“I said “avoid Durex” and nodded towards my daughter.”

“My favorite are the ones written by fucking morons. Like folks who go to a Spanish Tapas bar and complain they didn’t serve chips and salsa.”

Troll Update: This just gets better & better. It turns out that they’ve just shadow-banned my pet troll’s primary (“Imperiator”) account, so he has no idea that nobody can see his comments.

Oh come on, obvious troll is obvious. This is like the Yelp version of the infamous (& hilarious) “55 gallon drum of lube” reviews on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natura…

I NEED that cake!

Off-topic, but you’re killing me with the delicious food photos, Pinkham, you utter bastard. ;)

“He told me verbatim, ‘I could have you killed and get away with it,’” Rogers said. “I told him, ‘the press is allowed to be here on the sidewalk on a public street.’ He said, ‘(Expletive) America’ and threw a cigarette at me.”

That, & having a chat with a very nice Kinja admin staffer. ;)

“So what’s your ruling on if she’s got the same name as your mom?”

“She looked nothing like my sister but it was still weird.

And the idiot 4channer’s impersonation accounts are now dead. LOL.

True. What I do is reshare the really good ones on one of me social media accounts.

My next door neighbour is Persian, & a real sweetie. She worries that I’m not eating properly & makes up delicious Persian food parcels for me every now & then.

[Subway scenario] Don’t say a single word about the mustard, just open up the sandwich & quietly scrape off half the mustard. IF she asks, you say: “They kind of overdo the mustard here”. Do NOT twitch an eyebrow, make meaningful eye contact, or do anything at all that even slightly hints that you’re trying to make a…

There’s a big difference between ‘honesty’ & blurting out every unfiltered thought that crosses the mind of that two year old we all have inside us. Think things through before mentioning them, & phrase them in as diplomatic a way as you would to the big, twitchy guy you’re sharing a cell with.

Just fake-drink a beer & you’ll be fine. It’s all about the look, not the fact.

LOL.

It’s a pretty rare router than can be repaired without a soldering iron. Not that it matters often; IME, almost the only two things that ever go wrong with routers is broken sockets, which require an iron, or some kind of part failure on the main PCB, which - if you can get the part[s] - will require an SMD rework…

Fortunately, the idiot teen is permanently in the Grays, so hardly anyone is likely to see his whining. ;)

“*actually it doesn’t taste all that great”