Yeah, I believe that. I don’t know if it’s still true, but for a while (at least twenty years ago? iirc) Real Estate agents in the U.S. couldn’t advertise that a house had expensively useful things like wheelchair ramps and lowered counters, because it was seen as discriminatory targeting. You could tell someone who…

Yeah, but if you’re on disability the chances are high that you’re getting the three-times-a-week home assistant. If the 3x assistant can do the egg mold thing for you and pop them into the fridge when done, then you’ve got your pre-peeled eggs sitting there waiting for you to pop them right out.

Rude Negro always offers the Salty Waitress Aftershow. The combo program is listed in your guide as “Salty & Rude,” and it’s usually pretty darned good.

Yeah, I think it’s a good rule of thumb to assume that a restaurant is paying everyone that they can as if they’re waitstaff. It’s not always true, but it is often true.

I see what you mean, and I have fellow geeky friends who came out of their childhoods with similar viewpoints, but for me, my bullied-girl-geek experience was that the most effective way to “not back down” was to not be deterred from continuing to exist in that space and time. I find a lot of very frought people can…

I see what you mean, and I have fellow geeky friends who came out of their childhoods with similar viewpoints, but for me, my bullied-girl-geek experience was that the most effective way to “not back down” was to not be deterred from continuing to exist in that space and time. I find a lot of very frought people can…

I’m a woman. But nice try. Hopefully my winsome femininity will help you keep “cool.” *eyeroll*

He did this after he’d come over to have words, of course. We called management when he let us know what he was going to do. They weren’t willing to throw him out or move us. I wonder what result you think would have come if we had escalated in precisely the way you say? Nothing good. Or maybe you were hoping…

“Families are welcome, but we may ask unruly, disruptive, or loud children to be escorted out by a parent.”

“Families are welcome, but we may ask unruly, disruptive, or loud children to be escorted out by a parent.”

We had a drunken father stand silently over our table for an entire meal because we had the audacity to tell his kid to please leave our table. Apparently he took it as a threat to his child, and thought we should feel just as threatened in return. We were with my parents and small child. So threatening. We didn’t…

Once we got down to “Class and Decorum,” I figured it must be a troll, even if the troll was representing a likely scenario.

Great policy. I had one “white napkin restaurant” kid who could handle themselves and loved to be complimented on table manners, and I had one kid who went to family restaurants, and had to be taken outside once even under those circumstances. I would have loved to take the white-napkin kid here where roaming table…

A lot of people seem to think it’s non-confrontational, but then they let their discomfort and unasked questions mount until they explode and can’t understand how they wound up in such straits, angry at someone who is rightly oblivious. It’s like, man, just bringing up a little thing when you want it, politely, is how…

Depends on whether you want to clean up after customers when they find out that the theme is “soundproof private booths.” It’ll be forty-nine percent old people, and forty-nine percent pervs. The last two percent will be families who are glad that li’l Billy can scream his head off and they can enjoy it guilt-free,…

I suspect it’s because the con is in Anaheim. Couldn’t bring themselves to wear Yankees gear, so chose the historic home of their own team.

... and LeVar Burton. And the Kratt Brothers. And Jim Henson. And Marc Summers and the lady who invented Gak for Double Dare. And John Barrowman. Um, this list of “exceptions” is starting to get long...

It’s like breaking in the Carol Burnett show - it’s a game where each volley is meant to test the comedian. The audience is in on the game, and Hader is reading protagonist’s lines and reacting as chorus. It’s actually kind of complex. Jimmy Fallon breaking in an entirely rehearsed bit without much variation is just…

Their last few years of campaigning just reminds me that they’re Arby’s now. As such, it’s pretty accurate. 

Re-creation festivals are already a thing, for different times and places. Texas has three of the largest renaissance fairs in the country, plus it turns the town of Galveston into the setting for Dickens’s stories once per year. California has the oldest Renaissance festival plus Old West towns like Knotts Berry…