I seriously don't get the people who want an "extra friendly" server. Why isn't being pleasantly polite enough? The server is there to get your food, not to be your dinner companion, and it's not possible to muster conversation and extra smiles for every single table every night.

Oh, I don't think they even think about it that much. They probably don't even believe that intersex people exist, or believe its some sort of inherent moral failing like they think being gay is.

Well, there's a lot more recognition now that children can be mentally ill, so it really doesn't have to be severe.

Part of it is just that there are way more female teachers than male, and it's not until you get into college that the numbers reverse (and sexual assaults by professors are less likely to be reported).

Naw, that's not what this law says. It says: "We fear trans people so much that will we put punitive and illogical laws in place to make their lives harder and more dangerous."

So intersex people are screwed, huh?

Ugh, isn't that the worst!? I was eating cereal the other day when suddenly a giant black lump floated to the surface. I think it was probably just burnt cereal-bits but there's nothing quite like putting something in your mouth that doesn't belong there.

It depends. If he stabbed her in the abdomen, well, there's a lot of tissue there to keep a blade away from bone. Given the condition of the body, animals could have gotten at it and tooth/claw marks would distort or destroy stab marks.

Is he saying he can't tell if a person is unconscious? Is he an actual human?

How is it inherently unstable? You've pointed out a very small community who practices polygamy (which, btw, is different from polyamory. One is a type of marriage between a man and multiple women, and the other is a preference for relationships with multiple partners of any gender) as part of a wider pattern of…

Very true. Personally, I would love to see polyamorous unions legalized as I've got several poly friends. I think it's just an extra layer of complications that make an unpopular cause all the more so.

You're absolutely right that it's kind of ridiculous to ban polyamorous marriages, especially given the historical precedent. I think the reason why no one's seriously pursued changing the law yet is because our marriage system is set up on the assumption that a marriage is two people. Legalizing polyamorous marriages…

That is a good strategy. In my experience, by the time the general manager gets involved they usually make damn sure that the bill gets paid, though.

I don't think any of these stories are beyond the bounds of human behavior, at least not to the point where you have substantiative reason to disbelieve them. I can see where there might be some elaboration, but none of this strikes me as outright fabrication. And if you want to get pedantic, we are talking about…

Edit: it should be "only Midwestern Christians are *that* bad." Weirdly worded, sorry.

Yeah, I was an English major too, and as far as I know it didn't give me any magical internet lie detector powers. And as a History major, the truth can be strange.

It's not that all Midwestern Christians are bad, it's that ONLY Midwestern Christians are bad. I've never had a Muslim ask me if I believe in Allah before leaving a tip, or had an orthodox Jewish person be upset that our non-Jewish workers do not cover their hair. People of other religions are simply not used to…

What? My point was that I think it's more difficult to believe stories en masse, because you're confronted with so much absurdity at once, but it's not too hard to believe that one absolutely crazy thing has happened to every server. I don't see how that's attempting to explain a blog to you.

It was also a chain restaurant, and it's likely that they can't really kick people out without corporate raining hell down on them.

I think that the reason you find them unbelievable is because they're all in one place, so the quantity makes it sound odd. But they're all from different people. It's not hard to believe that everybody who works in food service long enough is going to have That One Crazy Asshole come through once.