You mean with brandy and a shit-ton of sugar?

Please, some common decency. It’s called food-borne illness.

I think my favorite is the idea that, if you’re particularly unlucky, your wife could go on a shopping spree an blow 60% of your total wealth.

Crapping on ideas politely is an extremely important skill.

I normally assume that I'm out of touch.

Yes I believe that is the case. Real life makes categorizing anti-social behaviors very tricky, at least in any real diagnostic sense. Which is why I put this kind of clarification in the pedantry department. Clearly your point is that there’s something wrong with these people, in some cases irredeemably so, and I…

Pedantry time! They would be, at worst, sociopaths. Most of these people describe some pretty bad stuff happening in their relationships with other people. Abusive parents, bad relationships, lack of success in their work lives. A psychopath has a structural dysfunction in their brains so they can't behave like a…

More like George Bernard BLAH.

The proper honorific for the President of the United states has always been Mister. It is a tradition started by George Washington. He insisted that the President be addressed the same way any other man of his day would have been addressed. This was a way of rejecting the (surprisingly common) notion of the time that…

It isn’t even back to status quo. Remember when “Cosby Show” “Family Matters” and “Different World” were all on, and “Friday” was in theaters and there wasn’t a single fucking white person in any of them and no one gave a shit?

The knitting. His one weakness.

I don't really see why C.A. Pinkman has to be racist, sexist or anything in order to be an asshole. Isn't being a needlessly aggressive, hypersensitive, whack-job enough? Or does that not get you fired anymore?

Seriously. It is such a thing that I don't even ask anymore. I just bring kid's food out first. That's how it goes.

That's because horrible managers foster an environment where horrible customers flourish.

And, of course, to the Greek System for putting them in the position of having to defend Phi Kappa Psi.

Yes we do. Also our cooks are paid an augmented wage based on the amount of business we do. So the more money the house makes, the more money the cooks make. I'm not sure how many other restaurants do that, but I wouldn't call it an industry standard.

Yeah, I hear that. It's just hard to watch servers who make $20-22/hour (with tips) complain about money to a dishwasher, twice their age, making $10/hour. Don't get me wrong, a higher minimum wage is a must, but I'd rather see a more even distribution of tip money in restaurants in general.

Um. Restaurants pay payroll taxes on the tips employees make as well as their wage. Do you really think the IRS is just leaving that money on the table?

Ordering off menu would be a great example. If your server accommodates that request it puts extra pressure on the bar or the kitchen, who are now obliged to fulfill that request, which isn't fair to any of those employees since they aren't getting tipped by that customer.

Yeah, thanks for that in your article by the way. I'm a restaurant manager in MN and I honestly don't know how I feel about $15 plus 18-24% tips. That would take the servers at my restaurant from "making more per hour then everyone else there" to "making absurdly more per hour than everyone else there".