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2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

UP Bargains Daily Deal – Wendy's Asiago Ranch Chicken Club Sandwich

It's fuckin' disgusting. I was out picking up some lumber and sheetrock a month or two ago and I had the boy with me after school. He said he was hungry and had to pee (when is he not hungry and have to pee?) and there was a Wendy's on the way back. (I won't even set foot in Ronald McDonalds) So I took him in to take a whizz and get something to eat and I made the mistake of grabbing a crispy chicken sandwich (or a chicken 'burger' as you drongos would call it) for myself since I was gonna have to sit there and watch the kid eat his food anyway. I know their burgers are nasty so I figured maybe the chicken would be edible. Let's just say 2 bites in I really wished that I had waited and got some real food. You know it's gotta be bad when they can't even get it to look appetizing in the pictures. This should hold me for a couple more years til the memory of my bad experience fades, but I'm sure I'll make the same mistake again one day in the future and walk into another FF restaurant thinking maybe this time it won't be so bad. 

So this must be why Nav is eating the menus.

2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

They do look nasty.

I ate at a Wendy's when I was in the States some years ago. Terrible.

Apparently we are getting 10 in Australia soon. So by the law of averages 10 in such a large area means one of them wont be near me. Things are looking up for 2023 already!!

Evil Invaders - Shattering Reflections

 

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1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

So this must be why Nav is eating the menus.

Of course. Who the hell would eat the actual food? Greasy slop from a truck stop outshines this crap, but the analogy stands. Crappy Wendy's burger over shit McD's. I don't want either, but if I have to choose one....

And Motley Crue sucks balls. One notch above Poison.

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23 minutes ago, navybsn said:

And Motley Crue sucks balls. One notch above Poison.

Well yeah, in hindsight we know the full extent of their downward trajectory now, but 40 years ago when they just had theirt first two albums out, ngl I was into it. Poison and Cinderella and Ratt and all those bandwagon jumping bands came later and then the whole 80's glam band thing very quickly became a parody of itself. 

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7 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

ngl I was into it

Live Wire, Piece of your Action, Shout at the Devil, Looks that Kill, Knock em' Dead Kid, 10 Seconds to Love, Home Sweet Home, Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.), Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) are all great hard rock songs imo. Once in a blue moon I don't mind hearing Wild Side or Girls, Girls, Girls. Mick Mars has always been an underrated guitarist. Vince Neil is a pig but had world class pipes and could write some great lyrics at his best. "If you wanna live life on your own terms/ you gotta be willing to crash and burn!" Great line.

54 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

OMG!! Are you suggesting this is not an absolute classic song that showcases utter brilliance in song writing?

That time someone tried to remove his headband

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2 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

So this must be why Nav is eating the menus.

Apparently we are getting 10 in Australia soon. So by the law of averages 10 in such a large area means one of them wont be near me. Things are looking up for 2023 already!!

Evil Invaders - Shattering Reflections

 

Safest bet is their baked potato.

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