continuing westward through what is now northern Ohio and beyond — the Western Reserve. My family moved from CT to the Western Reserve in the early 1800s, which is why I know this bit of historical trivia.
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Northampton is firmly in the Midlands
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You call this uninhabited?
Uninhabited by humans. Pedant.
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when I worked at McD's and they had their own cola before they started using Cola-Cola
What are you, 80?
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I'm always trolling.
I explained my rationale like 3 posts up.And then you explained it again, once sentence previously.
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42. Started work there when I was 17.
That must have been a UK only (or other foreign places too, maybe) thing. I've never heard of such a thing as McDonald's brand soda in the US.
EDIT: LOL, discourse quote.
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EDIT: LOL, discourse quote.
I am NOT Benjamin Button. I put that ­ in there for a reason...
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I've never heard of such a thing as McDonald's brand soda in the US.
I haven't either, that I can recall, but I definitely have had places ask, upon ordering a Coke, "We serve Pepsi. Is that ok?" or something similar.
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I haven't either, that I can recall, but I definitely have had places ask, upon ordering a Coke, "We serve Pepsi. Is that ok?" or something similar.
Oh, yeah, ISTR that there have been lawsuits or something, but can't find anything ATM.
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Oh, yeah, ISTR that there have been lawsuits or something, but can't find anything ATM.
Vaguely related but not quite relevant to what I was looking for:
“For the past 3 years or so, Mr. Bonner has been coming in here, and always orders the same thing: Turkey club on whole wheat with no mayo and an extra slice of cheese, and a large fountain Pepsi,” said Amy Fray, a server at the Cafe. “Unfortunately though, during this past week we had switched from Pepsi to Coca-Cola, because they had cheaper syrup. Anyway, it didn’t even dawn on me that when Mr. Bonner ordered his Pepsi that I should have told him that’s not what we carried anymore, and that it would be a Coke instead.”
“They still had their Pepsi signs everywhere, yet they gave me a Coke. Don’t they realize they could have killed me? They’ll be seeing me in court as soon as they’re done seeing me in court, if you know what I mean,” said Bonner. His trial date is still pending.
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I wonder if @abarker knows that guy.
All I want is a Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me. All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me. Just a Pepsi.
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Ah - here's one I think..
The COCA-COLA COMPANY, a corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OVERLAND, INC., doing business as Topaz Lodge and Casino, and R.H. Hobson, Defendants-Appellants.
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The court permanently enjoined Overland and its agents, servants, and employees, from substituting in response to orders for "Coca-Cola" or "Coke" any beverage other than that sold by the Coca-Cola Company unless they first give the customer oral notice of the substitution and obtain the customer's approval.
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Thankfully, in Poland, cola is a common word just like apple.
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Same here, and I doubt they'd win that case here anyway.
I despise pepsi.
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I used to know a guy who used Pepsi as the generic term for cola. I'd always think he was specifically talking about Pepsi rather than Coca Cola, then he'd pull out some supermarket own brand
<inb4 "Cool story bro"
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Thankfully, in Poland, cola is a common word just like apple.
"Cola" is a perfectly cromulent word to use when ordering any cola-flavoured beverage in the UK or US, and use of that particular word isn't the issue here.
It's when you use the word "Coke" instead it becomes problematic, if what you'll end up getting is not "Coca-Cola"
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"Cola" is a perfectly cromulent word to use when ordering any cola-flavoured beverage in the UK or US, and use of that particular word isn't the issue here.
It's when you use the word "Coke" instead it becomes problematic, if what you'll end up getting is not "Coca-Cola"
In school, they taught me the polar opposite of this.
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I used to know a guy who used Pepsi as the generic term for cola. I'd always think he was specifically talking about Pepsi rather than Coca Cola, then he'd pull out some supermarket own brand
What a troll.
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In school, they taught me the polar opposite of this.
It partly comes down to trademarks and the cola wars. But that's a very First World Problem.
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In school, they taught me the polar opposite of this.
Hmm - weird. Cola doesn't appear to be trademarked (...anywhere 'significant'), however Coke™ is - which is why there is the issue.
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oh, that's a QR I thought it is a Dwarf Fortress map.
Don't give @ben_lubar any ideas.
Note to self: ignore every blakey post ever.
Feature request: Discourse killfile plugin.
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Don't give @ben_lubar any ideas.
There's no way I could fit a whole Dwarf Fortress map into a QR code.
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Feature request: Discourse killfile plugin.
It's not that difficult to implement using Styleish - @accalia's posted it previously.
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yep. the one i posted was great for muting a certain fox.... ;-)
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It's not that difficult to implement using Styleish - @accalia's posted it previously.
Google's search works better than discosearch, so I found something on meta:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-block-or-mute-another-user/6001/15
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staff on the tills were required to say "that's McDonald's cola..." if someone asked for "coke" or "pepsi"
And I believe it's still a thing where if you ask for Coke and the place only has Pepsi, they have to ask you if Pepsi is an OK substitute.
@da_Doctah said:http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/naturelibrary/images/ic/credit/640x395/p/pe/penguin/penguin_1.jpg
Imagine that the penguin is a great conqueror of man.
Then look at the picture again.
Joke shamelessly stolen from Alan Davies in an episode of QI
@Nprz said:Coke is what is owned by Coca-Cola company. On the other hand a coke, or cola is a colloquial for the caramel colored bubbly stuff that dissolves teeth.
Yes cola, but not coke; that's covered by Coca-Cola's trademarks.
@blakeyrat said:yesterday we covered like 47 things on this forum that were all the result of fucking terrible "requires psychic skills" communication
…I'm not touching that with a 10ft Pole.
@Gaska said:Note to self: ignore every blakey post ever.
Advice for life
@PJH said:http://empirenews.net/man-sets-fire-to-restaurant-after-ordering-pepsi-receiving-coca-cola/
@PJH said:“They still had their Pepsi signs everywhere, yet they gave me a Coke. Don’t they realize they could have killed me?
@Gaska said:Thankfully, in Poland, cola is a common word just like apple.
I believe that's the case in most countries; it's the word 'coke' that's trademarked.
@PleegWat said:I despise pepsi.
QFTThere's probably a half-dozen Hanzos in there.
And I don't care
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htere's a feature request for that already BTW:
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Those are strange rocks.... to be sure.
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I wouldn't know....
I'm not allowed to comment.
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Hmm - weird. Cola doesn't appear to be trademarked (...anywhere 'significant'), however Coke™ is - which is why there is the issue.
I have never in my long life heard anyone order, ask for, or say "I want a cola."
There are only a handful of sodas (I cringe even typing "soda" - they're all "cokes") that get successful generic names...
Ginger Ale, Root Beer and it's weird cousin in the basement Birch Beer, and... and... Orange and Grape (maybe)... Fruit Punch...Lemon-lime?.... uh-uh, that's 7-Up, and another one I can't think of, or, now, Mist ...
I want a "chocolate soda"?... from the Malt Shoppe, yes, otherwise a "Yoohoo!"
Strange.
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you know. people from here are humans too, i think
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you know. people from here are humans too, i think
Sheesh, the pendants around here...
I wrote:
You can't get much further south than that. (At least not that is actually inhabited to a meaningful extent.)
Inhabited by humans, not penguins or other non-human animals, plants, extra-terrestrials, spirit beings or sentient rocks.
South America (and New Zealand, though no Kiwis have yet taken me to task for not having considered them) do extend further south than Australia. However, the portions that extend much further south (if you insist on defining "much" in a way that either of them extend "much further") are generally fairly sparsely populated. Humans do live further south than Australia, but the number that do comprise a minute fraction of the Earth's population.
Everybody happy now? If not, ^$%*@* my *$%^#$!
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next time the post ends with a :P to signal it's a joke
@HardwareGeek said:Everybody happy now? If not, ^$%@ my *$%^#$!
this is the internet. you shouldn't take it seriously.
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I am pretty sure that instead of learning "east = right", for some reason my brain built a mental model where "east = towards the Atlantic" and "west = towards the Pacific" and reverted to that model when the oceans were visible.
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Vaguely related but not quite relevant to what I was looking for:
That's (thankfully) a fake news site. http://empirenews.net/about-disclaimer/
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this is the internet. you shouldn't take it seriously.
Why do you think I took that seriously?
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don't know.
lot of text. lot of non alphabetic characters at the end?
maybe i'm low on caffeine.
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First hint:
Sheesh, the pendants around here...
If I'm complaining about pedants/pendants, it's definitely tongue in cheek. I have more badges for pedantry than anyone else around here.Second hint:
Inhabited by ... extra-terrestrials, spirit beings or sentient rocks.
Being silly.
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blame it on my lack of coffee.
I have more badges for pedantry than anyone else around here.
ohhh, pedantry about pedantry. that's really meta
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blame it on my lack of coffee.
Speaking of which, BRB. It's past time for my late-morning tea.
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You call this uninhabited?
That's a shop. All those penguins are fake. You can tell from the shadows.
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I am NOT Benjamin Button. I put that ­ in there for a reason...
I'm going to buttume @boomzilla highlighted your original text and used "quote reply", which strips the
­
. Using the "blue Reply" and "speech bubble' button does result in the­
appearing in the quoted text.
Filed under: there are probably at least two more different reply workflows which produce yet more distinct results, Madness? This is Discourse!
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There's no way I could fit a whole Dwarf Fortress map into a QR code.
Sure you could, if it were a small one.