The sign at the franchise in Wisconsin notifies patrons that staff may say “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Easter” and “God Bless America” among other things.
Does she need an ice cream?
The sign at the franchise in Wisconsin notifies patrons that staff may say “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Easter” and “God Bless America” among other things.
Does she need an ice cream?
Way to go !!!! Deus Vult !!!!
I, for one, find wittle Ashley extremely offensive for having the temerity to patronize a DQ that serves ice-cream and other dairy products. Doesn’t she know that cows suffer unspeakable agony when they are milked, where is her animal compassion, her empathy, her understanding? sarc/
What a silly b!#ch.
How sad it is that for some people, moaning about pleasantries is their lives’ work.
I’d order a massive banana split from this fine establishment;
and give Ashley the peel!
I’m delighted she is PERPETUALLY OFFENDED; maybe her misery will catch up with her and she’ll reevaluate her decrepit DQ-less life.
Save yourself from crotchety cantankerousness mean spirited blather;
visit a DQ today! Priceless, Ashley gets schooled at DQ.
Oh and GOD BLESS YOU!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
I think this is just wonderful!! I hope the stupid woman chokes on her next (whatever she orders from McDonald’s). It’s nice to see someone upholding good old fashioned standards.
I see Fakebook has removed it. Petulant little snowflakes.
Ok, Ashley should to put a lump of coal in her Christmas stocking.
We’re going to have to support those who push back against the chronically offended until it is no longer necessary to apologize for having an opinion.
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Very cool!
They should probably double their biz – no such thing as bad publicity!
Thanks Ashley !
Hey Ashley ‘C’an ‘U’ ‘N’ot ‘T’alk anymore?
I don’t agree with the sign. There’s no way a snowflake could make a meeting 24 hours from now.
Just what I was thinking. The Star doesn’t have any weight in the States but wittle Wendy sure helped create a little surge in business (and that goes for the Star too, that is of course if they had any weight).
DQ dropped Canadian Smarties for American M&Ms. They’re dead to me now.
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dear ashley… whatever you do… don’t listen to the news or go on the internet…
“It appeared at least the younger Roberts may have felt Grandzol wasn’t moving
fast enough. ‘The 16-year-old just stepped up to Mr. Grandzol and shot him
twice in the head,’ Homicide Capt. John Ryan said.”
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And I’ve been known to say … “don’t be such a fag” … “you throw like a girl” … “marriage is between a man and a woman” … “you sound like a retard” … and … “he’s such a c*nt”
Good thing I don’t own a restaurant or retail establishment. And … I know better than to utter such things in the public square …
But there is no malice in any of these “horrifying” statements. None.
All of the above including Lance’s header. The only way to fight this diarrhea of snowflakness to tell them off bigly.
Osumashi nails it although our collie Dolly might take great umbrage in being compared to something as useless as this thing.
Smarties were a UK confection – now owned by a Swiss conglomerate. They NEVER were Canadian.
You are just about as much a snowflake as she is…
This is so stupid on the part of both parties. If DQ has any sense they’ll tell that franchisee to take it down or take off.
Newsflash: there’s really nothing revolutionary or bold about anything on that lame list of chest-thumping. It’s really just ‘Patriotic Correctness’: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/right-has-its-own-version-political-correctness-its-just-stifling
No, if DQ has any sense they’ll tell all franchisees to put a copy of that poster on their doors.
As for your link, while there is such a thing as patriotic correctness, they ascribe politically correct attitudes to it. For example:
“Central to its thesis is the belief that nothing in America can’t be fixed by more patriotism enforced by public shaming, boycotts and policies to cut out foreign and non-American influences.
Insufficient displays of patriotism among the patriotically correct can result in exclusion from public life and ruined careers. It also restricts honest criticism of failed public policies, diverting…”
That’s actually the kind of thing politically correct people do, the patriotically correct mostly just defend traditional values and do not force everyone else to comply like the politically correct do.
At six years of age throwing rocks over a cliff my older brother told me I throw like a girl. It devastated me. I begged him to demonstrate a proper boy throw. He showed a most impractical way that I never could manage and it did dog me for years. When I told him all that last year he laughed like a loon.
But nothing so embarrassing as having a president who fancies himself top athlete and can’t even throw a ball from pitchers mound to home plate. I get red faced all over again.
http://comonocreerendios-lem.blogspot.com/2014/05/you-throw-like-girl.html
I just finished reading the story of the Texas schoolteacher who signed on to lurk on an online “walkie talkie” and wound up spending a day and a half helping out the Cajun Navy and also getting the high of hearing someone being saved and the low, low of hearing that some people had drowned.
Then I read about Ashley from Oregon who is outraged about a sign in Wisconsin. Ashely was likely very disappointed that she wasn’t at home. Then she could turn the store owner over to the courts and get a 6 figure fine levied (the Christian bakers of LGBwhatever infamy).
Anyway, Ashley, from far away this Canadian suggests to you that those people from Texas and Louisiana and wherever the Cajun Navy exist, are what the USA is about. Turds from Oregon, not so much.
Gee; I guess the first comment sets the tone for the followers.
Just shaking my head. Somebody tries to break the spin. Maybe not what you big brave macho people thinks is how to do it. But You didn’t.
” the patriotically correct mostly just defend traditional values and do not force everyone else to comply like the politically correct do.”
They do the exact same thing as the politically correct just with different dumb values. Same stuff difference context.
“if DQ has any sense they’ll tell all franchisees to put a copy of that poster on their doors.”
You’ll find pandering to the ever-outraged does not do wonders for business.
Margaret Thatcher was part of the team of chemists who invented soft serve ice cream. DQ wouldn’t exist without their invention.
Choke on it, Lefties.
Mike, here’s the deal: of course it is virtue signaling from the opposite side of the spectrum. And as such I find it a bit boring.
However, because of trifling idiots, adolescent jackbooted bully boys/girls of the left like Ashley, we now have a backlash from the other side of the spectrum. Good job Ashley and friends.
For the truth is in a sane world none of those things mentioned on that sign should raise a whisker, and the individual would be free to accept or ignore them in a civil and polite way, knowing them to be nothing more egregious than civil and polite pleasantries. With this rationale in place, such things as what that sign purports is seen in a more reasonable light, and one does not care overmuch if someone says it to them. At the most if one does cross over to being truly offended, one just finds another purveyor of the same product from which to buy — of course many who are freaking over this most definitely don’t want anyone to have the freedom to do that either.
But in the collapse of western civilization we have now turned the corner where what was once merely a pleasantry, signifying nothing more, has become a tribal signal — to be upheld vehemently or attacked and destroyed viciously…we are in the age of trifles and fancies, and more of the same — and worse — is what we have to look forward to.
Because we ever gave serious thought to morons like Ashley and have ignored the truly dangerous people who have given Ashley her marching orders, and their quite serious agenda.
Sadly I must agree with UnMe here.
I don’t want politics in the shops …… even MY politics.
I want neither CORRECT nor INCORRECT politics where I shop.
Simply instruct the the staff that they are free to issue these varied greetings to their customers and make it clear that there will be no disciplinary action against any employee for doing so.
POLITICS is too much with us.
Mr DQ …. Tear Down This Sign.
Sure Jenny; I agree and do recognize the commenting with (sarc on). However the groupie gathering about the effort is evident, at least to my aged eyes. Cheers; Mike Sr.
1st World Problems:
Problem #1: BOREDOM
Problem #2: Twitter
Problem #3: FaceBook
When one’s life is too dull one tends to look for something to stir it up. War sometimes works but not always, i.e., WWI was followed by WWII, etc.
I have no answers except to say, “Who gives a rat’s ass about any of this nonsense.”
Get off my lawn.
Forgive me for believing Canada was derived from British influence. I had no idea we were not a Commonwealth nation and that the French had indeed won the battle on the Plains of Abraham. Imagine my embarrassment when I learned we spawned from nothingness, and the Queen’s picture was put up at Hockey Arenas for jest. Thank you Gord for educating us all with your vast knowledge of the real history of Canada. You’re a credit to whatever spawned you.
Good comment. I will add that the “pleasantries” on the sign are traditions in the U.S.A.(and many of them in Canada) which used to be “signals” of being a normal member of being part of the “tribes” of America and Canada.
As usual, the Left politicizes everything(everything) and so having been part of normal tradition, these tribal signals are politicized and targeted for destruction as a barrier to International Communism.
The commenters above defend the sign because it is core to conservatism to defend and uphold tradition.
“Newsflash: there’s really nothing revolutionary or bold about anything on that lame list of chest-thumping. It’s really just ‘Patriotic Correctness’: ”
The Republicans want to employ the power of the state to criminalise the burning of the US flag — a constitutionally protected activity.
@ Me No Dhimmi
“I don’t want politics in the shops …… even MY politics.”
There are allot of things people don’t want, but you have a choice to either shop elsewhere or complain to management. A Free Market will dictate the outcome.
Otherwise you can agree with Unme and continue to regulate society towards a communist dictatorship where speaking about politics lands you in a Gulag.
Give you head a shake, when has the troll Unme every steered comments towards common sense?
Just wanted to point out the absurdity of comparing the worldwide activist left’s coordinated politically correct and divisive identity campaigns to change our entire western societies to a handful of independent individuals who fight back.
Thank you for the link, story, and rememberance of a president who couldn’t ACTUALLY play basketball or golf any better than he could throw a baseball … or govern. I truly apologize for your lifetimes worth of sad feelings after being told you throw like a girl. I, too, was told that I “throw like a girl”, “run like a fat kid”, “never leave the floor during my ‘jump shot'”, “have a spastic way of holding the basketball over my head when I shoot”, and that “I am a stumble bum”, “swing (at a baseball) like a rusty gate”, “wear poor peoples shoes”, “must have been dressed by my mother” (at age 16), “have the comb-down type of sideburns … because I can’t grow a beard like a man” (again, age 16) … you get the point … I could go on. But I was born in an era where it was NORMAL for boys to give each other stick. And I assert that it is natures way of self-improvement. How can anyone ever expect to improve themselves if they don’t have someone holding up a mirror to reflect their imperfections? Yep, it can be painful, embarrassing, and sometimes tragic. But in my mind, it is NORMAL, NATURAL, and actually produces GOOD. Who WANTS to be told of their imperfections? Answer – nobody. But when the Nanny State intervenes and forbids “bullying” (which now includes each and every little dig that was ever hurled at me as a child), they are actually crippling our children. And just LOOK at the result! A snowflake society filled with misfits who now insist that we bow-down to them like sniveling fools. It is just like my contemporary hippie parents who INSISTED that we NOT “keep score” at children’s sporting events … so we don’t point out to the LOSERS that they LOST. Funny thing is that the kids ALWAYS knew the score anyway. Nature … including HUMAN nature … will always reclaim the territory that “civilized” humans attempt to urbanize. Sorry … but you DO throw like a girl. And when told that … you stand at a very HUMAN crossroad. Improve yourself … or whine about your feeeelllllings. Nature will take over from there … which looks very much like an INEPT ex-president … who was also WRECKED by being told he was only “half black”.
I worked every bit as hard (as a father) to get my only daughter to throw like a boy. It took some time, because women have a significantly different pelvis structure than men. Sorry, but it is true … and women ALWAYS run significantly different than men. Trust me … I coached top level competitive soccer for BOTH boys and girls. Top athletes, both boys and girls. Some of the most competitive, high-engery, sleek, athletic girls you have ever seen … and they ALL “run like girls”. The proper baseball throwing motion, and a significant amount of the power, comes from the lower body. Girls have more trouble with this than boys. Simple Physiology … boys and girls ARE different … and my o my … vive la difference !! “Thank God for Little Girls” (hat tip Maurice Chevalier, Lerner and Lowe). But it is now “heresy” for saying so.
Fkcu the State … the Nannies, the snowflakes, and every whining and sniveling dork who ever felllllt un-kum-ffff-ter-ble when told they throw like a girl or have a stupid hairstyle. They should have been taught by their parents to look upon these moments as opportunities for CHANGE and self-improvement … not times for sniveling and weeping.
For this slight, I am contrite. 🙂
Though it may seem to many here as trivial, it is a symptom of cultural and social rot that has been prevalent for a long time. If a private business cannot issue greetings in any way, shape or form, what comes next? Are people really that offended by “Merry Christmas” (or “Happy Diwali” or “Happy Hanukkah”)? Is there nothing going on in one’s life that this should be turned into a crusade?
And Jenny is correct: Ashley may be a total moron but those who inspired her are far worse.
I am perfectly all right with the shaming of bad behavior. As long as I define what bad behavior is. I happen to agree with the sentiments expressed on the sign. Ashley’s morals not so much.
Claiming that people should not be shamed is stupid – shame, guilt, oppression, violence – these are all tools of social control and are used every day by individuals and groups. We put pedophiles in prison and we shoot them if they resist arrest or attempt to escape.
People like Ashley are attempting to puff themselves up using the internet. To make themselves appear more influential than they are, in order to use the leverage provided by an amenable authority in order to impose their values. Ridicule is the best answer.
This is another skirmish in the cultural conflict that pits normal people against perverts. The tools of societal control (shame in this case) may not be effective on the people who share Ashley’s opinions. Ridicule is a good choice though.
But the people who state that we must not shame people, or that political correctness and patriotic correctness are equally morally bad, are stupid and naïve.