Lol, there is nothing “silly” about recognizing the (not all that) modern phenomenon where women make their own money and support themselves and are capable of paying their own way. (Also, for a variety of reasons, not sure you can really ascribe men tending to pick up the tab to “hundreds of thousands of years of…

You have no idea what it’s like to spend all of your waking life dealing with what really is petty bullshit. It really is just petty bullshit, but it’s constant petty bullshit. Sometimes it gets to be too much.

It’s an advice column. They were asking for advice. No outrage culture here. 

These days, I generally see wait staff putting the bill on the table in between people, unless someone has specifically asked for it. 

I know lots of people consider survivor a kind of game show, but I always felt it was almost a sport - lots of physical challenges, mental toughness and a game that lends itself to bracket - like betting.

When I was young, I was a pedant.  I was insecure and I wanted to prove myself in social circles that valued knowledge and intellect.  At some point, I came to realize that it was just about being a dick because I thought it made me look smart.  Pedantry is a fool’s game.

My general rule is if it gets the idea across, then does it really matter?

Deep fried burgers? There is a fry gap! We must ketchup.

I’m not going to argue semantics with you. At this point, you know where you stand on the subject and you know where the vast majority of people stand on it.

You realize the guidelines published by manufacturers are 100% written to protect the company from liability, right? They rarely bear more than passing resemblance to reality.

i mean this person has made it quite clear they are not willing to budge.

So many escalators I’ve been on have handrails moving at different speeds than the treads.  One or the other is binding up somewhere.. but it feels dangerous as hell when you’re holding the handrail and realize your hand is slowly moving behind you.

The Otis Elevator Company even says that walking on the escalator is a safety hazard.

I agree part of the motivation for this must be avoiding liability.

I know of family of some means, but in no way super rich. They flew about 8 people to the Bahamas for just about the same price as eight commercial flights, but they flew from a regional airport to a private airport much closer to the villa they rented. They figure they saved about 8 hours in TSA, connections and…

People talk about the “retail apocalypse” but if retail fails too many just assume it will be self-contained and isolated. In 2007, when the issues with sub-prime mortgages became famous, the Daily Show was running zany segments on sub-prime mortgages — people had no idea it was about to lead to much more significant…

And PE doesn’t even need to own a majority of stock to make significant changes, pilfer the company, and fleece other shareholders. Just being a big footprint in the company (15% or so), let’s them push their agenda.

Can confirm. People immersed in PE are easily the worst people I’ve ever been involved with, and I comment on the internet.

The PE guys will then blame “overseas competition” for the jobs stolen by their financial fecklessness, and “family breakdown” for the fact that unemployed people use drugs at a much higher rate. From Brian Alexander’s Glass House, about the debt-fueled takeover and devastation of glass maker Anchor Hocking and its…

I work for a company that does business with others that are often PE owned. We HATE giving these companies money that doesn’t have explicit strings on it because we know that the PE firm is going to suck that money out instead of putting it toward actual business uses.