What reasonable term could we use to replace it with?

We had a regular couple at one restaurant I worked who were South Asian (not sure which country they were originally from, but based on their accents I'm willing to bet they had been born elsewhere) who we used to legit fight over. When they'd walk in, the servers' eyes would all simultaneously light up.

I can see how the $100 might be insulting, but updating you guys with a presumed apology, taking ownership, and coming back to try to make things right sounds pretty classy to me.

Co-workers: "joking" that I should spill coffee on all of them.

Bill Cosby is a good example of the "rapists are normal people, not obvious monsters" thing. As long as we continue to believe all rapists come off as inherently creepy people will still disbelieve survivors, no matter how credible their stories.

It is possible to still enjoy someone's contributions to art, while acknowledging that the artist is gross.

Props to Hannibal Buress (who is just fantastic on Broad City). Ever since I read about the rape allegations about Cosby, who has been widely known as a skirtchaser since forever, I can't bring myself to watch The Cosby Show or listen to his standup. I unapologetically cannot divorce those stories from his work.

I do like that punch line: "It's not funny. That shit has more results than Hannibal Buress." It's like a complisult had a child with a humblebrag. A humblesult!

Because he holds out delusional hope that he'll get a week's worth of sex with an attractive young woman in return for chipping in for some portion of her vacation.

So, I'm half-Persian. This means that when I go out with Farsi speaking friends/relatives, we sometimes get the servers who equate non-English-Speakers with being stiffed and it's sometimes evident in the occasional eye-roll or stiff smile. I used to be a server, myself, so I'm not at all unfamiliar with that attitude.

I'm 99,999999999999999% sure the bid was fake.

Celebrity Edition!

They kept Judy Dench as M, but I'd still call Casino Royale a hard reboot. She is the same actress, but it is a different character. Her first M was new to the position, and considered Bond a relic of the cold war. Her rebooted M, on the other hand, has been in the position since the cold war, and has expressed…

Me? I make a $40 tip on a $90 check. Coworkers? Rake in lots of lovely YOU SHALL BURN IN HELL pamphlets.

I've never served, but I did work in sales at a home improvement store for a bit...

The romcom where the romantic lead whose actions would only lead to arrest and a restraining order in the real world (not science fiction-y though.)

.... AND YET ANOTHER shining fucking example of a sex offender walking free..... I swear to God, I don't know how many women and children have to die or be violated for the US government to wake the hell up and realize sex offenders, by and large, cannot be rehabilitated!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!

A sex offender with multiple pending cases...well, that's fucking infuriating.

It just means that they are still putting the case together and deciding what exactly to charge him with. It can sometimes take a while to get all the information and for the DA to decide the number of counts for each charge as well. For a complex case like this it is fairly normal.

a sex offender with multiple pending cases