Thank you for the link, any time I get to read something I typically wouldn’t helps to inform me about my decisions and those around me.

That’s what my mom did :) (telling me to eat it since that’s all I’m getting). Now I don’t give a shit about food and my goto is a peanut butter sandwich. A treat is pizza. If something takes more than 5 minutes to make I won’t do it because it isn’t worth it. If there isn’t something easy, I’ll just skip the meal…

US citizen, lived in Italy for a few years. They thought the American way of rushing people in and out of restaurants was very odd. I came to agree with that and adapted so we’ll to life in Italy that returning to the States was a terrible culture shock. Took me about a year to re-adjust to the hectic pace, and the…

There’s two things at play here: for the server, it’s a tip/income issue. The server is likely collecting a (severely, in some states) sub-minimum hourly wage. In most restaurants where the tip money is good, you’re only going to get assigned a certain number of tops. If they don’t turn at the expected rate, you’re…

you cannot go anywhere. i live in an area with lots lots of expats, non americans. every one when first arrives asks that question. and the answer is you sit on the street or go to uncool shady places if you what to talk for a reasonable amount of time.

I always thought that’s why Ness is Ness

Retired law enforcement here. Allow me to toss in my two cents here. Based on the information given here, the cops were way wrong. They had no way of knowing the man was deaf and mentally handicapped and that was the reason for his failure to communicate with them. The only thing they knew was a man was walking…

People don’t naturally do a good job of processing risk. Things that are familiar or where people have a sense of control are processed as less risky than things that are unusual or where people feel like they are not in control. This helps explain why people fear flying a lot more than driving even though driving is…

There's also, for want of a better word, a twinkle in the way Chapman, Cleese and Idle deliver their lines even when they're playing a scene relatively straight: they're not so much delivering lines seriously as they're delivering them with a kind of exaggerated seriousness, a knowing dash of self-righteous…

They're one step ahead of you, silly. That's the image they implanted in your head to make you think that's what you saw.

Writers tend to go for batman beating supes because it's contrary to the expected outcome based on power levels, it allows the fight to have a better dramatic narrative, and doing so solidifies batman's place as one of the most dangerous foes in the dc 'verse.