In my years bagging groceries we never had a cashier do anything like this, thank God, but customers behind WIC and EBT users said stuff pretty frequently. Remarks about how long it took to ring them up, “why do they have those kids if they can’t pay for them,” etc.

The Daily Mail, its readers and comment section have long been horrific. Witness this joke from A Bit of Fry and Laurie, from 1992:

Me - Woah, that header pic looks JUST LIKE Freddie Mercury!

Please don’t insult pornography by comparing it to Fox News.

The routines..the products...hair liking a product one week, but rejecting it 2 months later...being natural ain’t easy..lol

Between this and Arrival, is it finally cool to be a linguistics nerd? (To be clear, am linguistics nerd, want to be cool)

I know I really wish the judge had been able to give them more since he clearly wanted to.

planning to expand the country’s economy... into tourism

you don’t work in an interconnected industry held together by automated systems and flimsy contracts, do ya?

OT, but would you guys mind covering Maryam Mirzakhani’s death? She was the first woman to win the Fields Medal (which Jez covered 3 years ago), basically the highest honor in math, and died at 40 of cancer today.

While some current members generally seem okay with it, some holdouts are definitely deflated. Yeah. I said it.

I’d like to think “oh he did this because he’s stupid” but honestly I think he did this because 1: they’re fucking untouchable at this point and 2: his supporters don’t give a shit, they see nothing wrong with it. When Trump said that he could fucking shoot people and not lose any supporters, he meant it. Strap in,…

Had my dad not already been in the ICU for another thing when he went through alcohol withdrawal, it likely would have killed him; until then, I didn’t realize how tough that process is on the body. Although I never watched True Blood, I thought Ellis did a fantastic job as Shinwell, on Elementary. Very sad loss.

a useful rule of thumb is that if you’re going to make another show about an entitled white millennial, it’d better be damn good—

San Diego doesn’t have a measly $36k .. so they’ll instead get free labor from teachers and office folk to literally scratch out the N-word on one thousand book covers.

Jostens should have offered to reprint gratis as a PR move, but of course they didn’t because their entire model is selling over-priced shit to students.

In the cops’ defense, she was a black woman, and you know how they all just go off making stuff up. You know, because they are all hot-headed and when their boyfriend breaks up with them they try to get the cops to arrest the man so that they can threaten to file charges unless they get back together. Also, Obama, and…

Why not both? If you ignore the pings and it detects a person in the car, it will run the AC unless you manually override.

I’m not advocating for abstinence, but I do wonder how all these men would feel if their wives and girlfriends began taking the whole “abstinence is the best method of prevention” advice to heart and started a No-Sex Protest against them until they changed their minds.