“I’m genuinely going to miss him. He knew how to push everyone’s buttons, had no patience for the rigorous blandness of the perfectly calibrated reality program he found himself amongst, and clashed fabulously with Kris.”

Post-Huxtables. And they were uber rich, richer than most families on TV at the time, period. The Huxtables were upper middle class but their kids went to public school, they liked each other, they were college educated... Like my family. But both black and white people to my face at the time said they were a made up…

Whitewashing with a black actor. It seems there was a pretty fair variety of ethnicity in the movie. People just want something to bitch about

I don’t know if you realize, but those “drop crotch pants” are actually the bottom peice of the two part Indian outfit that Indian men daily wear in India - called the Kurta Pyjama. Kurta means shirt (the long tunic), and the pyjama is the pant (or as a Swedish friend calls it, our Aladdin pants). Interestingly, that…

They can’t do the original form of dressmaking. Designing for a particular person used to be the norm. One of my grandaunts was a dressmaker. Once I asked her to fix a dress for me that didn’t fit right at the bust. 10 minutes later she handed me my finished dress and a cup of coffee. She was 83.

You don’t see why we would treat a movie or tv show which is telling a fictional story differently from an advertisement?

Because they are selling something, not making a movie. Leading viewers to believe they can dye their hair bottle blonde from RED is like false advertising.

Or, you know, I didn’t know such an article existed.

No, I’m just looking for you to admit to a mistake without sulking like a 4 year old. No luck so far!

I literally just listened to an interview with Jen Kirkman where she talked about how upset the Jezebel article made her.

so there! :P

I caught the judgy vibe on that story as well. The customers turned out to be jerks anyway, but there was also a bit of confirmation bias going on there as well. He expected them to be trash, and so they were.

The only possible excuse for this is if you’re a middle-aged Dad.

Just because the customers in the story turned out to be genuinely awful doesn’t mean the server can’t be a nasty piece of work too.

He really was being a bit of an elitist fuck, and I say that as a self-defined snob on several issues.

I appreciate telling a story on yourself, but she seems to think the funny part was the bread, when she’s “super health conscious” so she ordered... a pile of cheese and fries?

poorer folks were a part of the landscape

So many anti-gun control people love to compare guns to cars. More and more, I think we need to follow their lead and treat them like cars and treat gun ownership like driving. 6-8 week courses to get licensed, culminated with a test you must pass with a high percentage. You have to be insured and licensed to purchase…

Anybody seen this awesomeness going around?

As others have pointed out, your understanding of waitstaff earnings is way off, but more fundamentally you’re employing deeply flawed crab bucket logic. Teachers should be paid more too. That has zero bearing on whether waitstaff should be fairly compensated.