This is the only reason to exercise.

It’s not your money. You pay a price for goods and services - when the provider is the government, we call that taxes. Once you’ve paid for something - whether it’s for a cup of coffee, a tank of gas, rent, mortgage, or taxes - that money ceases to be yours, and you cease to have a voice in how it’s spent.

Nutmegger agrees.

Planet Money did an interesting episode on the Netflix work culture a couple years back. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/28/435583328/episode-647-hard-work-is-irrelevant

The person who suggested Gaba-ghoul is both my new favorite person, and inspiration for using strategically-placed capicola.

Maybe you’re thinking of Simon’s Quest, where your XP zeroes out when you use a continue?

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I think we all know that Spider-Man’s greatest enemy is Joe Quesada.

Born and bred New Englander, agree. Dunk’s isn’t even the best truck-stop style coffee by a long shot. Try any of the smaller donut places - Honey Dew, Sip ‘n’ Dip, or the one-offs.

File those under “things I miss most from college.”

And Sip n Dip makes better coffee anyway.

New England too. I’m still confused when people ask “Regular or decaf” because that’s like asking “Do you want a burger with everything, or a hot dog?”

The chain where I whiled away my youth playing Pac-Man begs to differ, sir.

You might want to choose a different example, since there are places where bartenders/bars can be liable for damage done by a drunk driver if they overserve them. Also since the right to drive an automobile can be taken away if you are found to be operating your vehicle in dangerous and reckless ways - you know, to…

I do the exact same thing. I read the comments, heard horns, and thought “That’s a kind of metal now?”

Doctor-a Fork-a!

You‘re doing the Lord of Light’s work in responding here. Thank you.

So what, Duke would be an assist trophy?

Thanks for saying this. No one ever thinks they’re rich. My friend would talk about his father selling his business and personally taking home $10M from the deal, but would balk at being called rich.

I once ordered a martini extra dry (also had to specify gin) in the Natick area, and I got back a concoction that was vermouth with a little gin. Apparently they didn’t know what extra dry meant, so they just added more vermouth...