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Frazzled wrote:

dogma wrote:

Ahtman wrote:What the hell is a WAWA?

It's like 7/11 mixed with Subway and Dunkn' Donuts.

Like to the level of a BUckeys or are we talking all in full service truck stop?

[INSERT GAY JOKE HERE]

Auxellion wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Im more confused, Who gets a sandwich from a gas station. Those things are food poisoning waiting to happen.
But its just another thing news does, Fox Does it, MSNBC does it, CNN does it, Hell everyone does it,

You obviously do not live near a Wawa. They are by far the cleanest/most organized convenience store I've ever been to. PA's Sheets, AM/PMs, 7'11s, are all terrible in comparison. Maybe 15% of the Wawas in South Jersey have gas stations. Its not like a Hess or a Sheets... whicha re horrifying and dirty places.

Yeah, I'm not from the region originally, so I'm not talking up Wawa out of loyalty. They just honestly blow most other convenience stores out of the water.

Incidentally, a grad school classmate of mine worked at their corporate offices designing the interiors of their stores.

grayshadow87 wrote:I may not be the biggest fan of Mittens, but that was some sleazy reporting and commentary on the part of Andrea Mitchell.

It's even better than she's the wife of Alan Greenspan.

I don't get how this is meant to be misleading. Romney tried to make noise about the same old Republican talking point that government should be smaller and more efficient. To make his point he used an example about being amazed about technology that for anyone living a normal life is stuff that's been around 3 or 4 years, making him sound like the disconnected, very rich man that he is.

It's not much of story, and it shouldn't be the kind of thing that influences voters, but to pretend the original journalist was being disingenuous in focussing in on the relevant part of the quote, and excluding the same old Republican talking point we've all heard 300 times before is hardly disingenuous.

I've never even heard of ordering food from the pump. I must be a rich & disconnected.

Here in the midwest the most you can order at the pump is a carwash.

Albatross wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

dogma wrote:

Ahtman wrote:What the hell is a WAWA?

It's like 7/11 mixed with Subway and Dunkn' Donuts.

Like to the level of a BUckeys or are we talking all in full service truck stop?

[INSERT GAY JOKE HERE]

Cleanest glory holes in the business!

sebster wrote:To make his point he used an example about being amazed about technology that for anyone living a normal life is stuff that's been around 3 or 4 years, making him sound like the disconnected, very rich man that he is.

Lolwhut. Someone here appears disconnected, but it's not Mitt.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I've never even heard of ordering food from the pump. I must be a rich & disconnected.

Pressing a button at the pump has you amazed? Like, my God what amazing stuff these capitalists have developed this time amazed?

You must truly live in a world of perpetual wonder.

sebster wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I've never even heard of ordering food from the pump. I must be a rich & disconnected.

Pressing a button at the pump has you amazed? Like, my God what amazing stuff these capitalists have developed this time amazed?

You must truly live in a world of perpetual wonder.

Wait wait wait wait. Are you telling me it is possible to speak to another person without being in the same room as them?

sebster wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I've never even heard of ordering food from the pump. I must be a rich & disconnected.

Pressing a button at the pump has you amazed? Like, my God what amazing stuff these capitalists have developed this time amazed?

You must truly live in a world of perpetual wonder.

I think the real issue here is Mitt's reckless use of the word amazing to describe things that really aren’t.

Personally I think a gas-pump sandwich ordering device is "kinda neat" at best.

Ahtman wrote:

sebster wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I've never even heard of ordering food from the pump. I must be a rich & disconnected.

Pressing a button at the pump has you amazed? Like, my God what amazing stuff these capitalists have developed this time amazed?

You must truly live in a world of perpetual wonder.

Wait wait wait wait. Are you telling me it is possible to speak to another person without being in the same room as them?

How did those tiny people get in such a thin box?!?

sebster wrote:
Pressing a button at the pump has you amazed? Like, my God what amazing stuff these capitalists have developed this time amazed?

You must truly live in a world of perpetual wonder.

To be fair, most gas stations in the states don't have touch screen systems, it is unusual in that sense. The place I bought gas most often still uses physical buttons.

Either way, I'm wondering how we're going to bring "competition" (quotes for buzz word) to the federal government. What is it going to compete against? The government of Canada? Is Mitt saying he wants to declare war on Canada?

I, for one, think he is. Americas hat will fall.

I think the real blunder was the declaration that Romney is in favour of everyone losing their jobs, just to be replaced with machines so that the private sector can be mor "competitive".

If the economy (something that the office of the president cannot control or fix anyway) is the most important issue in your election this year, then this remark is just brutal.

Romney had gone on to say: "It's amazing -- people in the private sector learn how to compete. It's time to bring some competition to the federal government and to get it smaller and get it to respond to the customers -- which are you."

Yeah, that's definitely a much more major flop of a statement.

A complete lack of understanding of both economics and government....

Ahtman wrote:Wait wait wait wait. Are you telling me it is possible to speak to another person without being in the same room as them?

"I went into this thing called a phone booth today, you ever been in there? ... You press a little touchtone keypad, you touch this, touch this, and then there's someone on the other end talking to you. It's amazing.”


Wait a minute, though, that wouldn't be fair. That makes Romney look out of touch, so we better put the full quote;

"I went into this thing called a phone booth today, you ever been in there? ... You press a little touchtone keypad, you touch this, touch this, and then there's someone on the other end talking to you. It's amazing. It's amazing -- people in the private sector learn how to compete. It's time to bring some competition to the federal government and to get it smaller and get it to respond to the customers -- which are you."

Now that looks much less ridiculous.



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Ma55ter_fett wrote:I think the real issue here is Mitt's reckless use of the word amazing to describe things that really aren’t.

Personally I think a gas-pump sandwich ordering device is "kinda neat" at best.

Exactly, that's where the 'out of touch' feeling comes from. He is far more amazed than he should be at stuff that's basically passe, if you spend any time buying stuff in regular people stores. To then add the same old empty Republican rhetoric onto the end of it kind of shows why Romney is probably a lot less likely to win than most pundits have predicted - like Kerry in 08 the guy has a fair few advantages in running against an incumbent, but like Kerry in 08 he's a pretty poor campaigner.


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dogma wrote:To be fair, most gas stations in the states don't have touch screen systems, it is unusual in that sense. The place I bought gas most often still uses physical buttons.

Sure, I don't think I've seen one with a touch screen, but that's just an input device, and not really anything to flip out about anymore, when most of our phones have them.

The novel thing is in having a device to do more than

Either way, I'm wondering how we're going to bring "competition" (quotes for buzz word) to the federal government. What is it going to compete against? The government of Canada? Is Mitt saying he wants to declare war on Canada?

It's almost as if he fails to understand the nature of government, but wants to run the biggest government in the world anyway.

Still, Reagan and the two Bush presidents made all the same noises about government and how it's too big, and they managed to make government so much leaner and more efficient.

sebster wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I've never even heard of ordering food from the pump. I must be a rich & disconnected.

Pressing a button at the pump has you amazed? Like, my God what amazing stuff these capitalists have developed this time amazed?

You must truly live in a world of perpetual wonder.

Ouch, my lips hurt from all those words being forced into my mouth. How so very typical of you, Seb.

Ahtman wrote:

sebster wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I've never even heard of ordering food from the pump. I must be a rich & disconnected.

Pressing a button at the pump has you amazed? Like, my God what amazing stuff these capitalists have developed this time amazed?

You must truly live in a world of perpetual wonder.

Wait wait wait wait. Are you telling me it is possible to speak to another person without being in the same room as them?

Not in the Frazzled household. Except for GC we're all half deaf from percussions of various sort.
Yes I have texted the kids from downstairs...

azazel the cat wrote:I think the real blunder was the declaration that Romney is in favour of everyone losing their jobs, just to be replaced with machines so that the private sector can be mor "competitive".

If the economy (something that the office of the president cannot control or fix anyway) is the most important issue in your election this year, then this remark is just brutal.

Yeah, Romney completely missed the subtext of what he was saying.

Fortunately for him, so will most voters.

Mitt Romney is really John Candy.

Wait until you guys get a look at moving picture technology. Between that, horseless carriages and teleophonoscopery, we're truly living in an age of wonders.

dogma wrote:Mitt Romney is really John Candy.

You brought a tear to my eye.

What the hell is the big deal?

I've read the first quote 5 times and I have no idea what everybody is getting their panties in a twist about.

Yes!