I damned near laughed my head off at an inlaw who tried that at a restaurant; it was called, let’s say, “Bob’s Restaurant.” Said inlaw was talking about Bob to the manager, obviously trying to look important, who came back with how Bob hadn’t owned the place for several years. Nice.

In case anyone is confused: Zinfandel is red, but there’s “white Zinfandel” which is a rosé version. (People are making “white Merlot” and other rosé variations these days too.) It got crazy-popular maybe 20+ years ago, and lots of newbie wine drinkers don’t understand that there’s a big difference when you slap…

Oh god, that was me too. I had no idea he was trying for “mocha” and was assuming it was some butchering of “matcha.” /facepalm

Well, the really crappy version was the TV release (the bastardized “Love Conquers All” edit); the initial theater/video release was at least supervised by Gilliam. But yes, his recut final version is superior.

Well, in that the manager of said gastropub was being pervy towards women, chased off all their female customers, then was naked on a desk in hopes of attracting a stripper. So really, the strip club was the tangentially-involved part, and the gastropub was front-and-center.

Ugh, did we go to the same high school? Our advanced bio teacher would constantly, obviously try to look down the shirts of girls with any kind of endowment. One day he got visibly pissed when one cheerleader (wearing her required V-neck cheer uniform top for an assembly that day) firmly and deliberately held her…

In her mind, it sure as hell didn’t!

God. That must have been what was involved in a funeral I attended. The deceased had killed himself by diving off a 6th floor interior railing in a shopping mall, and his family also wanted an open casket. Compared with the photos, his face and head looked like a vaguely misshapen version of what it should have been.…

Because pets don’t always survive the trip when being transported like cargo, and can get “lost” like standard baggage.

Indeed, I wrongly glossed over that in my summary of what can influence prenatal development; chromosomal mutations definitely have an impact.

Biological sex is defined by chromosomes, but prenatal development can influence how that is expressed and how your brain develops. The concept of gender equaling more than your chromosomes has been around at least since John Money’s work in the 1950s. Do try to keep up, troll.

I thought Chuck-E-Cheese served alcohol so the parents could stand to be there? Or is/was that Showbiz Pizza?

This. I joined a gym at work, put my headphones on, and get in my own little zone. I thought I hated the gym, but turns out, not really.

She definitely should! With very on-and-off training I’ve worked up to squatting with a 50 lb dumbbell in each hand, and don’t look even as good as the “What actually happens” comparison picture that was posted.

Yeah, I’d worry that I would get a bit of glue on the nail, and then when I peeled off the glue, it’d tear the polish on the nail.

Useful exercise and it definitely has a point, but note that this excludes anything “seasonal” that you may sorely wish you had in another month or three.

Did you not own a baseball bat as a child?

He wasn’t revealing the breaking of laws to authorities with jurisdiction. He was gossiping. Don’t even try to compare this to being a whistleblower; that’s utter nonsense.

Basically no, but the police may decline to pursue the case if they do not have a cooperative victim.

She might have been up for something on the way there then changed her mind, and he decided to not take no for an answer.