What is your "never again" brand, item, store, or restaurant?

• superman

  Mooney44Cards;1172763 wrote:LaRosa's in Cincinnati.
  
  Quite simply the worst Italian food I've ever eaten, and the pizza is just insulting.

  I'd like to hear what you think is good pizza.
  
  As for the topic, JJhuddle.
• said_aouita

  

  ernest_t_bass;1172762 wrote:Esplayne?

  the openmat website- "In 2006, The Oregon State Beavers won the second of two consecutive College World Series titles. It left the Ducks (who didn’t have a baseball team) feeling like the little brother.
  So, instead of adding a baseball team and a women’s component to remain in compliance with Title IX, the federally mandate that requires equal opportunity for both men and women, the University of Oregon dropped wrestling and added hardball.
  Oregon, which serves as ground zero for Nike and its founder, billionaire, Phil Knight, could have easily afforded to subsidize both programs. If it was about money they wouldn’t have cut the relatively cost-efficient wrestling team in favor of a money-pit that is an NCAA ball club. The fact that they decided to cut a healthy and productive program still leaves a bad taste in the mouths of conscientious wrestling folks."
  
  imo- Phil Knight needed to step up and pay for the wrestling team, for the school in which he was a former athlete. Instead of hundreds of uni combinations for the football team and only looking at making more $$ for the evil empire in college athletics, help some of the other sports for your alma mater.
• justincredible

  

  I'll second LaRosa's. My wife likes it and we did go in this weekend for our free small pizza from when the Reds struck out 11+ guys on Saturday. I'd never pay for it.
  
  My current phone is the last Android device I will own, at least for a while.
• sleeper

  

  Never again will I buy an Apple product. They are shit.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  gorocks99;1172779 wrote:Also, Best Buy. Fuck those guys.

  Used to LOVE Best Buy. Don't see myself ever going in there for anything ever again. I love Amazon.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  said_aouita;1172790 wrote:the openmat website- "In 2006, The Oregon State Beavers won the second of two consecutive College World Series titles. It left the Ducks (who didn’t have a baseball team) feeling like the little brother.
  So, instead of adding a baseball team and a women’s component to remain in compliance with Title IX, the federally mandate that requires equal opportunity for both men and women, the University of Oregon dropped wrestling and added hardball.
  Oregon, which serves as ground zero for Nike and its founder, billionaire, Phil Knight, could have easily afforded to subsidize both programs. If it was about money they wouldn’t have cut the relatively cost-efficient wrestling team in favor of a money-pit that is an NCAA ball club. The fact that they decided to cut a healthy and productive program still leaves a bad taste in the mouths of conscientious wrestling folks."
  
  imo- Phil Knight needed to step up and pay for the wrestling team, for the school in which he was a former athlete. Instead of hundreds of uni combinations for the football team and only looking at making more $$ for the evil empire in college athletics, help some of the other sports for your alma mater.

  How in the hell does a major university NOT have baseball/softball?
• Mooney44Cards

  

  superman;1172788 wrote:I'd like to hear what you think is good pizza.
  
  As for the topic, JJhuddle.

  In Cincinnati? Slim pickins. Italianette in Silverton is great. Adriaticos is also very good. And The Works in Loveland is good.
  
  Keep in mind, I'm from Youngstown where good Italian food and good pizza is pretty much on every corner.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  I'll never buy another PC.
• said_aouita

  

  ernest_t_bass;1172805 wrote:How in the hell does a major university NOT have wrestling?

  I agree.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  said_aouita;1172811 wrote:I agree.

  That was gay. There are many universities that don't have wrestling, but I haven't heard of any not having baseball. I was at BGSU when they cut men's track/field, CC, Tennis, and swimming/diving.
• gorocks99

  

  Wisconsin doesn't have a baseball team, nor does Colorado. Those are two major conference schools w/o it
• ernest_t_bass

  

  gorocks99;1172815 wrote:Wisconsin doesn't have a baseball team.

  Just blows my mind.
• SnotBubbles

  

  bases_loaded;1172754 wrote:Keep reading... Brand, item, store, restaurant...
  
  Comprehension Fail

  OVI...that's an item.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  SnotBubbles;1172824 wrote:OVI...that's an item.

  Pick up your FAIL and go home. Only a true idiot would read the thread and not realize they are talking about tangible items.
• SnotBubbles

  

  ernest_t_bass;1172829 wrote:Pick up your FAIL and go home. Only a true idiot would read the thread and not realize they are talking about tangible items.

  I've got a tangible piece of paper.
• queencitybuckeye

  Applebee's. Food is not really better or worse than the comparable chains, but they seem to work at having the worst service in the industry.
• cruiser_96

  

  As a follow up on Nike:
  
  2. Pat Kilkenny, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.
  While my distain for Pat Kilkenny and Phil Knight circles around the poor execution of how the wrestling program was cut, the biggest issue I had with the entire situation is the fact Kilkenny, a man without a college degree or any experience as an A.D., got hired anyway. He was Oregon’s second-highest booster (behind Uncle Phil) and was instrumental in buying out the previous A.D.’s contract. An avid baseball fan, Kilkenny cut wrestling to add baseball and started pumping loads of money into the program. He wanted to keep pace with rival Oregon State, who had recently won the College World Series. The previous A.D. promised the program a new wrestling room, in return, the old wrestling room would be turned into a training room, mainly for the Ducks’ football program. A new room was never built and was one of the reasons Kilkenny sited in why the sport was cut. “Lack of a functional practice facility” was I believe the terminology. Oregon had an NCAA champion in Shane Webster in 2006. They cut the program in 2007. The most troublesome thing to me is how a man could be hired at an academic institution and have the life and legacy of athletes seeking degrees in his hands. The guy never even graduated. How can he be remotely qualified to oversee student-athletes? Then volunteer assistant Jason Powell needed a degree to even be considered for his coaching position. Nebraska was called to validate Powell graduated. Yet, the “degree requirement” for the A.D. position was notably missing. This one still stinks and is the reason I’ll never buy another Nike product again. I think Nike should get out of wrestling altogether. If “Nike U” doesn’t have wrestling, then Nike shouldn’t make money on wrestling. This one still leaves me with a bitter, bitter taste.
  Of note: No one from the Oregon Athletics Department ever followed up on repeated requests for interviews.
  
  After reading this, I have never and never will buy another Nike apperal item. My only caviat is Ohio State wrestling gear. I want to support them, and all of their stuff is Nike. At least the last few years have been.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  SnotBubbles;1172831 wrote:I've got a tangible piece of paper.

  You want a tangible knuckle-sandwich? How about a tangible cock shoved down your throat?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Steel Reserve beer, for sure. GROSS shit.
• gorocks99

  

  Applebee's, Chili's, TGI Friday's ... any of those. No way...unless I'm stuck in an airport or something and there's no other place to get a beer and a bite. I used to eat Applebee's in college for their cheap late-night apps, but I went to one a few years back and about choked on how much salt was in the food and how generally blech it was. Literally disgusting.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Never again will I get chili from Wendy's. I threw up on it when I was in HS, and have never been able to eat it again.
• cruiser_96

  

  ETB: Wisconsin doesn't have baseball. The weird thing is, Wisconsin-Miluakee does!
• Commander of Awesome

  

  ernest_t_bass;1172762 wrote:Esplayne?

  Wasn't funny the first time, not funny the 109th time.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  In college I drank nearly an entire fifth of vanilla vodka+Coke. I drank it on Friday, could not walk on Saturday, and was still very hungover on Sunday. To this day, I cannot stomach a Vanilla Coke.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Commander of Awesome;1172844 wrote:Wasn't funny the first time, not funny the 109th time.

  Esplayne?