Emily's hat has the band but it definitely looks like the hat has a different shade, almost an indentation from where the band used to be. For a young boy, a hat with a lace band might be the kind of thing that he wouldn't wear, while the hat without a band looks gender neutral.

Immediate caveat: I'm not trying to…

She was wrongfully imprisoned with a bucket for a toilet for absolutely no reason, and then put under house arrest for absolutely no reason. I don't know about you, but if that happened to me because of something with as much scientific validation as an accusation of witchcraft, I'd be pretty fucking pissed off.

That's not what happened but keep trying. Sooner or later you'll be right about something.

Sleigh Ride and Jingle Bells were both originally fall/winter "Happy Holidays" types songs. It's only in the last 40 years or so that they were retro-actively annexed as Christmas territory.

Back in high school, my stepbrother had apparently ordered a pizza b/c he went to go take a shower, handed me $12 and told me this was for the delivery person just in case they showed up while he was in there. In my head I can already calculate that there wasn't much included there for a tip. Anyways, like 2 minutes…

Let a grandstanding politician cram you into an unheated tent with no running water and a box to shit in —immediately after you get back after spending time in west Africa, in the middle of a deadly outbreak, trying to stop it — and see how non-belligerant you are when people scream about you not willingly being…

Serious question: if a male nurse had vigorously protested such unjust and ineffective treatment, would you be wishing this on them? I don't get all the people claiming she's obnoxious for asserting that the state should follow ethical, legal and scientific guidelines. She went to another continent to voluntarily…

if you tip poorly 5x a week, that's just 5x as much resentment

She worked for Doctors Without Borders. She kicks ass. Here is the DWB statement on how the quarantine actually harms efforts to stop the outbreak:

You have an... interesting definition of "being a douche" and by interesting I mean fuckwitted and ass backwards.

Openly hostile? Should she have been more covert to please you? Like, you don't feel she had the right to move around freely in her birth country and that even though her quarantine was deemed illegal by our judicial system, she shouldn't have spoken out against it in the free press after publicly stating her plan to…

that's a really dickish thing to say.

She won my support. Lots of others here in the state of Maine also.

I'm sorry, how was she a douche for wanting to be treated reasonable and according to medical and scientific practice, not being illegally detained for little to no reason, and speaking out about it so that hopefully this doesn't happen to other aid workers and travellers?

Good for her. Someone needed to be a pain in the ass to this stupid fear-mongering and I applaud her for it.

If she does, she will take appropriate steps to get tested, and if she is positive for Ebola, she'll be treated and almost certainly survive.

So Christmas starts in early October?

That story was a double dose of bad customer AND bad manager. WTF with that manager?? Fuck that guy.

In college I went out with friends once and refused to get up from the table until they left a reasonable tip (they were my sorority sisters from a small multicultural Jewish sorority...). They claimed bubbie saaid you could tip 10% before tax (and this was after her being one of those shitty picky diners who complain…

I once went on a date with a guy who stiffed a waitress on her tip and I never spoke to him again. Please explain to me how someone marries and has children with someone willing to throw a chicken at another human being who is waiting on them? Also, the manager from that story was a huge asshat.