“Everything I say is queer hyperbole”.... FU lady. Your student felt pressured to engage with you and get sexually harasssed bc you held their future in your hands and then you say he resents you bc he didn’t get a job or any gains from being harassed by you for years.... yeah no shit he’s angry and feels violated, no…

This is a weird fucking case.

There’s truth to the assertion that social pressure is a factor, but it’s not the whole story. There are plenty of women who choose to wear the veil or a cross or a bindi, etc, just like there are plenty of women who feel pressured or shamed into wearing it.

This is one of the rare episodes I was able to bring myself to rewatch.

Is Your Name on here?

Depends... if the server has come by earlier and checked on you and you’ve kept your feelings a secret, i’d say the appropriate thing to do is pay.

Or, you know, do something novel and keep it to yourself. That’d be a switch.

For all you bitchasses in the comments who waited tables at some chain restaurant in college talking about how fucking easy it is to split up the checks preemptively . . . IT’S NOT ALWAYS THAT EASY. I worked at a WIDE variety of places post-college, from shitty sports bar to 4 star fine dining, and not every POS works…

There are some places where this is always the case and others where it’s only sometimes the case. At a nice place it may just be that the chef saw something he liked or was cheap and in season from a purveyor and wanted to do something with it. Even at a nice place though it’s sometimes just using up something they…

If you have never worked in a ‘good’ restaurant where the kitchen uses the specials as a way to sell excess, then you are either new to the industry or a lucky unicorn. I don’t say that snarkily either. Yeah, specials are a way for chefs to stretch themselves, try new stuff, incorporate seasonal ingredients, etc. They…

That’s definitely true at some restaurants. I used to be a regular at a low-key, slightly crunchy-granola diner across the street from my apartment, and their specials were basically things the cooks liked to make that didn’t fit on the (already fairly expansive) menu. There was one special I liked so much that a…

I always figured the special was the things that the back end wanted to try making but weren’t interested in doing every day. If that’s the case, it would follow that they might actually put extra effort into that, instead of the things that they’ve been cranking out for years. Of course, I’ve never really worked in…

not in good restaurants. maybe in shitholes. the specials are a chance for the chef to make something that is outside the bounds of their regular menu. maybe something a little more adventurous or hyper-seasonal or featuring a cool ingredient that isn’t available regularly enough to be on a printed menu. in the case…

I’m usually in that camp, too. I know what I want and am ordering it. But, if you describe a special to me that includes “duck”, “foie gras”, or “pork belly”, you can bet your sweet ass I’m ordering the special.

I’m probably alone here but I’m much less interested in this season than I was expecting to be. Maybe it’s dystopia fatigue from last season, but man, something about this story arc just feels so... Bland.

My dad once told me a story from the old country about a guy he was acquainted with. Nice guy. Everybody thought so. Normal, respectful, upstanding fellow. One day they were talking about a recent news event: a man had been discovered to be a member of a persecuted religious minority/scapegoat, dragged to the edge of…

This trailer made me realize I dont remember one thing about the books even though I thought they were my favorite growing up

True. But he replaced Jorah Mormont in the FriendZone.

From a tactical standpoint. It seems to me that Marnie was powerful enough to take on four vampires directly. But her real failing was trusting Jesus.

Worst sentence ever.
Ed wins the Quickfire, and between the gradual increase of camera time over the season's arc to date and his bashful flirtation with Tiffany (think of the potentially levelheaded kids!), he's starting to seem like a potential comer, though the fact that the runners-up were, again, Kenny and Angelo…