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 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...

Gordon Ramsay still thinks this is idiotic, even then.

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.

Hah! That’s Hubris, to think that a life sentence has anything to do with retribution in his case. More like we can’t undo his damage, but he sure as hell can get more people killed running around free in society as a racist mental deficient.

Keep building that straw man. Obviously small businesses fail. This one in particular is being presented as having a long history and in no immediate danger of unprofitability. But essentially, yes, your job as owner or manager is to balance those thirds (payroll, non-payroll overhead & supply, and profit) to get them…

If the breakdown given is specifically adjusted for a cheese pizza only, and not being used as an abstract equivalent for all sales... then it’s completely meaningless. You might as well claim that the $16 pizza costs $15.99 and woe is me isn’t life as a business owner tough!

By my math - using the labor cost as a fraction of Illinois’ $8.25 minimum wage to estimate how many pizza-equivalent sales you get in an hour, and a 12 hour day - that Overhead fraction comes out to over $10,400 per month. Of course the higher throughput meaning that Overhead fraction gets multiplied by more sales…

You don’t have to be unfunny for that joke to fall flat.  Nobody knocks them all out of the park.

But I was told that every bad thing that ever happened in America was somehow a Clinton’s or Obama’s fault?  Maybe Jimmy Carter if you go back far enough?