Hahahaha! Brilliant. The fallout from my comment was epic. Lysing for days.

What a jerk! People like this guy is the reason why I'm so fucking paranoid about using public restrooms. You can't even take a shit in peace anymore without having someone trying to film you.

My uncle said that to the world's stuffiest waiter once at a family dinner celebrating...something, who knows, when I was a child. The waiter looked pained in the face of my uncle's jubilance and explained, "Wine is somewhat better aged, sir." My uncle was like, "Yes, I know, it was a joke." Then, as the waiter…

I hate wine that isn't 100% directly controlled by me.

When I was 16 I embarrassed my mother at Galatoires by pronouncing the wine as "flaccid yet turgid".

Spent all day working up drink recipes with my partner. We riffed on pretension all day. I am too drunk to remember we said. I am pretty sure it wasn't as hysterical as "a miasma of inadequate conjugation" is to me right now. Because liquor goggles.

This. When I'm choosing wine, I usually ask for the "the one that will get me drunkest."

Thank you. I saw this comment only after saying the same thing. I was unfortunately vetoed last year and dragged to spend money on Blue Jasmine by two foreign friends of mine (who still see his work as representative of NYC). I decided to keep an open mind, but ended up leaving the theater angry that I'd wasted…

In my experience, workplaces considered 'cool' are often used to mask huge problems elsewhere in the company. A company i worked for moved to a very cool, modern building with some of the walls made of reclaimed wood from a sunken ship from the lake located by the beach outside. They also immediately laid off 150…

Really? Tell that to all the white folks that think they are being oppressed whenever POC ask them to act right,

People often fail to realize that "liberal", "progressive", "educated", "open-minded" and "pro equal rights" do not equal anti-racist or anti-racism. So-called Liberal views often mask deep seated inequalities and oppressive power structures by situating racism as an individual view held by just a few flawed…

Oh my God. So poetic, so disgusting, so hilarious!

Dripping lunch on your shirt *is* a thing- it's called a food brooch.

Are they alpaca though?

Not nearly as fabulous as the Old Man and Strega Nona, but my last serving/bartending gig was at a family-owned Italian seafood joint on the coast. I had been conditioned in my prior restaurants to never call out sick unless you could get someone to cover your shift or get fired. First time I came down sick at Family…

I AM SO GLAD YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS. This shit is NUTS. I've gone to work with a fever over 100 degrees + vomiting + chills, aka HELLA THE FLU. Every restaurant I've ever worked at has had that insane policy of, 'if you can't find someone to cover your shift, being sick is not an excuse for missing work.'

Not to be…

I have another bartending happy ending

Damn. This is exactly why I'm self-employed. I downright encourage my employees to stay/go home if they're sick, and I'm not even in the restaurant business. On the one hand, I'm not an asshole, and I understand that if I take good care of my people, they'll return the favor. On the other, from a completely…

1. PAID SICK LEAVE FOR ALL!

Actually, vitamin C has never ever been proven to do jack shit for colds. It was made up by a biologist/chemist who thought it worked on him and ran with it. Over dosing on vitamin C actually manifests its self in cold-like symptoms, so it's pointless to pound OJ or Emergen-C or whatever when you are sick. It will…