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[–] [email protected] 141 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I tend to always give the underdog the benefit of the doubt in these cases.

Remember when a lady suffered third degree burns from coffee at a McDonalds drive through? Everybody made fun of her but she was right, she won in court, and McDonalds had to retrain staff and change how equipment was operated at every single location.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

And she didn't even ask for the massive compensations she eventually got, she only asked McD to cover the medical expenses, as she had to spent a fair amount of time in a hospital because of the burned crotch she had.

Not unreasonable by a mile, but after that case, corporations have tried making pretty much all lawsuits against them seem completely ridiculous. I wonder why...

That said the dude in the photo does look guilty af.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Third degree burned crotch too. It wasn’t just a little too hot and she got a little burn. It was extensive.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

Yes, literally life-threateningly bad burns. Not just an owie.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Melted labia. They gave her so much money because of course they did, the lady’s labia melted and McDonald’s had been warned before

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's how shitty they are, they wouldn't even pay the medical bills when they knew that their coffee was way too hot. They knew it was way too hot because their guidelines said to make it too hot to mask how bad it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Agree strongly.

However the reason they used such hot water to create coffee was that using 98C water to make coffee gives you more coffee from the same amount of coffee grounds than using the recommended 90C. Shittier coffee yes, and hotter, but more of it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

The actual reason they kept the coffee at that temperature (since it usually wasn't freshly brewed the brewing temperature doesn't matter) is that hotter coffee takes longer to drink, which means fewer refills (which used to be free when this happened).

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Come on, don't sugarcoat it. She suffered third degree vagina burns and a fused labia.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That lady had ~~polyester pants melted deep into her skin.~~

Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants, which absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks and groin.[

I doubt her settlement paid all the bills, especially after attorney fees

Edited because I was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants

In the end it was apparently $640 000, so I honestly don't know whether it would've covered medical costs and attorneys fees in America.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It was in the 90s. It was bad then but not nearly as bad as it is now.

640k was worth a lot more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Hi thank you. I was wrong about the polyester pants, and I edited my post, to reflect that.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's no way of knowing what happened there.

But back in the mid to late 2000's we had a whole bunch of residential internet customers and every so often one would blow their traffic cap by a bunch and would ring up and say "Your billing system is wrong!".

Then whoever could be bothered in the office would do some modest analysis on their netflow data and come up with something like "18% of your traffic this month was redtube.com, 33% was pornhub.com and 9% was xhamster.com.

We never knew if whoever was on the phone was the raging porn addict or it was one of their associates. Either way they would say "Oh well, I guess we will never know then. Thanks for your help. Bye.". Followed by them quietly paying the bill.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Current ISPs have to by law. Just incase you go on howtobeaterrorist.com and need to be stopped. It's not overstepping at all. Definitely not.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You know, I would also like to beat errorists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Greetings, gellow perfectionist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Greetings, yellow perfectionist.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I just tried that url and it's down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

ISPs still can track your online activity, it's up to them whether or not they will store it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yep, any time you have a traffic cap or bill for traffic you've got to have data to back up what you are billing for.

More recently CDN's ( and widespread SSL adoption ) have made it a whole lot less obvious what sites the user is going to. I suspect that nice clearcut list of porn sites from 2007 would just look like some cloudflare, akamai and google these days.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's the face of a man who thought she wouldn't take it this far

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)
  1. This joke is old and tired. Stop making it.

  2. That bloke looks like he doesn't even know HOW to order porn over the TV.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I honestly don't know of a bigger incentive driving people to learn tech, than porn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I learned because of videogames but that was also before puberty so...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

He's been mastering this look to trick fools like you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ok I got this, just keep calm and give them your most disappointed look, I can do this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Daily mail sadface

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

This reminds me of the film Cuff and Collars, from Arlen Video.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Adult films??? Oh my, how scandalous!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

It's Ron! Absolute classic!