This whole topic was covered beautifully by Douglas Adams in The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with his explanation of the science of Bistromathics. Bistromathics is a complicated and powerful branch of maths that helps scientists perform remarkable feats because of its ability to render equations where the number…

The FUCKING worst is people who don’t realize that their own HUMAN children count as covers. They will book online (through the yelper’s choice douche system that is open table) for a party of 4, then show up with 4 full grown adults, and 2-3 toddlers and at least one high chair. And complain, when you insist on…

I don’t think I could ever be a restaurant manager, because I’d probably use the “right to refuse service” way too often for stupidity like this. “You call yourself a vegetarian but just ordered a steak? Get out, you’re not welcome back here”.

I worked with a gal software programmer who always said she wouldn't eat anything with a face. I drew a smiley face on her orange and she ran out of the room crying when she saw it.

Let me explain some simple physics to you, friend.

CHECK YOUR CHEESE PRIVILEGE

Pinkham’s Law.

Yeah, I’m going with Swiss cheese girl too. “She was JUST ASKING!! How HARD would it have been for the server to just ANSWER?! NOT EVERYONE KNOWS DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHEESES ARE CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE GAWD”

once upon a time i worked on the second floor of a 5 story building with no windows*. my station was right at the top of the east side staircase. one day a woman came up the stairs, stopped right in front of me and asked “where are the stairs that go down?”

Definitely Dolphin/Mahi. How could it be otherwise?

Yes, yes there are people that stupid. I’ve met “vegans” that swore to hell and back that they were vegan, yet ate shellfish. On the other end of the spectrum, I’ve encountered men who refused to eat a salad with their steak because “they’re not vegetarian.”

Time to place your bets on what story will be subject to Pinkham’s Law first.

If you read BCO regularly, you will not only discover that yes, there are people that stupid, but there are other people who will come here and attempt to justify said behavior.

“Oh, they’re a vegetarian, so they won’t eat anything that looks like meat.”

This story brings up so many feelings for me. When I was 17, I was raped by my high school boyfriend and got pregnant. I was a virgin and not ready for the responsibility of sex or parenting. I was extremely ashamed and never reported the rape and felt that I was better off not telling anyone, rather than face my…

First step is to use a condom. If that fails you use plan b. if that fails you get an abortion, or you give the baby to the police station. This women was just irresponsible and arguing that it’s a result of abortion restrictions lessens the pro choice argument. I am adamantly pro choice, but this woman never had to…

I think we do know why these things happen. For one, Safe Haven laws aren’t really publicized the way they should be, and lots of people don’t know it is an option. But more broadly, the shame and stigma of unplanned pregnancies and the pressure on women actually makes it mentally very difficult (if not impossible)…

I’m just spitballin’ here, but I suspect she was in massive denial about being pregnant, probably hiding the pregnancy. and panicked/snapped when she actually delivered.

But the Republicans told me shutting down all the Planned Parenthoods, enacting TRAP laws, and denying women cheap/free birth control would save babies!?

We had one in my town not quite two years ago. Local girl, very smart, poor family but well-regarded in the community, worked full time and attended classes during the day. She gave birth in a bathroom at her job, is suspected of strangling it, then gave it over to her boyfriend. She told him it was a stillbirth and…