I read this to my gf and was like ‘this is so America!  he couldn’t pay OFF his loans but he did pay them down!  USA USA’

This is the only take I recognize

Seriously. At least wait for both the ink on the divorce papers and the recovering addict to dry out first before making babies together.

Babytrapping!  New word for me, and an excellent one to describe this situation.

So much of the problem with the tipping system is that the consumer is just expected to know all of this - you have to know to tip, how much to tip, how to tip (cash/card/etc), why you have to tip even if you don’t want to, etc. Part of this is common knowledge in the food service industry since it gets talked about a…

a lifetime crossover ending with the Christmas Prince dropping a nuclear bomb on New York City and the Roys and their empire. And that’s a lesson in why material things don’t matter and only family does. 

And again, some TikTok person “discovers” what is already widely known. Thanks.

Honestly I don’t have a problem with paying the server more than that, but it would have to be the sort of (relatively extreme) situation that would prompt a traditional gratuity, the sort that they have across the world and should have in the US to say you’re really impressed and grateful (or really rich). So like…

That’s a clear and consistent approach, but the key part here is that you pay the same amount REGARDLESS of service. And as would be expected, folks like Salty are going to argue that you should pay 50% or even 100% (as noted in this article) if the person goes above and beyond, if you can afford it, etc. And of…

Maybe be up front with your intentions from the beginning. If you just want to have a casual fuck buddy arrangement, start off with saying you’re not looking for a serious, committed relationship. Don’t do a bait and switch. 

Counter-Counter point: If you are actually honest with them (“I don’t see this growing into anything more than physical”), then I’d respect them enough as an adult to manage their feelings, and understand what that means. And yes, it’s not unbelievable that someone would say “No, I’m not going to keep hooking up with…

... because you are expected to have a mate -- and that, for many people of both genders, the best option is not to, because there ISN’T one out there for you.  And I really think that a lot of this is based on the misnomer that there is.  There are people out there for whom God created no mate, and any other idea on…

True dat. I think I may have overcompensated my expectations after being so let down the first time.

Honestly, I’m stunned it wasn’t rampant. I’m GLAD it wasn’t rampant, but the fact that those women weren’t subjected to all manner of abuses on that set is the most surprising part.

Note: does not apply to hot dogs.

And links are no longer fucking LINKS either, just text. Images have managed the difficult task of getting worse, somehow.

What’s even worse about the notifications is that I find sometimes the reply to my posts is nowhere to be seen when I visually search the thread.  No matter how hard I look, whether the respondant is grey or not, some replies just cannot be found even though i have a notification giving a preview of them.  It makes it…

I didn’t follow the Mulaney/wife guy relationship dynamic super closely outside of his standup and I’m not a celeb goss person in general. But my only prevailing thought is holy FUCK do I feel terrible for Mulaney’s ex wife. To have your famous husband who paraded your supposedly blissful (and childfree) marriage…

I feel like this being treated differently because we all generally like JM and think his work is good. Which, I agree with.

Finally watched the first episodes and the way they portray co-ops or condos makes no sense. They said the dead guy was behind on his rent. You don’t rent, you own and make monthly maintenance payments which is what Martin Short was behind on.  Unless you are subletting but the dead guy had lived there for years with…