Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

Uncle Ben got the axe too. The rice is now labeled "Ben's Original", with no image.

 

I had to run around and buy a box of Uncle Ben's Rice, some Land-O-Lakes butter and Aunt Jemima's syrup just so I could save the boxes to show my Grandchildren how silly things were "in the old days."

 

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How do people not immediately notice stuff like this?

 

Words have meaning. Every year in cold season we have a pandemic, not a plague.
Definition of pandemic (Entry 2 of 2)
1: an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affects a significant proportion of the population : a pandemic outbreak of a disease
a global pandemic
Influenza pandemics seem to strike every few decades and to kill by the million—at least 1m in 1968; perhaps 100m in the "Spanish" flu of 1918-19.
— The Economist
2: an outbreak or product of sudden rapid spread, growth, or development : EPIDEMIC entry 2 sense 2
We have been talking about the pandemic of racism for centuries.
— Roger Griffith
Nobel-prize winning economist Robert Shiller warns a pandemic of fear could tip the economy into an undeserved depression.
plague noun
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Definition of plague (Entry 1 of 2)
1a: a disastrous evil or affliction : CALAMITY
b: a destructively numerous influx or multiplication of a noxious animal : INFESTATION
a plague of locusts
2a: an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality : PESTILENCE
b: a virulent contagious febrile disease that is caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and that occurs in bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic forms
— called also black death
3a: a cause of irritation : NUISANCE
b: a sudden unwelcome outbreak