To keep your plumbing repair costs down, just don’t put anything down the sink that is food related. You have a kitchen trash can, just throw it away!

So, did you happen to check with a garbage disposal manufacturer on these items? According to InSinkErator themselves chicken bones are just fine, as well as a few other things.

As someone who didn’t grow up with a garbage disposal and barely uses it now, is it really worth it? With so many rules and ways you can either break the disposal or clog your pipes, is it even worth installing these things in the first place?

I’m from the UK and we don’t have garbage disposals at all. They always seemed like the laziest option - just put things in the damn bin...

I don’t know if it comes from growing up without one or what, but I’ve never understood people who intentionally put just about anything in the garbage disposal. Some stuff ends up there while prepping/cooking and doing dishes, but I can’t imagine putting food scraps down it on purpose.

If the black plastic potentially has lead (article says some are made using electronic waste) then that’s a huge no.

I’m still waiting for consumer machines that can shred, melt, and extrude plastic into filament for 3d printers. That would be exciting.

If you work in the legal field, and you aren’t a lawyer, I wouldn’t hold out much hope of ever being treated as anything resembling an equal. I’ve known paralegals who have created more revenue through billable hours than some of the firms lower performing attorneys, and these same “superstars” have gotten absolutely e…

Okay, so if you have an extra $400 a month, don’t spend it on an extra bedroom that you are not using. Also, if you live somewhere that you don’t need a car, sell the car.

“Then throw.”

The bottle, right? 

I figured as much. It’s relevant because you have to know how this shit works. If you are making $2.13/hour, you are living on the whims of customer tips. This means you need to work the best shifts and (if you’re a server) in the best sections in order to make a decent living. It also means you don’t typically have a…

How can you expect him to actually read the article when he needs that precious time to come down to the comments to talk about how wrong the female writer was? Such high expectations!

Yeah, but, again, no. This is a woman and a bartender, which means that (unlike Salty, whose examples of her own forbearance cite choosing not to react to bad taste or opinions in conversations she’s not necessarily part of) she has to deal with men who are there to drink and disinhibit themselves and she can’t walk…

“Excuse me, would you mind wearing this bar towel as a bib?  What’s that?  Why did I move your food and cover the whole area with bar towels?  Lean forward and I’ll tell ya.”

This likely wouldn’t work in this case but: I once worked on a farm where my employer insisted on calling me “son”. One day he had a visitor and when my employer called me “son” in front of the visitor I replied “Yes dad”. I were never called “son” again.

I’m sure that wasn’t her intent but it really is. She’s assigning agency in this situation where it really doesn’t belong. If the bartender hadn’t done the perfectly correct thing she did, asshole still would have called her baby throughout the meal. The onus was not on her.

But then you have to move to a new town and live in a barn owned by an old man as you slowly class up a really shady bar. As it turns out, despite your best intentions to put the throat ripping past behind you, tensions between your new bar and a local gang boss will increase to the point where you have to bust out you…

That solves one problem, but now she’s gotta stay late and clean the blood off the bar.

I used to go by this rule (especially in the workplace), but then amended it to: Don’t say anything to someone of one gender that you wouldn’t say to someone of another gender. Covers more situations (though there are some personal situations that could / would be exceptions, obviously).

I’m not advocating for letting customers call you names, but it was probably the fact that you corrected him that made him jump all over you.