Deep cut. That made my day.

Ha! I was going to add — I personally have gotten to the point where I prefer mostly sashimi, with a small roll on the side (mmmm avocado roll). I don’t actually dislike the rice or seaweed (isn’t that actually algae, rather than seaweed?), but its definitely filling, and I’d rather load up on the fish.

I enjoy explaining this too. Because often — as with a friend a few weeks ago — it results in converting someone who didn’t think they would like sushi (read: raw fish) to someone willing to try it and who finds they actually like it, if they get all the kinds that don’t involve raw fish.

(But for real, messing with songbirds by playing their calls from a cellphone bird identification app is awesome. Especially in the spring when the males are really territorial.)

That’s beautiful. Screencap that sucker before it gets flagged for take-down. Someone’s already flagged the ad quoted above and it’s gone.

But, that’s the thing. Yes, I agree, the older brother was the mastermind. He influenced his younger brother to become involved. But let’s not remove agency from the younger brother. He was plenty old enough at the time to make an informed, ethical decision about whether to participate in actions that he knew, without…

Completely agree. (I was down there, and the second bomb went off a block and a half ahead of my brother. You could say I’m invested. That said, I don’t want to see this guy to get to be any more of a martyr than some regard him already. Let him rot somewhere.)

Ehn, for me, that would be a bug, not a feature. If the big round thing is going to be in the middle, I want it to be the speedometer. Its location doesn’t bother me or cause me any trouble.

Or, once you start living with it, you get used to it very quickly and none of it ever bothers you.

I’ve had mine for 8 years and I drive my friends around all the time, and the two-pulls-to-open thing STILL messes them up. (Otherwise, I love the layout, all of it feels very comfortable to me.)

And you don’t have to, if you don’t want to.

Because repetition of key, emotive details is a hallmark of urban legends?

"Entrapment" is the mark of an asshole boss. Particularly the way the story is related, it makes it sound like something he has set up with his friend (or that his friend is doing on his behalf) specifically to try to tempt new staff, who are likely to be the lowest-paid and most financially hard up.

This. The only jury I've ever served on ended up hung. It was an infuriating tug of war between "we know the guy did it" (at least in our case, just drunk driving, and nobody died) and "the prosecution could not prove it" due to a series of missteps that were never explained to us.

I wanted to know the cider rules too. If so, Woodchuck goes on the list.

This was seriously my first thought. AW SHUCKS I'M JUST A POLITICIAN, I DON'T KNOW NOTHIN' ABOUT YOUR FANCY 'FASHION', WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT?

I miscalculated in my head once, and wound up leaving a 40% tip. I realized it on my way out of the restaurant, and kind of shrugged to myself and thought, well, it will be a nice surprise for her.

The really sad part is that because of bedbugs and so on, a lot of places now will no longer accept stuffed animal donations. (Even if the stuffed animal is just one that has been sitting in your mother's house and is a little dusty, and was never played with by a child.)

You're right, I should have been more specific in reference to this particular case. In a situation where the person was going to find it within a few minutes, and was located next to a place they could clean it off immediately, it wasn't going to cause permanent damage. (Not that I think the throwers were thinking…

Yeah, wacky. I've never even heard people talk about it.