I look forward to ignoring many more articles about her in the future. 

I honestly cannot even tell if you’re being sarcastic, because I feel like that’s a perfectly legitimate foothold for people to use to get into hollywood.

Next year: “Emma Watson, self-partnered for many years now, has consciously-uncoupled with herself and asks for privacy while navigating their new reality and says she is both committed to the raising of their imaginary twins, Emma and Emma.”

I was ‘self-partnered’ throughout much of my teenage years, and while it was perfectly fine for my mental health my wrist joints sound like a cement mixer.

I prefer ‘spinster’, myself.

This is how PR works. A nobody gets attached to a somebody and suddenly the nobody is somebody, in the mean time a whole host of cottage industries benefit. popperrazzi have something to photograph, tabloids have something to write about, and internet commentators have something to point at and laugh, or scratch…

She’s black and too a lesser extent American. So basically her crime was existing.

Do they have Herbs on those wings?

The comments under her post were downright horrific. It ranged from “Well Why didn’t you just move?” to “Was it really that big of a deal?” I want to know who in the fuck was the cracker that didn’t want anyone of color sitting by his or her pasty ass? Maybe those patrons didn’t want to sit by his pigmentally…

I don’t drink, but it is my understanding that if a mixed drink is too sweet, it’s a sign that it’s built in an unbalanced way, with some ingredients overpoured, and probably also not mixed correctly, and that’s bad for the bar because you’re not likely to spend beyond the first drink and wbatever food you ordered.

cheez-its actually taste almost exactly like burnt cheddar cheese. 

Wasn’t made correctly, or the feedback had been so consistent that it should have come with a warning when it was ordered “So you know, a lot of people have been surprised by how sweet that drink is. Do you like a sweet cocktail? No? Then allow me to recommend X.” If the bartender hadn’t accurately guessed the problem…

Agreed, most of the blame should be on the restaurant for putting out such a lousy drink. That’s where most of my ire is concentrated.

That said, the bartender did himself no favors by constantly remarking, apologizing, and engaging the customer on the lousy drink.  Any reasonable diner would’ve though he was about to…

Honestly if the bartender starts with ‘it’s too sweet isn’t it?’ then I’d kind of expect it to be comped because you were served a product that even the person serving knew was probably not gonna be good.

I agree as well. The server should ideally have had the drink remade either correctly (if that was the issue,) or just less sweet if it had been made correctly and the drink being sweet to the point that people find it unpotable has been a common issue (which it sounds like is the case here.)

The bartender knew it might be a problem and new exactly what the problem might be. He apparently didn’t warn her about it ahead of time.  She shouldn’t have to pay for his experiments.

that’s why my opinion is a “lean” rather than an absolute. not knowing what the drink was, maybe the barkeep could have “boosted” the other ingredients a bit to reduce the overall sweetness?  might have been a way to fix it and not waste a ton of potential profit. 

Good grief. The bartender came right out and admitted that he didn’t get it right. Hell yeah, it should have been comped. 

This one isn’t as egregious as some of the other letter writers, but there’s still an unpalatable level of entitlement surrounding the idea of what should be comped in these stories.

*golf commentator voice*