FYI the thick blue ones aren’t done by hand. This document was passed around in an envelope by interns who took it to each of their offices and staff who knew it was legit used an autopen if the rep wasn’t there to sign that moment. It’s how you can get so many marker to paper signatures in such a short amount of time…

I have a few.

If you absolutely have to go up a tall building to see the views and be a tourist don’t wait in line or buy a ticket. Dinner service starts at 5:00pm at the signature room in the John Hancock building. If you get there when it opens you can easily grab a table by the window. You’ll be sipping drinks, being waited…

I usually try to hit up a city with a local, but in SF my local friend was in San Jose at the time, so familiar enough with SF to get around but not much else, was also kind of a tourist. In that case I usually do a free walking tour where you tip the guy at the end and I’ve had great luck with that in the past in…

Early on another pointed out I used the worst possible example (I agree)......

Very valid, it was an example, probably not the best. My overall point was, learn how to be friends with a lesbian, don’t make it weird, and this is a good opportunity since FF can build off of an established friendship.

FF is in a bad spot, but there’s a bit of advice I’d like to add. Embrace her lesbianism. Don’t get weird about it by being intrusive or vulgar, but acknowledge that you now both are attracted to girls, just like you and your guy friends are. If a base friendship already exists, it wouldn’t be hard to say go out on…

Cheers Patrick! Well said. I deal with this a lot, as in I keep my mouth shut. I work in a place where a lot of young college women work part time jobs, often between classes. They will routinely walk in wearing what may or may not pass for history 101, but not for an office. In the end their dress often correlates to…

Spot on.

Yeah, it’s next to impossible. I was lucky enough to have earned enough STD hours to cover my 12 weeks of FMLA as paid, but I had to take it all at once. No options. That said, a straight up 24 weeks of time between my wife and myself does allow you to put off daycare for 6 months, saving even more money. The reality…

I always figure modern science and tech will help shorten my life through things like carcinogens and whatnot but will also lengthen my life, all the while quality of life improves. So, I’m going to live the same 75-100 years as my parents, but modern tech will make my standard of living better. Processed cheese…

I’d take it a step further, with modern satellite communication technology they should have permanent structures around the world and just do it the same way every four years. The opening and closing ceremonies could travel, or hell, have those in Greece. The games are already spread out over a large land area even if…

GD public speaking. I can talk in front of dozens of people at a place like work where I have a relationship with some of them and others are strangers. I could go talk in front of a room full of executives at work and be fine because I know most of them. Put me in front of strangers or really anything with a…

Here’s DC’s chance to copy MCU. Make the golden boy grow it all out. Worked for Cap....

I remember in college people looking at me funny when I made eggs for a group breakfast one time. They looked at me funny because they thought they were getting scrambled eggs, but I made so much and made it both fluffy and sturdy enough that it more resembled Spanish tortilla (sans potatoes). So instead of scooping…

I’d imagine a huge chuck is the big machinery we put inside our constructed buildings. So, not so much cars, but car making machinery. Retail items as a whole with things like cars and stainless steel things probably does round it out.

That’s related to the joke in other comments involving an exclamation. So yes, that too.

A more direct Marvel connection is as Betty in Hulk (2003) even though they ignore that one.

Driving in a country where I didn’t speak or read the language was a fun experience (no GPS either). It wasn’t a major city and some things are universal, so it wasn’t dangerous, but it was still enlightening.

You are right, sources matter, and beyond that other factors play the bigger role. Your example of guns always brings up the debate between the UK and Switzerland. In the UK it’s very hard to obtain guns, even the street cops don’t always carry them. In Switzerland they have such national pride and military…