The golf club company ran an ad where a woman went to touch a golf club and her man pushed her down and threatened her for her transgression.

Costco stopped carrying their clubs in response

Video of the ad.

It's such a gross concept. Wild anyone thought this was a funny, gotta be pretty deep in bro to not see red flags.

Looked it up, apparently they did an Obsession parody, but no one got the reference so it looked like the CEO of the company just pushed a woman to the ground for trying to touch his golf clubs.

I've seen the ad, I didn't get the reference either. I haven't seen Obsession, but apparently that's what that was in reference to.....

If you have to be told what the reference is, you're probably not doing references right.

Every time I hear anything about Costco it always seems to be the only US company that's run by someone within an actual brain and who is capable of thinking more than 1 quarter into the future.

Apparently they do exist in Europe but I've never seen them

And yet has been discussed publicly, at large, in court, and even during a presidential address or two, albeit indirectly.

I get the feeling that the golf is just the structure to get wasted and do mild exercise with tangential friends under the guise of career networking. It beats having to deal with the family.

This is the ethically and factually correct approach.

the big orange man wants americans to have government subsidized hamburgers so people think that food costs arent as insane as they are, but he refuses to say where he's getting it from. the general consensus seems to be that he's allowing the import of a bunch of meat that was rejected by other countries for failing to meet quality standards. because that's how you help struggling cattle ranchers, after all.

Come, join us, as we feast on seitan.

If you can afford to gamble $25 on the advice of an Internet stranger, do this:

• Buy a 4lb bag of Vital Wheat gluten. (Can be aquired on Anthony's Goods website.)

• Mix it about 50-50 with water, and just... do stuff with it.

• Example1: Mix 350 grams of gluten powder with 450 grams of water (Optional 5 grams of MSG) and stir it together until it's a big blob. Pick it up and stretch it in every possible direction and knead the absolute shit out of it. Divide into 7 portions, and place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 250°F/120°C for about 2 hours. You now have a 50 grams of protein blob for each day of the week, to be sliced and dovided however you wish throughout the day.

• Example2: Get a ripping hot skillet and dump in Some™ gluten powder and Approximately® twice as much water and vigorously stir it with, like, a fork or something like that, and dump some cooking oil on it as an afterthought, and dump some spices in it and boil off all the water to make a fake Taco meat mix. If it sticks, take it off the heat and add a splash of water to unstick it, and it's okay to jave juicy taco seitan crumbles. You actually cannot fuck this up.

Enjoy.

Costco was very clear with the tariffs that they would eat the cost and just sue because they felt it was illegal. Low and behold, it was illegal, and they are getting a refund after not raising costs like everyone else. And their customers loved them for it.

This is actually their entire buisness model as well. They don't really make much money from their products. They make almost 100% profit from their memberships. If I remember right, over 2/3 of their total profit comes from membership revenue. So if they piss people off and make them cancel their membership, that would really fuck them over.