Enjoy bankruptcy when your across-the-street competitors decline to do this, and everyone who doesn’t want to be in a hurry, laptop or no, goes there.

PoC involved in petty violence in which nobody is killed? “IMMIGRANTS ARE ALL DANGEROUS CRIMINAL GANG MEMBER RAPISTS WE MUST CLOSE THE BORDERS NAO AND DEPORT EVERYONE WITH A FUNNY NAME!”

Can’t iron clothes. I own one, and a board. They’re both basically brand-new. It’s not that I don’t understand... it’s just like there’s some knack to NOT somehow making the clothes even more wrinkly or completely failing to remove the wrinkles that are there, that I don’t get.

The only place and time I do this is with frozen french fries and the like. You end up using a giant gallon-size bag (not cheap) ‘cause the cheaper, plainer, healthier types come in huge, non-resealable packaging.

My parents’ combined incomes topped out at $28,000 in the best fiscal year of their lives.

It takes more teacher supervision than most districts are willing to pay for - and most PE teachers are willing or able to provide - to run a game of dodgeball with kids without it turning into a sanctioned Pogrom against all kids who are too different - too skinny, too fat, too shy, too weird, too non-white, too…

I get what you’re saying, but in this case it’s about who pays for the tow.  There’s at least the chance you can get the thing towed off by the city / town / county / whatever jurisdiction if the cops determine some law besides Trespassing has been broken.  That’s the only reason I’d consider involving the cops,…

I guess things like that are where the aphorism about Truth being stranger than Fiction comes from...

People like this and it’s good! But that means not enough people are paying extra to see it. Gotta make it more exclusive and harder to watch, stat!

I was saying I only agree with him ‘cause it doesn’t make sense in terms of what I know of food science.  Greens are delicate.  Grilling is not.  It should result in a bad-tasting, poorly-textured, slimy and charred mess no matter how you do it.

Chrome tells me that’s a suspicious site trying to Phish something out of me...

Fair points all around. Iran feels more painful from my Western perspective because, socially at least if not politically and economically, it looked to become an enlightened, free country under the (admittedly corrupt) Shah, but now has regressed. I’m glad to hear it’s not as bad as it appears. Saudi Arabia, on the…

If it’s anything more ambitious than “Imma build a 3-story backyard castle for my family out of stacks of $100 bills”, then good for him.

Gordon Ramsay still thinks this is idiotic, even then.

Way ahead of you, Steve.  I’ve been off Facebook for over 40 years.  I kind of worry what it’s going to be like when you have to turn in your profile to get a job interview.  You can’t prove a negative, so they can’t exactly let people get away with saying they don’t have one...

And here I thought Jordan was supposed to be one of the more enlightened, pro-Western, pro-freedom, pro-Democracy/Meritocracy/Egalitarian sort of Middle-Eastern states.

Came in to check and see if the answer was “carry a surge protector” and of course that’s what it was.

My roommates and I drank a lot of store-bought iced tea in college, so we were always fighting over it and running out.

If this lady somehow went after someone with a knife or a gun of her own, perhaps a sufficiently large blunt instrument - lethal force, I’m saying - then maybe, maybe I wouldn’t be outraged. Still seems completely unnecessary and punitive - what’s the State’s interest here? Fearing we’ll have an epidemic of pregnant…

It’s not very grown up to disingenuously whine about “unprofitability” when we’re really talking about matters of DEGREE. It’s not that you can’t make money in real estate, even in the most heavily regulated markets. It’s about how high your rate of return is.