Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[el-remmen]

When a thread that had disappeared for some time re-emerges with nearing 100 replies, it is a safe bet that there is nothing to be gained by clicking on it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It's also an easy way to repurpose hamburgers that didn't sell earlier in the day or got broken during production.

And the guy who didn’t shake down the owners of Luigi’s because they looked like his beloved Nana…

 

[TiQuinn]

If you just assume Fiat means a car, suddenly that thread doesn’t make any sense at all but it is funny!

 

[Thomas Shey]

The department store diner though started dying before the net took off.

I was talking more about the death of department stores in general. Honestly, diners in department stores was always a little bit of an odd artifact, and I have to assume was done on the "have people come to us for everything" thought process at one time.

 

[Thomas Shey]

And here I was hoping that my trip to Seattle, in a couple of days, would result in more stable weather. I'm certainly not expecting the 90F and sunny weather I experienced on my first trip out there around this time, 10 years ago, but my hopes are still high.

We're supposed to drop something like 20 degrees in two days here.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I was talking more about the death of department stores in general. Honestly, diners in department stores was always a little bit of an odd artifact, and I have to assume was done on the "have people come to us for everything" thought process at one time.

Yep. Going to the department store for the day used to be a whole-day affair. You'd shop each department, have lunch, and then carry multiple stores' worth of goods home (or have them sent home for you or put on layaway, depending on your tax bracket).

I remember the tail end of that era with my mom dragging me and my brother around on an all-day death march and somehow never quite making it to the toy section before closing.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yep. Going to the department store for the day used to be a whole-day affair. You'd shop each department, have lunch, and then carry multiple stores' worth of goods home (or have them sent home for you or put on layaway, depending on your tax bracket).

I'd guess that stopped making sense about the same time department stores started becoming anchor stores in malls. Of course at least indoor malls are well on the way out now...

 

[payn]

Yep. Going to the department store for the day used to be a whole-day affair. You'd shop each department, have lunch, and then carry multiple stores' worth of goods home (or have them sent home for you or put on layaway, depending on your tax bracket).

I remember the tail end of that era with my mom dragging me and my brother around on an all-day death march and somehow never quite making it to the toy section before closing.

Haircuts too.

 

[overgeeked]

Sometimes the only proper response is…

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Haircuts too.

Some also had photographers and optometrists. Some rare ones still do.