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2023-07-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-
'Our subs don't implode:' Georgia Subway restaurant sparks uproar after displaying sign joking about doomed OceanGate vessel that left five people dead during dive to Titanic wreck
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Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-05 00:19|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1820 views ]  Top

1 "Our signs are as tasteless as our sandwiches"
Posted by Georgia Subway 2023-07-05 03:19||   2023-07-05 03:19|| Front Page Top

2 Their business may soon be imploding.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-05 03:21||   2023-07-05 03:21|| Front Page Top

3 Good Old Southern Snide Humor .... YES
But I am sure it got the attention they were seeking .

But their Sub's don't cost Over $2M to make nor $250K a serving.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-05 05:42||   2023-07-05 05:42|| Front Page Top

4 And I'd bet they are playing the woke nonsense like Subway with that Rapinoe soccer player thing.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-05 06:20||   2023-07-05 06:20|| Front Page Top

5 ...* they are NOT playing....
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-05 06:21||   2023-07-05 06:21|| Front Page Top

6 Re: Rapinoe - why is a 86 year old woman still playing soccer?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-05 07:25||   2023-07-05 07:25|| Front Page Top

7 You sure that's a woman?
Posted by Chris  2023-07-05 07:54||   2023-07-05 07:54|| Front Page Top

8 Democrat orthodoxy says it's impossible to know...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-05 08:04||   2023-07-05 08:04|| Front Page Top

9 You know, I haven't bought from Subway since the "Rapinoe thing" went down.
I just may have to go get one now.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-07-05 11:25||   2023-07-05 11:25|| Front Page Top

10 Stinkin Rincon
Posted by Beavis 2023-07-05 11:28||   2023-07-05 11:28|| Front Page Top

11 Our subs, short and soft, are okay...
Though the tuna is funny that way...
But at Subway the meat
Substitutes can't be beat...
Though they say, "May contain DNA."

My local, which couldn't be more conveniently located, has done the impossible: keep me out of a dirt cheap (by local standards) sandwich shoppe for a solid decade. How? By making me simultaneously sorry for and suspicious of their lonely, morose drudges. I'd feel less guilty, and less nervous, going to the massage place.
Posted by Gleretle Grigum6266 2023-07-05 12:33||   2023-07-05 12:33|| Front Page Top

12 Considering how much that 'luxury' tourist drive cost the passengers -- Making fun, even if cruel fun, of 'your betters' is a right of the lower classes.
Posted by magpie 2023-07-05 12:39||   2023-07-05 12:39|| Front Page Top

13 Seriously? Does DM understand Titan is a Minecraft meme? Its hilarious especially considering how they explode out of me.

Its the best Subway ad I've heard since the 90s. This is like making Ryan Renolds not able to ad-lib lines in the next Deadpool because Writer's Strike.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-05 13:13||   2023-07-05 13:13|| Front Page Top

14 Happy Gilmore. Best ad since Happy Gilmore.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-05 13:15||   2023-07-05 13:15|| Front Page Top

15 "Does DM understand..." No, making fun of how weird/stupid/deranged foreigners compared to 'us Britons' is a Dailey Mail shtick.
Posted by magpie 2023-07-05 13:22||   2023-07-05 13:22|| Front Page Top

16 /\ ...Still, I appreciate Skidmark's posting of articles like this. Sometimes seeing an alternative perspective, even if it is yourself in carnival warped mirror, can spur a thoughtful study.
Posted by magpie 2023-07-05 13:25||   2023-07-05 13:25|| Front Page Top

17 It is difficult to underestimate how much the youngsters and shit memers have been laughing about the spam in a can. Only the kill joys and paid mercs would make an active case against this take.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-05 14:21||   2023-07-05 14:21|| Front Page Top

18 ...When Dad went to work at NASA just after the Challenger accident, he - a former Marine - was literally stunned by some of the jokes going around there at the time. In the end, that's how they dealt with it.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-07-05 14:32||   2023-07-05 14:32|| Front Page Top

19 Re: Rapinoe - If that's the best the US WNT can offer, then the squad will have a tough road to hoe at the Women's World Cup.

Re: Subway - It was great reading accounts of customers complaining to the local shop managers about that Rapinoe thing being a Subway rep.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-05 15:09||   2023-07-05 15:09|| Front Page Top

20 then the squad will have a tough road to hoe at the Women's World Cup.

We see what you did there.

Also, if we want to make the Women's National Team a winner, shouldn't we assemble a squad of 15 year old boys who identify as trans?
Posted by SteveS 2023-07-05 21:09||   2023-07-05 21:09|| Front Page Top

21 :heh: IIRC, quite a few years ago the Olympics suddenly declared that all women athletes would have to take DNA tests to see if they were, well, female. A large percentage of the North Korean team abruptly had health and 'family crises' and had to go home. That was a few years after the East German doping scandal...
Posted by magpie 2023-07-05 22:13||   2023-07-05 22:13|| Front Page Top

22 Better than a fat ped0 showing us his 'pants'?
Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-05 22:42||   2023-07-05 22:42|| Front Page Top

23 Those Eastern European (pre-USSR fall) "women" athletes were just a joke.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-05 23:10||   2023-07-05 23:10|| Front Page Top

24 Dark humor is like food in Venezuela. Not everyone gets it.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2023-07-05 23:59||   2023-07-05 23:59|| Front Page Top

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