No- they become involved in a complex scenario wherein they were supposed to be apprenticed to a pilot, but due to their nurse being hard-of-hearing, they become apprenticed to a pirate.

How very ...

I just look them squarely in the face and say “It gives me uncontrollable diarrhea.” And when they balk I say, “Well, you wanted to know.”

Ugh, I’m so sorry about having to get the 3rd resection. All I can say is I feel you and I hope it helps <3

That's exactly the line they use, too: "Well I actually deserve it, unlike all those lazy people who are getting rich living off welfare." The cognitive dissonance is astounding.

I guess you didn't read my answer fully. I absolutely do advocate a minimum income, just in the form of welfare payments - not a minimum wage (that's actually better too, a minimum wage means nothing if employees only get scheduled to work part-time 10 hours a week, whereas welfare payments can ensure workers actually…

I've had my fair share of jobs and I never feel certain I wont lapse backwards to a job that doesn't pay well. In the past couple years, I went from a pretty good contracting job (career as an IT writer for about 8 years) who was furloughed on account of defense cuts and in AZ to a $12/hour employee at Trader Joe's in…

I grew up really poor. I rarely got new clothes and when I did, it was always as a gift from relatives. Name brand foods were a treat, etc. Going to McDonald's and splitting a small fry was a BIG deal.

I'M DEAD INSIDE. ENJOY YOUR FUCKING FOOD.

You give them far too much credit for thinking.

Germany is exactly 100 days into a minimal wage scheme, and guess what? Nothing has changed: no rise in unemployment, no economic crash. Nada. However, the working poor in Germany are less stressed (no shit) and spending has gone slightly up. Having more money to spend=more spending, duh.

These selfsame people are the ones constantly bleating, "The gays are bad because Sodom and Gomorrah."

So the next time your old uncle gets drunk at Christmas and waxes poetic about how "all those welfare people need to get a job", remind him that they did. And they still need foodstamps, you out of touch troll.

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country"

Just...Fuck this. People in the food industry deal with too much BS as is.

Not so secret, secret: McDonalds (and most other*) franchise owners in high-minimum wage states still are millionaires. Sooo...yeah, we can afford to pay fast food workers $12+ per hour easily and still have a value menu.

It may be because they're idiots. It's taken me decades to finally realize that that is what's afflicting my supposedly-highly-educated parents, who are definitely of the "not my problem, get a better job" set.

So let me get this straight...

Oh, I dunno. That seems like the academic equivalent of a Edward Hopper painting.

This is one of my favorite late night diner stories. I lived near a 24 hour diner, and had the habit of going after 2 am, usually for breakfast food. Three of us went in around 2:30 one weekend and ordered French Toast. "How would you like that cooked?" "Yes, I'd like that cooked," I replied. "Rare, Medium?" The…