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In 1940, Henry Ford predicted "a combination airplane and motorcar is coming." I wonder what he would have thought if he had lived long enough to see flying cars in Hanna-Barbera's animated series The Jetsons.

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Henry Ford’s Vision of a Flying Car Future - Samson Sky

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The Legacy of ‘The Jetsons’ Is about a Lot More than Dreams of Flying Cars

You can credit The Jetsons with creating a durable tech-positive image of the future against which subsequent dystopian vision would be measured. We still have 40 years to build a future that matches the scale and scope of what The Jetsons’ suggested back in 1962. Let’s get moving.
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It's an experimental prototype.
Eventually, it will function reasonably well and just might end up not looking too bad.
I'd be surprised if they bother trying to make it look like a car though.
 
I’m seriously irked by restaurant websites that won’t show you the menu without having to make an order or pretend to make an order.

I saw a new restaurant on the way home, and only now, later at night with some free time, I’m going on their site to view the menu for later. Except when I click on menu, it starts the process of asking if I want delivery or pickup, then proceeds to tell me the location closed at 8 pm. So I can only view the menu during business hours by pretending to order. Got it. So annoying.
 
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I’m seriously irked by restaurant websites that won’t show you the menu without having to make an order or pretend to make an order.

I saw a new restaurant on the way home, and only now, later at night with some free time, I’m going on their site to view the menu for later. Except when I click on menu, it starts the process of asking if I want delivery or pickup, then proceeds to tell me the location closed at 8 pm. So I can only view the menu during business hours by pretending to order. Got it. So annoying.
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In a similar vein, we've found places that we order take-out from, where the online menu is provided by Doordash. In one case, the only menu available online is from Doordash. It's a nice little sushi/ramen place, but the last time we ordered for pickup, a small order was nearly $10 more than the prices shown on the wall of the restaurant. It's not that I don't want to pay for delivery, it's that I'm not getting delivery. We're just ordering to pick-up ourselves.
 
The place order to see the menu thing makes me lose my appetite. Such a stupid way to advertise your business.

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a small order was nearly $10 more than the prices shown on the wall of the restaurant.
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I was surprised when I noticed just how expensive ordering in was. I compared the door dash menu prices for a few restaurants against the in-store prices. I found that things like French fries would be at least $1 more, burgers $4 more, and entree $5 & up compared to dining in. Then there is the service fee, the delivery fee, and tip.

A meal that would cost $45 dine-in, would easily be $75 before tip. It’s pretty crazy.
 
Aaron said:
I’m seriously irked by restaurant websites that won’t show you the menu without having to make an order or pretend to make an order.

I saw a new restaurant on the way home, and only now, later at night with some free time, I’m going on their site to view the menu for later. Except when I click on menu, it starts the process of asking if I want delivery or pickup, then proceeds to tell me the location closed at 8 pm. So I can only view the menu during business hours by pretending to order. Got it. So annoying.
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Weird, I check out quite a few restaurant menus and haven't experience that yet. If that becomes a new thing, I doubt I will be dining there.

Plus, there are certain foods I don’t like to eat.
 
Is it just me, or is this the stupidest, most unnecessary thing ever?

Feud over the world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade​

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Feud over the world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade

Does Rhode Island really have the shortest Saint Patrick’s Day parade in the world? Organizers in Little Compton say so, but another community in Arkansas says they are the rightful owners of the title. WJAR’s Mike Cerullo broke out the measuring wheel to find out.
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Who were the good guys in the whole England Ireland thing in the '80s?

I'm pretty sure Ireland did a bunch of Guerrilla type shit which usually isn't cool but I'm not sure what they were mad about. If I had to guess, I know Ireland is very Catholic so I'm betting it had something to do with that.

It was the '80s. It was modern times. Why couldn't they just be civil I wonder?
 
JHDK said:
Who were the good guys in the whole England Ireland thing in the '80s?

I'm pretty sure Ireland did a bunch of Guerrilla type shit which usually isn't cool but I'm not sure what they were mad about. If I had to guess, I know Ireland is very Catholic so I'm betting it had something to do with that.

It was the '80s. It was modern times. Why couldn't they just be civil I wonder?
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Ireland at one point was 100% occupied by the very non-Catholic English. They won their independence except for the northern tip which has more non-Catholics which is still under British rule. Some Catholics to the south (the IRA) think that all Ireland should be independent and Catholic. The English and the some (presumably the majority) of the people in the north do not.

Everything you need to know about the conflict right here:
 
I'm not sure how 2 American towns fighting about who has a shorter parade turned into a discussion of the war in Ireland.
 
And do these amadáns and pleidhces – "morons," for those of you who don't speak Irish – know that the patron saint of Ireland is not Irish? Saint Patrick was born Maewyn Succat around 385 in Scotland. At age 16, he was captured by pirates who raided his family's estate and was sold into slavery in Ireland. After six years as a sheep herder*, he escaped and returned to his family. He became a cleric and returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary.

*I would have said "shepherd" but some of you might have thought he worked as a dog.
 
Okay so I did some very tertiary research and I found out that Northern Ireland became a thing in 1921 so what the fuck were they still bitching about in the '80s? Apparently they wanted Northern Ireland to go back to just being part of regular Ireland and they thought the best way to do that was through terrorism??

I'm getting all of this through asking Gemini two questions by the way, so I am ill-informed.

But right now I'm thinking the Irish were the bad guys......

Yet I mentioned that to my aunt once and she totally shot me down and said the British were the bad guys but I think she's biased because my mom's side of the family has Irish in them but I don't really. If I'm anything other than American, I'm a weird named wooden shoe person.
 
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There's a song for that. Short Dick Man is by 20 Fingers, a Chicago dance trio led by Sandra Gillette. They also recorded a "clean" version, Short Short Man, which reached #14 on the Hot 100 in January 1995. Here is the original version:

 
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