Always a strange moment when someone drops a clear, informed, serious personal insight onto this pile of easy opinionizing. Sorry you had that in your life. Glad you got out.

Playing against a mill deck is, above all, boring. When someone starts milling, I like to forfeit. Which mill-ers hate, because it denies them the pleasure of watching me flail. Which is beautifully ironic. I came to play a fun strategy game. Miller came to short-circuit the shared fun in favor of a legal-but-joyless…

It’s called Gourmandise with Walnuts. Seems like you used to be able to get it online pretty easily, but not right now. And, hey, now that our pal Trump is putting 25% tariffs on all kinds of European cheeses and wines, Allison’s list of processed American utility cheeses may be our best/only option.

I think the article coulda handled one real cheese-lover’s draft among the three - but I don’t know fuck-all about what brings the clicks, so...

Similar. I like things that taste good but I find the variety of beers dizzying, and for some reason I seem to be better able to appreciate degrees of quality in wine than in beer (I’m no wine expert either). Plus, the lineups at the nicer beer stores change so often that even when I notice myself liking something a…

I once worked at a wild bird rehabilitation clinic and there was a resident goose - injured in a way that made her un-releasable. That goose was an a-hole. But then once I got to know her I realized she just didn’t want to be fucked with. Who does?

cool. thanks. there are so many worthy microbreweries. TOO many. but it still feels worth it to support the ones that are truly local. In the old sense of “local,” meaning, “in MY area” as opposed to the new sense of local meaning, “made by a small company that is in AN area, and hasn’t yet been bought by a…

Hey do they sell anywhere outside the brewery?

Wow. Wow! Questions that usually come up when drinking a Hansen’s: Why does this suck so much? Why does this suck so much more than it needed to suck even if its goal was to really suck?

Foul. This rushes straight past food-punning all the way to just talking about food.

There’s definitely magical trickery afoot in the way that Wendy’s always seems as if it might be... somehow better... and then never is. And then the next time I see one I think, again, “Hm. Wendy’s. It’s better....”

I’m grayed on theroot but I want to make a couple points in the you-vs-everyone Guyger debate. Often I’m you, so I feel your pain with respect to those who are debating you by just going full ad hominem. But I think your argument is wrong on its own terms.

This one’s harder. Hospital stay. Patient in the next bed has clearly died, but the checked-out nurse’s aide still dropped off a lunch tray! It’ll be at least an hour before anyone else comes by. Would you do a little grazing? Maybe just the pudding?

County fair - somebody left half a funnel cake on a haystack. Worth it?

How about: you get to your campsite and there’s a charred weenie in the firepit. Fair game?

ohmygod with the lastwording. Stop lastwording people.

The whole “leaving a note” angle only makes sense to me if he’s not planning to keep coming back. Taking someone aside or putting something in writing to let them know they did a great job is a nice gesture - and the only real opportunity to get the message across - if you’re just passing through. But if the OP’s…

Cosmo’s a jerk of crystalline 2019 vintage, and GREG is a subjerk. But Salty’s advice might still be bad? Why can’t the OP just keep going to this bar he likes and having pleasant conversations and see if an actual friendship develops? Passing a note that says “thank you for talking to me,” could easily read as creepy…

Lord. Tone-policing. Ok! I yield the floor.

Since we both misspelled her name and it’s too late for me to edit mine I’m gonna put this here: Kirsten Gillibrand.