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Steve Martin Nation to McDonald's and Jamaicans: Stop Calling it Jerk Chicken! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8986751/McDonalds-accused-cultural-appropriation-finest-new-Jerk-Chicken-Sandwich.html#:~:text=2.9k%20shares-,McDonald's%20is%20accused%20of%20'cultural%20appropriation%20at%20its...

Fish Nation to India: Stop Calling it The Indian Ocean - We Were Here First!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... suit-says/

Chinese Nation to USA: Stop Calling it Chinese Food!

https://nextshark.com/chinese-fried-rice-syndrome/

Belgium Nation to Foodies: Stop Calling them Brussel's Sprouts - they're just baby cabbages!

https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/bruss ... ie-lawsuit

Mexian Nation to Spaghetti Westerns: Stop Calling it a Mexican Stand-Off

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_standoff

Canadian Nation To USA: Stop Calling it Canadian Bacon!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/canadian ... 0f99d8e162

English Nation To Thomas': Stop Calling Them English Muffins! https://abcnews.go.com/WN/thomas-english-muffin-sues-employee-protect-nooks-crannies/story?id=10911722#:~:text=with%20news%20about-,English%20Muffin%20Bakery%20Sues%20to%20Protect%20'Nooks%20and%20Crannies'%20in,executive%20could%20leak%...

German Nation to Restaurant: OK, OK, We Lost the War, We Know That, But Stop calling it German Potato Salad. It's Not Funny

http://www.dakota-inn.com/dakota-inn-ge ... e-entrees/

French Nation to IHOP - Stop calling it French Toast! It's too Soggy to be called "Toast" anyway.

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2017 ... he_ch.html

French Nation to McDonald's: Stop Calling them French Fries!

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/20 ... tice-cause

....or the Polish Nation may sue you! Cherokee Nation to Jeep: Stop using the tribe’s name "The original Jeep Cherokee was introduced in 1974 as the original “sport utility vehicle” with bucket seats and “racy detailing” designed to appeal to younger, more adventurous drivers, according to Jeep’s we...

BRITISH GAS WON’T BUY ICE VEHICLES EVER AGAIN The UK’s largest energy provider, British Gas, says it will never buy another internal combustion engine vehicle again. And the first step of that commitment is ordering 2,000 electric Vivaro vans from Vauxhall. By 2025, British Gas plans to convert its...

The difference is that the performance/efficiency tradeoff for saving the cost, weight, and complexity of a multispeed transmission with an ICE is crippling (so much so that the Model T was a two-speed), while the performance/efficiency benefit of adding the cost, weight, and complexity of a multis...

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Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:15 am

Now I am drawn to retro, I listen to Boney M and many other hits of the 80s.

Killer rendition of Boney Maroney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q1o5uuw6ag

At the 1:30 mark, Killer rendition of Genie's Weinies by the Polish Muslims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhLPBv5Bag

Kinda reminds me of the early VW Rabbit and/or Scirocco, in that they advertised 0-50 times rather than 0-60 times because: A) They had to do another shift to get to 60 B) They might confuse some folks into thinking they were comparing apples to apples instead of apples to oranges (compared to the 0...