There is a direct emergency line to the gas company, you don't have to go through normal customer support. Whenever I have called customer support, the first thing the automated operator says is "if this is a gas emergency call this number or press [x]." Maybe there's a super secret more-direct number for emergency…

I've had to do this once. I shut off the main gas valve, and then went to the individual appliances to turn off the local valves to prevent exactly the accident you are describing.

If it's in your employee handbook or any other documentation, it's certainly enforceable. Kind of like how grocery and department store employees are generally required to park in the back of the parking lot furthest away from the store. You're not going to get towed or anything for parking up front, but you will get…

I would strongly suggest that you shut off the gas FIRST, and then call the gas company. Unless it's cool to wait for your home to fill up with gas while you wait on hold or for some barely competent person to get your information.

Agreed. Where is the outrage against the same-sex diddlers? I've had my dick looked at so many times in male restrooms by "straight" men that I barely even feel like making a comment anymore like "you like what you see little man?" I can't imagine being made more uncomfortable just because a woman or whatever other…

Yeah, you've got to bake that into your salary negotiations if possible, you might be able to get them to fully or partially subsidize those costs. For example I live in a rural area where a lot of people drive, but the bus system is also very good. The company now pays for my bus pass, which costs roughly the same as…

Accrual is a big one. There are lots of places that will put a cap on your PTO accrual, like 4 weeks in a year. In other words if you have more than 4 weeks of PTO saved up by the end of the year, you'll have to use the excess or you lose it (some companies will just pay you out in cash for the days). Also they might…

Unless she was an escort/prostitute in one of the very few places in the world where it is legal, I have no idea how that wouldn't violate any clause that says something about illegal activity. She'd be fine if she had just kept it to herself until the end of her contract with ANTM.

3. They already test "straight" blood, which does not cost less to test than "gay" blood.

I am pretty sure that every pint of donated blood is tested prior to going in the bin for transfusion to other patients.

Well, that seems to be the situation.

So stupid. Don't they test blood for HIV and other diseases before administering it to patients who need it? I'd rather be alive and have someone else's gay blood in my veins for a few months* than die from blood loss or be denied needed surgery because there's not enough blood on hand to do it safely.

South Park has fallen off SO hard this season. A few isolated clips aside, it's pretty much unwatchable.

I'm always careful not to get too chummy with [upper] management even if they're super cool, but apart from that the past couple places I've worked everyone gets along great as long as you have some kind of dirt on you to prove you're not a narc for The Man. Lots of post-work partying and what not. The places where…

"between a married man and a married woman" - as long as they don't have to be married to each other

I had sex ed in a pretty conservative Catholic elementary school in the Deep South in 6th grade about 20 years ago. The same school that required us to "leave enough room for the holy spirit" at sock hops in the gym. It's hard to believe how far back we are regressing as a society in so many way.

Is that a common enough occurrence, and with high enough payouts (i.e. jackpots as opposed to $100-$1000 scratch offs) that it merits a law?

Maybe he'll be like Hurley from Lost except only bad things happen to him while he has this money.

Sodomy being a deterrent depends heavily on who you're talking to.

Well those jobs I've had were also not advertised in any way, and were obtained through straight wheeling and dealing and/or inside knowledge that there was an opening. I thought we were talking about advertised job postings where you don't know someone on the inside.