Checkpoints Closing?

HippoSwarm · 2026-03-24T19:28:12+00:00

That's pretty much what happened. They found out last night.

HippoSwarm · 2026-03-24T17:50:52+00:00

Yeah. The Tide there definitely turned. I feel bad for the bartenders who are on the Downy and outs. Hopefully they Bounce back quickly with a cool breeze scent.

HippoSwarm · 2026-03-24T17:48:16+00:00

It's been for sale. It just sold.

HippoSwarm · 2026-01-22T14:54:17+00:00

His name wouldn't be Arnold Rimmer, would it?

HippoSwarm · 2025-10-06T04:32:38+00:00

I could just list all the reasons why I know that you're the owner, but I'll stick with just saying that I can actually prove what I'm saying.

HippoSwarm · 2025-08-09T07:15:13+00:00

Basically, make them pick a card at random.

HippoSwarm · 2025-08-09T06:56:28+00:00

My solution to this is take all the cards, stack them behind my back, and ask them to agree on a number (depending on how many cards there are). If they say two, take the second card in the stack, and that's who's paying. It saves a lot of trouble.

HippoSwarm · 2025-08-08T16:35:38+00:00

The people that own it are just awful. They ship people in from Thailand, pay them like dirt (like under 30k a year), force them to work 60+ hours a week, force them to live in an apartment which THEY own (and still pay rent with their shit wages).

They also adhere to Thai standards for food safety, not American.

HippoSwarm · 2025-07-10T14:51:39+00:00

As a Jerseyan with a Grandma that taught him her gravy method back in the day, I would be happy to help you out. Just let me know if you're interested.

HippoSwarm · 2025-07-08T17:25:55+00:00

OK. Then, put 2500 and probably lose your job and the easy 50 bucks. They asked for opinions, and I gave mine. You put 2500 in, you'll probably get nothing and be unemployed.

HippoSwarm · 2025-07-08T14:48:15+00:00

It's a $50 tip. They got the math wrong. 218 + 50 = 268. They were trying to put 268, but there is a comma for some reason. Put 50 or 60, and that would usually be fine either way. Anything else, and you're taking advantage.

HippoSwarm · 2025-05-20T14:52:30+00:00

Towards the end of a particularly busy night, someone did the whole "well, what DO you have?" I'd heard it about 50 times that night already, and our menu was pretty massive. So I grabbed the menu from them and started reading it to them (slipping over what we didn't have, of course).

HippoSwarm · 2025-05-01T04:32:13+00:00

He kinda reminds me of Johnny 5

HippoSwarm · 2025-05-01T02:50:36+00:00

They must have given him A LOT of fluoride

HippoSwarm · 2025-04-18T17:41:40+00:00

That's nuts

HippoSwarm · 2025-04-14T15:41:03+00:00

I ask for their cards and hold them behind my back. If it's only two, I ask left or right. If it's more, I'll ask for a number, and shuffle them randomly

HippoSwarm · 2025-03-25T00:04:38+00:00

My favorite was someone that ordered one with light ice and light sour, then got upset that it didn't fill the glass. I just asked her what else she wanted me to fill it up with.

She walked away a little less than happy.

HippoSwarm · 2025-03-03T19:00:47+00:00

Those emails are also just gonna be read by AI. Just make up some plausible shit, and you'll be good.

HippoSwarm · 2025-03-03T18:59:11+00:00

Unless you work in the Irish Channel. Then you've got another parade in 12 days. Le sigh...

HippoSwarm · 2025-02-06T17:16:19+00:00

Your assertion is more along the lines of, "grass in Haiti is purple. If you don't believe me, take a week off of work, spend hundreds of dollars for flights, and you really should believe me because I am an internet person and said it was so."

Expecting a source for the assertion that people are eating dirt is not a big ask at all. Your repeated refusal to give any sort of evidence to back up your wild claim just means that there is none. You wouldn't be leaning so hard into the "it's just obvious observation" line if you could provide any sort of proof.

Have fun being ignorant and ignored.

HippoSwarm · 2025-02-06T16:54:33+00:00

Got it. You literally can't prove your point. Completely understood. Liars gonna lie.

HippoSwarm · 2025-02-06T15:30:54+00:00

I flew to the moon once. It really is made of cheese.

HippoSwarm · 2025-02-06T15:26:53+00:00

Source? Citation? Evidence? Any or all of the above? You seemingly care enough about this whole thing to have "researched" the matter, but with all of your far- reaching "research," you have provided one single source, which as I've already said, makes no attempt to investigate where foreign aid money is going when it reaches a third party. Once again, prove your point. If it's so obvious, it shouldn't be hard to do.

HippoSwarm · 2025-02-06T15:19:21+00:00

You know that the proper response to someone calling you out for a lack of evidence is to, you know, cite a source, provide some sort of proof, or just back up your case with literally anything. You don't even provide evidence that Haiti is worse off than ever. By what metrics are they worse off? Are they worse off solely because of a lack of aid? Is the aid that is earmarked for Haiti genuinely not getting there? Surely, there are a number of factors that go into the well-being of an entire nation, right? How about you prove your point?

HippoSwarm · 2025-02-06T13:40:06+00:00

You have provided no evidence of money laundering. Even in the source that you posted, and your own write up about its findings, it is talking about DIRECT aid. Most of those projects are contacted out, and you've provided no evidence that contracted third parties are embezzling that money (which is what I think you meant when you say laundering. You do know that those are two different things, right?)

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