While I don't think they're remotely as bad as those PIRGs, the NYPIRG sends college kids up and down my block* every spring soliciting donations for some year specific cause by first saying it's just to collect signatures. I'm polite, but my way of avoiding them is to ask if they can give me some information or a…

What're these "Passion Parties"?

Honestly for everyday cutting I use a Kyocera Ceramic knife from Japan. I think I've paid under $40 for them, but they're in the $50's now. It's sharp and cuts great and clean, is a cinch to keep clean too and is lightweight. It's downsides however include: hard to sharpen since it's ceramic not metal, easy to get…

NYC is a very different beast (livery-wise) than Upstate. In the Albany area taxi service is notoriously horrid, unreliable and expensive. The stories of it's awfulness are pretty legion - https://www.scribd.com/docu…

Oddly he brought a gun to them.

Yeah I was a Cutco rep for a week and a half during the summer when I was either 19 or 20. I made a handful of modest sales to immediate family and neighbors down the hall, but did not even recoup the full cost of the kit.

WOW someone else saw that shitty Eric Idle vehicle. I think it had possibly one of Catherine Zeta Jones' first roles.

Walcott and Jane bonded over their mutual contempt of Farnum.

IIRC during a Met-Dodgers postseason game last year, Joe Buck's audio went dead for a good 20 minutes through the miracle of Fox not giving enough of a shit to use their good AV crew on that series.

Utica, God very much unwilling.

From Buffalo too.

When he does (and he will eventually) will his teammates punish him via a Blood Ex-Eagle?

Which is why some team somewhere will always keep Norv Turner on the payroll, probably even in reanimated corpse form 20 years from now.

So was Koettner's.

Classic Poe

He has a Jacksonville Jaguars jersey. He is incapable of feeling embarrassment.

Growing up there was a gigantic apartment complex down the block from us where it was rumored that all the pizza delivery places had an unofficial policy where they would make the tenants come down to the lobby to pick up their food since the deliverers were afraid of getting mugged in the elevators.

No one here is saying that most, or even many, people in shit jobs likes doing so, just that there are people out there that do for some reason. They're probably a small minority of them though.

Takeout I don't tip since I'm walking or driving to get it myself. And I'm a default 20% tipper for sit down/belly up situations.

Knock-knock jokes might be marginally lamer.