Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: br Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Burger King returns Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:25:43 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <2006121612405450073-xxx@yyyzzz> <2006121710525350073-xxx@yyyzzz> <200612171326088930-xxx@yyyzzz> <2006121719094450073-xxx@yyyzzz> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.216.0.149 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1166412343 11521 203.216.0.149 (18 Dec 2006 03:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:25:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061116) In-Reply-To: <2006121719094450073-xxx@yyyzzz> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:164782 Don't argue, Fester is an idiot. gtr wrote: > On 2006-12-17 14:01:04 -0800, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net said: > >> Insightful comments like "I don't like it, therefore it will fail" > > "You and bureaucrats are all wrong about everything" isn't insightful > either, nor is either characterization of the other's argument within > hailing distance of reality. > > I don't like it, it's true, I saw them fail in my community. I assume > they will fail elsewhere due, because I live in a broad and diverse > community, not because I don't like them. Hel, I'd generally assume my > tastes are at the end of any bellcurve. > > I read news articles two years ago that indicated they had expanded too > rapidly and sold their doughnut like a $100 tennis shoe. Admittedly some > CAN sell a $100 tennis shoe. Maybe the glamor doughnut's time hasn't > arrived yet. Maybe they have. > > Where are you that it's a boom market? > > In the end do you think that doughnuts have the universal appeal that > coffee and hamburgers have? I'd be surprised. Maybe a general pastry > shop, particularly one that sold either good coffee or good lunches. > But a take-it-or-leave-it sugar ball? Sheesh. I do hope at a personal > level that it will fail, I admit. > >> ...are on a par with the above-mentioned Japanese bureaucrats who, >> esteemed >> though they may be, were remarkably inaccurate in their assessments of >> what would do well in Japan. > > I may know nothing, and you may know nothing, but of course we're both > brilliiant compared to thousands of esteemed Japanese bureaucrats, right?