^Sweet! So what is a St. Louis Bacon Burger, exactly?
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Provel & Riplets on it, probablysymphonicpoet wrote: ↑May 28, 2021^Sweet! So what is a St. Louis Bacon Burger, exactly?
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Confused Icelander frantically googles St. Louis, serves provel drizzled on a brown shoe.symphonicpoet wrote: ↑May 28, 2021^Sweet! So what is a St. Louis Bacon Burger, exactly?
Washington Post:
Opinions | When it comes to knowing U.S. history, we should all be ‘woke’
Yes, you can be a patriot while acknowledging our nation's historical horrors.
Opinion by Michael Gerson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... l-be-woke/
Opinions | When it comes to knowing U.S. history, we should all be ‘woke’
Yes, you can be a patriot while acknowledging our nation's historical horrors.
Opinion by Michael Gerson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... l-be-woke/
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My guess is some Icelandic marketing exec pointed at a city in the middle of the US for the connotation of "heartland American farms".symphonicpoet wrote: ↑May 28, 2021^Sweet! So what is a St. Louis Bacon Burger, exactly?
^ I think there was a STL themed marketing campaign when the WOW flights started between here and Iceland. The flights are gone but I guess a few ads are still floating around over there.
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^That would actually be kind of cool. 
Also StLGasm, thank you for the link. Not a bad article. Might even have to look into the book to which it refers.
Also StLGasm, thank you for the link. Not a bad article. Might even have to look into the book to which it refers.
I'm not familiar with Ellie Kemper, but apparently her past "involvement" with the Veiled Prophet Ball is causing some folks to freak out:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 288581001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 288581001/
^ leave it to Twitter to take a 90s debutant ball and turn into a KKK rally...
The best one I saw was a tweet that said Ellie will face more consequences for NOT being part of the KKK than Ralph Northam (the Democratic governor of Virginia). He may or may not have been in a yearbook photo as a klansmen or another man in blackface.
The best one I saw was a tweet that said Ellie will face more consequences for NOT being part of the KKK than Ralph Northam (the Democratic governor of Virginia). He may or may not have been in a yearbook photo as a klansmen or another man in blackface.
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^My friend Ali called me and quizzed me about it tonight. I told him it was basically fancy rich people being rich and fancy and that historically they have no love of labor unions but they're not the clan. Just privileged rich people of the sort who put their names on buildings to show how good they are. (Not that I wouldn't if I could, mind you. And I've gladly accepted fancy rich people money and put their names on things. So . . . Mr. Kettle, allow me to introduce myself. Call me Pot.)
Looks like the backlash-to-thebacklash is starting today with most people recognizing that while institutions with racist origins should be interrogated, attacking Ellie in this way is kinda BS.
And for those of you not on twitter or otherwise immerse in The Internet, this story BLEW UP over the last 48 hours.
And for those of you not on twitter or otherwise immerse in The Internet, this story BLEW UP over the last 48 hours.
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Also some traction on the internet lately regarding the Alton PD officers that were caught on camera straight up ransacking a home during a search warrant execution.
Here's a rather lengthy, well-balanced article on St. Louis, crime, and Mayor Jones from USA Today:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tishaura-jon ... 44383.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tishaura-jon ... 44383.html
Showed up on my twitter, this tweet by KMOV's Paige Hulsey lead to an apparent trend "Mile 420"....
^ It 100% is…can’t wait to see it lampooned across the country haha.
Look at that ratio haha
Look at that ratio haha
I think I'd be more concerned with the stage lighting over the bed...chriss752 wrote: ↑Jun 24, 2021Showed up on my twitter, this tweet by KMOV's Paige Hulsey lead to an apparent trend "Mile 420"....
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To be fair, this is standard local news fear mongering. John Oliver frequently does an entertaining round up of local news fear mongering at its worst as a part of is "and now this..." seriessc4mayor wrote: ↑Jun 24, 2021^ It 100% is…can’t wait to see it lampooned across the country haha.
Look at that ratio haha
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She’s been doubling down on Twitter, responding to many comments with snarky responses rather than just acknowledging the concept was flawed fear mongering using pot stereotypes as a stage for a segment focusing on fentanyl laced pills. Mainly ending each of her replies with “thanks for not watching the segment”.
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Bravo! That's some seriously expensive professional lighting.
In fact, after taking a closer look, I bet each of y'all a crisp $1 that this is not a "normal teen's bedroom"...
This looks like an empty office building made to look like a teen's bedroom. Note the drop ceiling, the window framing, and the blocks of carpet that does not include the little white rug under the front of the bed. There's that weird air vent on that ridiculous outcropping on the left side. Industrial thermostat behind it; who has their thermostat in their child's room? No one. There's bra and underwear on the floor - who would share a picture of their teen child's bra like that? Looks like she shops at VS, too. There's Red Bull and soda (?) cans on the floor. The tie dye tapestry is not only generic but attached to the wall with painter's tape so it doesn't leave a permanent mark! That mini trash can next to the head of the bed? That's not for sneezy Kleenex, folks. That almost empty generic office bookshelf, but there is air freshener on it. That's a hiking backpack, not a school backpack. Shower shoes. Cheap bedside tables that are both white but are not a set, one topped with soda and water bottles (and for some reason a de-linting roller), the other topped with soda cans and lotion. Pillows don't match, cheap bed sheets. And, there's no wall opposite the bed, unless this photo was taken flat against it with a non-distorting 12mm wide camera lens...
So, yeah, there's all the makings of people recreating a "normal teen's bedroom" inside a formerly Class B or C office setting, with industrial lighting framed in front of the bed. Something tells me that this isn't the bedroom of a normal teen. Maybe one who has a stage name and an unhealthy relationship with her "step-daddy"...
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a porn set.
Seriously, that's a GDMF porn set!
Way to go, Paige Hulsey at KMOX!
But, yeah, 420 = pot. Oooooohhhhh..... Breaking news there, folks.
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One story and an aside. First, we made the New York Times: Where Jobless Benefits Were Cut, Jobs Are Still Hard to Find. The title is off. It should probably be "workers are still hard to find." It's not really a story about St. Louis per se, but we did serve as their primary example. Second, Missouri made Colbert's monologue in spades. Branson in particular was the Butt of many jokes. Which seems . . . apt. The Branson riff starts at 2:18. Jon Batiste even got in on it. (I guess people with good musical taste don't like Branson. Who'd have thunk it?)
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Branson seems like an extremely Boomer-oriented attraction, it's hard for me to imagine anyone caring about it in thirty years.