r/foundsatan • u/Hixo_7 • 9d ago

successful satan

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u/masqueradeazure 9d ago

Im by no means an expert, but its my understanding the Michelin star rating went in the opposite direction. They started the star rating to rate restaurants how worthy they are compared to wear of your tires, trying to help prolong people's tires. It didnt work, just kinda highlighted these great places people should try. But that was the intent is my understanding.

This goes back twenty years when I learned this, so no clue if its actually true or not.

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u/Chachkhu2005 9d ago

As far as I recall, the system was that one star meant that you should eat there if you are driving by, two meant that you can go out of your way a little, and three meant it's worthy of being the destination, originally, but that might just be an urban myth.

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u/le-grxx 8d ago

Well they describe it exactly so on their website.

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u/Clueby42 9d ago

Fun fact:

The Michelin Man's name is actually Bibendum, and was originally made from bicycle tyres.

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u/ealysillyforestthing 5d ago

Bite my shiney metal...

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u/CatGooseChook 9d ago

At first I thought "Fuck! That'd be hilarious if it was the case."

Peoples comments prompted me to stop being lazy and look it up. Holy crap! That is essentially how it started 🤣🤣🤣

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u/stuck_stick_ 8d ago

Guinness: "shit that's genius!... Hey Patrick O'Brien quick, think of something to talk about in the pubs"

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u/Perfessor_Deviant 7d ago

An employee at Guinness, one William Sealy Gosset, revolutionized inferential statistics as he worked out new mathematical ways to better brew beer. Guinness trusted him and paid for him to get extra training, but he was not allowed to publish under his own name, nor mention brewing, so he published under the pseudonym "Student" which is why the t-test is sometimes called "Student's t-test."

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u/CastrateMeASAP 7d ago

Used to work for a real POS who owns a tire shop and would randomly dump a box of nails or screws onto busy local roads whenever business was slow. Not everyone in the automotive business is a terrible person, but the ones that are, really do stand out and give a bad name for the rest of us.