That second one sounds a lot like sleep paralysis. I had a similar experience when I was in college. I was sleeping in my bed in my apartment, but I started hearing what I was sure was a dog-looking demon outside my door. (I’m not sure how I knew what it looked like other than the fact that it wasn’t real and was all…

My dad has a ghost story from when he was a kid, but I’ve forgotten much of the details, so I’ll not bother posting it. I also had an experience with sleep paralysis that creeped me out for at least the day, but knowing what it was, it’s not really much of a story.

On the one hand, “free-range kids” is just a new term for what basically all parents did in the 80s: let their kids play outside, go to the park, run around with friends without a parent hovering over them all day. I remember riding all around town on my bike before I was 10. Child abductions are actually quite a bit…

That’s probably it, right there. He was blowing up, was given a lead in a movie that was hoped to be huge...and it flopped. Now, that was probably not due to him or his acting (I don’t know, didn’t bother to see it) but he will share some of the blame, there will be a bit of a stink around him, and he will be offered…

Very true. You have to be casual about leaving seeming evidence of your good deeds, because drawing too much attention to it is suspicious in and of itself.

How am I being a bad person? In either case, someone vile is smug, so yeah, I’d rather have something good happen for me as well as an asshole getting to be smug rather than have something vile happen and someone vile get to be smug.

I couldn’t care less about baseball or basketball, so I never interacted with Yankees fans or Lakers fans in any meaningful way. But two of the the three NFL teams I absolutely hate are the Patriots and the Cowboys. I’d be hard pressed to answer which is worse, but because the Pats fans are “now” and I’m aware of what…

Awesome, a reply of SB 45? I like it.

My wife is a clean person. If we set the dinner table with a fork and a spoon for everyone, and I never so much as touch the spoon, it still goes in the dishwasher because it was taken out of the drawer.

Not if you make it a habit to just always toss the receipt as you walk away from the counter. I never keep those things. In fact, if they ask me if I want one, I just say no and leave it at that.

I’m a Packers fan, I’ll take a smug Goodell any time if the Packers win. Also, the Patriots are one of three teams I actively loathe, so again, I’d take a smug Goodell any time if the Patriots don’t even get to play.

If my choice is between a Boloco and a Chipotle, I make something at home. Chipotle is shit, and I’ve never heard of a Boloco before now, but it sounds like shit as well.

Besides, it’s totally a crap question, so go for the selfish route. It’s going to be uncomfortable either way, at least get a climax out of it.

Being the best team in the league has very little to do with who plays in the Super Bowl. The Packers were clearly the best team last year, but a fluke loss in the playoffs, and they’re sitting at home on Super Sunday. The Super Bowl is played by the two teams that get hot at the end of the season, even if they barely…

Restaurants that have cookies near me, off the top of my head:

I’ve had this idea for an MMO for years, but since I have no programming skills, no money, and no connections within the industry, it’s always just been a dream of mine. I don’t even know enough to know if this is technically feasible yet, but I’m curious if anyone would find this interesting:

In Madison, at least, there has to be a person with a liquor license on premises, but the person working the register doesn’t have to be that person, just has to be 18.

In Madison, you don’t have to have a liquor license to ring up alcohol, but someone with a liquor license has to be on the premises for the store to sell alcohol. As long as some employee, somwehere, is licensed, you’re A-Ok.

I used to work at Woodman’s (both Appleton and Madison) and you need to have a liquor license to sell alcohol. You don’t have to be a licensed bartender, because I couldn’t tell you what goes into anything more convoluted than a rum and Coke (I think I can figure that one out), but to get a liquor license you have to…

It’s partially because walking means you’re doing something, whereas standing still means you’re wasting time not doing anything, combined with the short attention span of a society that has everything instantly and infinite diversions. Boredom happens at about 2.5 seconds of inactivity.