And if they don’t get to it (or don’t know because a CUSTOMER did it which is usually what happens), the next guy grabs from another table, and the next guy, and the next guy.

But hands off the silverware, glasses and napkins...some one has to reset them. So you’re just making extra work for the staff.

These are different things and I can be upset about both of them in different ways...

Yeah, the cops get a little too excited about “finding the motive” sometimes. The guy’s string of priors for violent behavior in the same mall tell you everything you need to know, we don’t need the exact flavor of bullshit he was spewing.

My own “I can’t believe they are this stupid” moment happened on this site, when someone was rhapsodizing about his childhood and hunting with his dad and claimed it was unfair that I wanted to “erase” all of those memories. Unfortunately, the incident that sparked this discussion was the Jason Dalton case, an uber…

I mean, if I saw this tweet without context I would assume it was satirical, since this is something critics of the NRA point out all the time.

I don’t blame the airlines for the seat recline “problem”. I blame selfish and/or clueless people...

At least in skimming the article it looks like it’s not one of those hostile takeovers by some conservative douchebag, so that’s good?

Pitchfork is posting about this too. Apparently one of the answers was “What is Pitchfork” so there’s that.

Like, almost EVERYONE has encountered someone who is some shade of this - whether it be a bad boss or a school bully or just a general stubborn idiot you have to work with.

And what is that bullshit they say about cops being held “to a higher standard”?

Not knowing which weapon is in hand? How on FSM’s noodly Earth does a trained officer do that?

Alas, dems in Congress aren’t smart enough...

Anyhoo, I took a little time to poke around some of the sources I was reading back in the day, when I went off to college and started researching the Watchtower society. Found a ref to baby-making and divorce which is similar to what I described, in Raymond Franz’s book Crisis of Conscience. Franz was a member of the…

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Yeah I guess that’s fair. :) Weirdly my main sources for pop culture news (new york times, avclub and pitchfork) really didn’t touch the JW angle as far as I remember.  It’s not like I wasn’t interested.

Yeah, and the irony is that they are way more obsessed with sex than the average adult - they talk about it constantly.  Contrast that with someone who treats it as a simple private matter (i.e. watch some porn, have a wank, get on with your life. Maybe meet somebody on a Saturday night and have some fun.)

....being disfellowshipped for consensual sex between adults is a pretty common occurrence so they fact that they’d use such a light touch with accused child rapists is beyond the pale.

Prince was an active member at the time of his death.

Yeah, I like the idea of a tech-heavy production that draws on the talents of art and shop classes. They can pour a lot of energy into it beyond the acting and the orchestra pit and kids might actually learn cool stuff.