The Off Topic Topic

[MadBurgerMaker]

BOOMER SOONER!

I can't believe my cousin is going to go there for college. 

[Ideologue]

I am agnostic as to whether it actually exists.  Have you ever seen it?  Met someone from Oklahoma?  Even been there?  Didn't think so.

I drove through it once. Very windy and I think it rained.

BTW, Garth Brooks is from Oklahoma.

I like old Garth Brooks.  Remember Chris Gaines?  WTF.  Good times.

[alfred russel]

Texans see Oklahomans in roughly the same way as the ancient Chinese saw the Mongols.

[Eddie Teach]

Texans see Oklahomans in roughly the same way as the ancient Chinese saw the Mongols.

Mongols and Chinese are distinctively different to outsiders.

[CountDeMoney]

[Valmy]

Texans see Oklahomans in roughly the same way as the ancient Chinese saw the Mongols.

Mongols and Chinese are distinctively different to outsiders.

Pretty sure the average Georgian could not more tell them apart than they could Okies and Texans.

[FunkMonk]

Hitler was from Oklahoma.

[jimmy olsen]

Saw this being passed around on Facebook. Anyone eaten a bigmac in Australia?  Is it true?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10427316_865038603530622_5425346032367475719_n.jpg?oh=140aed9432d999cf20c190059e6a6edf&oe=54DB9DD8&__gda__=1427539552_b74af9f0e7c13092cf5e800194edc31f

[Grey Fox]

Saw this being passed around on Facebook. Anyone eaten a bigmac in Australia?  Is it true?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10427316_865038603530622_5425346032367475719_n.jpg?oh=140aed9432d999cf20c190059e6a6edf&oe=54DB9DD8&__gda__=1427539552_b74af9f0e7c13092cf5e800194edc31f

It's true. According to the Economist's Big Mac Index a big mac is 3.40 euros in Austria. That's about 4.50$

[Brazen]

Saw this being passed around on Facebook. Anyone eaten a bigmac in Australia?  Is it true?

It's true. According to the Economist's Big Mac Index a big mac is 3.40 euros in Austria. That's about 4.50$

Here minimum wage for over 21s is £6.50 ($10.19) and a Big Mac is £2.59 ($4.06). Interesting

[Grey Fox]

McD USA has had 3 quarters of losses, it now thinks it's an high end place. That might explains the BM prices.


My company shareholder value is being threaten so they will.....reinvest in the company to favor organic growth instead of acquisition.

[Ideologue]

And the color scheme of the Australian McDonald's favors red.  Coincidence?

[Admiral Yi]

I thought in a previous discussion it had been mentioned that a BM costs something like 40% more in OZ than the US. 

Also, that US price seems high for a non-combo BM.

[derspiess]

I thought in a previous discussion it had been mentioned that a BM costs something like 40% more in OZ than the US. 

Also, that US price seems high for a non-combo BM.

Pretty sure they're under $4 here.

[CountDeMoney]

You don't fuck with another man's breakfast sausage.  But if they do, make sure you get the right guy.

A Baltimore man with two prior convictions for attempted murder was sentenced to a mandatory 25 years in prison without parole for throwing a pot of boiling water on his roommate at a halfway house.

Donte Frye, 39, was convicted by a jury in June on charges of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment related to the attack April 11, 2013.

Prosecutors had alleged that Frye, who they said mistakenly believed his roommate had eaten his breakfast sausage, lured the victim to the top of the basement stairs of the home, then tossed a pot of boiling water at him. The victim fell down the stairs and struck his head on a door, and prosecutors said he endured "months" of disfigurement.

Frye's attorney, Stephen Beatty, said in an interview the two men got into a "mutual affray" and prosecutors had overstated the victim's injuries, which he said were "functionally and cosmetically insignificant," citing hospital records. He said he didn't call Frye as a witness because prosecutors would have been able to bring up his criminal record, which otherwise was inadmissible.

At sentencing Monday, Assistant State's Attorney Katie Dorian told Judge Sylvester Cox that Frye did not show remorse for the attack and played recorded jail calls in which Frye can be heard saying boiling water "ain't an actual weapon" and played down the victim's injuries.

Beatty said the calls were taken out of context because Frye was talking about the charges against him.

Dorian said Frye had a history of being a particularly bad roommate — she said he had twice stabbed other roommates; one stabbing led to an attempted-murder conviction in 2004. Frye received eight years in prison for that conviction, records show.

Beatty said he plans to appeal.