Oh that’s why. In most US states it’s a crime to publicly gamble outside of licensed institutions. This law is usually not enforced..because it usually doesn’t lead to anything bad happening. But if, say, someone is shot over a poker game at a friend’s house, the homeowner could theoretically get charged with running…

You’re an ass. It’s not their job to appease your kid cause you decided you were too lazy to cook tonight and didn’t come prepared. They’re not YOUR server - they’re the server for you and every other table in your SECTION. Depending on who called out, that can be half the restaurant.

Or you could just threaten to smack the fuck out of them in front of God and everyone in that restaurant if they embarrass you in public. Worked for me.

I’m sure she didn’t know it at the time, but eating wild slugs is extremely dangerous. They carry everything from salmonella to meningitis.

The biggest thing is to let the cat choose whether or not they want to be bothered with you. Whenever I meet a new cat I usually offer it my index finger to sniff - if they rub their head on it or lick it, they want me to pet them; if they take a swipe and run away, they don’t like you so don’t push it. If they don’t…

the other kid in the bet (the won that won the bet, then gave a false address to Viner

Could it be...that the threat and timely enforcement of severe consequences befitting the crime has made it less attractive to snot-nosed teenagers already too scared to fight their own battles?

GameFreak sure doesn’t. Remember, it’s Pokeverse canon that people used to marry Pokemon, which implies sex. The only mystery they leave there is whether monsters and humans can have children.

NOPE.

Also, those multi-story concoctions like the one in the header are designed to be split between at least 2 people. Any single person who tries to eat all that themselves would probably puke.

Do you mean Hitmonlee?

I think there was a time when my mom tried to ban me from watching MTV2 in an attempt to wean me off of rock music. (This was when I was graduating from Gorillaz to Korn and Rob Zombie, and I can see her concern with a 9 yr old watching that.)

I might be dating myself, but Yu-Gi-Oh.

I wish I could say the same for mine - my mom spent the early 00s collecting Chick tracts and had almost all of them at one point, plus several of The Crusaders. I pointedly received the one about rock music as a “gift”.

Considering this was less than 2 years after 9/11, I’m guessing everyone was still feeling their post-disaster patriotism boners.

I don’t do anything Christmas-y until day after Thanksgiving at least. It’s still fall, for crying out loud.

“Promises mean everything when you’re little and the world is so big”

One of the last songs Minnie Ripperton recorded before she passed ends with her crying out “Save me, save me, save me!!” I only know because my mother told me - I’m too chickenshit to find it and listen myself.

The entirety of the song Nutshell by Alice in Chains. But in particular “If I can’t be my own...I’m just better dead.”

Herbal tea is still tea, Cumbersnatch.