Totally random thread

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

This video could go on so many threads based on the subject matter/s and who is in it.

I don't expect anyone on here to know who Steve Albini was but to many he was legend. May he RIP.

https://twitter.com/TheWienerCircle/sta ... 4201136473


Albini
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/entertai ... index.html

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Can't find the Game Stop thread. Bad news, Good news.
I feel it's pathetic news that shows how easy it is to manipulate "the market".

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/13/gamesto ... rally.html


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gamestop ... 38970.html

[jhawks99]

Power outage here. No storms or wind. ETA is about 2 hours.

[Shirley]

Power outage here. No storms or wind. ETA is about 2 hours.

Karma

[jhawks99]

What I do?

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Power outage here. No storms or wind. ETA is about 2 hours.

Power back or still out?

Look at Gutter doing 30 seconds of research in the free 5 minutes he has between job assignments.

Customers Impacted:2,541
Start:May 14 12:30 p.m.
Estimated Restoration:May 14 2:45 p.m.
Outage Status:Crews are in the area working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible. Please continue to check back for estimated restoration time updates. Thank you for your patience.
Location(s) Impacted:Woodbury

[Shirley]

Power outage here. No storms or wind. ETA is about 2 hours.

Power back or still out?

Look at Gutter doing 30 seconds of research in the free 5 minutes he has between job assignments.

Customers Impacted:2,541
Start:May 14 12:30 p.m.
Estimated Restoration:May 14 2:45 p.m.
Outage Status:Crews are in the area working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible. Please continue to check back for estimated restoration time updates. Thank you for your patience.
Location(s) Impacted:Woodbury

Gutter, you're something.

Hope your power is back on, and you've learned your lesson, 99.

Full disclosure: For two of the ten years I worked for an electric power utility in Wichita, I worked nights and weekends as a customer service rep taking calls from customers about their bills and outages. It was a great job for a college student to study between calls, unless there was a large outage and then it became chaotic and impossible to get any studying done.

[jhawks99]

We called to check on it. Power just now got restored. They missed their eta

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

We called to check on it. Power just now got restored. They missed their eta

The lyrical Jesse James (99) when the power went back on......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6DO_7px1I

[Back2Lawrence]

Glad power got restored in a reasonable, albeit later than expected timeframe. Otherwise things might have gotten hectic

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Cookies.
Some taste worse than dog shit. Some taste so good people become borderline orgasmic when they eat them.
Most fall in-between.
I'm eating a cookie right now that I would rate a 3.25 on a scale of 1-10. Ok, it is what it is by why make a cookie that would rate a 3.25 across the planet when you can make a cookie for the same cost that would rate a 7.75 across the planet? I just don't get it.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Today's edition of never a dull moment.
Forgetting the flaming gay guy (who was more than a little "off") on Addison Street who told me not to eat his food (small wtf?) and that I am a rapist and he knows I want to rape him (HUGE WTF?), this was also disturbing entertainment. Bottom line, what's not normal is the norm in the world of Gutter.

Dude crashed his JetSki/WaveRunner. Chicago Police and Fire Department showed up and he was pissed.
Can't see him in the pics. This was the aftermath.

[KUTradition]

you’ve never struck me as putting off the rapist vibe, gutter

[Shirley]

you’ve never struck me as putting off the rapist vibe, gutter

Neither did Jeffrey Dahmer.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

you’ve never struck me as putting off the rapist vibe, gutter

Neither did Jeffrey Dahmer.

Trad - Thank you. I think.
Dude/dudette was VERY upset that I had put down my phone and bottle of water on top of a newspaper machine and apparently it was too close to his/her/its cup of jizz juice (or whatever was in the cup that I couldn't identify) and his/her/its crumpled up dollar bill (which to him/her/it constituted being "my food"?) and for some crazy unknown reason that made him/her/it think I wanted to take and eat his/her/its "food".
From there it went on to accusing me of being a rapist that wanted to rape him/her/it. Not sure where that came from but out of the 40,000 or so people I saw yesterday, if I were to want to rape any of those people, he/she/it would have been about my 39,998th choice.

Shirley - You didn't know Dahmer, did you? He gave off some vibes. Rapist vibes? Maybe not but I wouldn't have doubted anything about him in regards to him being someone you wouldn't want to hang out with.
I wouldn't be at all shocked if he and I had crossed paths at some point.
Just as I wouldn't be shocked if I crossed paths with Andrew Cunanan.

[TDub]

"and I admit, my mind is kinda sick, but now I'm like J. Dahmer, and I'm chewing up the evidence" ~ Poet BLH "Siccmade"

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Yesterday's edition of never a dull moment.
Forgetting the takeover of a part of the beach near me by the usual suspects, we had this around 3:00pm a block away from one of the busiest and one of top tourist areas of Chicago. The "good" area.
Check out the woman crossing the street. Moral of the story, you should bring a gun to a knife fight?

https://twitter.com/CPD1617Scanner/stat ... 8796553667

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

At first I heard a bunch of gibberish.
Then I read the choices.

https://twitter.com/interesting_aIl/sta ... 1850394035

[ousdahl]

So Red Lobster is considering bankruptcy.

Apparently reported an $11 million quarterly loss after they tried a $20 all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion

Sorry to hear that, but not surprised. Thankfully, due to already declining sales even back then, Darden, the co. that owns Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, Capital Grille, Yard House, Eddie V's, Ruth's Chris Steak House, Bahama Breeze, et al restaurant chains, had the foresight to spin off Red Lobster back in 2014. A lawyer I once slept with had much to do with the multi-billion dollar deal.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/ ... bankruptcy

so its corporate owners bought the company, sold the land the restaurants were on, then leased the land back to the restaurants at above-market rental rates.

and here I thought it was cuz the ocean called and they were running out of shrimp.

[DeletedUser]

So Red Lobster is considering bankruptcy.

Apparently reported an $11 million quarterly loss after they tried a $20 all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion

Sorry to hear that, but not surprised. Thankfully, due to already declining sales even back then, Darden, the co. that owns Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, Capital Grille, Yard House, Eddie V's, Ruth's Chris Steak House, Bahama Breeze, et al restaurant chains, had the foresight to spin off Red Lobster back in 2014. A lawyer I once slept with had much to do with the multi-billion dollar deal.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/ ... bankruptcy

so its corporate owners bought the company, sold the land the restaurants were on, then leased the land back to the restaurants at above-market rental rates.

and here I thought it was cuz the ocean called and they were running out of shrimp.

Do you have a lot of experience with land leases to restaurants?

I do.

It's fairly common for chain restaurants. Many lease the land for 25+ years. During this time the building is theirs. They can demolish the building if they want before the end of their lease term. Or, what usually happens is (if they leave) the building then transfers over to the owner of the land. Sounds great for the land owner, except these buildings don't have a long useful life. Often times, by the end of the lease, the buildings are almost fully depreciated in value and the underlying land value is pretty close to the value of the improvements. Especially considering to attract new tenants significant updates/modifications to the building would be required.

Triple net leases and annual rent increases are common in the commercial RE industry.


I am not defending any specific entity here, I can't determine enough from that article. But the biggest problem is that Red Lobster sucks and enough people don't eat there to sustain all the locations across the country.


But your summary up there "bought the company, sold the land, then leased it back above market" doesn't make sense to me. If you sell the land, you don't own it anymore to lease it. So not sure where you're coming up with that.


Sounds like they knew the company was failing and going to go bankrupt, so they bought a lot of shrimp from this other company to boost that company. That's what I take from it. Is that shady? Probably, if there was some common ownership.

I'd need a lot more info to determine if there were above market lease rates. Some are a base amount (NNN) and then a % of sales monthly or annually.