There’s a new commercial on Hulu for United Methodist Churches that says “Church can happen anywhere” ...that phrase really scares me for some reason...like I’m going to wake up in my house, go downstairs, and there’s church going on.... gives me the chills.

allergic to all vegetables? i have a legitimate medical reason for not eating most vegetables (gastroparesis) and that’s not an appropriate reason to claim an allergy (of which i also have several). typically i just ask them not to bring the vegetables with it. if the sever offers a substition, awesome. if not, that’s…

And oddly enough, it wasn’t a car I particularly liked - it was a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass - but it was the first car I paid for with my own money. It had a number of odd glitches in the computer system, mostly because it was among GM’s first cars with computerized engine controls. For some reason the check engine…

Of course the Propserity Gospel types are terrible customers. More proof that there ain’t a god in heaven responsible for this shitshow down below.

In regard to the drunken sales tax lady, I’ve also been yelled at and threatened to have the cops called on me for trying to “rob my customers” when I was managing a restaurant. The source of the problem being that the POS system we used separated State Sales Tax and Local Sales Tax into two different lines, which led…

That’s why ususally you don’t bring children to huge resturants during insanely busy times until they have mastered the “sit-still” trick. I am in no way shitting on you personally, I’m sure little Bongo is the best in the world, but it’s a saturday night. No three year old should be subjected to that, much less the…

Being the parent of a temperamental 3-year old who thinks he is too old for high chairs yet can’t sit still in a normal chair, I was sympathetic to the Cheesecake Factory parents...until the end. You can’t always predict if your kids are going to act like they’ve lost their goddamn minds before you go into a…

Say what you will about the pizza mugger, at least he was straightforward about taking money out of the driver’s pocket. He didn't come up with bullshit reasons to not leave a tip, he didn't put a waiter through an hour of hell and leave a buck, he didn't come in with a complex plan to scam free food that he used…

Holy holy shit. This week we start off with fucking assault and robbery. This is going to be a helluva post.

Part of the fundamental issue involved is how we as a culture frame video games: they’re for fun. It’s an underlying assumption on the part of journalists and many gamers. If you’re playing a game, it needs to feel fun and provoke a sense of enjoyment in you.

The problem with that line of thinking is how it limits…

This is only sort of related but yesterday I was driving and I saw a billboard that had a picture of a baby saying ‘she knew the sound of her mother’s voice before she met her’, as some sort of antichoice bullshit. And it enraged me beyond the usual. Besides the fact that it's completely insane, it's insulting to…

Seriously they were a blast, I loved all of my customers, especially the massage therapist from across the street that looked like Pamela Anderson (prime years). One of our regulars was one of the evil white guy characters from the blaxploitation films of the 70s.

There has been a great meme going around here recently- just for context, there is currently an election in Canada (I don’t know where you’re located, so you might already know this), and the incumbent, Stephen Harper, has made stirring up anti-Muslim sentiment a major part of his campaign. This has included things…

Screaming idiot kidults like the girl in the pizza place or the chips-and-dip girl are the worst. I had the misfortune of going on a couple of dates with one in college, and when she started flipping out at a server in a Chili’s over a minor slight (IIRC, the server corrected her when she ordered a “Bloomin’ Onion” on…

My mind was blown the first time I realized the Yamaha logo was essentially three crossed tuning forks.

Alas! all my experiences are as a cashier at an organic supermarket (NOT fucking Whole Foods; I live in perverted Germany, so the name of the local bullshit is meaningless to you), so I can never submit to BCO. But holy shit are people terrible.

Serious question: Why can’t the proprietor just ask the racist ass-clown to not return. “Sir, I’m sorry that our values and yours don’t match. I’m sure that another vendor would be more to your liking. Please have a nice day...” I get it—you depend on customers for your livelihood. But these people will never learn…

I’m not going full Pinkham’s Law—I’m not, I’m not. But I do have mild allergies to a variety of foods and it’s hard to explain that to servers.

With a launch price of $40 and only six heists, Payday 2 has come a long way. A lot of people love to complain about how much DLC there is and how the DLC sits at a total of $63 (without discounts).

Oh yeah, thematically it was a cool system, but it ruined the gameplay, because yeah, you’d never use the rocket launcher when it would run out like your entire ammo supply in like 10 shots. Even the sniper rifle was really excessive in its ammo use, to the point that you basically had to install the mod that reduces…