I’ve never seen a dumpy McD’s or really any fast food. At least at McD’s I know for a fact there is a huge weight put on cleanliness, and franchisers must comply or lose their franchise. Is that franchisees? Hmm have to check that.
Same with the ones I’ve seen. They are usually clean and well-maintained. And I’ve gotten off the highway, stopped at a McDonald’s, entered and used the bathroom without needing a door code and left without even buying anything and no one seemed to mind. That’s not bad,
What the fuck is wrong with all of you?
When somebody wants to defend fascist dictators by making inaccurate, racist, AND classist stereotypes about…you know what, never mind.
I have no idea where that was supposed to go that made any damned sense. Not that the original sentiment made any damned sense either.
ETA: Oh, and the trains definitely did NOT run on time in Mussolini’s Italy, nor was it especially ‘clean’. But, like Putin, Mussolini knew the value of taking advantage of gullible journalists and sympathetic foreign simps for propaganda purposes. And he did such a good job, people are still buying the line generations later
I thought that that was the whole reason why we allowed Spirit Airlines to still operate.
I remember a trashy Burger King I once visited but it was clearly falling on bad times. They were short on people, supplies, etc. Trash was overflowing onto the floor, flies were everywhere, and some kind of manager was openly warning customers that 90% of the menu was unavailable because they hadn’t gotten their shipment of food. It was like a post apocalyptic Burger King. It was out in the middle of nowhere somewhere in Eastern Washington.
I remember it vividly because it was so bizarre. Most fast food restaurants are kept very clean and orderly, at least where the customers are. It’s hard to know how clean they are in the back, though with my experience in that line of work, they try to keep it clean back there too. Making customers sick and injuring employees is bad for a restaurant’s bottom line.
Wow, a coworker of mine quit, bought a BK franchise in central/eastern Washington and moved up there. It was before the Mt. St. Helens erruption, so it was a looooong time ago. But he was doing well enough that he was able to buy a second franchise location after a few years. I hope it wasn’t his!
Probably not. But who knows. We were passing through and I can’t remember exactly where we were. We needed a bite to eat so I went in to get us some food, and after being in there for a short time, seeing it look disgusting, seeing the manager openly griping about how bad the situation was to customers, pretty much telling people they probably should leave… I think we went to a Wendy’s or something.
To be fair, “post-apocalyptic” is a good way of describing most of Washington east of the Cascades. Yakima is the only place I’ve ever seen a Taco Bell that closes at 8 PM.
Eh, I used to support an office in the Tri-Cities (Richland) years ago, and while it was pretty bleak it wasn’t that bad. And Cashmere is just a gem, we’ve vacationed there more than once.
I was in Moscow for New Year before the current Ukraine
invasion. It is a very interesting place. The subways are beautiful and there are great museums and parks. The food was surprisingly good. But the parts that compare favorably to the US are just just like any European capital. You could do a similar puff piece about any of them, but I thought conservatives hated Europe, so Tucker’s enthusiasm was odd.
I think the real question here should be “What the fuck is wrong with Tucker Carlson’s face?”
I don’t watch him, except, occasionally, for links posted here, but it seems his parents gave him botox injections from an early age. His expression (and he has just one) exudes stupidity.
Someone in another thread described it as a labrador that has lost its ball, which I think is apt, except labradors are not stupid.
It is so clueless, Forrest Gump exceeds him.
Even Alex Jones, who I similarly abhor, manages to come across as someone who experiences thought from time to time, and shows that in his facial expressions.
Someone else said “Looks like a labrador that was just told that it can’t eat it’s poop”
I’ve heard “like he just found out his parents had the same last name before they got married”.
I’ve noticed this for a long time, and I believe it’s because his constant schtick is expressing amazement at the latest example of alleged liberal stupidity* that he’s so cleverly uncovered. Although he ends up looking more like someone just asked him to add 6+8 without using a calculator.
* Or more recently, the amazing superiority of Russian shopping carts.
His face has always looked like the bottom of a big toe with a face drawn on it and some bad hair glued onto the top. I always thought that he must smell like feet.
Bergen Evans, the proto-Cecil, pointed this out in his book The Natural History of Nonsense, way back in 1946.
I’ve heard that face Tucker makes described as “baby’s first poop”.
And every drop of it seeped through the blood-brain barrier.
He looks like one of those Victorian drawings made to warn boys of the supposed horrific effects of habitual masturbation.
That was my take on the subway thing as well. “If you did try to build this as a US government, everyone and his dog would be screaming bloody murder about wasting taxpayers’ money.” Ugly (but cheap!) architecture is a society problem, not a government problem. Take a look at Washington, DC. There was a time when Americans were willing to spend money to have their important institutions look nice, but that was a long time ago now. And it’s the “No Taxes Ever!” crowd that mostly pushed you away from that.
And we have the same problems here in Canada. We currently don’t have an official residence for the Prime Minister, because for decades now, we just let 24 Sussex rot rather than pay for its upkeep, and now we’re arguing about paying to build a new place.
Ironically, brutalist architecture was inspired by Eastern European aesthetics (or lack thereof), particularly from the Soviet Union.