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[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 77 points 3 weeks ago

581 miles? You can still see a Buc-Ees in the rearview at that distance.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

I see you're a flat-earther

[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 3 weeks ago

No, you just underestimate the size of a buc-ees.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Buc-ee's would have to be 220,000ft tall to be able to see it from 580 miles away.
Not accounting for refraction.

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[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 32 points 3 weeks ago

Have you been to a Buc-Ees?

Hundreds of pumps. It's a goddamned ocean of concrete and steel. You can use the main building as a shelter for a mid-sized town and have enough bathrooms. It's a fucking department store serving as a gas station.

They're goddamned massive.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Hundreds of pumps And no open ones because everyone parks and sits there while they go inside

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, sadly, it seems no matter how ample the parking, people will still just take a pump.

I kinda get it, but at this point, we should all know better. Leave one person behind to pump and park, you're going to be in the building for awhile just trying to get snacks and get checked out. I've never seen our local less than packed inside.

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] r128@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

god i love new york

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe by car it's just around the corner, but walking it's 581 miles.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

“I would walk 581 miles, and I would walk 581 more” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Buc-ees is serious business though.

[-] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

I randomly went to one a few weeks ago thinking it was just a truck stop. I was not prepared for that.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve never been. What’s it all about?

[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 weeks ago

It's just unnecessarily huge. I've never seen so many gas pumps in my life. Or so many toilets. It's honestly absurd and made me feel existential dread. It's like everything wrong with America all in one convenient pit stop. I couldn't even enjoy the wall of jerky. Bathrooms were nice, though.

[-] Restaldt@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Ever been to a walmart in a small town on saturday?

Where the only thing to do in town is go to the walmart.....

Its that but with enough gas pumps to fuel the military

[-] obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's a Wal Mart supercenter combined with a mall food court masquerading as a gas station. With about 250 fuel pumps outside. I dont think I'm exaggerating.

And it's explicitly not a truck stop. No fueling pumps for big rigs.

[-] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 3 weeks ago
[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

Also this bit from The Simpsons

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

It’s good advertising. People see the funny billboard and snap a pic for social media.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 weeks ago
[-] lud@lemm.ee 49 points 3 weeks ago

Advertising. If they didn't do that people wouldn't have posted pictures of it on social media.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's a destination "gas station". There's a restaurant called Lamberts that sort of does the same thing.

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[-] Tower@lemm.ee 19 points 3 weeks ago

There's one in Arizona heading north between Phoenix and Tucson that says 951 miles behind you.

[-] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wall Drugs Store, South Dakota

[-] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

When my family went to see Mount Rushmore, I didn't know what Wall Drugs was. That changed as soon as we hit the state line. Those guys must have more billboards than Alexander Shunnarah.

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[-] socsa@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago

"You will soon enter the state of Texas. Have you considered not doing that?"

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[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks ago

Posting advertising today I see

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

this is what Americans call "just around the corner"

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Just an average commute.

[-] atocci@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Just gonna make a quick pit-stop

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 26 points 3 weeks ago

Aaaaaand we're broke... But I got 4 pairs of pajamas, 10 hats, 7 shirts, and 32 bandanas all with cartoon beavers on them. I also got us 14lbs of our favorite jerky, 6lbs of the jerky we always forget we don't like, and 8 different kinds of barbecue sandwiches and wraps. And some Beaver Nuggets.

If everything goes according to plan, we should have enough diarrhea and constipation to wreck every Pilot bathroom from here to El Paso

[-] mrmule@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

This guy Buc-ee's ☝️

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

No coolers, pie fillings, home decor, or kolaches? You didn't buy a rocking chair or a grill while you were there? Are you sure it was even Buc-ees?

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[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

This guy has never heard of South of the Border

[-] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago
[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago
[-] heavy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Those beaver nuggets are the real deal.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's not cocky, you're just in the middle of fuck-all nowhere. That Bucees's was the last gas station and you missed it.

[-] Marthirial@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Bucc-ee's is love, Bucc-ee's is life. The curse is real. I passed one without stopping and 15 minutes later, a rock shattered my windshield.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'd never heard of Buc-ees, and now I see that's because they're only in Texas. The only time I've been there, besides in an airport for a layover, was in 2014 when I drove on the 40 through Amarillo. According to Google maps, there is a (closed) Bucc-ees on the 40, but it looks like it was built very recently as it isn't there in 2023, the latest images on there.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They're spreading to states near Texas. Like a cancer that is, admittedly, nicer than most rest stops but is still just some fucking brand that reminds you the average person is a programmed chimp for making any kind of deal out of them.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I looked up some pictures of them and they are admittedly a spectacle, unmistakably American.

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[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Um, there's way more than just Texas.

They're also in AL, CO, FL, GA, KY, MO, SC, and TN

[-] Knives@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

NC is having one built soon

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Because America is so expansive the next Buc-ees in that direction is probably 800 miles away.

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