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[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 183 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (7 children)

For those not familiar with US retailers, the punchline is:

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[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

Thanks from the UK

[–] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I feel like US has a store chain with every conceivable name at this point.

And hearing about chains called like Five Guys just sounds weird to be honest.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There's also a restaurant chain which is also named Dick's

The "Eat some Dick's" jokes write themselves.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

What the fuck Richard

[–] ivonalanna@lemmy.world 40 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

every conceivable name

Yeah, there used to be a Gaylords department store.

[–] TheHotze@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

At least that one makes sense for a store, they probably got a lot of their stock in gaylords.

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Wait till you find out about Two Men and a Truck!

[–] elvith@feddit.org 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PwnTra1n@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The best is the website is twomen.com

[–] elvith@feddit.org 2 points 15 hours ago

Risky click of the day in this context

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

I feel like you could craft us chain store names into some innuendo sentence or even paragraph

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I dread to think what comes up if you search for those restaurants near you...

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago
[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 16 points 22 hours ago
[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago

Lol i thought that was Steam until i reread his bubble and was like "Uhmm?"

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

That makes more sense than Big 5