“So, your table stopped me and asked what kind of fish they had was because they thought you were lying to them; I told them it was cod and they asked why we didn’t have real fish.”

I would do anything for meatloaf, but I won’t do that.

‘memba this?

Not enough Capt Walker.

great reporting in this article! especially impressed with how you completely avoided mentioning that this wonderful app basically gets enough permissions to have sex with your g/f if it wants

I do this all the time. I will cheerfully take up for a waitress, a server, a checker, anyone who is being mistreated by another customer. *I’M* a customer, too, and I have no dog in the fight. I’m old enough and southern enough to get away with most of it but make no mistake — if you act like an rude asshole in MY…

You are doing God’s work. Stay strong.

I was going to post this, but then I decided to let someone else take the wrath of the commenters. And then congratulate that person. Congratulations.

It’s not worse, because it actually makes a difference to meaning, unlike most grammatical mistakes. People’s grasp of percentages, in general, really could be much better, so I think it’s worth picking up on this kind of thing. Although I realise it won’t win you many friends...

Ah, percentages and percentage points. 5% is not 1% more than 4%. It is one “percentage point” more. In percent, 5% is actually 25% more than 4%. It’s Friday, who cares.

That’s some Adams-worthy thinking! Too bad he isn’t around to mock these clowns.

From my own experience/observation, organizing lefties is like herding cats.

If the left wing conspiracy exists, they clearly would have eased back in stuffing the ballot during this Sad Puppy era to devalidate the claim that ballot stuffing exists, thus proving to they don’t exist!

I’m so WEARY of these assholes. This is supposed to be FUN. It isn’t supposed to be a long, bitter war. I hope the Puppies are fucking trounced in disgrace at the Hugo’s. I hope “no award” wins for most of the categories they flooded. As wonderful as that will be it will just make them more bloodthirsty, bigoted and…

I am told it has a first name. It’s . . . . no. It is forbidden.

Saying that this is “the noise of the planet” as it may lead people to believe this is natural sounds occurring in the martian atmosphere when in fact it’s a synthetic sound created to give a clue to how rough the terrain is.

For what it’s worth, this is technically “the road noise of mars”, not the environmental noise. It’s the vibrations recorded by the hazard avoidance system, converted to audio. What you’re hearing is all the bumps and texture of the ground the rover is driving on, just like the noises you hear from the tires of your…

The sound isn’t weird since it is just from the vibration but the Opportunity moving around and stopping at times to assess and sample is kind of mesmerizing to watch. If this was “found footage” from some Indy film how creepy it would be to have it come up on something alien-esque all of a sudden?

The Stand is the only novel that has ever scared the ever-loving bejeemus outta me... but only the first part of it. The Captain Trips portion was so vivid, so graphic (still have panic in tunnels, thanks for that), and so PLAUSIBLE that it truly frightened me reading it... and then, as you say, it suddenly became a…

in names ending with a -pus it's good to know that it comes from the Greek word Pus - Πους (foot).