It was probably a typo but I like your description of the hatred of the Gamergate harassers have for sensible people as ‘viscous.’ Women who just want to be involved in gaming have to wade through viscous hatred.

I’m a guy and putting aside my own discomfort at revealing my balls in public I wonder how these guys learned they could make these shapes. Did they do it alone in their rooms? In front of a mirror? With friends to compare? I can’t figure out which is the most preposterous.

One of my biggest problems with that is bureaucracies. “And how do you spell that, sir?” And then must follow a long discussion because the word ‘hyphen’ will not be understood correctly. And the kid will have this same scene over and over and over. By the way I have this same issue with creatively spelled first names.

I read the book and saw the movie and her character is written as wooden so I don’t consider that an effective insult. I think she’s an extremely good dramatic actress (see, Skeleton Twins, Welcoms to Me, more) and is consistently a great comic actress (see... everything else).

British chips with British dip. Oh, and by the way... *gag, baaaarf* Damn you.

My nephew (let’s call him Adam) had a similar situation that turned out better than he could have hoped. Adam and his fiancee broke up just a month or so before their planned wedding and found the deposit for the hall Adam had put down was non-refundable. Rather than just blow off the money, however, Adam paid the…

You believed the wasp story?! Seriously? If he’d actually been stung he would have been out of that car in an instant saying, “I’m so sorry, is anybody hurt? I got stung by a wasp, I’m so sorry.” Instead of, well, you heard him.

Well put, “the car drive was the *bigger* douchebag” (emphasis mine). They’re obviously both assholes, the biker for approaching traffic laws as optional until they become inconvenient, and the driver for intentionally (yes, that’s how it seemed to me) swerving to punish the biker for... what?

So they can raise it politely as they brush by. Okay, this is getting too weird.

I picture waves of young men surging back and forth through the crowd, “Excuse me, excuse me,” just enjoying the squeeze through the throng.

I don’t cut her any slack in part because she’s not considering the kid, “the middle-schooler was very confused about why he was in court.” Picture him later in life, “Sean, you’re so standoffish, you never hug me affectionately,” says his lover. Sean lowers his eyes and his voice replying, “I know, but I can’t help…

Interesting to hear from an Ohioan about Kasich’s rep within the state. Obviously this is a low bar but he comes across as the most reasonable of the Republican hopefuls. But bullying seems to be an attractive trait to the right wing (witness, Christie, Trump, Cruz, Freedom *gag* Caucus) so if the word gets out this…

Elsewhere I gave her credit for telling on herself. My best guess at the backstory is that Cara interpreted the bread question as whether she would like a basket of bread for the table. But maybe Cara will let us know for sure.

Now hold it right there, Pinkham. Calling all soft drinks ‘Coke’ is obviously an imprecise affront to us all, no argument. But in the Midwest, soft drinks were always called ‘pop’ growing up. ‘Soda’ is that clear fizzy water, made most notably by Schweppes.

Cara gets points for outing herself as the ‘Fantastically Stupid’ customer. I wouldn’t use that term you understand, but she gets credit anyway for self-deprecation.

I looooove Carolyn. I read her whenever I can, she often considers factors that I don’t and when I think I’ve spied an issue she’s not addressing, she eventually gets to it anyway. Wise, wise woman.

This is probably one celebrity that the barber refuses to acknowledge as his customer with a photo on the wall.

Now they can make the noble call of, “Teach the dispute.” Once some crank somewhere says that the Earth is 6000 years old the knuckle-draggers call it a dispute and get to take the high ground of calling for teaching both sides.

Can someone more clever than I please make a joke linking this to our other favorite bot story — Ashley Madison?

I want to see Pinkham’s Law on this one (a serious defense, not a parody), “We don’t know the whole story. If the customer [blah, blah] then it would make sense if the worker responded that way.”