What is the value of this except to provide entertainment for other restaurant workers?

Yeah, dessert is just a shitty comp, period, and the quickness with which the server offers it tells you how routinely they botch orders.

But if your friend was from Belgium or some shit and he told you he was bringing “frankfurter sandwiches” you’d be, like, “oh, I guess that’s what they call them in Belgium” and you’d accept the hot dogs.  You’d feel good about yourself for being a sophisticated bon vivant.

I have an aunt and uncle who travel a lot, and at Thanksgiving they had booked Southwest. I distinctly remember us stopping everything so they could poke their cellphones and yell at each other in order to claim their seating. Thus, my only real impression of Southwest is that it’s an inconvenient budget airline for…

I like to fantasize about the opposite - turn all of these sparsely populated, over-represented-in-the-electoral college states blue. Bring the universities, arts, tech, and food out there and build a new utopia. All the cattle ranchers will be like it’s no fair, we can’t compete with New Hipster Town and their…

I don’t see why you can’t punt in this situation by saying “I have no idea!” It’s going to be a loooong time before the kid even figures out that it’s a sex thing, since it’s far from obvious.

I mean...just call for backup if your suspect is resisting. Let her walk away, watch where she goes, pick her up later with a whole team. She wasn’t armed, she wasn’t dangerous, and it wasn’t an emergency.

This is my favorite takeout item, and nobody in the ‘hood makes it well, so thanks.

An almost perfect analogy from my own life which goes the other way - I think NYC park police and park rangers overenforce leash laws. There are parks where it is legal to have your dog off leash before 9am, and yet they will still drive through at 10am on a weekday, when there is no one around, and threaten you, even…

“This is stale news.”

I think the New York subway system just asks nicely that you don’t eat on the trains, it’s not a law. The difference being that you can’t get ticketed or arrested for it. People (including me, sometimes) do it, and sometimes people (not including me) leave nasty litter behind or throw it on the tracks.

I mean, just look at that grown-ass woman making a childish gesture on TV. That’s apparently her “I’m getting away with the crime of the century” face.

Sure, if you can get Jack Dorsey to shut off his twitter he’d would back down in a hot second. He’d completely lose access to the public megaphone.

Yeah, Dan seems to get lost in the weeds there as he sorts through all of the things the guy said (i.e. are you the “he” in “he’ll figure it out eventually”) and he botches his conclusion. The part where she spoke to him directly is significant and was done on purpose.  He should focus on that and get all of the other…

In practice Libertarians do just seem to be a particularly shitty kind of Republican who think they are the smartest person in the room.

And she’s also (probably) correct that this region skews libertarian.

Also, just because some businesses are lucrative, it doesn’t mean that everyone wants to be in them. Do you really want to be a landlord? (It is a world full of fucking chodes in bad suits.)

That is actually one of my complaints about the show, that they’ll marr a good idea with an incredibly annoying detail (like Cecily Strong going on about the little boy dick.)

At this point AVC’s hype for this show looks a lot like shilling. It’s...just ok at best. Way too many of the sketches revolve around one character acting like a jerk and creating an absurd conflict that then plays out for two minutes, and those “fighting” sketches are some of the highest on your list.

Serious question - I’ve been in Washington Heights for two years and I can’t figure out what I should be eating.  Don’t think I like mofongo.  Best thing I’ve found is actually Venezuelan cachapas.  If you wanted to turn somebody on to Dominican food, what would you give them?