When I had been at my current store at most two or three weeks, I walked in one afternoon to find a strange man sitting at the computer in the manager’s office - well-dressed in shirt and trousers, but not someone I recognized, and he wasn’t dressed like management. I said hi, he said hi, and then I said, who ARE you…

I use simple syrup and mint leaves in my lemonade (along with a couple chunks of the sliced lemon) - sort of like a mojito without the rum. :)

What I’ve learned, in watching a lot of these shenanigans in my life, is that even if the married/kids person who does the cheating is making a poor decision by cheating instead of dealing with issues properly, the cheated-upon is almost never completely innocent. Yes, there are douchebags who cheat just because they…

I haven’t used it for domestic trips, but cheapoair.com was great for internal flights within Europe - I found a lot of flights that were twenty to fifty euros less than the airline websites. They show you flights with lengthy layovers, which is a useful feature if you want to have an “as long as I’m here” adventure -…

I order from there a few times a year, in fact. Some of the stuff they offer there is also available at Cost Plus World Market, like Löwensenf, German-made Haribo, etc. The curry ketchup I tried was gross, though.

I got ghosted by a guy I had a lovely fling with on an international trip. Spent a long weekend talking about how we were going to surprise mutual friends at a festival later that year, long tight sniffly embrace before I got on the train to leave and ... barely responded to any emails and stopped responding…

My male boss, upon being reminded that with the manager he just hired, he’d be surrounded by women. “Well... you and [other manager] are kinda like guys anyway!”

I approve of seismograph-rattling belches. One of my best friends has a teenaged son, and he aspires to my skill at sounding barbaric yawps across the rooftop of the world. It’s a great pH test, too - if a guy can’t deal with it, we aren’t right for each other!

Same here. I rarely use the canola - mostly after washing the iron skillet - but there are some things olive oil overpowers in flavor.

The price of you getting human assistance in a store is listening to the spiel.

Other important tactics:

Oh that looks so good. I had a wonderful cilantro dressing at a restaurant in New Orleans, and this looks like a tasty variation.

One of my best culinary experiences was a currywurst stand in Düsseldorf - I was skeptical, but gave it a try, and oh man it’s so delicious. But the only place I found an acceptable curry sauce in the US was at a Berliner-run currywurst shop in the East Village in NYC, which closed about a year and a half ago. *sigh*…

Mmm, homemade hummus. I tweaked my recipe to the point that I rarely buy it anymore, it’s just hulling all those garbanzos...

Upstate NY too. We all made (or thought) the nipples joke, and then we ATE them, because nobody cared and because COOKIES.

^^ Yep. Not that I doubt that a company could be dickish enough to terminate someone without good cause, but I have seen more than my share of suspicious “medical appointments” and “broke down two hours from town” and things of that nature, and the important factor is habit. If the person has been employed for long…

I have a 5 yr old Canon SX120 which I love and have taken all over the world, but it’s starting to show its age - it’s a little slow to respond, it does not like low light, and the flash is as cruddy as you’d expect of a point and shoot. I thought about replacing it with the Olympus, but it doesn’t have manual…

I have a 5 yr old Canon SX120 which I love and have taken all over the world, but it’s starting to show its age -…

She is, but that black hair bugs me - she’s the wrong shade of pale to pull that off. I miss Red Donna. (but not Blonde Donna. ack.)

I’m a lot more than 160lbs, and I can catch dick pretty much whenever I want as well. Granted, it may not be the dick I WANT, but I don’t have to lower my standards much if all I want is a quick no-strings boink!

Same here - I have obscenely thick hair, and I always got a wicked snarl down by my nape because I didn’t take care of it properly, and after several months of being given a chance, it was all cut short when I was eight or nine. But it would never have been filmed for other people’s schadenfreude!