Probably taught not to waste food. My in-laws are like that. After thanksgiving this year, my FIL upbraided me for not eating the rest of my kids’ plates that contained cold mashed potatoes mixed up with whatever else they didn’t want to finish. He was really upset because he was ‘gonna hafta finish it myself.’

This also happened with another word that is a record scratch for me: Orientate.

I can’t explain why, but I always feel unreasonably excited whenever a team wins by scoring only FGs against a team that scored at least one TD. It feels like discovering a secret staircase in an old house.

Shall Jacksonville become a land of no spice?

CALLED IT - I just broke my arm patting myself on the back.

Calling the customer stupid does not make what these companies are doing okay.

Which is not the same thing. The Nigerian scam is fraud. This is usury, not fraud. These companies are up front with their terms and conditions.

It’s bigger than that. There are macro effects to predatory lending. There’s a reason these CASH NOW storefronts are in certain neighborhoods.

Bit of victim blaming there.

Yeah. I don’t get why this would be an issue for anyone. If a massage therapist moves on from something too early or something starts pinching, I’ll speak up. I’ve never had a problem with anything inappropriate, but I imagine that I would speak up for that too.

Zooropa usually doesn’t get its due.

Well, here’s the obligatory “ORRR HOW BOUT NOT ____” comment for this post.

I’m sorry this happened to you. *hugs*

Don’t

This is a man who has definitely called his boss ‘Dad’ without realizing it.

ah - nice

That’s a new one. I guess it’s part of the mascotizing of the Navy SEALs. Like, “we’re the best team in our industry and the SEALs are the best at what they do, so we’re like the SEALs.”

I get your point - but where did you hear these, in a Beetle Bailey comic?

It is an unsubstantiated allegation, as it necessarily be, given its nature, but Tennessee of all programs is apparently not inclined to be sympathetic toward anyone connected with Sandusky’s PSU tenure, nor to be itself connected with PSU in any way.

The craziest part of this is that the defector apparently took the only vehicle around for miles. How long did the troops mill around before another jeep showed up? They seemed to have nothing else over there to support their guard posts other than the guards themselves.