Cultural capital honeymoon! Japan? Laos? Bhutan? India? Alaska? Turkey?

They are all terrible. Every single one of them. Cathay, Korean, ANA, EVA, JAL and Singapore are the best airlines and pretty much every airline in the USA sucks butt.

Well, I polished at Eton and summer* in Provence.

Just kidding you guys, I went to Lady Higginsbotham’s Ladies’ Finishing School for Ladies.

SUMMER IS A VERB

Yes, all true, but he could have been more professional about it - telling someone their idea is “tacky” is the height of unprofessionalism. A simple “I don’t do neck tattoos, I’m sorry” would have sufficed. He didn’t have to condescend to her with that stupid birthday cake analogy.

I think the author knows this...her main complaint is not that Dan won’t create art at her beck and call the way a server serves food, but that Dan was kind of a dick about it and was very unconvincing in his assertion he’d say what he said to a guy (just because someone questioned you, and you’re a guy, doesn’t mean…

I just realized you were probably reacting to my “which is already like ‘fuck you’”...not that the vodka was top-shelf, but that it was vodka. I’m not a purist, I don’t believe the only good martinis are pure gin or that they’re “shaken not stirred” or that they are made with the original recipe that included orange…

“He’s probably in his late teens now”

Unless someone’s killed him, he’s definitely in his late teens now, but I love the quiet hope in your wording.

Nothing - that wasn’t the point at all. He ordered top shelf and got it - and then complained that it was cheap rail liquor when it wasn’t (and I know it wasn’t because I saw the drink made and I am confident that that restaurant did not pull any switches like putting cheap liquor in top shelf bottles) - all to get…

We had one of these “life hack” assfaces who once walked into the place where I worked, ordered a top shelf vodka martini (which is already just like “fuck you”) which he got, drank 4/5 of then complained it was bottom-shelf vodka, though I’d seen the bartender use ketel one. He gets another one comped (because of…

Can’t speak for everyone here, but my feelings on PC policing of comedy is that...frankly we shouldn’t police comedy. If it’s funny, it’s funny. If something is funny, it’s generally not going to be insulting or awkward-discomfort-inducing in a lot of people. If it does produce that sort of…

I’m like the opposite - I probably looked my dorkiest at 18. I peaked around 24, and looked pretty good at my wedding, and that was it.

No, I don’t think that this one video is the whole story. But I will eat my own hat (or I would if I owned a hat) if the father who made it isn’t somewhat or indirectly responsible.

And every person with underlying issues doesn’t kill themselves. You seem to really want to believe that that video bore no relation to her actions. The likelihood of your being right is quite small.

The public shaming was quite likely at least somewhat responsible.

I feel quite lucky to have a pretty decent sense of taste - I can tell good wine from bad (which is not the same thing as “tell expensive wine from cheap” at all), and I know pancake-syrup wine when I taste it. I’m not trained in wine, but I know a good one (for me, as per my taste) when I taste it.

And yet, if…

I think it boils down to two things:

I lived in DC for 7 years and I never accepted Fairfax as “suburban DC”, because as a DC-ite without a car I could not go there. For all intents and purposes it did not exist.

I think they’ll get there too. It’s not about them as people - it’s a group mentality thing that the tour groups need to get over. The culture in Taiwan stresses politeness almost to the same level as Japan’s (I’m trying very hard not to come across as someone with cliched/mildly racist views like “the Taiwanese are…

Sadly it’s not working. I live in Taipei and...individual Chinese tourists are fine, 99% of the time. But in groups they’re just awful - it’s not like they’re terrible people, but the tours get this group mentality (which I think most tour groups around the world do) and just don’t get that the etiquette in Taiwan is…