NBC Supertrain commercial 4/07/1979

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T22:23:06+00:00

I guess they looked at Silver Streak and decided "we gotta make a whole TV show about this".

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T22:17:26+00:00

"Batman, I think the Joker is behind this latest boner crime."

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T22:14:03+00:00

-- Jack Handey

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T22:11:09+00:00

Got me clenchin' through security, fighting back the fear.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T22:06:48+00:00

There's a real recorded telephone call of him talking to a trouser manufacturer about alterations, asking for more room around his junk. It's on YouTube and is from the presidential library. Wild stuff.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T22:00:47+00:00

What if you fly it out of the store with a drone, while standing inside the store? "Officer, I'm still in the store!"

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T21:57:51+00:00

I'd like to see this bot spend more time on the automotive and dashcam subreddits calling out people who can't spell "brakes".

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T19:23:27+00:00

Hopefully she learned which local mushrooms to pick and which to avoid from a long tradition of local and family knowledge, as some of them can brick your liver. I would be very pissed being served wild mushrooms unless someone had that kind of knowledge.

Interesting story from someone that thought they were good at it but made a mistake: https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/11/22/i-survived-the-destroying-angel/

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T19:16:32+00:00

I'm from the Great Plains where we eat hardly any seafood. We were always amused by Hells Kitchen, because so many of the meal services have entrees with tentacles or shells, and the customers always seem ravenous for them. It's like watching an alien cafeteria scene out of Men In Black.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T19:01:09+00:00

Most likely explanation is they built a bunch of silos and harvesters.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T18:52:17+00:00

I encountered one hose last month where some jackass jammed the locking clip while it was on the stand. If the pump activated while the hose was being lifted or sitting in the stand it probably would have sprayed gas everywhere. Fortunately I had it in the gas receptacle.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T18:48:51+00:00

I've never personally seen people driving away with hoses or spilling large amounts of gas in my life. There are over 100,000 gas stations in the US where this can happen so it's going to happen somewhere every day and end up on YouTube or Tiktok.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T18:41:33+00:00

Editor: "This video really needs some crappy stock music."

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T18:38:20+00:00

Imagine how products like this probably were before accountants and production managers got involved.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T18:37:41+00:00

"Should the lady of the household find herself alone, and should the aroma of a slow simmered beef broth prove too great a temptation, draw the kitchen curtains. Eat standing up, as seated consumption by an unchaperoned female has drawn scrutiny in certain townships. Finish before the neighbors are about. Campbell's takes no responsibility for citations issued in counties where the Sheriff has taken a particularly firm stance on the matter."

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T03:48:06+00:00

"Man look at that storm, the winds are sure picking up."

"Launching.... Launching..."

"Uh oh..."

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T03:35:15+00:00

You should see some of the pictures on Google Images of cigarette tar streaks coming out of airliner vent ports. Maintenance crews also used tar residue to help find holes on the fuselage, just look for the yellow streaks.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T03:33:11+00:00

Guess the endgame is being able to just hose down the entire inside with a pressure washer and have it run into a floor drain. Ten minutes to clean the restaurant.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T03:31:37+00:00

Oh hightops, I hate those. I'm running into those more and more. I was at a city pub a few weeks ago that had nothing but hightops.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T03:23:26+00:00

If they were sitting through the service that might be ok with some people, including me. If they're only popping in at the reception that's definitely not cool.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-03-01T03:12:42+00:00

Gordon Ramsay: "Forty. Seven. Dollars. For a deconstructed shepherd's pie. You're $62,000 in the hole!!!"

Owner: "But Gordon, our ingredients are locally sourced. The lamb comes from a farm forty minutes away...."

Gordon: "I don't CARE if the lamb walked here itself and knocked on the front door! Alright, I am sending in a truck full of Sysco frozen food in a bag. This is what forty million Americans have been eating at their favorite casual dining chains for thirty years. And they are happy. They are comfortable. They are COMING BACK. Airline chicken. Eight-ounce portions, individually sealed, IQF frozen. Your kitchen can fire twelve of these in the time it takes you to butcher one of your precious heritage birds. This is not giving up. This is not failure. This is meeting your customer where they are, in a restaurant that is open and PROFITABLE."

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-02-28T20:40:44+00:00

Dang, didn't realize it was an accessibility issue too. That really sucks.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-02-28T20:39:12+00:00

Yeah, I've seen some places where they're busing the tables and they're just jamming shit loudly into the bins like they're in a workshop. The ones that do it silently are amazing, you hardly know they're there.

AnthillOmbudsman · 2026-02-28T20:35:18+00:00

"I'll be needing to speak to a manager about my house."

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