[0801] The 12 Star Restaurant
└ posted on Thursday, 7 July 2016, by Novil
Sandra and Woo continues to include food in jokes dealing with completely unrelated topics. Someone should calculate whether Sandra and Woo or Garfield has more food related jokes. I believe it’ll be a close call.
- Sign: The world’s only 12 star restaurant
- Larisa: Here’s your grilled corn cob, cultivated without pesticides and prepared without artificial additives.
- Cloud: Excellent.
- Larisa: Also thank you very much for selecting our “Ram it down my throat!!” option.
- Cloud: Uhm, no, I’m pretty sure I didn’t order that.
- Larisa: May I also interest you in our special “Buy 3, get 2!” offer?
- Larisa: Kann ich Sie vielleicht auch noch für unser “Zahl 3, bekomm 2!”-Angebot begeistern?
- Cloud: GGRRRKL!!
- Sandra: Check, please!
![[0801] The 12 Star Restaurant](/comics/2016-07-07-0801-the-12-star-restaurant.png "[0801] The 12 Star Restaurant")
@ Francisco:
Look at it another way in your analogy: if the club membership payment was raised too high to outweigh the benefits, why should you not leave?
Francisco wrote:
Because some people are getting an incredibly good deal right now and if they left, it would actually benefit the club as it stands now.
Other people simply do not have agency in this matter.
Francisco wrote:
Well and if the benefits the club offers is something I do not want – namely I am not overtly fond of the “free movement” of people – because it is dangerous especialy with proven incopetence of borders states of Schengen to prevent illegal border crossings.
then why should one be in a club that offers services I do not want and does not offer what I want?
Not to mention – if club ever rendered services I wanted, but seized to do so for whatever reason… it is time to say goodby.
(And since I and club still have to exist next to each other… I do not think it is good to be an enemy from start.)
But I will definitely not let my “interests and wants” be defined by some club. I choose clubs to further MY interests and wants and those are always priority. I will not live other people lives and desires. Thats their job, I want to live mine.
@ Paeris Kiran:
and to answer the last question – because needs and wants of every single person are unique and different. They are also subjective and personal.
That is why there usually isn´t one big club, but lot of clubs… chess club, volleyball club, golf club… and people in them scarcely mix. It is simple people have differents wants, different goals, different way of life. However – there is some need to coexist between clubs, and also people who refuse to be memebers of any clubs.
It is only on the personal subjective evaluation of person wheather it is any worth in staying or leaving. There is no objective authority, no objective method, no objective judge… that can decide that for people, gangs, towns, countries, states… or human kind. In fact, that is life.
However – there are those who gladly succumb to an authority which tell them what the “right way” is… and such “authorities” usually get corrupted by such power. I do not wish to live under such authority. And that is why I do not want either memeber states of EU to become such an authority.
the babling how EU is needed to compete with authorities like Putin, China… or whatever else… If it ever becomes such an authority… it become equal enemy as they are to me and there would be no point of opposing them.
(I generaly do not mind people choosing to live under authority… as long as I am not forced to live under it)
Yes, I despise those policies that we didn’t vote for.
It’s not like we vote each few years for people who decide what those policies will be!
Oh wait…
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/
I guess I will return to ignore those elections and then whine about how I have no control about EU.
Francisco wrote:
Unfortunately probably not from his end. I’ve seen Novil himself complain about ads.
First try installing a HOST file. Please trust me here, it usually disables really bad ads.
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
It basically lies to the browser and the ad never gets loaded onto the webpage.
You can edit the file to blacklist almost any site you want, instructions are included.
You could have a second browser that has flash disabled but you will need to do some digging to figure that out. I would help more but I’m on an Android smartphone so I can’t see if my changes would break the browser.
When there is a site that is really really difficult I use Firefox with adblock on and most extras disabled. I haven’t had problems on SandW at all though. 🙂
Pickman wrote:
the 18 fools my country votes for do not matter, they are waste of time and money.
Germans and French together overvote just about anyone…. it is like good old days of comecon when there was a vote on all communist members… just there was so many soviet ones it was virtually irrelevant of what others wanted anyway even if the governments werent just puppets controled from Moscow.
Their presence there just consumes money. the country would be far better of if we send noone, and just kept the salaries and expenses here and did not pay anyone to just wave their hands.
RUN, SANDRA!!! RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!
How about a comic strip where Woo is sitting in front of as laptop, reading all of the above comments to this strip while having to explain to his kits why it’s a good thing that people have the fundamental right to post their stupid opinions all over the web?
(Please note that I didn’t say which side’s opinions I consider stupid. So I have not actually insulted anyone. However, if someone still feels insulted, they’re most likely right.)
@ Stefan:
Haha. A PSA from Woo that warns against reading YouTube comments would work too.
TBO I’m not reading most of the walls of text here. I’m from the USA and trying to figure out MY government is difficult enough as it is. At least most of the conversation here appears to be civil.
I will continue to be ignorant on the Brexit issue as I’ll never really fully understand what anyone in Europe is going through right now.
Stefan wrote:
I suspect that you didn’t like my suggestion to replace the HOST file on Francisco’s system.
I’m deeply offended and upset now!! 😡 😉 😛 *accidentally starts a Chrome vs. Safari flame war* lol jk
It’ll be mostly over in a few hours probably anyway; we can here Monday approaching. 😀
*looks to the horizon*
ColRhys wrote:
Just how do you know it was a “bad idea” considering nothing has happened yet, there are plenty of time before the actual exit will happen (if ever), and the only people who have acted like little children are the people in EU – and little kids, who initially decided not to go vote (so clearly did not take it serious enough).
I didnt catch the political joke at first~ I just though Larissa was running a high class restaurant that required being well dressed~
@ Paeris Kiran:
Yeah… Except that all changes to the contract were approved by UK and the other members. Good thing we don’t have EU bases in the UK because what happened last time a similar situation happened was not pretty (American Secession War).
Pickman wrote:
Well there is really an issue… the change were often approved againt votes of all representatives of some country… so saying they were approved by vote of all members iis not scarcely right
@ Paeris Kiran:
No, as I told you, the multiplication would apply to everything (except, of course, what is in wallets / hidden under the mattress, or whatever, because it wouldn’t be countable). But retirement pensions, loans/debts – and associated repayments – would be multiplied, etc. Everything with a money sum on it, really.
@ Pickman:
Sorry, but the European Parliament is a nice ornament, at best. It doesn’t hold any real power.
You might be aware that the representatives may vote a motion, forcing the Commission to work on a given subject. Yes, that’s true, that’s something they can do. But, should the Commission disagree with the Parliament on what to do, then the Commission will overrule the Parliament.
So, it would be, like:
– Parliament: Commission, we want you to have a look at this nifty suggestion: “What the people want”.
– Commission: Ok, let’s have a look. Oh, my, that won’t ever do. We can’t have the people decide, in the EU, now, can we ? Rejected !
– Parliament: Curses ! Foiled again !
Feels like the people has real power through their elected representatives, now, doesn’t it ?
@ Pickman:
Or like Russian bases in Ukraine, hmm ?
I’m quite confident that Britain won’t leave regardless. Everything it wants is everything it has. If it “takes back the power” it will suffer for it. Power over what? Power you’d give up if you left the EU?
Redistribution: (rē′dĭs-trə-byo͞o′shən) Taking (usually money) from people that earned it and giving it to people that didn’t.
In any other field of endeavor this would be called theft. Even worse is the “cut” that the government keeps for “administering” the redistribution. After all, we need to pay for the politicians making the laws ensuring redistribution that earn more in a day than most people paying the tax see in a week and have retirement packages that keep them in the lap of luxury after retiring from a few years of “work”.
The problem with “redistribution of wealth” is that it encourages sloth, discourages success and rewards corruption. It constrains until it consumes… all under the authority of the State with threats of violence or captivity if disobeyed. It is the essence and life-blood of Tyranny. Human beings are too easily corrupted to enjoy the Utopia it promises but is incapable of delivering without dictatorial powers that are all too easy to abuse.
Unity requires common beliefs and has benefits of presenting strength towards aggressors, but too much of anything can be bad. That’s why I believe the US system to be as close to ideal as you can get. While the US Federal Government has its uses, States each have their own autonomy (for example, the US Federal Government cannot make laws governing school curriculums) and reflect the views and values of its population.
TLDR: When a government obtains unlimited power to confiscate property and regulate the lives of its citizenry with no effective means of recourse, it becomes a Tyranny and doesn’t deserve to have any authority.
Knee-jerk reactionary Anti-EU posts! Run for cover!
IJWTS wow! Why can’t I think of thgnis like that?
@ Kzwix:
You may note that the same problems occur in any currency union. Even in the United States, the cost of living and the amount of wages vary considerably from state to state and even between urban and rural regions within a state. Much of this variation is caused by state and local tax and regulatory policy. Having a progressive Federal Income Tax only increases these variations, because our Constitution requires uniform application of tax laws throughout the country. While state/local income tax and property tax payments are deductible from taxable income, the brackets themselves do not scale according to local price variations, which are influenced by such things as business taxes, regulations and remoteness (i.e. cost of transporting goods to and from the locality, and demand for housing within an hour’s drive of a major city). Merely by existing, a progressive Federal Income Tax redistributes income from high cost of living regions to low cost of living regions. The US military also places certain facilities like nuclear missile silos in the middle of nowhere by design: In the event of a nuclear war, such facilities would be targets for enemy nuclear weapons. Placing them far away from population centers minimizes the civilian casualties that would result from a nuclear attack on those facilities. Also, the vast amounts of land such facilities require is cheap because very few people want to live there anyway.
“The good news, Cloud, is that if you can successfully swallow this entire corn cob without swallowing, we have a porn studio offering you a $100,000/year contract.”
“…For sex with girls… right?”
“…Ask your mom to explain it to you when you get home… and if possible, video that conversation for me.”