#7-eleven

Behold! The 60th anniversary cup and an alien themed straw, just in time for the real holiday. And not the one that happened last week because not everyone wants to risk their lives being turned into chocolate chip biscuits.

If we take a nice gander of this cup, you'll notice it's got a trio set of stickers that fans and alien lovers can have fun being creative when placing them anywhere. Not too sure if it's the same set or a different version, but it's worth three dollars.

Today's daily featured flag for 11 July, 2026 is the flag of the Incorporated Convenience Store Chain of 7-Eleven. That's right folks, this one might seem a bit unconventional, but looking at an MDY calendar reveals why I've chosen this flag today. For once, there was a land of laziness and entitlement, a land granted so much yet a land which had done so little. There in that land lay hundreds of millions people, mostly pale-skinned and elderly, with a spice tolerance not exceeding the capsaicin of mayonnaise. Each year, on the eleventh of July, a mass horde of these people would storm the convenience store known as 7-Eleven to partake in an ancient tradition of feasting upon a mythical beverage known only as a Slurpee. This beverage was available year round at low cost, but only on the eleventh day of the seventh month was the beverage free- and the people of this land loved free things.

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