Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es
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Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
"i never thought someone could be such a watch nerd and yet here you are" ~ @maple
Joined Oct 2017
@pup_hime oh, if McDonalds weren't trying to take the piss they would have used common sense, but their arrogance inclined the court to take a fully by the book approach
if anything it's the fact that courts are run by humans that fucked them on this one
@pup_hime it's not nonsense, it's the 100% by the book legality of the decision
Now if McDonalds hadn't been taking the piss by trying to cite wikipedia the court would have probably come to a more sensible verdict, but they were taking the piss, and now have to lodge an appeal to get their trademark back, probably only covering products this time
@pup_hime in addition to that, the court has to go by the evidence presented
McDonalds didn't provide any evidence that they actually sold Big Macs, they just gave print-outs of their website and wikipedia, which doesn't count as evidence of sales
And so as the court could only rule on the evidence presented, they did, despite the fact that it's common knowledge that McDonalds do indeed sell Big Macs
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@pup_hime the trademark was for both products and locations, so people couldn't call their shop "Big Mac" or anything
But McDonalds didn't give the court any evidence that the "Big Mac" trademark was in use for any locations so the trademark was struck down as you have to use the trademark for the described purposes or you lose it
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Burger King is of course trolling the fuck out of them
Oh my god, this is brilliant, McDonalds has lost the "Big Mac" trademark in the EU
brexit
@Jens probably have to wait an hour or so for them to stop laughing
brexit
I really hope this is meant as a joke but unfortunately it's far too believable
Sam the Octopus
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@TheGibson I feel like putting on a really bad New York-Italian accent
food
No matter how skewed you sense of taste gets when you have a cold or flu or something, pickled onions still taste properly like pickled onions
Complete lifesaver when you're utterly naffed off with food not tasting like food
ah yes, mensa, the organisation for people with high enough INT to get in, and low enough WIS to pay 50 quid a year for a newsletter
alien:...sorry, that outburst was unwarranted
human: no problem, get it all the time
alien: so I've seen you people put big slabs of stuff into a machine that cuts shapes from it, how does that work?
human:...
alien:... lasers again isn't it?
human:...yeah
alien: I swear to fucking god...
alien: how do you lot fix eye problems?
human: well, we either wear corrective lenses or use lasers to fix it permanently
alien: huh, neat, I've also seen these stripey labels on a lot of things, what are those?
human: oh, those are barcodes, they get read with lasers so computers can keep track of things
alien: okay... and these long glass strands you use for communications, how do those work?
human: well, we shine lasers down them...
alien: WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE AND LASERS?!
@StephanieRose@queer.garden she has one of my cousins on her desk, I'm sold
flu, death mention
@hfrazey I'm feeling a lot better thanks, little bit of lingering "bleh" but otherwise back to normal
hedgies are still hibernating away, they're due to wake up march/april-ish, we built them a load of little houses to sleep in and gave them plenty of straw to use as nesting material so they should be all nice and comfy
uspol vague musing
y'know, technically Jimmy Carter could stand for president again, would make him the second us president to serve non-consecutive terms
wouldn't be the most crazy thing that's happened in politics recently
Thatcher statue
@bob if anything a 10ft plinth just makes it a more interesting challenge
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- 418 I'm a teapot
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Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
"i never thought someone could be such a watch nerd and yet here you are" ~ @maple
Joined Oct 2017
