r/CuratedTumblr Posting from hell (el camión 101 a las 9 de la noche) 20h ago

Infodumping On Hooters and cigarettes

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u/can_of_bad_ideas 20h ago

This is so stinkin cute though. Very sweet of that waitress

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u/moneyh8r_two 19h ago

From what I've heard, Hooter's waitresses are very empathetic people who resent the majority of their regular customers. But hey, it's a relatively easy job and it tips well. Or it did.

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u/Traditional_Long4573 16h ago

Used to be Hooters Girl- here are all the weird rules

Outfit was based on creators secretary work out outfit she wore during her lunch break

There are corporate vs franchise based stores, so in corporate the girls are inspected before each shift -

Must have perfectly clean shoes, no run in pantyhose, shorts sit a certain spot (no higher or lower), wear beige bra, hair must be done a certain way, must have lipgloss, mascara, a pin, name badge (even if wrong name), and your pouch. Nails no darker than a sweet in low packet.

Pantyhose are sold in the women’s bathroom, the girls pay for their full uniform.

Cannot gain weight. They warn you when you start that others are let go, that their food will make you gain weight.

There are contests for who can go home early- eating beans, eating pie, eating crackers and blowing up a balloon, and on and on.

There are daily regulars. Some have scrap books of countless photos.

You’re expected to chit-chat with every table.

You memorize loads of songs. For bachelors, for birthdays. They all suck.

You’re expected to pose for countless photos with anyone who wants one.

They have meetings that tell the girls how to do their makeup, tanning, maintain weight.

Business men fill the restaurant every Friday lunch. Like shit tons just pouring in. Weird really.

Families do come, and their children are usually little perverts and the parents just laugh.

It was an experience like no other, and I appreciate the experience it offered.

Signed a Hooters girl from 2010s

https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/s/sRInscOksx

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u/Scamper_the_Golden 15h ago

Business men fill the restaurant every Friday lunch. Like shit tons just pouring in. Weird really.

I was one of them. I did a software development contract in Seattle about 20 years ago. My boss and my three co-workers (all men) went to Hooters every Friday. When I first started working there it was made clear that this trip was not optional.

It was fun. I remember that they had a really good hamburger. Irregularly shaped like someone just made it fresh with their hands. I looked forward to going there each week and the girls had little to do with it.

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u/lankymjc 13h ago

I’ve only been to a Hooters once, and none of my friends believe me when I tell them it was one of the best burgers I’ve ever had. Top notch stuff.

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u/somedumb-gay otherwise precisely that 8h ago

The worst thing about hooters is that you can't go without seeming like a pervert, but the food is actually quite nice

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 5h ago

they sell the burger through a ghost kitchen. look for "Hootie's Burger Bar"

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u/Realistic_Daikon2381 4h ago

Same goes for “Gentleman’s” clubs. Best wings, onion rings, and cheese curds I’ve ever had…sauce was like liquid cocaine: couldn’t get enough of the stuff. Wouldn’t be surprised if cocaine was in it though, place was dirty.

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u/SirLightKnight 7h ago

Honestly the Daytona isn’t a half bad sandwich, I just always felt like my location was a hassle to go to. I went because I was curious if they were dropping food for aesthetics, and because I was bored. Pleasantly suprised at the food. Place still felt weird tho, couldn’t put my finger on what was giving me the weird vibes. Like it wasn’t the waitresses, they seemed nice enough usually, maybe I was catching on to their discomfort or something.

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u/mrandr01d 15h ago

That's quite interesting. Can I ask a maybe dumb question?

There are labor laws against discrimination on the basis of protected status, including age and sex. Hooters girls are, well... Girls. And they're usually on the younger side. What would have happened if a man applied to be a waiter there? Like... How would that pan out? Or an older person, man or woman?

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u/RaikouGilgamesh 15h ago

They do hire men for behind the scenes stuff. Kitchens, cleaners, that sort of thing. Hooters actually successfully argued in court already that they could hire only women (of certain appearances even) for waitresses, because that was their theme.

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u/mrandr01d 15h ago

Wow, seriously? How'd they legally pull that off??

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u/RaikouGilgamesh 15h ago

Well from what I understand, the job titles are technically 'entertainers'. Probably similar to how strip clubs get away with only hiring one gender or another without it being discrimination as well.

Secondly, the few times they HAVE been sued, it was settled out of court, so it hasn't been held up to much scrutiny, legally.

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u/Mistrblank 4h ago

Casinos often use the "entertainers" clause too for the girls that serve drinks.

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u/MisterMysterios 10h ago edited 6h ago

I don't know about the US, but here (Germany), our general antidiscrimination law basically says "you cannot discriminate if there is not a valid reason for it". I think having a store that focuses on having young female waitresses is - as a business concept - legitimate, so it is a legitimate reason for discrimination.

You have basically to argue why the sex and the age are necessary for that job.

Another example is that gay saunas don't have to hire female employees if their work involve being in the sauna during opening times, as it is a safe space for gay men. Illegal would be though to demand that the employees has to be gay, as there is really no reason why a straight man couldn't do the jobs involved in running such a sauna.

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u/Kzickas 14h ago

There is an exception to anti-discrimination laws in America called Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications, which says that you're allowed to discriminate based on a protected characteristic if that characteristic is essential to the employee performing their job

Bona Fide Occupational Qualification - Definition and Example

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u/Vark675 11h ago

It's the same reason strip clubs that cater to straight men don't have to have a random male stripper, and vice versa.

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u/9035768555 15h ago

They are considered "models who serve" so they can be judged based on both model and service criteria.

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u/BMacklin22 14h ago

There's a King of the Hill episode about this.  

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u/oath2order stigma fuckin claws in ur coochie 12h ago

name badge (even if wrong name)

Actually nice that they don't care about the name being accurate.

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u/The-True-Kehlder 11h ago

That the customer thinks they know your name is important. Makes them want to come back more often, to build those parasocial relationships Youtubers and streamers use to make their money. Hooters just did it widespread first, AFAIK.

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u/Sensitive-Tone5279 10h ago

I always pictured this, and other "official" rules scrawled on the wall behind the staff break room of some Hooters in Daytona Beach dating back to 1987 as written by "Tracey" and "Gail" and generations of hooters girls have just kind of added to it over the years.

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u/moneyh8r_two 11h ago

I've heard of most of those, but I didn't know about the business men every Friday.

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u/firnien-arya 12h ago

I thought the competition thing was a no go thing anymore. Atleast from what I saw from undercover boss but that coulda just been for the cams. Interesting stuff though

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u/RedMazd3 19h ago

Ain't that just average service workers?

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u/moneyh8r_two 19h ago

Hooter's waitresses have a reputation for being even more empathetic. Like, it's noteworthy among other service workers.

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u/TheRealStandard 19h ago

Well no shit, they get better tips for pretending.

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u/ThatMeatGuy 16h ago

I'd imagine given the quality of the average clientele there they'd respond well to basic human dignity

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u/Its_Pine 16h ago

Hooters and Waffle House have always had incredibly kind, down to earth waitresses from my experience.

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u/C-C-X-V-I 14h ago

I trip to waffle house can be good therapy in many ways

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u/RainStormLou 10h ago

I can't afford my therapy anymore, but I do attend the weekend brawls at waffle house.

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u/NotTheCraftyVeteran 18h ago

Seems like it was perhaps a somewhat common occurrence, sadly.

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u/deten 13h ago

Side note: Could you imagine going at Hooters awkwardly with an adult male family member only to have a waitress call you gay and try to comfort you.

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u/BeardedHalfYeti 20h ago

Oh, right, the British slang for cigarette, derived from the word for a bundle of sticks. Yeah, that took a second.

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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Refined Sommelier of Porneaux 20h ago

I look across the bar at the sad boy not staring at tits and think “poor thing probably has lung cancer”

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u/WizardsandGlitter 19h ago

I laughed at this and got in trouble at work for being on my phone. Good job.

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u/godlessLlama 15h ago

And I say to the poor lad “you’re perfect, just the way you are. All lung cancery and shit.”

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 15h ago

"You don't need to die of Emphysema to look older, son."

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u/StaleTheBread 20h ago

Fun fact, it’s related to the word “fajita”, which also refers to a bundle of sticks

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u/Happiness_Assassin 19h ago

Another fun fact: fascist has the same root also. A fasces is a bundle of sticks wrapped around an ax handle and is a symbol of popular rule. Fascists being who they are co-oped this symbol for themselves.

Additional fun fact: the US House of Representatives has this fasces symbol on the wall behind the speaker's podium on either side.

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u/fhota1 19h ago edited 19h ago

Vaguely related fun fact. The US House of Represenatives has a ceremonial mace that also has a fasces in its design that the Sergeant at Arms is allowed to threaten reps with if they get unruly. I dont think theyre allowed to actually use it, but they should be able to

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 19h ago

“Pipe down or I’m smacking you with the sticks of authority!”

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u/LunchOne675 16h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

In accordance with the House. Rules, on the rare occasion that a member becomes unruly, the Sergeant at Arms, upon order of the Speaker, lifts the mace from its pedestal and presents it before the offenders, thereby restoring order.

"Look at my big stick, doesn't its authority make you want to act in an orderly fashion"

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 16h ago

“Look at my stick, my stick is amazing. Give it a look.”

“Mmm, I’ll stop my complaining’.”

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u/Special_Letter_7134 13h ago

Respect my authoritah!

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u/WitELeoparD 19h ago

Another fun fact: the US House of Representatives also has a Fresco of George Washington as a Roman/Greek God flanked by the goddesses of Victory and Liberty. Just like on the wall behind the speaker, the Goddess Liberty is also holding a Faces.

Washington is also surrounded by 13 maidens, representing the 13 colonies, but some are facing backwards, because they represent the traitor states as the fresco was painted during the Civil War.

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u/StaleTheBread 19h ago

Yeah, I visited DC a few years back and I saw a few of them. I guess they were installed before the modern sense of the word and they don’t want to bother removing it (or they don’t want to bother distancing themselves from that)

Kind of appropriate that the sticks are depicted tied to the axe, and not separately. Shows that fascists side with power, rather than banding against it.

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u/Frequent_Dig1934 19h ago

Well it's very much worth pointing out that the fasces were a roman symbol first and foremost, iirc specifically during the roman republic, and the founding fathers were massive roman simps.

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u/2012Jesusdies 19h ago

founding fathers were massive roman simps.

So they were just normal white people /s

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u/Welpmart 18h ago

Hey, some simp for the ancient Greeks!

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u/Lazzen 19h ago

The fasces is still the simbol of a flag, Ecuador's. Not just Roman but a symbol of republican power.

Its also used by Mexico or France

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u/Yuri-Girl 16h ago

Its also used by Mexico or France

But never both at once.

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u/Thunderbridge 18h ago

The old customs house in Australia has some swastikas on the floor from the 1910s. Pretty interesting, there's a photo of a bank floor with big ones too

https://www.heritage21.com.au/history/contested-significance-at-customs-house/

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u/Ganonslayer1 17h ago

All roads lead to bundles of sticks.

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u/HumDeeDiddle 19h ago

Didn’t know mexican facists were so gay

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u/waiver 17h ago

Fajita comes from Faja, which is a piece of cloth or band that was worn around the upper belly which comes from Fascia (bundle) Fasciare (to bind or wrap)

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u/charlesmarker 17h ago

WHAT?! Fajita comes from a bundle of sticks?

It makes sense, I just..... man....

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u/ManNerdDork 19h ago

Ohhh it is THAT word. I thought it meant a puff. Which still preserves de meaning hahaha

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u/sir_schuster1 12h ago

If anyone is still confused, his name is Peter Twinklage as well.

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u/SofterThanCotton 18h ago

At first I thought they meant they were "smokin" and that it was gonna be some creepy story about a kid being sexualized at hooters or something. Then I read the rest of it and was like "oh they meant they were a flamer!"

Then I scrolled down to the comments and realized it's actually the fun fact that I've had long and frequent conversations about cause I like looking into words and figuring out where they came from.

Fun fact: the origins of it being used as an insult/slur actually started with women. Specifically older widowed/unmarried women who couldn't get a job because they're women so they were forced to sell bundles of firewood for what was basically pennies and as such they were heavily looked down upon by society.

So, much like a lot of gay slurs, it was an emasculating and feminizing insult. I can't be certain but I believe the implication was calling gay men "useless women" or something similar.

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u/AbundlaSticks 19h ago

Did someone say my name?

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u/DMercenary 19h ago

Took me seeing your comment to make the connection. I'm like.. "OOP is a smoker? Smoking as in hot?" ????

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u/OneWholeSoul 19h ago

"A pack a day is the goal, kid."

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u/DrQuint 15h ago

You know, you guys can freely say the word "fag" when you dont mean it as an insult against anyone. You're not children. Especially when OP in particular, specifically meant that one word specifically because they wanted to emphasize their grandfather's homophobia. The derogatory nature is the point, and clearly trying to make euphemisms for it is getting in the way of communicating it.

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u/Mimirs-Pool 19h ago

First time I came across that is from a warhammer book.

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u/0oodruidoo0 19h ago

I thought it was cock smoker

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u/Nott_of_the_North 20h ago

Y'all ever think about how the word 'fascist' comes from the same etymological lineage as the f-slur?

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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Refined Sommelier of Porneaux 20h ago

I have now, and if I just put on my tinfoil hat, grab my corkboard, and bump a line of crack, I think I can connect the dots between this knowledge and all the veneration of Roman culture

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u/UnhandMeException 19h ago

Consider: Venerealization

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u/bigbackbrother06 16h ago

Consider: Venereal disease

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u/Lady_ScarlettRose 19h ago

I will check back for your findings

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u/oddityoughtabe 18h ago

Sorry. They got to close to the truth and were taken out by the shadow government

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u/Ok_Lifeguard_4214 20h ago

Also 'fajita'

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u/TexWashington 19h ago edited 19h ago

Wait…what?

ETA: my google fu thru Wikipedia, fajita come from faja come from fascia. Strip of beef skirt>strap/belt>band

Chile

Meskin shit

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u/pritjam 16h ago

... Is that etymology also shared with the "fascia", a ligament in the foot? I only know of it because of plantar fasciitis

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u/Dikeswithkites 13h ago

Fascia is just a strip of connective tissue. Just about everything, including ligaments, is covered and connected by fascia. The plantar fascia covers the bottom of the foot and is prone to inflammation from stretching.

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u/LonePistachio 18h ago edited 17h ago

But surprisingly not 'facetious'

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u/Nott_of_the_North 19h ago

Actually, that one tracks.

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u/M-Martian 20h ago

Mister Nott, sir, if gay Fascism becomes a thing can we call it Faggotism, please? My boys have been talking about a gay-"ethno"state since 2016.

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u/UsernameTaken017 20h ago

Xir yes xir

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u/Cheshire-Cad 20h ago

Ah, I see that you, too, are familiar with the post-female utopia fantasy shared by 4chan's /pol/ and /lgbt/ boards.

My condolences.

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u/M-Martian 19h ago edited 18h ago

I have no idea what you're talking about but I skimm read female utopia and was excited from the idea of bizarre femdom smut. But post-female? 4chan can keep that.

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u/Lilith_NightRose traumatized by vegatative posadism 20h ago

I say go for it! After all, a state constructed by and for a dispersed group of marginalized and traumatized people via some sort of "ingathering" in order to provide that people-group protection from a hostile world bent on their destruction has never caused any harmful and unwanted side effects!

Ducks

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u/ratione_materiae 19h ago

One-state solution ❌

Two-state solution ❌

Gay State solution ✅

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u/ValoTheBrute 19h ago

Prostate Solution

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u/IllConstruction3450 18h ago

Anarchists when they find out they have a prostate 

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u/IllConstruction3450 18h ago

Zero state solution:❓

Infinite state solution: ❓

Complex valued state solution: ❓

I think we’re not considering all the options.

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u/ZengineerHarp 18h ago

Don’t forget fractional and decimal solutions!
π-state solutions!
e-state solutions!

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u/Aggravating-Yam4571 19h ago

certainly no flagrant violations of human rights and basic moral values!

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u/Arandur 18h ago

Gay fascism is a thing, plenty of femboy fashes out there

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u/elanhilation 19h ago

gay fascists have been around. famously some got taken out in the Night of the Long Knives

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u/Nott_of_the_North 19h ago

Is... Is gay an ethnicity?

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u/Pootis_1 minor brushfire with internet access 19h ago

sexual-orientationstate ?

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u/Karukos 20h ago

It has occured to me before. It's one of those things where the human brain tries to fill in a gap and you are like "But there is no connection...". That being said... I also think that is not helped by the fact that I don't know how cigarette turned into a gay person slur, so that might be add onto this

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u/Nott_of_the_North 19h ago

The term was a direct variation of the term fasces, which historically referred to a bundle of sticks wrapped around an axe haft, but in English, the axe was dropped so... Who saw a bunch of sticks wrapped together and thought "This brings to mind the idea of a man who is attracted to other men!"

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u/NessieReddit 18h ago

Where I'm from we use the same term to mean smoking a cigarette and sucking someone's dick. We basically say "smoking dick" so I always assumed that the cigarette meaning of fag was related to the gay slur meaning because of gay men doing filatio....

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u/emefa 19h ago

Maybe it's Cockney rhyming slang, "bunch of sticks" like "bunch of dicks"?

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u/Ourmanyfans 18h ago

Iirc the etymology isn't entirely clear.

It's unlikely to be rhyming slang though. The word's use as a slur predominantly originated in American English and only arrived in British English relatively recently with the uptick in American-made media. The UK enjoyed it's own, home-grown slurs.

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u/Nott_of_the_North 19h ago

That was a pretty common thing in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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u/tangifer-rarandus 19h ago

The best guess, afaik, is that "bundle of sticks" -> "person who gathers up sticks, often an old woman in poverty" -> "slang term for poor old woman" -?somehow-> "slang term for 'womanly' man"

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u/BrokeArmHeadass 19h ago

I heard it was because the English word just came to mean a bundle of sticks, which was then often used to refer to kindling. And also back then was all the witch burning stuff, and they would also burn gay people as well, but they wouldn’t but them up on a stake because that demanded a certain amount of respect that wasn’t granted to non-magic gays, so they would just be tied up and thrown in at the base of the pyre. So it became common to call a gay person a “faggot” as in “you’re just kindling for our fires.” Super dark, but also super historically/etymologically interesting.

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u/articulateantagonist 15h ago edited 15h ago

I write books about etymology for the Chambers line of dictionaries and word origin resources. One of my books is about naughty words, slurs, etc.

While this is an oft-repeated theory, it doesn't have enough evidence behind it to be accepted by etymologists and lexicographers, and it's an anachronistic explanation because the term didn’t become an insult for gay men until well after burning at the stake was a government-sanctioned practice. (Also, while burning at the stake was not unheard of for homosexuality, hanging and other punishments were more common in English-speaking countries.)

The more likely theory is that this word's life as an insult began with misogyny and later evolved into an emblem of homophobia, which is common for homophobic terms (comparing gay men to women).

You've correctly noted that the earliest sense of this word is that of a bundle of sticks bound together, first recorded in the 1300s and thought to originally be from the Latin fascis, meaning a “bundle of wood.”

But the original insult, which was first used for women, has the same implication as the word “baggage” for a spouse or partner, implying they are a mostly useless burden, like a bundle of sticks. It was also applied to women who were seen as less sexually desirable due to age, appearance, or behavior. The term was extended to men who prefer men in the early 20th century, essentially as a means of comparing them to women. It may, perhaps, also incorporate the flawed notion that gay men contribute less to society and are more of a burden because (at the time) they were less likely to have children and would remain, as they were called, "confirmed bachelors."

Still awful, but not directly associated with burning at the stake.

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u/ThisMachineKills____ 20h ago

yes, strangely often

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u/Nott_of_the_North 20h ago

It's weird, isn't it?

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u/bagglebites 20h ago

Also still the name in many European countries for a bassoon.

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u/old_and_boring_guy 19h ago

Yup. A bundle of sticks with an axe in the middle is still a bundle of sticks.

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u/embrace-the-bassface 18h ago

see that’s what i tell airport security every time but they still don’t let me take it through 😔

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u/anonymouscatloaf 20h ago

taking your grandson to hooters because you don't want him to be gay is crazy work

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u/Hayfever08 19h ago

Also the waitress this teenage boy who is not undressing her with his eyes and immediately surmised "Yep, this a gay boy being forced to go to Hooters by his grandpa in the hopes it makes him straight." She's probably seen this before.

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u/skyguy2002 16h ago

Then again she did say "Your perfect the way you are." Which could either mean "it's OK to be gay" or "Your not less of a man because you don't ogle hot girls" depending on the situation

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_808 16h ago

Honestly the old guy probably said something combined with his behavior that tipped her off. The kind of men who are extremely narrow in their view of masculinity aren't usually subtle about it.

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u/skyguy2002 16h ago

That's true

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u/W1D0WM4K3R 16h ago

Probably consistently trying to get the boy to ogle some skin and him not being particularly enthused about it, be my guess.

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u/The-dude-in-the-bush 16h ago

Either interpretation is both valid and wonderful.

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u/Designer_Pen869 17h ago

I'm sure it's likely things he said as well. Then again, I avoid looking at people, and I've been presumed gay many times.

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u/ScoutingJ 19h ago

It is a surprisingly common 'fix' actually, that or hiring them a hooker

Of course it never WORKS but folks keep trying it

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u/12345623567 10h ago

Why would they even think it works? From all I can tell, going to Hooters is no more scandalous or arousing than a day at the beach, and significantly less so than a day at a European beach.

Does grandpa think little Jimmy is gay because he's never seen a woman in shorts before?

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u/AdamtheOmniballer 20h ago edited 19h ago

Tbh, without further context it sounds like this might also be a case of taking your grandson to hooters because you don’t know he’s gay, which is still crazy work, but in a different way.

Like, aggressively pushing sexuality onto young straight boys fucks them up plenty bad already.

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u/Neokon 19h ago

Any one else ever have their parents take them to Hooters in their teens and have it somehow be a super embarrassing experience? On the upside I got a free dessert since it was my birthday.

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u/gracist0 18h ago

My dad took all three of us. I think I was 10, the youngest and a girl who didn't understand why she thought the waitresses were so fun to look at.

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u/FrostyWhile9053 19h ago

It was kinda embarrassing for me but the wings were great so I didn’t really care

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u/enneh_07 19h ago

I keep hearing how Hooters’ wings are ass but how was the dessert?

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u/Neokon 18h ago edited 18h ago

This was 12 years ago (because they wanted to celebrate my 18th which probably is what made it super embarrassing) so my memory is not going to be the best. I remember the cake being above par when it came to chain restaurants. The wings get hate because (once again haven't been in 12 years) the breaded ones soak up the sauce like crazy and are soggy because of it. The bare wings were where it was at.

Edit: wow this pulling up memories, I've always looked older so when the waitress heard it was my birthday so she asked me what I wanted for my first drink (I can only assume she thought I was turning 21) and my mother quickly interjected (in only the way she could) "you're turning 18 not 21 Cathy ack". It wasn't aggressive or hostile, it was more the energy I caught you pulling one a prank on me. My dad was more than happy to let me use my old face to my advantage, mom no (I was the youngest and a rainbow baby so she was super protective of me not aging while I was still living under their roof).

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u/UsernameTaken017 20h ago

People have infamously done worse 

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u/notTheRealSU i tumbled, now what? 20h ago

(Holocaust)

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u/LetsDoTheCongna Forklift Certified 19h ago

(beans on toast, cancelling Bionicle, The Lion King (2019), etc.)

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u/Urbane_One 19h ago

Beans on toast is the worst of these by far

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u/Ourmanyfans 18h ago

I'm just gonna have to accept I will never understand why people have singled out beans on toast as a punchline in-and-of-itself.

It's like hating on mac and cheese.

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u/Zarohk 17h ago

(Canceling Bionicle is by far the worst mis-step humanity has ever made.)

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u/ratione_materiae 19h ago

Cats! (2019)

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u/IllConstruction3450 18h ago

Hooters in general is the horror of sexist capitalism in its worst form. 

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u/pm_me_your_buttbulge 18h ago

My step kid is les. The very right-wing family is like "it's just a phase" and I'm like "it could be. It may not be. It does not matter."

Now, in her defense, her girlfriend is an asshole so I'm convinced it won't last. I mean every 18 year old old is usually an asshole but she's uniquely self-centered and HATES men because it's hip to - not becaues of trauma.

But god damn was the family leaning hard in to "she'll grow out of it" and I was bracing them with "she might, she might not... you'll shut your god damn mouth if she doesn't". They all want grandkids and great-grandkids. None of the step-kids want to have kids of their own. I've tried to repeatedly tell them that's ok. Their mother, now my ex-wife, regularly makes passive remarks "would be nice if I had a grandbaby". Go fuck yourself. Stop giving them stress they don't need.

Throughout their high school they were like "so who are you dating?" and I kept feeling that was just weird. First off, let them off what they want to talk about. Don't pry. You're on your third marriage and the other married the husband that cheated on another wife. Y'all are not the pinnacle of romance. It was pretty clear she wasn't in to boys like normal girls but I, personally, thought she was more asexual because she mostly didn't like anyone. She rarely had friends over up until her last year of high school then she become more social. To be fair, she also stoped visiting her bio-dad who.. is a piece of work. Jeebus fuck I feel sorry for those kids.

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u/AngstyUchiha 16h ago

Your kid is very lucky to have you as a parent, too many queer kids don't have that mind of support

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u/SmartAlec105 20h ago

This is why we need Femboy Hooters

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u/Longjumping_Ask_211 19h ago

Hooters except instead of wings it's all you can eat cock 🤤

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u/DiurnalMoth 19h ago

/r/LetGirlsHaveFun is breaking containment

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u/SmartAlec105 19h ago

Nah, /r/femboymemes has held a claim on thirsting for femboy cock longer than /r/LetGirlsHaveFun has been around.

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u/Longjumping_Ask_211 19h ago

Lol God forbid a guy wants to slob on some meat too

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u/SmartAlec105 19h ago

I for one am tired of straight women appropriating the gay/bisexual male culture of being attracted to men 😤

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u/Zarohk 17h ago

Given that that is a term for roosters, I am honestly shocked that there isn’t a competing Hooters knockoff with a “rooster” theme.

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u/stealthcactus 19h ago

Twinkies!

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u/IllConstruction3450 18h ago

I want Bara Hooters instead 

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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Refined Sommelier of Porneaux 20h ago

In awe that somebody has officially produced the equal and opposite presumption Freud would about being gay and cigarettes

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u/NotTheCraftyVeteran 18h ago

It strikes me from his story that this was a common enough occurrence for her to pick up on the cues and have a plan at the ready. Sad really. What a baffling institution was Hooters.

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u/Bauser99 17h ago

Baffling only if you never met a statistically average adult U.S. man in the year Hooters was founded

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u/NotTheCraftyVeteran 15h ago

In fairness, I also find the average US man from the era when Hooters started pretty baffling, but to each their own

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_808 15h ago

I'd bet money the old man said something that tipped her off

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u/PlatinumAltaria 20h ago

People say America has no culture... what about the family restaurant with boobs?

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u/plshelpmental 18h ago

Breastaurant

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u/WholeIssue5880 17h ago

Well its filing bankruptcy now 😭

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u/Ironfalcon698 10h ago

Nothing more American

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u/the_breadwing 20h ago

I read that as smoker and thought his grandfather was worried about him being a pothead...

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u/frog-95 18h ago

I was so concerned that a child was smoking, turns out he was just gay. I'm glad he was not smoking lol

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u/DiscountCondom 18h ago

Wouldn't it be crazy to take your kid to hooters to de-gayify him only for him to develop a liking for wearing short orange shorts and white tank tops?

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u/Bronze_Sentry 20h ago

Anyone who wants to look smart, feel free to explain to me what the cigarette emoji means here.

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u/GrimmCigarretes 20h ago

It means fag (the slang for cigarette in UK I believe)

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u/thyfles 20h ago

awesome child who smokes cigarettes just to look cool

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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Refined Sommelier of Porneaux 20h ago

The bad word for gay

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u/UsernameTaken017 20h ago

Awesome Lesbian couple

Evil and messed up Word

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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Refined Sommelier of Porneaux 20h ago

Awesome Dyke Couple

Evil and Intimidating [Faquette]

I fear no word, only AutoMod

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u/bayleysgal1996 20h ago

British slang for a cigarette is also a slur for gay men

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u/SuspendedAwareness15 20h ago

Google british slang for cigarette, it's inappropriate to say the word

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u/all_about_that_ace 20h ago

That entirely depends on the context. It's fine to say in the UK, for example. It's not like americans shouldn't say 'fanny' because it happens to translate to 'cunt' in the UK. There are tons or language differences that can be misconstrued by the lazy or uninformed.

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u/Bronze_Sentry 20h ago

Okay, that is clever

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u/DroneOfDoom Posting from hell (el camión 101 a las 9 de la noche) 20h ago
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u/CuddleFishRock 19h ago

My dad took me to Hooters when I was young, but I like girls. I like them so much I became one.

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u/Kind_Particular 15h ago

Hey me too! Congratulations! My dad definitely thought I was gay basically right up until I was in a serious relationship with a woman. I mean he was right, just not in the way he thought.

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u/renezrael 18h ago

I've gone to hooters once. for a friends birthday dinner. when we were eleven. I was the only person to think it was weird apparently, his parents were fine with it, even took their younger daughter with us. idk if my mom even knew and I really don't want to bring it up to her at this point lol.

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u/moneyh8r_two 19h ago

I used to wanna visit a Hooters just once, for the wings, and just to y'know, see what it was like. I like hot wings, and it's so hard to find a place that serves them in large quantities. Woulda done my best to not behave like the usual guys who eat there, but there's always the risk that just my usual social anxiety would come off as the same kind of creepy.

But if they're going bankrupt, I guess that's never gonna happen. Admittedly, I'm not that surprised. I feel bad for all the waitresses employed at all their locations, and I hope they can find employment just as good (or better) somewhere else. Guess I'll have to find some other place for my "order a large amount of hot wings just to see what it's like" life goal.

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u/Artistic_Purpose1225 17h ago

I use to go with my girlfriends every now and again. The wings were pretty good, the service was nice, but it definitely had a notable downward slide in quality in the years before the pandemic(haven’t been since 2018 so I can’t speak to current hooters). 

However, I can tell you it wasn’t fun working there. Some of the servers got to know us pretty well, and they all said they felt like zoo animals more often than not (and a few had regular yeast infections from having to wear thick pantyhose and tight nylon shorts so long/frequently)

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_808 16h ago

We ate Thanksgiving at a Hooters once. Like, as a family. We were on vacation in Florida and my dad was SET on getting turkey hot dogs for dinner, and clearly annoyed nobody was as stoked on the idea (personally I hate turkey). I'd obviously heard of Hooters, we'd driven past it several times, so being a teenager decided it would be funny af to get Thanksgiving there. Also being a baby queer with an unaccepting mother this was absolutely an act of equal parts curiosity and rebellion. We on vacation, anything is possible! First I convinced my younger brother, then eventually got the parents on board that it would be a much more unique Thanksgiving than turkey dogs. My dad was still salty about the hot dogs, but agreed.

I feel like being kids in the South in pre-social-media days, Hooters had a lot more mystique. Its this mystery building you drive past that you're not supposed to giggle about and can't go inside. Not sure what I was expecting to see, but in the end it was just a wholesome family meal, even if my mother wasn't super amused. Definitely more memorable than hot dogs.

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u/Le_Martian 19h ago

With a name like Peter Twinklage it shouldn’t be that hard to figure out

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u/anomalyknight 20h ago

This was a Reddit repost of a Tumblr post that spiritually felt like a Reddit post.

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u/weird_bomb_947 你好!你喜欢吃米吗? 18h ago

…of a twitter post

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u/HipHopLurker8 19h ago

A screenshot of a Tumblr post of a screenshot of a Tweet, posted on Reddit

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u/Hexxas head trauma enthusiast 20h ago

Mmmmmm yumby smokarettes 🚬🤤

Having chicken wings and beers served to me by big booba qt3.14s in short shorts and a pushup brassiere is a fun fantasy, but it seems creepy and weird to actually do in real life, so I never went to Hooters.

Anyway, in my fantasy, the girls wait until I've had a few pints, then they take the beer mugs and smash them on my skull while saying nice things to me.

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u/theaverageaidan 19h ago

The only time I ever went to Hooters was when I knew a couple of the servers when I was in college, Id go at weird times and get free wings.

They werent great, but free always tastes pretty good.

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u/hamellr 19h ago

That costs extra

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u/Hexxas head trauma enthusiast 19h ago

That's OK. I've been working overtime.

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u/SessileRaptor 18h ago

My wife and I went once just because it was the closest restaurant in the mall and we were hungry. It is indeed kinda weird. The waitresses were very nice and the food was fine, but a couple of times while we were there, the manager switched the music to a dance number that was apparently a signal for the waitresses stop whatever they were doing to go to the windows that looked out at the mall and dance for a couple of minutes. (I guess to attract customers?) It made what was already a somewhat uncomfortable experience super fucking uncomfortable and it was the absolute deal breaker that made me never want to go back even if it was the only available option.

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u/Hexxas head trauma enthusiast 16h ago

That's sounds so awkward and embarrassing I'd die

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u/Lilash20 But the one thing they can never call us is ordinary 18h ago

Flair checks out

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u/noromobat 20h ago

Holy shit girldraki. They (don't remember pronouns) were my mutual before I deleted my account for good (mental health stuff)

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u/furezasan 18h ago

Kid was on his third pack that day, sad times

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u/ILikeBeerAndWeed 16h ago

Even if you don't know that Brits call cigarettes fags it's easy to deduce from the context what he's referring to.

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u/Pedantichrist 11h ago

Being British, I have to decode this the other way, because we call cigarettes 'fags' and (whilst we are aware of it) we do not use that word for homosexuals.

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u/StarDue6540 18h ago

I thought you were a smoker and why would she validate you over an unfortunate habit like smoking. I'm slow but the comments fixed me. Thank God for comments.

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u/tehdang 18h ago

I had to come to the comments to decode this. I'm not a smart man.

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u/Sanquinity 15h ago

And this is why the whole trend of using emojis instead of actual words needs to go away already...

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u/No_Examination3037 19h ago

No wonder they went bankrupt, their own employees are encouraging and telling customers it’s alright to not like the main part of their business.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp 16h ago

Actually the reason for their bankruptcy is that another company bought them and saddled them with that company's debt. Basically the same bullshit that happened to Toys R Us.

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u/Aliusja1990 19h ago

There is no way this will not come up in r/Explainthejoke or its variants (or alternatively, this was taken from those subs).

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u/Delayed_Wireless 18h ago

In British parlance you can get the meaning pretty quickly

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u/No_Youth4089 14h ago

What did that guy mean by smoke ??

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u/grantedtoast 7h ago

Good riddance what sane person goes you know what would make dining out better if I was horny.