My point was clear and valid. Your response was a childish attack, as is usually the case for your side.

Collective “bargaining” with municipal unions is a farce. You have the unions on one side, and the politicians that they pay on the “other side”. The taxpayer is not represented.

Thanks for the history lesson, Grandpa.

Those convention union guys are among the biggest scumbags in the working world. I had a relative who worked in the Javits center (well, worked is probably not the right term) and the stories he told were remarkable. They were overstaffed by a multiple of five. You couldn’t turn on a fucking light switch - some…

Yeah, it was typical union bullshit that killed them. Work rules like requiring separate union workers to truck different products, featherbedding, loafers. I hope all the greedy assholes that killed Hostess are enjoying their new jobs at Burger King or Mall Security.

Yeah, without unions you creeps wouldn’t make six figures for your part-time, never-fired, completely-unaccountable-for-performance jobs.

Who is forcing a person to work in any particular workplace?

You know what your protection as an employee is? Do a good job and make yourself valuable to your employer. Not band together with a bunch of goons.

My wife is a moderate Republican (pro-choice, pro-marriage equality, pro-trans-rights, etc) and is also forced to be in a union to have her job. Besides funding political efforts she vehemently disagrees with, she is subject to the very union rule nonsense that makes them so abhorrent: seniority rules that don’t…

I never forced myself on or took advantage of a woman. I had a pretty clearly-developed sense of right and wrong very early on in life. I preferred to let girls dictate the pace of any encounter. It undoubtedly led to less sex than most of the guys I was friends with but it also led to a clear conscience in this…

You talking about Harold’s? Oh, that place is the BEST. 9 different kinds of pickles, pickled tomatoes, kraut, peppers... all the different breads, and a foot-tall pastrami sandwich. With an egg cream.

These are garbage. If I want a cucumber I will buy a cucumber. And I do not want a cucumber.

I will eat just about anything but cucumbers. They are Satan’s Penis.

David Cross couches a lot of his shitty behaviour in being “edgy comedy”

Now, when the wife starts joining in on the nonsense

I think he’s colossally stupid. He can’t speak extemporaneously at ALL. Reading his remarks is like looking at the transcript of a stroke patient in therapy recovering from aphasia.  Shit, he can barely give a speech off a teleprompter.

I’m no Trump fan, but that story is bullshit. The point he was customarily clumsily trying to make is that the guy knew going in that he could be killed, and still did it anyway, what a brave and honorable dude. And that hack in the toy cowboy hat is talking out her ass to score political points.

Some marketing types must have decided it sounded more refined and continental. I believe Cadillac badged the Land Yacht Eldos the same way. And who can forget the great Ford 7 Litre? (Complete with fancy Euro spelling!)

Best of Both Worlds Dept: the outer boroughs.

We call it BBTBS. My elderly parents watch BBT reruns almost around the clock. Which is weird because they probably only get about 5% of the comic book/SF references. I think my Dad has the hots for Kaley Cuocco and/or the short squeaky one.