Funny not firearm not political memes

[Capn Jack]

 

[ma96782]

Aloha, Mark

 

[ma96782]

Aloha, Mark

 

[lucusloc]

View attachment 1868317

Aloha, Mark

In case you wanted to see how the toilet seat was made;

 

[Capn Jack]

Why I don't like horses.

 

[WEE]

View attachment 1868391
Why I don't like horses.

Been there, done that, but didn't get the T-shirt. Granted it was a pony and I was 12, same results. I never got on that pony again, or a horse for that matter. One data point was enough for that decision.

 

[Capn Jack]

Rules to live by: (Why I Don't like Horses)

1. Never tie a horse to a barbed wire fence. You'll be repairing the fence and painting that horse purple for a while.
2. Don't chase Jackrabbits with a horse. The rabbit will run back between the horse legs and the horse will try to follow it. (View attachment 1868391)
3. Remember to break the ice in the trough on winter mornings, or the horse will do it. (More of the purple stuff) Don't remember what it was, but they used it on us kids too.
4. Never shoot your .410 from the saddle, or the horse will beat you back to the barn.
5. If the horse is standing on your foot and turns around to see what all of the noise is about, don't hit him in the head as it's all bone, but smack him on the nose and he will move.

 

[galvweld]

Government approved "aim point". Lady said she was tired of cleaning around the thunder mug.

 

[Yarome]

 

[Flopsweat]

View attachment 1868634

In the 80's there was a rumor that 90% of $20 bills in circulation had traces of cocaine on them.

 

[Yarome]

In the 80's there was a rumor that 90% of $20 bills in circulation had traces of cocaine on them.

By extension... how many people do ya think realized they were snorting stale crack juice with their coke??

That's just nasty.....

 

[Flopsweat]

By extension... how many people do ya think realized they were snorting stale crack juice with their coke??

That's just nasty.....

Crack juice is whack, yo.

 

[foxmeadow]

Nailed it. McD's is famous for non-working ice cream machines. Some speculate that not all of them are really broken, as they are a big ole PITA to clean.

I'd heard that the manufacturer of the ice cream machines made it impossible for any one but the company's rep to repair them...

 

[lucusloc]

I'd heard that the manufacturer of the ice cream machines made it impossible for any one but the company's rep to repair them...

There is a lawsuit over the whole kerfuffle;

McDonald's Faces $900M Lawsuit From Ice Cream Machine Repair Startup

A tech firm that makes devices to repair the machines is accusing the fast food chain of defamation.

www.cnet.com

Feds side with McDonald’s franchise owners in battle to fix ice cream machines

The Federal Trade Commission and the antitrust unit of the Department of Justice are asking the US Copyright Office to approve an exemption.

nypost.com

Franchise owners and an alternative repair company are suing McDonalds and Taylor (the machine manufacture) over predatory business practices and defamation. The case is ongoing as far as I can tell.

 

[Flopsweat]

There is a lawsuit over the whole kerfuffle;

McDonald's Faces $900M Lawsuit From Ice Cream Machine Repair Startup

A tech firm that makes devices to repair the machines is accusing the fast food chain of defamation.

www.cnet.com

Feds side with McDonald’s franchise owners in battle to fix ice cream machines

The Federal Trade Commission and the antitrust unit of the Department of Justice are asking the US Copyright Office to approve an exemption.

nypost.com

Franchise owners and an alternative repair company are suing McDonalds and Taylor (the machine manufacture) over predatory business practices and defamation. The case is ongoing as far as I can tell.

mcbroken

is the mcdonald's ice cream machine broken?

mcbroken.com

 

[Lilhigbee]

So McDonalds can't afford to buy ice cream machines from someone who can make one that isn't a POS??
At least the lawsuit should boost the "Right to Repair" movement!!

 

[Flopsweat]

So McDonalds can't afford to buy ice cream machines from someone who can make one that isn't a POS??
At least the lawsuit should boost the "Right to Repair" movement!!

It's a very specific item, even though it may look a lot like regular ice cream. McD's has sunk probably at least tens of millions of dollars into the product, and the manufacturer has rights to exclusive this and proprietary that, so there are no other machines to buy.

 

[Lilhigbee]

there are no other machines to buy...

...that make the garbage the way McD's wants it. In that regard they have chosen to shoot themselves in the foot. There ARE other machines to buy that make a quality product, they just chose a different path.

 

[Flopsweat]

...that make the garbage the way McD's wants it. In that regard they have chosen to shoot themselves in the foot. There ARE other machines to buy that make a quality product, they just chose a different path.

Oh, it was clearly a bad decision. The contract allowed the manufacturer far too much leeway. Frankly, it doesn't sound like the way McD's usually deals with vendors. Usually it's you want to deal with us you give up everything and thank us and then you may get a chance to make a ton of money, maybe. Just like any other large corporation.

 

[lucusloc]

Oh, it was clearly a bad decision. The contract allowed the manufacturer far too much leeway. Frankly, it doesn't sound like the way McD's usually deals with vendors. Usually it's you want to deal with us you give up everything and thank us and then you may get a chance to make a ton of money, maybe. Just like any other large corporation.

The ice cream machine manufacturer (Taylor) gave a ton of money to McDs cooperate, cooperate took that money and passed the operating costs for the machines off to franchise owners.

You have to remember that McD's cooperation is not a fast food company, they are a real-estate empire that moonlights as a franchiser and resturant supply business. They sell a franchise to a franchisee, lease them the building and rake in pure profit as the sucker franchisee pays all the operational costs. But! the way the franchise is structured you must buy all your product and equipment from their distributors so that all McD's food is relatively consistent worldwide. Cooperate also does a decently good job making sure they own land in the best locations (they actually have a very sophisticated team whose sole job is to buy such land), which is why they are still considered valuable by franchisees; as long as you follow the model set forth by cooperate you are nearly guaranteed at least a little bit of profit from every location you manage to "own," and the actual effort needed to run a location (from an upper management/owner perspective) is pretty minimal. They are effectively a turn-key business with very low risk and a return that, for the most part, outpaces the risk structure of the investment.

There are a few franchises that were in place before this restrictive paradigm was in place, mostly in California, and some of these locations are famous for kinda doing their own thing since they do not have most of these restrictive covenants in their contracts. One of these locations was the inventor of the Fish Fillet, which Cooperate was vehemently against until they saw how successful it was and pushed it out to every location everywhere (and even leased their own factory fishing ship up in the north pacific to catch all the fish used by every McDs worldwide). Now they have stopped trying to shutter these special franchises (which they were largely unsuccessful at in the first place on account of the very favorable early contracts to the franchisees) and mostly use them as think-tank incubator locations.

But back to the point McDs Cooperate makes most of their money in real-estate (leases mostly), less than 40% in franchise contracts and restaurant supply, and only owns outright a handful of restaurants worldwide (and they try to dump these to new franchisees as fast as they can). They could care less how problematic the machines are as long as the manufacturers keep paying them a small kickback for the monopoly on supply, hence the lawsuit against both parties for unethical business practices against the franchise owners (see, you all thought this was one huge rambling non-sequitur, but it really all tied back to the main point! Ain't I just a fount of random knowledge?).