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Cream Cheese Shortage Plagues Junior’s Cheesecakes Restaurant in NYC

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The company's cheesecake is made from about 85% cream cheese, making it impossible to prepare without that key ingredient. The shortage meant the company had to pause cheesecake production on Friday in its Burlington, New Jersey, baking facility because it didn't have enough of the ingredient, according to owner Alan Rosen. It reopened Sunday, after a frantic Saturday trip to pick up more. But it will have to pause production again on Thursday, Rosen said, as the problem persists.
 
The factory is where Junior's makes its signature product, which it sells to thousands of national retailers, as well as to restaurants, directly to consumers and in its own four restaurant locations. Every year, Junior's goes through about four million pounds of cream cheese to make its signature product, Rosen said.

 

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Cream cheese is a food that has become hard to find as food sellers try to meet increasing demand amid labor shortages and port congestions that have disrupted the supply chain.

Meanwhile, 75 percent of small businesses are being hurt by the supply chain crisis and 30 year high inflation, according to a recent CNBC survey.

 

The cream cheese shortage was happening at a bad time because December is “our busiest month of the year,” Rosen told CNN.

“We’ve been scraping by” for weeks, he noted, adding, “getting cream cheese in sporadic supply and praying.”

A shortage of large tubs was also delaying cream cheese shipments in New York City, CBS New York reported Monday

 

 

 

To help remedy its shortage, Junior’s is working with Kraft Heinz, the company that owns Philadelphia.

“We’re getting on the phone with them. We’re talking, we’re pleading, we’re moving trucks around where we can,” Rosen stated.

 

It opened again on Sunday following an excursion to get more, however, it will have to pause once more on Thursday, Rosen explained.

 

New York City bagel shops are also scrambling as they run low, according to a recent report from The New York Times. The small NYC bagel chain Ess-a-Bagel has leaned on more suppliers.

"We're just having to get the cream cheese from different vendors," Melanie Frost, Ess-a-Bagel's COO and president, told CNN Business. That, plus promotion of its tofu spreads, has helped keep Ess-a-Bagel from coming up short, she added.

 

That's not an option at Junior's, Rosen said. "The recipe has not changed one ounce" since its first restaurant opened in Brooklyn in 1950.
To help ensure that it doesn't run out of cream cheese, Junior's is appealing to Kraft Heinz, the food giant that owns Philadelphia. "We're getting on the phone with them. We're talking, we're pleading, we're moving trucks around where we can," Rosen said.
 
Kraft Heinz (KHC) had been seeing demand for cream cheese rise both in restaurants and grocery stores even before the current holiday season, according to the company. Now, "we are maximizing our production to meet the unprecedented demand," the company told CNN Business in a statement, adding that it's shipping 30-35% more cream cheese to restaurants than it did last year. In retail channels, demand for cream cheese popped 18% in 2020 compared to 2019 and has remained at the level, Kraft noted.
So even as it worries about running out of cream cheese, Junior's has been buying more of it than in the past because of greater demand.
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12 hours ago, axeman61 said:

For REAL though; at the rate we're going with these variants and shit, damn near everybody's going to have to get the vaccine at some point. Especially in Hollywood. It's stupid with 3 O's to give up any paper over it.

 

That's if I believe this. I'm half and half. If not for Kyrie Irving, I would think this is 100% made up. But now I kinda believe this is possible.

It has a high chance of being real cause she's been apparently spreading anti vaxx stuff through twitter and SUPPOSEDLY on set

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20 minutes ago, Sonichuman said:

It has a high chance of being real cause she's been apparently spreading anti vaxx stuff through twitter and SUPPOSEDLY on set

The primary reason people don't want this vaccine is because they don't like or trust the people telling/mandating them to get it. Sure you do have people with legit medical concerns, but most are really just "I don't wanna cause you're telling me I gotta" and "I don't trust this system". 

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12 hours ago, HD-Man said:

This girl asking me all these questions about where I work, do I want to settle down and have kids and shit. Baby, I'm just trynna fuck, ain't nun of that other shit finna happen. She used to smash my homeboy, ain't no relationship. Hell, he the one sent me to her 😂

Come on man, be a gentleman. In the words of the immortal Hank Moody: "I can't snort coke off a hooker's ass and not wonder about her hopes and dreams." 😂

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10 minutes ago, OPTIMUS124 said:

The primary reason people don't want this vaccine is because they don't like or trust the people telling/mandating them to get it. Sure you do have people with legit medical concerns, but most are really just "I don't wanna cause you're telling me I gotta" and "I don't trust this system". 

Oh I know.  I actually haven't checked the Herman Cain awards in the past 2 weeks but I wouldn't be surprised if its mostly the same people dying to the virus.

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17 minutes ago, OPTIMUS124 said:

The primary reason people don't want this vaccine is because they don't like or trust the people telling/mandating them to get it. Sure you do have people with legit medical concerns, but most are really just "I don't wanna cause you're telling me I gotta" and "I don't trust this system". 

The people pushing the vaccines are the same people that had greatest hits like "Two weeks to flatten the curve" and "If you get the vaccine, you're protecting the people around you" both of which are untrue. Is it any wonder people don't trust them? Hell, I got the vaccine and I don't trust them because now they're saying you have to get boosters to remain "vaccinated" as if padding pharma pockets is the only way out. Fuck that. Make a vaccine that's an actual vaccine and not a stopgap that I have to re-up every few months and I'll do it. 

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We seriously gonna fault ppl for not trusting the system? I mean, we have decades of reasons NOT to trust the system 

 

I'm not saying the vaccine in particular, because I also got it, but there's definitely precedence to be weary of those who are mandating things, they've shown not to be very trustworthy, especially if you're black in this country 

 

Boggles my mind how ppl all of suddenly trust the same government and big pharma, that have and still do a piss poor job of taking care of its citizens. The government saw ppl dying and suffering last year but only gave them $1200. Big pharma simply is not interested in curing anything, there's no money in that, the money is in continued "treatment" 

 

But hey, personally, I look at ppl funny who don't ATLEAST question things and just go with whatever the majority says due to fear of being ostracized. Honestly you can't even ask a question challenging the vaccine these days without ppl jumping down your throat, it's wild tbh🤷🏾‍♂️

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8 minutes ago, HD-Man said:

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As an outsider of USA, but knowing the history of both what happened inside and outside, i understand the weariness of some people at certain level, since like you said, there are precedents of why to not trust either of them.

 

But what boggles my mind, is that some people have taken all the sibject of vaccination for example as something political.

Even more absurd when you see people saying some years ago that they wouldn't take the vaccine because it was issued by Trumps government, just to turn their leaf now that is Biden, and be like not only ok with the vaccines but start attacking people for not wanting to take it 🤣

 

You have a lot of whackos on twitter that if you just dig a little on their timelines you can see how like the meme are just npc's that can't think for themselves and only go with the flow of their preferred side.

 

I personally, like all my family took the vaccines, specially because we have lost family members due covid, and most of my immediately family would be at risk in case if we got it.

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49 minutes ago, DoctaMario said:

The people pushing the vaccines are the same people that had greatest hits like "Two weeks to flatten the curve" and "If you get the vaccine, you're protecting the people around you" both of which are untrue. Is it any wonder people don't trust them? Hell, I got the vaccine and I don't trust them because now they're saying you have to get boosters to remain "vaccinated" as if padding pharma pockets is the only way out. Fuck that. Make a vaccine that's an actual vaccine and not a stopgap that I have to re-up every few months and I'll do it. 

 

Yes, keep in mind that this was based on a much higher adoption rate. Also if some of those steps were taken as outlined, we'd be further along. . . but people. 

 

Also, I'm with about the vaccination timetable. There does need to a better solution. 

 

38 minutes ago, HD-Man said:

We seriously gonna fault ppl for not trusting the system? I mean, we have decades of reasons NOT to trust the system 

Not faulting, it's a reality. It's become a political thing as you remember how people weren't about it if it was the previous administration but now fine with it. It's not like it was "New Coke" situation because someone else go in office. 

 

38 minutes ago, HD-Man said:

Boggles my mind how ppl all of suddenly trust the same government and big pharma, that have and still do a piss poor job of taking care of its citizens. The government saw ppl dying and suffering last year but only gave them $1200. Big pharma simply is not interested in curing anything, there's no money in that, the money is in continued "treatment" 

 

I don't necessarily disagree with this take, but keep in mind that the finance problem is a separate issue with a different solution.

 

38 minutes ago, HD-Man said:

But hey, personally, I look at ppl funny who don't ATLEAST question things and just go with whatever the majority says due to fear of being ostracized. Honestly you can't even ask a question challenging the vaccine these days without ppl jumping down your throat, it's wild tbh🤷🏾‍♂️

Agreed. You should question it, but you also have to have a good baseline to work with. Folks peddling information that you're gonna get Sen. Armstrong modifications from the jab is insane. My approach with most things is that if I you can't explain a point without the need to aggressively yell, you likely don't have a good handle on it anyway. 

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I'll listen to just about any ones stance on the vaccine if they're not forceful or judge-y with it. But it's rare you find that in-between, logical objective person 

 

It's usually: "You're stupid and selfish if you don't get the shot". Then they proceed to act as if they're better than everyone 

 

Or the: "You sheep, you got the vaccine now the government can track you with the microchip" nut jobs. 

 

And this complaint about ppl making the vaccine political is odd, since the whole pandemic has been political almost from the jump. We opened back up prematurely, not because they cared about us or they genuinely thought it was safe to go back out, but simply because big wigs were losing too much money NOT being open. They put money before ppl. I'm probably wrong, but that seems very political to me 

 

 

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22 minutes ago, HD-Man said:

 

I'll listen to just about any ones stance on the vaccine if they're not forceful or judge-y with it. But it's rare you find that in-between, logical objective person 

 

It's usually: "You're stupid and selfish if you don't get the shot". Then they proceed to act as if they're better than everyone 

 

Or the: "You sheep, you got the vaccine now the government can track you with the microchip" nut jobs. 

 

And this complaint about ppl making the vaccine political is odd, since the whole pandemic has been political almost from the jump. We opened back up prematurely, not because they cared about us or they genuinely thought it was safe to go back out, but simply because big wigs were losing too much money NOT being open. They put money before ppl. I'm probably wrong, but that seems very political to me 

 

 

 

There were probably political elements, but there were also economical.

I can't say for certain, since one i don't live on usa, and well, i don't know what the big wigs were thinking.

 

But believe me when i tell you, that after my country being closed for over 6 months, with people on lockdown, that shit wasn't a real solution either, since while, yes, you are flattening the curve specially important on a "3rd world" country with a lot of unneducated people, having the economy closed only brings another set of problems that can make worse the whole situation, since now people are out of jobs, the goverment has to deal witha pandemic, and people are more willing to do stupid shit if they don't have the means to sustain themselves even less their families.

 

At the end of the day, this is a very complicated subject, and people taking this issue as a way to support their side of the political spectrum is not helping.

 

I wouldn't say that in my country wasn't politicized, but our circumstances were different, since here it was more in line with all of us knew that the motherfuckers in power would take the chance of this crisis to steal money, inflating the prices of the plans and projects to mitigate and help, so they could take money away from the country.

 

Is in big part why this elections were the first time in years where most of the people who could vote went to do it, since they wanted the idiots out.

We historically have been like usa for example, bi party, where to political parties exchange power.

 

This is the 1st time ever that a new political party, formed from all different sides of the political spectrum united to just get those fuckers out.

 

Of course, you see a lot of idiots trying to paint it as if we are heading to socialism and that we will be like the next Venezuela, since there is a lot of missinformation.

Specially because the elected president has a video of where she is praising Chavez, ignoring the historical context behind it, (long story short, Chavez gave political asylum to her husband, and at the time, Venezuela wasn't fucked up), and even if she wanted to do it, the ement is a coallision of people with different leanings, so is not like she will have free reing to do so.

 

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36 minutes ago, HD-Man said:

 

I'll listen to just about any ones stance on the vaccine if they're not forceful or judge-y with it. But it's rare you find that in-between, logical objective person 

 

It's usually: "You're stupid and selfish if you don't get the shot". Then they proceed to act as if they're better than everyone

 

 

Adding to this one, there are some that believe that just because the FDA approves something it's absolutely safe. You know how many FDA approved drugs have been taken off the market? Too many. Just a few examples

 

NeutroSpec
What it is: NeutroSpec is an antibody labeled with a radioactive marker that was used to diagnose appendicitis in patients that show some but not all of the clinical signs of appendicitis.
Why it was taken off the market: While the agent was on the market, 17 patients who received NeutroSpec experienced life-threatening side effects soon after it was injected, including shortness of breath, low blood pressure, and cardiac and pulmonary arrest. Two patients died. About 11,000 patients received NeutroSpec while it was on the market.
Expiration date: Palatin Technologies withdrew NeutroSpec from the U.S. market in 2005.

 

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/information-healthcare-professionals-technetium-99m-tc-fanolesomab-marketed-neutrospec-122005

 

Cylert
What it is: Cylert is a drug used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Why it was taken off the market: The FDA learned of 13 reports of liver failure leading to liver transplant or death. The number of cases reported was small, but patients taking the drug had a liver failure rate of 10-25 times the rate of liver failure in the general population.
Expiration date: Abbott withdrew Cylert from the U.S. market in 2005.
https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/news/20050325/adhd-drug-cylert-discontinued
 
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6 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

The Vaccine and Boosters are free.........

No they aren't. If you aren't paying for them directly, you're paying for them with your tax dollars, and the government is buying these medications at full price which is why these pharmaceutical companies are having record windfall profits.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/business/covid-vaccine-billionaires/index.html

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Pharmaceutical companies may get mad money, but many pharmacies struggled through COVID because many patients weren't going to them during the brunt of the pandemic andany healthcare providers were doing telehealth. 

 

At least here in Murrica, anyone 5 and up insured or not can get the COVID vaccine. 

Try going to many foreign countries and getting it for free , in a probable 5 mile radius, and without waiting a long time.

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So I've got a question maybe @DangerousJ or @Reticently could answer. I have a co-worker who is not getting the covid vaccine. He claims that the BioNtech version of the Pfizer vaccine that we have here in the states is not the same one that was fully approved by the FDA. The approved Pfizer version is called Comirnaty and  isn't available here in the states. The Moderna and Pfizer vaxes we have here are still on Emergency Use Authorization only. 

 

From what I have read on the FDA website, they just rebranded BioNtech, and that it and Comirnaty can be used interchangeably.  But I'm wondering if either of you guys, or anyone else, might be able to provide more insight?

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https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download

 

In a nutshell, chemical formulation is exactly the same, but there is a legal distinction that helps with logistics. 

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The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine that uses PBS buffer and COMIRNATY (COVID-19
Vaccine, mRNA) have the same formulation. The products are legally distinct with certain
differences that do not impact safety or effectiveness.
Accordingly, under this EUA, the PfizerBioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine that uses PBS buffer and COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine,
mRNA) can be used interchangeably as described above, without presenting any safety or
effectiveness concerns.

 

 

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46913

 

pg 15/22 excerpt


 

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Each product must be manufactured, labeled, marketed, distributed, and administered in
accordance with the requirements of the legal regime under which it was approved or authorized.
These requirements may differ in a number of ways. For example, under the EUA, the PfizerBioNTech vaccine must be accompanied by fact sheets for the vaccine administrator and recipient informing them, among other things, of the product’s emergency authorization, known and
anticipated risks and benefits, and the right to decline the vaccine.91

 

Comirnaty need not be accompanied by this information if it is being administered pursuant to the BLA rather than the
EUA; instead, the PHS Act and other FDA regulatory labeling requirements appl.y92

As another example, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may be manufactured only at facilities
identified and agreed upon in Pfizer’s EUA request, must be distributed directly by Pfizer or
through authorized distributors to emergency response stakeholders (as defined in the EUA) as
directed by the U.S. government, and must be administered by vaccination providers (as defined
in the EUA) only to individuals 12 years of age and older in accordance with the uses authorized
by the EUA.
93 These limitations do not apply to Comirnaty vaccines manufactured and
distributed pursuant to the BLA; instead, the PHS Act and FD&C Act requirements apply.
Comirnaty may be manufactured only at facilities identified and approved in the BLA.94

 

 

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1 hour ago, Chadouken said:

have a co-worker who is not getting the covid vaccine. He claims that the BioNtech version of the Pfizer vaccine that we have here in the states is not the same one that was fully approved by the FDA. The approved Pfizer version is called Comirnaty and  isn't available here in the states. The Moderna and Pfizer vaxes we have here are still on Emergency Use Authorization only. 

 

Tell him that big pharma has been scamming him on pain killers too. Instead of buying Tylenol he can get this thing called acetaminophen that's way cheaper.  They just don't want you to know.

 

Then when he puts two and two together let him know he is a fucking massive retard for thinking that the name they gave to the vaccine that got approved suddnely doesn't make it that.

 

CO for CoVid

mirn for MRNA

Ty for the Humanity that was lost when he tried to use his brain.

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1 hour ago, Chadouken said:

So I've got a question maybe @DangerousJ or @Reticently could answer. I have a co-worker who is not getting the covid vaccine. He claims that the BioNtech version of the Pfizer vaccine that we have here in the states is not the same one that was fully approved by the FDA. The approved Pfizer version is called Comirnaty and  isn't available here in the states. The Moderna and Pfizer vaxes we have here are still on Emergency Use Authorization only. 

 

From what I have read on the FDA website, they just rebranded BioNtech, and that it and Comirnaty can be used interchangeably.  But I'm wondering if either of you guys, or anyone else, might be able to provide more insight?

You've probably already seen this, but Comirnaty is just the brand name Pfizer put on it.  The pharma industry loves giving stuff really stupid brand names.

 

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/comirnaty-and-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine

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1 minute ago, Reticently said:

The pharma industry loves giving stuff really stupid brand names.

Excuse me but,

 

5 minutes ago, Sonero said:

CO for CoVid

mirn for MRNA

 

The vaccine was literally named after its parents.  Anybody ever walked up to you and said that you having a first and last names means your named like an asshole?

 

SMH, so disrespectful.

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More reaction to the Jussie situation... I forgot until recently that there's actual footage of him with the "noose" on....and yeah even THAT is hilarious to me... that thin shit looked like shoelaces around his neck--- you can hang someone with that?  C'mon bruh

(*damn, that girl doing the interview is a FINE piece)

...and keep in mind, part of his story to Robin Roberts was also that he supposedly never dropped the sandwich.... while fighting 2 armed dudes who managed to also get this "noose" around his neck....during a polar vortex, extremely cold temperatures at around 2 am.  

*edit---yep the guy brought it up----mentioning how odd it was that after this supposed attack, where some bleach was poured on him, and a noose was on his neck...he STILL had that sandwich. 😆

 

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42 minutes ago, MillionX said:

More reaction to the Jussie situation... I forgot until recently that there's actual footage of him with the "noose" on....and yeah even THAT is hilarious to me... that thin shit looked like shoelaces around his neck--- you can hang someone with that?  C'mon bruh

(*damn, that girl doing the interview is a FINE piece)

...and keep in mind, part of his story to Robin Roberts was also that he supposedly never dropped the sandwich.... while fighting 2 armed dudes who managed to also get this "noose" around his neck....during a polar vortex, extremely cold temperatures at around 2 am.  

*edit---yep the guy brought it up----mentioning how odd it was that after this supposed attack, where some bleach was poured on him, and a noose was on his neck...he STILL had that sandwich. 😆

 

The whole Juicy Smooyay thing is pretty crazy to me, and past the point of hilarity, it's quite disturbing...

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45 minutes ago, MillionX said:

...and keep in mind, part of his story to Robin Roberts was also that he supposedly never dropped the sandwich.... while fighting 2 armed dudes who managed to also get this "noose" around his neck....during a polar vortex, extremely cold temperatures at around 2 am.  

Let's include all the details.

 

During a polar vortex, this guy was out getting a Subway sandwich at 2 am in Chicago, alone as a celebrity, and after fighting off two men who assaulted him using bleach, a noose and general physical violence during said polar vortex, he went to the police station - again during weather that's cold enough to literally freeze balls off of human bodies - to report the incident, with a sandwich in hand.

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1 hour ago, HD-Man said:

Is it me or is gas not gas'ing like it use to? Not only is it more expensive, it seems to burn way faster than it used it, seems like I'm gettin gas every 3-4 days as opposed to once a week 

You might have something wrong with your car if nothing has changed much with your driving. First (and easiest) things to check are your tire pressure, air filter, oil level, and oil quality. Could have be dirty injectors or something else as well. Have you recently put a bike rack or something on your car that would add drag? Or maybe there's substantial extra weight in your car (something heavy in the trunk,  fat passenger, etc)? Could also try getting gas somewhere else that uses a different supplier. 

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heh, nice... so I created the Chinder Chagger character, but the text limit on names is too short of course so I shortened it significantly to "ChindrChag", unfortunately.  

 

It's been a few years now, and I still laugh whenever I remember Maximillian's "chinder chagger" incident.

 

y'know, I was just laughing about this with an old friend ---the all-time funniest thing I ever saw and encountered in a videogame--- the side-mission with the septic tank truck in Saints Row 2....you proceed to "paint the town brown", spraying the shit everywhere...you can even use that shit-juice cannon like a weapon too; the cops pull up trying to stop you and they can get sprayed down too.  Hahah they get sprayed down with the brown.  The npc in the vehicle with ya is crackin jokes too like "...boy this town smells like shit---BAAHHHHHAHAH!"  I kept having to pause this shit to recover from laughing so hard.

 

Edit---too bad this is forever lost to time though... it's a safe bet that the upcoming Saints Row won't even be close to this kind of quality entertainment, seriously.  They'll play it "safe" for sure since the modern era is far too soft to have any kind of extremely gross or "risky" humor.

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41 minutes ago, MillionX said:

y'know, I was just laughing about this with an old friend ---the all-time funniest thing I ever saw and encountered in a videogame--- the side-mission with the septic tank truck in Saints Row 2....you proceed to "paint the town brown", spraying the shit everywhere...you can even use that shit-juice cannon like a weapon too; the cops pull up trying to stop you and they can get sprayed down too.  Hahah they get sprayed down with the brown.  The npc in the vehicle with ya is crackin jokes too like "...boy this town smells like shit---BAAHHHHHAHAH!"  I kept having to pause this shit to recover from laughing so hard.

I have the unsettling feeling that this may soon happen in some part of California.  My guess is either Los Angeles or San Fran.

 

 

In other news, the Laptop is now crashing everytime I switch HDMI inputs.  Not a problem because the new one is already assembled and in testing according to Xidax.com.  I'm guessing it'll be a week or so before it gets here and then I'll dump this one to music service in the backroom.  I didn't want to lose my last win 7 machine, but such is the way of life.

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