I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

w-what if potato is actually lucky

greeble neeble gomble womp?? e mfucking worgle smeet huga dorble!!!!

My funniest ventriloquism story starts with the fact that I was obsessed with ventriloquism from a young age. I used to obsessively practice speaking without moving my lips, practicing the different tongue and air tricks and everything. Then I got sick with Bell’s Palsy, and it hit both sides of my face at the same time. Bell’s Palsy is like a headcold that hits your facial nerves. Anyway- This meant my entire face was paralyzed. I couldn’t speak using my lips. The doctor stared at me, dumbfounded that I was able to speak very fluently without my face moving at all.

So, this hasn't crossed my dash yet. (Not blaming anyone, there is soooo much going on in the world and I'd also missed it in the noise).

There is currently a strike at Frito-Lay. in Topeka. These workers are striking because:

They were being forced to work 84 hour weeks. The company's best offer so far is a 60 hour cap. This is shit we fought for a century ago, people.

Their generous offer also includes a whole 4 percent wage increase...over the next 2 years. I'm not sure what COL is in Topeka, but... Well, it's better than the entire 77 cents they've apparently gotten in the last decade.

There's also a report that a worker literally collapsed and dropped dead on the line and the foreman's response was to make them move the body out of the way and put in a replacement. (However, this is unconfirmed and, of course, the company denies it).

There have been multiple OSHA violations at this plant over the last few years, including a forklift accident that's under investigation.

They've now been striking since July 5 but, of course, it only hit the national media yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/14/frito-lay-strike-forced-overtime/

So, why am I signal boosting this?

Because Frito-Lay is refusing to budge. They are attempting to make the excuse that union leadership agreed to the 60 hour work week and crappy pay cut...when union leadership only agreed to put it to a vote.

And this means that we need to put the thumbscrews on them. Remember, this is about 19th century style working conditions.

So, I'm calling on my followers to boycott Frito Lay's until the strike is involved.

Frito-Lay owns:

Lay's

Doritos (Sorry. I really am. I KNOW there's no good alternative to Doritos, although Zapp's are good if you can find them).

Fritos

Tostitos

Cheetos

Ruffles

Sun Chips

Baken-ets

Chester's

Cracker Jack

Islen plantain chips

Funyuns

Grandma's (the cookies)

Matador Meat Snacks

Maui style potato chips

Miss Vickie's

Munchies

Munchos

Rolled Gold

Sabritones

Santitas

Simply

Smartfood

Stacys

The Walking Taco

NatuChips

PopCorners (this one wasn't on their website, but was bought by Pepsi's in 2019 with the intent of adding it. So best avoided just in case). Yes, this really is more than half of the snack aisle. Suggested alternatives:

Kettle Brand Chips

Zapp's (If you can find them. My supermarket had them once and not since, so I'm guessing the culinary cowards in this neighborhood were afraid of "Voodoo" flavored chips).

Pringles

On the Border for salsa.

Wise Cheez Doodles

Bugles

Utz

Store own brand alternatives, if your store has ones that are any good.

Cheez-its

Check before you buy and let's tell these people they don't get to treat workers like that.

This was posted on FB recently by someone supporting the strike!

u know whats wild. everyone on here like 20 and when i first joined everyone was like 14 15. u ask anybody n they been here for years. nobody new on here. staff locked the doors n were all Stuck Inside

Tag your current age and how old you were when you joined Tumblr

no one:

marvel women in suits:👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

If I may add…

AYE AYE CAPTAIN!

AYE AYE CAPTAIN!

CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!

CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!

CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!

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Is this gonna be a thing every 4th of July ?

YES.

I think I’m in love with the op’s

I will always reblog this every July 4th.

I’ve been looking for this since forever

the only reason i like july 4th

character development

“Nice Does Not Mean Good”

Happy Mother’s Day :)

Okay but there are several reasons that are kinda interesting

1) fast food restaurants cannot advertise to children anymore, so that means no more bright colors and child friendly mascots

2) McDonalds and the like have been loosing ground to “fresh fast food” chains like Chipotle for the better part of two decades, and this style is meant to emulate that more clean, “mature” style.

3) Resale on property. See, fast food isn’t doing as well as it did in the 90s-early 2000s, and where it used to be fairly rare to have a fast food place close, now a days you might have a location close, and good luck selling the old, branded building to a completely different business. You know those closed Pizza Huts that just sorta sit there forever, very clearly having been a Pizza Hut? Well as it turns out, most businesses don’t want to buy a building that is recognizably from a different brand. You’d basically have to tear down the building and start over, a costly decision when there are plenty of plain looking spaces that you can buy/rent and put a lot less cost into renovations. So for a fast food chain now, it’s far better to have a plain “this could be any sort of counter service place, just change the signs!” In case you have to close that location and sell the building.

Basically fast food places look like this now because fast food is an industry that is well past it’s peak profits, and businesses must plan for their eventual closure and for their building to simply be absorbed into the next trend or monopoly.

This makes sense but also there's an urgent care in my area that has the pizza hut roof

for when you urgently need pizza hut

I’d like to point out that Chipotle was fiscally sponsored (acquired and then spun off after about ten years) by McDonalds. So, while the brands may have been competing, the money was going to the same place. Fast food brands are increasingly becoming owned by just a few select multinational food corporations, including McDonalds and Yum! Brands, formerly a division of PepsiCo. 

This article from Business Insider goes into more detail. The highlights include: 

And they produced this helpful graphic:

You’ll notice that certain ‘hipster’ coffee brands which cultivate a “small business” vibe to compete with Starbucks, like Peets and Stumptown, are now owned by JAB Holding Company, also the owners of Keurig coffee, Panera Bread, and Dr. Pepper-Snapple Group. JAB also used slave labor during the Nazi regime and members of the German Reismann family, the majority shareholders, were Nazi supporters at the time. That said many of the current shareholders, still from the original German Reismann family, are descendent from a Jewish Holocaust survivor via their that survivor’s daughter, baptized and raised as Catholic, and they set up a foundation to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial after they revealed this information during a time of controversy about their (previous) ties to Nazis. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAB_Holding_Company]) 

Additionally, past or current collaboration with Nazis, and other far-right architects of genocide, by old multinational corporations, especially European and American ones, are quite common. Starbucks, for example, faced protest this past Mayday for their role in financing the Tigray Genocide by the Ethiopian and Eritrean militaries. https://itsgoingdown.org/may-day-2021/]

Because of how widespread--and invisible--this level of control of our food system is, it can be difficult to resist or boycott. 

night at the museum is a franchise I wouldn’t have gotten sick of. they could have tried shoving 8 sequels and an animated series down my throat and I would have ate that shit up

the main cast is a night guard, an egyptian pharoah, sacagewea, teddy roosevelt, genghis khan, a miniature cowboy and roman ruler duo, a capuchin monkey, and a moai rock for godsake!!!!!!!!

in the second movie there was a scene where al capone ivan the terrible napoleon an egyptian and darth vader and oscar the grouch interact. ben stiller walks into a painting. the abraham lincoln memorial comes to life. the lil roman rides a squirrel into battle. the thinker is a fuck boy. like holy shit holy SHIT!!

this screenshot ALONE should make these movies worth your time

Yo we know that duo was gay as all hell tho

it took me a second to realize you were referring to the cowboy & roman and not oscar the grouch and darth vader

Reblog if Katara slander is not tolerated on your blog

Tumblr Code.

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

it’s a fossil

Totally going to start saying this to people!

I haven’t seen this post in YEARS

do actors get boners while making sex scenes this is one of the things i’ve wondered my whole life

Idk if you actually care for the answer, but they have to put their dicks in little sleeves that attach to the leg so if they get a boner it just get held down.

that sounds like a garment that should be sold everywhere and considered polite if not mandatory to wear, like bras

Omg I can’t

As a guy I second this.

If I have to wear a titty sling because there might be an event where it becomes chilly and my nip noops become visible through my shirt, people who have a peenor should be expected to wear a peenor sling in case there is an event where a gentle breeze occurs and their peenor becomes erect.

I kind of feel like if we’re gonna do that we should go all-out and they should be IMPOSSIBLE to size, VERY expensive, flimsy, and made of uncomfortable, itchy materials.

And the little ones should have cute designs but the big ones only come in white,black, and tan

and there should be a company that sells them called Victor’s Secret, that has uncomfortably large, close-up photos of enormously-endowed male “angels” stuffed into their gorgeous little pouches spread all over every mall and TV channel, which changes societal expectations on penis size as a whole, so that men who don’t have incredibly large penises feel impossibly inadequate and feel compelled to make up for it by spending a fortune on overpriced penis pouches as a way of compensating.

Then Victor’s Secret should be sure not to actually carry any of these garments in the sizes that they advertise, so that only modestly-endowed men have the privilege of being seen in the shop, which is the type of place that simultaneously clamors for huge dicks, but refuses to cater to them in any way, leaving everyone involved vaguely uncomfortable and slightly ashamed.

This is legit one of the best posts I’ve ever found on tumblr.

They also must come with a terrible underwire that sometimes breaks or stabs them from time to time.

This is great.

There should also be a very old, kind of worn out one that gets worn on laundry day.

and the sizes need to have some random symbols/letters for no fuckin reason at all. 7 inch dick? cool your size is 4Z deal with it.

This is where Tumblr excels.

I am sending pain vibes your way. You will feel a lil discomfort on your leg

Ouch

Yeah

My leg is uncomfy, is stuck under dog

James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes: certified nerd