I agree. I also do not personally blame the Catholic Church for the holocaust at all. BUT I disagree with the idea that the Church can say “but this is a new pope” in one breath and “the pope is god’s rep on earth” in the next breath. They are mutually exclusive concepts.

Except he’s not like a CEO of a company or something - popes expect the faithful to believe that they are god’s representative on earth and as such the power structure is continuous from the first pope to the present pope. If we were to accept what you say here as an excuse we would also have to dismiss this belief…

Uh what? If he grabbed my boob I’d drop the food too.

yeah and she goes to lengths to describe his super fancy expensive car so she’d have to be really stupid to do that, and if she had done it it would almost certainly be a really bad memory of something that went really badly for her.

Really? That was my favorite story. I had this awful manager at a pool hall/restaurant who played “I got friends in low places” at the start of his every shift to get geared up. I skipped it one time and he almost killed me. Bad songs at work are a real morale killer. To have someone doing it to you on purpose for fun…

you better shut up and serve

As often as customers actually do shit like this, teenagers also embellish. But the story I don’t believe is the subway onion sauce one. Nobody would do that and not expect to be on the hook for his cleaning/repair bill = nobody would do that.

My family is vegan can I get a special dispensation for more babies please sir?

I mean yeah. Allergic to wifi signals. I don’t know. But someone who is disputing a charge or what have you is not crazy or impossible, but they routinely treat you that way anyway. Ultimately I blame the company for structuring their help services this way but none of that excuses a lot of the treatment I’ve received…

I’ve never worked in a call center, and I’m quite sure it’s hellish. But I’ve been a customer in a store and a caller to a call center. As a customer in a store, not only can I go somewhere else if the service sucks, but I can pretty much get what I want no matter how I treat the staff and I’ve seen some customers get…

What you describe sounds reasonable to me. However I really don’t see it as being similar to the retail/food service worker experience. Even when you are being misused/taken advantage of, you are not as helpless and captive to the “customer” as retail workers are. Even though you can’t necessarily refuse to help a…

I know nothing about any of this (except that I hate Skrillex’s music) but I’ll go ahead and agree that “expensive sounds” is a concept that can not be borne.

Yeah as someone who has worked years and years in retail and worse - in food service - I really don’t see support services as being in the same group. Yes, you both deal with customers, but the power differential is much different. In my experience, I’m usually calling support about a service or product that was…

they’re straight up abusing those kids

Faaaaaaaascinating

Yeah I’ve been annoyed in places like bars, where I’m predisposed to accept rowdy behavior, by a person or people who are just being obnoxiously loud with an undercurrent of hostility to it. Those people exist and fuck them. But racists I’ve known over the years seem to have an ear to the ground for black…

Yeah he seems like an unexamined dick all around. I like his lyrics though.

How crazy this is nowhere in the research about leaving a child uncircumcised. Do all those uncircumcised men in your family also get UTIs? I get them, and my gramma did too - I’ve always understood it to be something about the shape of our urinary tract which is just a simple genetic trait which makes it easier for…

Why is this in the news? How dumb. I’d much rather just read an article about the history of this group than pretend like Adriana Lima is actually sympathetic to it.

Interesting about Bowie. I hadn’t heard about Lennon owning up to anything either. He seems like a total piece of shit to me.