Slack.

My greatest Christmas was when I got TWO Biotrons. Those Micronauts were the best. Evil Knievel and 6 Million Dollar Man (how bad-ass was Maskatron?) were also my go-to toys.

As why I meet them after I eat solo nowadays...

Meh, I’m okay with dividing evenly unless you ordered the lobster and an extra martini. If each diner’s tab roughly the same, give or take 25% or so, it’s easier to just divide evenly. Especially if you figure in the tip BEFORE you divide evenly (so you don’t end up tipping more to make up for your cheapskate friend).

I’m clearly the same age as some others around here, between these things (yes, awesomely fun and very fast), Micronauts and original Star Wars figures.

Ah, Micronauts. I had Biotron and Force Commander and a number of Time Travellers in just about every color.

Micronauts were seriously the best. Better than the star wars stuff even.

I remember Micro Machines.

Yes. Acroyear, Pharoid, and Membros come to mind. I bought the reissued version of Acroyear about 12 years ago.

I tip 5-30% routinely (takeout/buffet - excellent sit down service) and have only stiffed someone like twice in my entire life; however, I tend to agree: The only time you need to be concerned with my tip (or I with yours) is if one of us picked up the tab, at which point it’s “I buy, you tip” (or vica versa).

Anything…

I actually have yet to see “Sith”, and I’m not like making some big point not to, either. I just haven’t had the opportunity and 2 1/2 hours I have no better use for at the same time in the last 13 years.

Phantom Menace at least has a few scenes that are decent. Duel of the fates, the duel with Maul.....Forver literally has nothing going for it.

I waited in line for Phantom, went to the midnight show for Attack of the Clones, and I can’t remember if I saw Revenge of the Sith in theaters. I must have, but it was just another movie going experience, nothing semi-memorable like the first two. By then I wasn’t excited, but only saw out of obligation. They are all…

Right, there is no way he doesn’t ride often. Identifying him will not take long at all.
I rode the LIRR for years before I had the sense to move back South and the close proximity of cultures and the daily stresses of life make the trains a place where this happens WAY more than ever recorded.

I chose it in the hopes of people not taking me as seriously as they used to. But, you know, Kinja.

Cutting Tom Bombadil was absolutely the right call and the people who were angry have no idea how movies work.

The kid sounds like she’s an introvert or has anxiety and as someone with both I empathise. I can’t imagine summing up the courage to overcome my anxiety disorder to confront a business that slurred me. Fuck IHOP for putting her in that position.

Like it matters if the server is fucking purple. This is a company problem, because it happened inside the walls of the fucking business. The IHOP President trying to shrug off responsibility by saying “aw shucks well the server was black, so...” means nothing. This was an employee of IHOP, on IHOP time, in an IHOP…

I can’t stop laughing this is so absurd. $10?! What can you get that’s good with $10 at IHOP?

No, we did not all think that was fine.