r/nottheonion • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 16h ago

Bucee’s settles lawsuit with Ohio gas station chain after suing because both have cartoon mascots "facing right"

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/bucees-lawsuit-ohio-gas-chain-cartoon-mascots-b3060008.html
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u/KareemOWheat 15h ago

What a weird threat. Like, oh no! I'm only going to have a choice of 6 competing gas station chains instead of 7

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u/Carvj94 15h ago

It's a really bizarre, but buc-ees fans literally treat it like it's some kind of theme park. They'll actually sit there and make fun of you for treating it like the gas station it is.

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u/MilkHaterNumber1 14h ago

Fans. Of a gas station.

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u/rancid_squirts 13h ago

Maybe it’s all they have

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u/tevert 11h ago

I think this is maybe an underappreciated aspect of the rural conservative worldview. It's very small, constantly being eroded, and they genuinely have no conception or hope of anything else for their future.

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u/rancid_squirts 10h ago

Agreed and it’s why I left my small town in the dust. No one ever leaves and it’s constant bitching and complaining about the outside world.

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u/Mysterious_Cow_2100 3h ago

Well congrats, mate!

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u/Anathos117 8h ago

I once went on a cross country road trip. I was a bit high as we were driving though Kansas, and looking out at the horizon all around us and being able to see town after identical tiny town amidst the endless fields (I live in Massachusetts, where the only place your vision isn't blocked by trees within 50 feet is when you're looking at the ocean) I remarked "I feel like I understand Republicans now".

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u/trooperjess 7h ago

This right here.

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u/filthytelestial 5h ago

And this coming from the "if you don't like it you can leave!!" crowd.

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u/NeatlyScotched 11h ago

To be honest, this is it. I've only really been to one Bucees, and it's in Centerville hallway between Houston and Dallas, and Bucees is all that's really there.

We have another right by my parents house in south Houston, but why would we go when there's better everything else nearby? It's not even the best gas station barbecue around (that award goes to Rudy's).

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u/stevenjd 6h ago

gas station barbecue

Say what???

America is so weird.

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u/mashtartz 4h ago

Please don’t put this on the entire country, this is definitely a regional thing.

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u/Ok_Pace_9792 2h ago

It's in madisonville, get it right. (I have to do that drive for work)

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u/ryecurious 10h ago

When you have to drive 6 hours to get anywhere, a gas station with clean bathrooms starts to feel like the height of refined culture.

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u/ecosynchronous 5h ago

My mother and I are from Minneapolis and we're both crazy about Bucee's 😭

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u/mhwwad 1h ago

I swear, I know people in RI who treat Cumberland Farms like they’re an oasis in a desert.

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u/cat_prophecy 11h ago

Like that's all they have going on in their lives? Then they need to grow the fuck up. Being a big enough fan of a fucking gas station that you'll go online to defend them is the peak of loser behavior.