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I say I say I say.
What is the difference between satsumas, mandarins, & tangerines?
I say I say I say.
What is the difference between satsumas, mandarins, & tangerines?
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It's complicated.
Satsumas are generally considered to be a variety of Mandarin, but Tangerines generally are not.
Tangerines are also the only one of the three to have featured in college gridiron bowl games
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That program belongs on the WTF thread in it's own right, just for the image in the top right corner. One can safely assume that that wouldn't be used now, much too close to the bone at an American Football game.Comment
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And that's just the water boy. Innocent times.
To be fair, the small print does add welcome context.Comment
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Via Inca on Twitter, I give you Kola House.
The whole thing is millenial marketing bullshit Mad Libs."We wanted to create a modern hub for consumers to share social and immersive experiences that were anchored in the exploration of our cola's artisanal craft and flavor," shared Seth Kaufman, Chief Marketing Officer, PepsiCo North America Beverages. "The Kola House represents a new space for us to support our consumer-first approach to drive authenticity and innovation around our beverage offerings and ideals."
Kola House's experimental and elemental themes honoring the kola nut will be brought to life through resident cocktail curator Alex Ott. Ott's unrivaled background in flavor chemistry and his superior knowledge of food and beverage pairings and global palates make him the ideal mastermind behind the development of Kola House's cocktails and elixirs. A full artisanal menu from a rising resident executive chef will also offer specialty plates inspired by the kola nut.
The flagship location will also serve as a transformative event space for pop culture moments in music, art, style, film, sports and more. Pepsi is leveraging its broad partnership with Live Nation to help build out a special music series, Live at the Kola House, which will serve as tent pole moments throughout its year-long programming. Each of the intimate, stripped down performances will bring fans up-close to the artists both visually and acoustically for the once-in-a-lifetime shows.Comment
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Holy fuck! It's the Holy Grail of ersatz-hipster marketing slurry.
Hub! Transformative! Artisanal! Flagship! Stripped-down! Immersive!
And for what? Pepsi!Comment
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There's a whole artisanal menu with speciality plates inspired by the kola nut, though.
I got that from the great podcast Uhh Yeah Dude, which I must thank Renart for turning me on to a few years back. 30:15 in here: http://archive.uhhyeahdu.de/episodes/episode-491Comment
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Bet they don't do real coke though.Comment
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Am I the only one who, erm...?which will serve as tent pole momentsComment
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Youse can fuck off
Go and experiment somewhere else, we have enough trouble with lorry drivers lapsing in concentration, or occasionally outright falling asleep at the wheel, without another nine lorries in the mix when it happens.Comment
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Falling asleep or simply passing out with no warning at the wheel?Walt Flanagans Dog wrote: Youse can fuck off
Go and experiment somewhere else, we have enough trouble with lorry drivers lapsing in concentration, or occasionally outright falling asleep at the wheel, without another nine lorries in the mix when it happens.
Bastards.
String the fuckers up.
Only language they understand.Comment
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Put it on rails and call it a freight train FFS."We are planning trials of HGV platoons - which enable vehicles to move in a group so they use less fuel - and will be in a position to say more in due course."Comment
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I didn't realise there was a "the Irish were slaves" myth going on but apparently there isComment
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It's been around for a while, but has seen a resurgence in response to things like Black Lives Matter.
You will never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the Great American Public.Comment
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Father advertises "godly, gorgeous 26 year old virgin" daughter in Christianity Today
“Her: godly, gorgeous, athletic, educated, careered, humorous, travelled, bilingual, 26-year-old virgin,” the ad said. “You: unworthy, though becoming less so daily.”Comment
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Well some prisoners were sent to Barbados as indentured servants after the cromwellian conquest. That was a bit like being sent to the moon to mine something, without a spacesuit. The tiny fraction that survived eventually went on to form part of the slave owning, and slave managing class, and were supplemented by a lot of voluntary emigrationComment
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Migrants - hot or not?
https://www.instagram.com/hotmigrants/
What we really need is a border guard to hold up a mirror to each one and ask, "seriously, would you let yourself in?".Comment
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Iron Maiden has their own 747?
Apparently the has-been B-circuit is far more lucrative than I'd imagined.
http://us.cnn.com/2016/03/12/world/iron-maiden-plane-damaged-irpt/index.htmlComment
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Maiden made $1,764,706 last year and Steve Harris is worth $60 million. I suppose it's like golf or tennis where the "name" is enough to bring in the dough even if your last decent gig/tournament was in 1991.Comment
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But "shy of $2 million" isn't the sort of lucre I'd think would support a private 747. A band jumbo-jet seems very 'Bon Jovi / Van Halen in their heyday'. I dunno. Maybe it was paid off in '90 and it's just gas and maintenance now.Comment
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They don't have the expense of having to pay a pilot either.
I worked one of their gigs in '95 and there were less than a thousand people at it.
They were shite.
If not the jet then at least their fortune would appear to have taken a turn for the better since.Comment
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I would be shocked if they owned it, as opposed to leasing it (just like most airlines).Comment
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Croydon coppers channel the Taliban
I know the Taliban do hate all music, rather than one specifically black form of music, but “this borough finds unacceptable forms of music" should chill anyone, really.Comment
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