A thousand times, this.

Yeah - since learning the difference between allergy and not-allergy, I’ve taken pains to clear up my mistake. I like to learn, and when I do, I will cheerfully admit I’m wrong.

I grew up with a tight budget and a mother that loved to cook. I can count on both hands the number of times I ate restaurant food prior to college.

At a guess it’s due to gross misunderstanding / incompetence. See the number of people in this very thread making cases for “allergies” that aren’t allergies.

I worked at a Chi-Chi’s restaurant once. I... stopped eating guacamole about three days in. I still can’t stomach it.

Santorum isn’t so bad.

I’d like to imagine that I was that great customer once.

They must have been deep in their cups and really strapped for cash when they decided to band together to pull this off. I wonder how they’ll be caught - maybe one of them was wearing a wire?

All the kitchen has to do to accommodate a preference is leave out the offending item. For an allergy, they have to change gloves, pans, cutting boards, grill panels, knives, everything. That’s a fuckload of work, and it puts all the other tickets behind.

So at the risk of saying something unpopular, in the restaurant industry, we do our best to accommodate these things but you have to understand that “our best” will never ever be perfect. We just can’t do that. I’m not saying that people with food allergies need to stay home. But I am saying that if you are deathly…

If I recall correctly, nobody won the raffle. It was a crazy publicity stunt for some company that made incubators. But no one wanted to win the infant so they didn’t give it away... they put it back into foster care.

Female babies being retroactively aborted (by being left out on curbs with trash)

Argentina: Desaparecidos

If this is true, this is really, really, really bad news for race relations in already-strained SL. I’m in complete fucking shock. If this is true... I mean, this is next-level evil shit. I would burn things to the ground.

I said I’d heard it in gym class. I did not go into more detail. My mother was embarrassed about the word - this was a long time ago - and I just wanted the conversation to be over. Nowadays I think most 11 year olds would likely know the word “lesbian”.

I understand where this is coming from - nobody “noticed” me, therefore I am undesireable - but it’s not like that. I am by all measures a phenomenally unattractive woman. The nicest thing my own mother could say about me was that I could sometimes look nice after I’d just showered. I have a giant nose, a weak chin,…

You learn really quickly not to say anything - if you do, it gets worse. I said something once in gym class and the teacher led the kids in making fun of me. One of the boys grabbed my boob (I was 11 or so; and I grew very large breasts early) and I complained about it. The male gym teacher mocked me and said I must…

I cried after finishing reading them all because they were so familiar.

Interestingly, this coin “puzzle” demonstrates rather succinctly how terrible these questions are. I came up with four different solutions that all work. These questions test whether or not you can get not the right answer, but the answer the questioner wanted.

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