I don’t mean this in a nasty way, but since I was called ignorant I’d like to call out the ignorance of the costs that a massive corporation like an airline incurs to write policies, train employees, swap out snacks, make announcements, and verify that the policies are followed. All that goes to the price of a ticket.…

“I am allergic to wheat this is a big deal.”

This chart is useful, though, if for no other reason to find out that Air Canada warms your nuts in business class.

How did people survive back when the entire world didn’t bend over backwards for one person with an allergy?

You win the comments for today.

We just went through this in Utah. There are still a few zealots that feel like it’s okay to let their bigotry ruin the lives of people they wouldn’t even know existed or were gay married (or as most people like to call it, married) until they need a marriage license or birth certificate for their kid. The couple sued…

Elizabeth Warren for President! As rational as she is I’m surprised she’s been elected to any office. Unfortunately it’s probably too much to hope for a Clinton/Warren ticket.

I can’t be the only one that read that as “plastic pot plants.”

They’re all male and they’re shaped like penises?

I came out of a very conservative fundamentalist movement and when I came to my senses and got out of it (largely because of the hate for gays that I never understood) I was mad at christianity for a lot of years because I always saw the gay marriage and abortion questions as fundmentally religious. Then I finally…

Meh, the worst economic decision in recent history, repeal of the Glass-Steagal act, happened under Clinton at the urging of close advisor, Ayn Rand devotee, and economic arch-demon Alan Greenspan, who went on to gleefully destabilize the entire banking system and bail out just before it crashed. Democrats are still…

They think to themselves? They’re politicians, all they know is party line. If they had a brain in their head they’d figure out, no abortion, no gays, no minorities = only people like me = middle aged white men, wow I’m a crusader for bigotry. But they’re politicians, so they’re not very smart to begin with. They have…

Having a woman (or either partner for that matter) have to change a name they’ve had their entire lives seems like a silly custom to me. I’ve got one of those families where everyone’s married and divorced and has had kids with more than one partner and no one’s got the same last name. My sister kid has her father’s…

Go Icelandic. Erik’s daughter Helga is Helga Eriksdottir. Erik’s father was Thorbjorn so he’s Erik Thorbjornsson. If Helga’s mom is Frida, she can be Helga Fridasdottir if she wants to go that route.

No. Never. Not for any kind of debt. I don’t think I would ever get married again anyway and I will damn sure never mingle my finances with another human being again. At my age if you have a crapload of debt then you have established a pattern that is not likely to change. My experience also has been if you bail…

Much better if we can figure out how to apply it without actually touching the offending member.

I don’t know if this is most people, but I have many many areas I can cut back in my finances if I think about it. I’m so far from the saving fifty cents on dryer sheets place, it’s not funny. It’s more like quit spending a hundred a week eating out for lunch. As far as cash flow goes I’m pretty good at budgeting and…

I’ve noticed my fingers smelling (and tasting if I put one in my mouth after playing, not so uncommon when grabbing a bite between sets) of metal, but never like BO and never after I wash them.

Oops I spilled hot coffee on your inappropriate stiffy.

When people do shit like that I like to start making the gagging noise. I don’t get sick from smells but you know there’s always a couple people nearby on a plan that are just waiting for an excuse to spew.