Others may be adults, but I’m positive that you’re just an asshole.

Financial abuse is a form of abuse. Isolating and removing a person’s financial and social resources is most definitely a form of abuse, and is usually one of the first things an abuser does before becoming violent.

I apologize if this is the 2nd time I’ve responded to you, but it’s just ‘celiac disease,’ or ‘coeliac’ if you’re British. There’s no “s,” and no apostrophe. It’s not a plural, or a possessive, and it’s not named after someone.

It is pronounced “cricket.” Your co-worker is wrong. If you look @ their homepage, there are even tiny antennae on their logo. ;)

For future reference, it’s just “celiac disease.” Not “celiacs.” It’s not a plural, nor a possessive, and it’s not named after someone.

I’m always amused by the stunned reaction I get when I tell people that restaurants where you’re spending $150+/pp for dinner, usually do not pay their kitchen staff very well, and routinely flout work hour laws.

You can take your star back, just click it again!

It’s 100% normal to clean up your own table at any fast food/fast casual restaurant—it is expected. Anyone who uses the “It’s a thing that keeps bussers employed” should immediately fuck off. No one, exactly no one, is a ‘busser’ in a fast food (or Starfucks) environment; they all have better jobs to do than to clean…

D.C./MD here, I can buy pizza dough at any local pizza place. Same for my friends in the Philly area, and everyone in NJ. We even did it in Maine once while on vacation. My family in VT loves their pizza place, and buys their dough to make calzones from Thanksgiving leftovers.

Queso,” refers to ‘chile con queso,’ a Velveeta and Ro-tel tomato-based dip that is served hot. It’s Tex-Mex, and is tasty, but is just made from so many super-processed items. :\

As an aside, you’ve heard of the Heart Attack Grill, right? Two people have died there! Granted, they were both morbidly obese and walking time bombs, anyway—but one was their spokesman! Woohoo, Vegas, baby!

He always reminds me of Jaws, despite his wonderful acting skills.

No more Harper! Congratulations! Wish us luck next year, as our doom-inspiring election year shenanigans kick into high gear on Jan. 1st. :(

Usually it’s with champagne, but any sparkling wine + lemon juice & St. Germain = French 77. Yes, they are delicious. I usually skip the lemon juice, and that’s also fine. They’re light, refreshing, and if you add a shot of vodka, are lethal, fruity, bubbly amazingness.

Yeah, your taste buds do tend to die off and desensitize as you grow older, but temperature sensing is a different thing. Yes, your nerves can also desensitize as you get old. And with some forms of neuropathy (nerve damage, whether in the skin or mucous membranes,) you can’t figure out temperature either. If this…

As someone who loves pineapple (with bacon) on pizza, the thought of grape jelly on pizza is nastification in food form.

She feels fat—I understand that her mind is telling her that she’s fat. But when compared to people who need seatbelt extenders on airplanes, and anything >size 20, she’s not fat. Anorexics think that they’re fat too—and they definitely aren’t. Their psychology is screwy, and their neurochemistry is totally wacky. And…

What I find interesting is that getting paid less than half of Australian min. wage is still getting paid more than the U.S. federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr. At AUS$10, that’s ~US$7.33, or $0.08 more than our gov’t requires workers to be paid. And that’s before taxes too!

...but what isn’t ‘raw water?’ Bottled water? Sparkling water? I prefer carbonated to flat water, but I could not care less about its provenance—fizzy tap water is fine by me.

The babytalk just kills me. It’s a child, not a cartoon. :(