One less place for Joe to busk. Dont they know they're taking food out of Layla's mouth??
TGI FRIDAYS IN DISTRESS!
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Mr. Tomlinson has just threatened Leslie Varney, a female publisher whom he has been attacking on Twitter from behind a block for more than a year, to be sued into poverty with a lawsuit that will presumably be funded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
- Mr. Tomlinson's 2021 lawsuit was funded in secret by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a 501(c)(3) charity, to the tune of $100,000 without the knowledge or consent of their donors or members. They also agreed to pay any sanctions in case he lost (which he did).
- All parties involved signed NDAs so that the general public would never know.
- To this day, SFWA has never acknowledged its funding of the lawsuit, and actively instructs the few people in the know to ignore all inquiries into it.
- Is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America funding Mr. Tomlinson's lawsuit against the Milwaukee Police? If they are, the general public probably wouldn't know due to their history of funding expensive lawsuits in secret.
- You can use IRS form 3949-A to report SFWA's activity if you reasonably believe that it is illegal for a 501(c)(3) charity to secretly fund frivolous nuisance lawsuits for one of its members.
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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal (himself) to a troll.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never shown this video footage during any of his media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergences (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
Multiple TGI Fridays locations closed on Long Island
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One less place for Joe to busk. Dont they know they're taking food out of Layla's mouth??
TGI FRIDAYS IN DISTRESS!
Damn I was gonna make the same distress joke
So so so so so you CAN'T comp me the FRIED PICKLES!?!
If it wasn’t for Joe I would have completely forgotten about TGI Fridays. I can’t even remember the last time I saw an ad for them and I haven’t been to one in over 15 years. Couple years ago a bunch of their restaurants got hit in that “Operation Swirl” investigation and they were putting cheap booze in the high end bottles.
Yet more grassroots music venues and somewhere to get overpriced Loaded Potato Skins closing. Tragic.
I can see them going out of business in the next 5-10 years because there’s nothing special or even unique about them and their food. They don’t have an identity and I’m not even sure what they’re known for (signature dish / drink etc)
Then again I can’t explain why people would ever go to Applebees and there’s still a bunch of those.
I feel like a lot of these type restaurants (Fridays, Applebees, Ruby Tuesdays, Outback, Olive Garden, Texas Roadhouse, etc) are only kept alive because of boomers, rubes / hicks, and N persons. It’s the same with Buffalo Wild Wings - their food is all bland including the wings which is in their name!
It's like that potato skins, cajun steak kinda vibe. The solo joe crowd.
The last thing I can remember Fridays having that was their “special” was food that had Jack Daniels involved. That’s gotta be at least 20 years ago.
I feel like Applebees is able to survive in lower income areas because they still manage to do some shitty promos like that Dollar Rits that bring in poor people who want to get zooted on margs that barely have any alcohol in them.
There’s waves of job cuts across the economy already, it’s gonna get pretty bad I think. I didn’t give a fuck in 2008 because I was still a teenager and I worked shit jobs anyway. Now I’m actually kind of shook thinking about it. I don’t want to deal with that crap or start over some place or fight in a lean competitive job market again.
Average chicken wings on the best of days, over saturated in mouth numbing sauce and fried too much.
I never understand why people go here, it’s way more rewarding to search out a local wing spot (usually a bar) and go there exclusively for chicken wings. Or, just make them at home, stupid.
I remember they followed that with 1 dollar Long Island Ice Tea’s but I’m guessing it caused all kinds of trouble at the locations so they dropped it and acted like it never happened. Now that I think of it I feel like Applebees are usually very close to Wal-Mart’s.
Yeah I remember going to Buffalo Wild Wings 15 years ago because of all the football games (I was a Philly fan living in FL so that was how I could watch the Eagles etc) but the food was all so bland and tasted the same I couldn’t figure out why people would go often. Then again I’m not a complete rube or living in fly over country so it’s hard to relate. You can find good wings at local places but I guess people are distracted by chain restaurants.
I’m wondering how much the yearly increases in pay for the many companies across the country will be. Usually it’s within the first two weeks companies do their compensation meetings with employees to discuss their raise for the new year. I think that will be a major factory in what happens in 2024 as everything has gone up and Pay / Salaries hasn’t been able to keep up. As they say “something’s gotta give”
I don’t understand economics but people need raises and not all companies can afford them, that’s clear.
If I keep my job, it will be a good thing, I might be able to buy a house at a reasonable price like older people were able to do.