Tell me it's Blue Colony, because that's also one of my favorites. Packed at all times, but the food is perfect for a road trip break.
Got it in one!
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Ichthypresbyter commented on Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats casualarchivist.substack.... · Posted by u/NaOH
Ichthypresbyter commented on Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats casualarchivist.substack.... · Posted by u/NaOH
They certainly do, however, there is just a menacing progression of these chains taking over. My parents home town in the UK used to be devoid of chains but now there is KFC, Subway, McDonalds, Dominos, Starbucks and some UK specific chains such as Greggs (sticky buns, sandwiches) and Costa (coffee).
Due to the decline of the High Street, there are always independent cafes, sandwich shops and coffee shops that come and go. These take advantage of the spots that used to be where decent shops that used to be. However, few of them have enough customers to last more than a year or two.
On the surface there is more choice than ever. However, the best bakery in town closed down as they couldn't balance the books any more. There also used to be several fish and chips shops and they went too, although it has to be said that there are no longer any fish in British waters, so that is no surprise.
Retail is always in flux, however, the place is turning into a veritable 'food desert' with a choice between junk food slop and pretentious gentrified expense, with no middle ground.
America is different because you do get places in the sparsely populated West where passing trade will support a diner, gas station and general store but not a gaggle of franchised chains. If the interstate comes to town though, you know that will change.
My favorite diner is just off an Interstate exit in Connecticut. I'm pretty sure it opened after the Interstate highway was built.
Whenever I'm in there, it seems busy. Part of the USP is that it's open 24/7 (something increasingly rare)...
Ichthypresbyter commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright
The bad guys are driving their train when a cop train shows up in the mirrors behind their train.
Cop walks up to the window and asks for their license and registration please. Another shootout occurs followed by a multi-track multi-train police chase, but everyone needs to stay on their respective train tracks.
Ichthypresbyter commented on Honesty Boxes in Scotland (2024) awayfromtheordinary.com/2... · Posted by u/NaOH
Not quite honesty boxes, but Bristol has a good culture of "tat".
It used to be quite common to see usable household goods left outside a house for others to take.
As opposed to the story about the person who leaves their unwanted furniture outside with a sign reading "Free- Please Take". It sits there undisturbed for a week.
Then they replace the sign with one that reads "$10- put cash in letterbox"
Within an hour, the furniture is gone, though of course there's no cash!
>Why don’t all four tires on a car blow out at the same time?
They do if you drive over a stinger (or perhaps a sufficiently large number of nails or other sharp objects).
Ichthypresbyter commented on Why Koreans ask what year you were born bryanhogan.com/blog/korea... · Posted by u/bryanhogan
Are you certain that Brother Mike wasn't a monk as well, so in a religious context "Brother Mike" was his only proper name?
AIUI a Catholic monk who is also an ordained priest is addressed as Father not Brother (certainly this is true of the Dominicans I've met).
I think this is also true for Orthodox monks.
I'm not sure if there's a Christian denomination that has pastors who aren't priests, and also has monks. So this sounds to me more like a situation where all fellow members of the church are addressed as Brother/Sister.
I was just watching something the other day about how jet engines have gotten more efficient and powerful over the last 50 years where commercial airliners really only need 2 engines. All 2 engine aircraft also have to be able to operate on 1 engine as well if there is a failure.
One has to wonder if this was a bird strike incident on both engines that maybe having 4 engines would have allowed the plane to circle back around.
Why would a flock of birds large enough to be ingested by both engines of a two-engined plane not also be large enough to be ingested by all four engines of a four-engined plane?
Ichthypresbyter commented on Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire acoup.blog/2025/05/02/col... · Posted by u/StefanBatory
Soup can? That's a bit boring; why not make that, say, an apple, oh and also balance it on the head of the archer's child? Much better!
Of course William Tell was a crossbowman so could hold his bow at full draw for as long as he liked.
Ichthypresbyter commented on Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Tomte
When designing, the standard practice is to use Lorem Ipsum - sort of mangled Latin that works like normal text but is very recognisable. This backfired once when I did a website for the Jesuits - the feedback they gave was that the design looks good but they were all baffled by the text and could I do something about it please.
I’d not considered that they might be the only client where everyone was fluent in Latin.
Reminds me of the Catholic friend who once told me that he had done IT support for every Catholic religious order with a presence in the city where he lived, except two.
The Carthusians didn't use computers, and the Jesuits didn't need his help.