Birria taco trucks with long lines appeared overnight in NYC and it’s an inexplicable sensation to me. I’d much rather have tacos with al pastor, chorizo, steak, cecina, and basically most other fillings available. 

Unless the article/headline was edited, nobody described it as “hilarious” nor is anyone endorsing the behavior of throwing bikes onto the subway tracks. As described by the article, a “still unknown jerk” did this, and the results are interesting. Admitting that it’s interesting isn’t an endorsement of said behavior.

Has anyone in this thread eaten out for lunch in the past decade? A standard McDonalds combo meal or anything you’d get at Chipotle (or my shitty local burrito place for that matter) is over $10. Pretty sure 5 guys has to be over $15 by now. Spending an extra $3 on a salad once a week isn’t bankrupting me nor do I…

The guy’s a doof but 615 calories is a very reasonable number for a meal and wouldn’t contribute anything to obesity. Also hardly anyone’s getting just a big mac—they’re getting the meal.

How lacking in imagination are the people who think this is some fatal flaw? 

I emailed Haribo since this was bugging me—they said they did manufacture sugar free gummy bears but stopped in 2014 (the year the reviews went viral).

I don’t shampoo my pubes but that doesn’t seem bad at all to me (unless it’s complete lack of notability is the joke?)

Once upon a time, the dream of going to space was lauded, we worshipped astronauts as heroes and it was a profession with universal respect. Now, because some unpalatable billionaires have taken pointless joyrides, the entire realm has been deemed a waste by snarky, unimaginative dipshits on the internet.

I have no problem with shitting on billionaires but Richard Branson does not actually believe he’s going to escape to space, nor is the planet going to become unlivable in his lifetime. These are goofy joyrides, not some diabolical supervillain scheme like so many people seem to semi-believe.

Is there any reliable evidence that these semantics battles have any sort of measurable impact on anything? Dr. Guida matter of factly says it’ll have an impact, but based on what?

Nothing saps my faith in humanity like driving in NYC. I say this as a native: just the absolute most selfish people in existence.

In NYC, the time between the green light and honking is typically measured in nanoseconds and honestly, in 99% of the cases here, it’s the people honking who are the assholes.

Can we get an investigative deep dive on this? Either Haribo has been cooking up a massive cover-up, presumably to avoid being associated with diarrhea, or some enterprising bootlegger slapped a Haribo logo on 5 pound bags of some other brand of sugarless gummy bears.

I am aware, but the Amazon URL itself says “Haribo” and images purporting to show 5 pound bags of Haribo brand sugarless gummy bears are fairly easy to find:

Can we get a clarification/correction/fact check on this statement, then? (in addition to maybe proofreading the parenthetical)

I remember them specifically being reviews of Haribo sugar free gummy bears, which, per this article, have apparently never existed?

This isn’t fun dumb, it’s just tedious dumb. 

Years ago I had the same reaction to the idiotic rumor that Kentucky Fried Chicken shortened to KFC because they couldn’t legally call it “chicken.” Holy shit, that’s some advanced science they’ve got going on there.

Not sure anyone’s complaining that it’s unrealistic, just that it goes from point A to point B in the absolute straightest, least interesting line ever.

No, because I’m obviously writing about him with utter contempt.