*stays up til 2 in the morning and then wakes up at 11*
What the fuck how did I sleep in so late?!?!?!?
whoa canada
someone needs to turn down that sass level
Two things to know about Canada!
- We are smart enough to know hot things should be hot.
- We are sorry if you don’t
fun story about the reason they do that (at least in America)
once this lady spilled her McDonald’s coffee on herself and ended up getting like 3rd degree burns and since there was no warning on the cup she was able to claim she didn’t know it would be hot (or at least that hot) and won a lawsuit against McDonald’s for $1 million
That’s what the media smear campaign against her would have you believe, anyway. The truth of the matter is that the McDonald’s in question had previously been cited - on at least two separate occasions - for keeping their coffee so hot that it violated local occupational health and safety regulations. The lady didn’t win her lawsuit because American courts are stupid; she won it because the McDonald’s she bought that coffee from was actively and knowingly breaking the law with respect to the temperature of its coffee at the time of the incident.
(I mean, do you have any idea what a third-degree burn actually is? Third-degree burns involve “full thickness” tissue damage; we’re talking bone-deep, with possible destruction of tissue. Can you even imagine how hot that cup of coffee would have to have been to inflict that kind of damage in the few seconds it was in contact with her skin?)
Yeah I’m tired of people joking about either the “stupid” woman who didn’t know coffee was hot or the “greedy” woman making up bullshit to get money.
She was hideously injured by hideous irresponsibility, it was an absolutely legitimate lawsuit and the warning on the cups basically allows McDonalds to claim no responsibility even if it happens again. Every other company followed suit to cover their asses.
So they can still legally serve you something that could sear off the end of your tongue or permanently demolish the front of your gums and just give you a big fat middle finger in court. “The label SAID it would be HOT, STUPID.”
obligatory reblog for the great debunking of the usual ignorance spouted about this case
obligatory mention that the media smear campaign to twist teh facts on this case and get public opinion against the victim was deliberate and fueled by the right wing tort reform movement
it was seized upon to limit the rights of consumers to hold giant corporations accountable for wrongdoing
watch the documentary Hot Coffee, it lays out all of the facts and examines the response to this case and explains why everything you think you know about this case is bullshit, and explains why tort reform is bullshit in an entertaining and informative manner
The woman injured in Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants was 79 years old at the time of her injuries, and suffered third-degree burns to the pelvic region (including her thighs, buttocks, and groin), which in combination with lesser burns in the surrounding regions caused damage to an area totaling a whopping 22% of her body’s surface. These injuries that required two years of intensive medical care, including multiple skin grafts; during her hospitalization, Stella Liebeck lost around 20% of her starting body weight.
She was uninsured and sued McDonald’s Restaurants for the cost of her past and projected future medical care, an estimated $20,000. The corporation offered a settlement of $800, a number so obviously ridiculous that I’m not even going to dignify it with any further explanation.
The settlement number most often quoted is not the amount that the corporation actually paid; the jury in the first trial suggested a payment equal to a day or two of coffee revenues for McDonald’s, which at the time totaled more than $1 million per diem. The judge reduced the required payout to around $640,000 in both compensatory and punitive damages, and the case was later settled out of court for less than $600,000.
Keep in mind that at the time, McDonald’s already had over 700 cases of complaints about coffee-related burns on file, but continued to sell coffee heated to nearly 200 degrees Fahrenheit (around 90 degrees Celsius) as a means of boosting sales (their selling point was that one could buy the coffee, drive to a second location such as work or home, and still have a piping hot beverage). This in spite of the fact that most restaurants serve coffee between 140 and 160 degrees Fahrenheit (60 to 71 degrees Celsius), and many coffee experts agree that such high temperatures are desirable only during the brewing process itself.
The Liebeck case was absolutely not an example of litigation-happy Americans expecting corporations to cover their asses for their own stupidity, but we seem determined to remember it that way. It’s an issue of liability, and the allowable lengths of capitalism, and even of the way in which our society is incredibly dangerous for and punitive towards the uninsured, but it was not and is not a frivolous suit. Please check your assumptions and do your research before you turn a burn victim’s suffering into a throwaway punchline.
#don’t fricking get me started on Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants the level of misinformation floating around is staggering#I know that it’s an older case but it still makes me really mad that people treat it as this big dumb thing?#the fact that the media took a serious case and turned it into what it is to us today should piss people off#the level of distortion of facts is astonishing and upsetting and nobody seems to hear about it?#sorry I’m done I just#it upsets me when a legal travesty like this is just dragged out for some#’haha americans are sOOOOOOOo dumb!!1!’ humor#I MEAN GODDAMN IF YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE FUN OF AMERICANS AT LEAST MAKE FUN OF US WITH FACTS OKAY
jesus, i actually didn’t know about any of this, thanks for clearing that up
Always reblog. The deliberate misinformation/corporate propaganda about this case is misogynist and ageist as FUCK.
Wait. Wait, I have a theory about this.
So, as of today, the 10th anniversary of Loss.jpg, the original image in question was taken down by Tim Buckley. This classic internet Phenom was replaced by this. Found.jpg.
Ghastly, isn’t it? I know the instant reaction of many people on this site, me included, was a strange perturbance. Something was wrong. This felt… off. What does Ethan know? Why is this titled Found.jpg?
I have a theory.
After all these years, has Ethan found us, the viewer?
For 10 years, we have poked fun of the melodrama of Tim Buckey’s Loss Arc, how jarring it was that this lighthearted video game comic attempted to tackle serious issues like a relationship facing a misscarriage. For an entire decade, this four panel comic has been lambasted in about as many ways it possibly could have, in every format it could have, all at the humor of the audience. The consumer. All at the expense of Tim.
Yet now, Ethan stares at us. Bemused.
Ethan, for the first time in 10 years, establishes direct eye-contact with us; destroying the fourth wall that the original strip held together. The safe boundary in which we were able to freely poke fun of Tim Buckley’s most infamous 4 panel comic is now broken.
Is he now gazing at us, the viewer, and judging us for our -own- personal losses? Is he mockingly thriving in the fact that he is just a character in a fictional comic, whilst the loss that each and every one of us feels in every one of our own personal lives hold true, heart-wrenching reality, weight, and concequence?
Ethan broke the chain of ridicule. Just like we laughed at his own losses, his own fictional shortcomings, his own melodramatic tragedy over and over in this memetic, long standing joke, he is now doing the same to us. He meets our eyes, with an all-knowing look in his eyes. A gaze of mocking Frivolity.
He found us.
Hey actually, you know what? Fuck this.
TWs: CSA, PEDOPHILIA
yourfaveisanomap Needs to be blocked and reported.
“Nomap” means “non-offensive minor-attracted person” aka a pedophile. In fact, one of the mods just fucking proclaimed to being a pedophile. Truly, I do not understand what fucking gain there is to be had from this. If this is satire, it’s fucking awful, if it’s real, that is horrifying.
They repost plenty of screencaps of characters, but worse is they repost peoples actual fanart of the characters too. Many of the posts end up in those public character tags on Tumblr’s search system, so you literally can come across these posts easily.
Don’t send death threats. Don’t interact. Don’t reblog any of the posts.
Report and block (or just block for your own well being).
News articles: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history
Me:
“Love takes time, and love takes work.” Read from right to left.
Had to vent and get some stuff out of my system and Ruby/Sapphire seemed like a good go-to. I don’t know how much of this makes sense entirely, but I was just going with the flow.
Was jamming to Famy - “AVA” while working on this.
This world is primal, my grinding jaw
The headache pill the necktie on my bedroom door
My conscience burning, my eyes are too
Cuddled up with a heart condemned I should love you and I swear I do
gummycore
