The Washington Post article has a fuller quote from Bearden and he is very clear that the waiter acted out of bounds. I would think if it was just about a 20% discount, both waiter and restaurant would clear that up right away. IMHO, that sounds like the pretty classic attempt by people who weren’t there to find a…

I thought of this.

Those rugs are a nightmare. Keep the circular one if you’re like that, but good god those shorty runners... you spent thousands on fake hardwood, so fake enjoying its uninterrupted splendor.

I will just say, as someone who has a vested interest, that this is also a heritage & diaspora issue. The Taoiseach ( there ya go!) Was being watched like a hawk by Irish citizens because he has grovelled to Trump a bit, so everyone was buzzed when he made that speech!

I say this hall needs one long runner to each side of the round rug, which looks like it’s in a round break-out sitting section of the hallway, and therefore very appropriate there. But the little short rugs in the hall sections to the sides of it are weird in scale.

This restaurant is in a MALL on the PCH in Huntington Beach, so it’s mainly tourists walking around and dining there. He’d have to turn away practically every table.

My wife is Czech but we we haven’t applied for her greencard yet because of money issues. ( not cheap on my humbleness salary)

I just read an article the other day that say there are 50,000 illegal Irish immigrants. I doubt any of them would be asked to show an ID.

Christ, is the Foghorn fucking Leghorn?

He’s a dumb waiter.

That’s not how I read it at all. It just sounds like she bonded with the neighbour’s kid over having f-ed up moms. It was the jezebel-writer who interpreted that as “blame”. I don’t see any blaming in that statement. It’s just sad

Yes. This. I’m currently in a long term relationship and my friends are constantly commenting on how I’ve gotten over my Wild slutty days. No, I just finally found a guy who likes sex as much as I do and we have a discreet open relationship.

Hannah said that Judy Garland is partially to blame. From that chunk of what Katey actually wrote, she isn’t blaming anyone. Just noting the normality of pill usage in her childhood.

Annette Bening’s career was also red hot at the time, she was the new talented, beautiful and smart actress on the scene and if my memory serves it was more that Beatty snagged a rare woman who was his perfect match than that he “settled” or even that she bagged the elusive bachelor...

It’s like they know they will need a caregiver soon. 🤣 No thank you Grandpa.

I saw that more as the thing which bonded them.

I think the article’s author is the one who makes that blame claim, the excerpt from the book just talks about how pill use was normalized between her mom and her friend’s mom.

Warren Beatty still had it when they got together. They met on Bugsy, I believe. His career was hot and so was he. I think theirs is an exceptionally rare case of him really falling for her. Besides, in Hollywood and even in normal life, plenty of washed up old men sadly ARE able to keep on womanizing.

Absolutely. If I had to guess, he hit 50 and realized he couldn’t be banging women and staying out partying till dawn forever. Even in Hollywood, he would have become a pervy, gross stereotype.

It’s not the number. It’s the size. The scale is wrong for the space.