I'm just gonna put out there that I lowkey respect Banks. In the grand scheme of dumbass celebrities her views aren't the most problematic and she puts out banging music and she's so spot on so often. So like. Way disproportionate hate all considering

THIS GUACAMOLE IS THE INCORRECT COLOR.

In middle school, our band was invited to compete in the state of Michigan's public school band competition. Probably not the formal name of it, but whatever - we sucked as a band and it's not that important to the story. Because said competition took over the course of two days in a location that was a three hour…

My personal favorite was a hotel in I think Michigan, that wanted to become on of our brands. When they got initially inspected, the inspector sent in the pictures and we all about died laughing.

I used to work for many years for a lower tier national chain that ran ads to the tune of a Johnny Cash song. I worked in IT so I had access to the production systems for property/room inspections (with pictures!).

Story time: I once worked as the midnight desk clerk at a seedy motel in a California resort town. The managers were a horrible, racist elderly couple who treated the housekeeping staff like dirt. One night, I rented a room at 2am to a bunch of hippies who pulled up in a van and paid cash. They seemed like they were…

The scam story is absolutely one of the scariest things I've read in a while. It would fit in with the annual Jez Halloween scary stories bonanza.

Thank you to Jez for this reasoned and caring interview, and especially to Sascha for giving it. As a sex worker with long term disability, with many, MANY friends in the same boat it's comforting to see discussion on this in her own words, and many of the positive comments left here compared to the nasty comments…

My mistake.

It's too bad this will become a titillating joke in most media sources, because there are so many interesting and thought-provoking facets to this story. At its core appears to be a woman who was dealt an unbelievably shitty hand and is playing it as best she can, and has found employment that creates mobility and…

Every single fucking year. Folsom Street fair rolls around and everybody is all, "assless chaps THIS" and "assless chaps THAT" and I'm like "ALL CHAPS ARE ASSLESS! THAT IS THEIR JOB!"

She seems like an incredibly thoughtful person.

This is a very good comment. So much of the energy around combating sex trafficking is misdirected.

Um, how the fuck does Hyde even apply here? Logistically, survivors of sex trafficking are rape survivors, which is covered under Hyde. Motherfuckers.

Slate had a really good explainer about how sex trafficking became a Christian right cause, although stuff like this makes me think the article might be a little naive as to how benign their interest in it is.

I think it depends on the type of republican. I think he'd get more of a pass if he was socially liberal, fiscally conservative rather than socially and fiscally conservative. Democrats get a little more sympathy, I think, because they spend less time judging people for their sexual practices while a lot of…

Story!

I'm now in the position where I'm a bit more sympathetic to the parents. Children can be quite willful. Also, more clever that you might realize about escaping.

I'm so glad the baby punting story ended with the parents apologizing.

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