Whether it’s Buckees or Wal-Drug, it always seemed empty and capitalistic to make a rest stop a noteworthy stop on your road trip.
Don’t forget Ohio, which also has a Bucees now, and immediately started going after existing beaver themed establishments
Virginia as well, where one was recently opened right off of I-81 in Mount Crawford. I think this map is a bit out of date.
And Arizona has one now too. They’re really growing everywhere. It’s crazy.
Arkansas as well. We haven’t gone because of their aforementioned litigious bullshit, but they’re popping up too many places!
Tough luck, there, Bro. Now you’re going to have to feature $8 lattés and avocado toast, to draw all those woke Zoomers who don’t want to work anymore.
Buc U
There was a great bit about Buc-ee’s scummy legal practices on Last Week Tonight a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3oB-1qAj-Q&t=1908
As a non-american that episode was the first time I heard about Buc-ee’s. Great watch. Love John Oliver.
Not available is the US
Ironic. The essence of it is: Buc-ee’s has a long track record of suing small businesses that use cartoon animal mascots, even if they look nothing like their own mascot and even if the businesses are not even competitors.
outrageous! a rich person tries to make more money, althought they are rich. and democrats probably wanted something totally outlandish like the companies paying for what they use, fixing damages they cause and livable wages for the workers. no wonder socialism is barreling through the elections, people vote, not money.
Eh, that was just a distraction to keep people from talking about the ludicrous amount of child pornography his son had (and is currently on trial for)
Wait. What?!
The defense attorney said the cases involve “many thorny legal issues” and one question in particular: “May a homeowner install a camera in his home without telling housekeepers or guests, or does the guest have a greater legal right than the homeowner?”
How the hell is this a thorny legal issue? It should not be a question at all.
It’s one thing to have a doorbell camera or a security camera inside that films your front door and foyer or living room. It’s another thing entirely to have a hidden camera in the bathroom.
Yes, and even then it’s basic courtesy to warn your guests, and it should be illegal to not notify your tenants/homekeepers of the camera (at least in my country it is, and it’s illegal to install them in any living quarters - including the bathroom -)
its not illegal right now to hide cameras in other peoples living spaces, if you own the place? what?
A cursory search on the internet came up with an: “in the US, it depends on the state, provided that you are not recording anyone naked” (so in general no cameras in bedrooms, changing rooms and bathrooms - in other places the legislation is much more obscure, depending on the state).
Another thorny legal issue for republicans:
Do the “human rights” of black slaves trump the property rights of their owners? And how are you supposed to protect your economic rights other than by beating the shit out of them?
Do the “privacy rights” of guests and tenants trump the property rights of their landlords? And how are you supposed to protect your economic rights other than by recording their every move on your property?
It’s basically the same fucking question. And it’s such a thorny and contentious one finding a balance must be hard.
Because in a sane society, basic human rights clearly do not have precedence over any other rights, right?
they’ve left the material realm at this point
Alr remind me to never go to a bucees
OF course its a distraction, im not surprised.
He was also a big Abbott supporter and donor. I personally never, ever stop at Buc-ee’s because I try my best to vote with my dollars.
I got violently ill from their nuts on an 8 hour road trip. Then my wife got equally violently ill when she ate the nuts when we got home (I thought I just had a bug).
Their restrooms are fine, but I won’t go there for anything else.
most gas stations bathrooms are fine.
Insane take. You simply haven’t been to most gas stations bathrooms if you think this. I used to drive across north America semi-regularly for work and every region is equally bad at this
I mean, maybe OP runs a bathroom cleaning service for gas station bathrooms.
Probably not, but maybe.
You have a very low threshold for insane. I’ve driven all over the country too. The gross ones are rare.
I’m a lady using the ladies room though, that might be why we’re not seeing eye to eye.
dude i’ve been a janitor. y’all refuse to sit down, even with a seat sheet, so y’all hover. don’t try to pretend your bathrooms are clean.
So tired of this loser bullshit. I’ll block you.
Eeeh, there’s some pretty shitty ones when you get out of cities/coasts.
Buccees has literally nothing special in that department.
Idk Bucees and QuikTrip are pretty good about being clean.
Wally’s is also really good.
Most is not accurate. I’ve been in some godawful, disgusting gas station bathrooms across the southern US. I would still choose that disgusting bathroom over Buc-ee’s
gas station food= severe if not dangerous food poisoning/parasites.
You realise that isn’t an issue in other developed countries?
At this point I think it’s safe to assume all republicans are protecting pedos or are pedos themselves.
Texan here. Buccees is WILDLY overrated. Their food used to be really good but they’ve apparently cut costs on it and now are no better than any other fast food place. They’re just a glorified, gimicky gas station. Restrooms are always clean though.
They seem like the weird fixation people have here in the northeast about Wawa and Sheetz. People, they are just shitty convenience stores with gas pumps. Relax!
They are normal until you leave the area they cover and see just how bad other gas stations are. It’s pretty bad out there
You and me are going to have to fight now because you ranked Wawa and Sheetz as if they were equivalent. Wawa is the worst of the bunch of made-to-order food counter gas station/convenience store chains. People from Philly just gush about them because they never go any further than Bucks county and they don’t know any better.
Rutter’s blows them all out of the water, though.
Its funny to think of PA as being northeast. I guess so but in the norther easter, we don’t have anything but Cumbies, 7/11s, and Circle Ks and they’re shit.
Cumbies
UwU cumbie me daddy~
I mean it’s not New England but it’s definitely the north east, same with New York and New Jersey.
Cumbies
I prefer Cum Farm, tyvm.
Weird hearing about Circle K though. Never heard of one for 12 years while living in MD, then saw them everywhere down in Florida. Don’t recall ever seeing a Circle K in states around MD either. 7/11 is pretty ubiquitous, however in FL they always had gas pumps and in MD it was just a corner store. It’s so weird how much it can vary from region to region, and sometimes even by bordering states.
Circle K bought a fairly large regional brand in my area and converted them to Circle K.
Circle Ks are dying and 7/11 almost did in the 90s and now it’s only a straggler in a few towns up here.
There are new replacements but they aren’t memorable enough to bother learning the names of.
can’t support this enough. Once they got to the point where their brand was more important than their product, they stopped being good.
The thing is the bar for gas stations to be great is so low that when one puts in any amount of effort, everyone loves it. It seems every region has their favorites.
Everything around here is Casey’s. They have pretty good pizza actually.
Kwik Star/Trip is actually great, lots of cheap food made in house, including fresh microwave dinners.
But their owners heavily donate to the Republicans. Yet all oil companies do, so yes I still like my Kwik Trip.
If you’re at a Buc-ee’s it means there isn’t shit to do within a half hour drive.
my job is across the street from Buc-ee’s and it just looks miserable to go there. Always a line of cars no matter the hour, and overcrowded inside the store. I would never go through that much effort to visit a overpriced gas station.
Will he stand by his outdated principles? Tune in tomorrow on “As The Colour Turns”.
They actually meant they won’t operate in states that don’t let them bully the shit outta small businesses for having an animal as a logo, even if it looks absolutely nothing like theirs.
Relevant: https://buc-off.com/
Thank god those people can’t tell colors.
Don’t you know we are under Sharia law now? See you at Al Buqqi, brother
This got a chuckle out of me. Great way to start my day, thank you 😂
I’ll see you at Al Buqqi 🥂
There is at least one buccees in VA. They lost my money because they changed their mind about building EV charging there. I was gonna go there during a road trip to shop for road trip crap while charging my car, but I had to go somewhere else to charge. Short sighted as fuck. I was gonna get jerky and a sandwich and some snacks and a drink or two, plus my wife probably wanted some stuff. But no, fuck those hippies, their money is no good here.
I don’t think I could even imagine a business that would benefit more from having electric chargers outside than Buccees. Hilariously short sighted of them.
I’ve said for a while that movie theaters would do great with level 2 chargers in their lots
My local theater had that (before the theater shut down)! It was great. I left Thor Love and Thunder to a note stuck to my car from the Tesla owner next to me asking me to plug him in when I was done (it was a free charger to boot).
Wow, a considerate Tesla owner? Must not have been a Cybertruck! I’m sure 99% of Wankpanzer drivers would just unplug your vehicle immediately so they could charge right meow.
Thought chargers lock?
Heh, you’re probably right - I haven’t driven in over a decade (bikes and mass transit FTW!) and I’ve got no friends with electric vehicles, so I’ve got no idea!
Even better, a drive-in theater with chargers!
ours has a row with some kind of charger, i don’t know the differences since i bike. they let me bring my ebike in and charge it while i’m watching, so that’s cool. i just wish my battery took less than 5 hours to charge
That’s like a main theme of the republican agenda. Own the libs and shoot themselves in the foot.
I mean the Musk part of it is just weird. He owns an EV company, spends his money to hurt EV sales, supports Texas being anti EVs, but wants to move all his businesses there. Like the whole EV cab business only works if the people are willing to get in the cabs. And he’s trying to convince people on the right to hate them, and the left to hate him…
So he has to be losing half the market intentionally it seems.
My closest Buc-ee’s has like 6 electric charging stations of each brand. They definitely caught up.
I’m not sure hippies is the right term to use
Thank you for reminding me, between this and Elon I may never need a blue pill in my life at this point.
