The state of Wisconsin is entitled to its opinion, but it’s called a Manhattan not a Milwaukee.

Vinegar is an excellent degreaser; those employees were right.

I mean...an old fashioned is literally the original cocktail. It’s the primordial cocktail from which all cocktails descend. I’ve known bartenders make it badly; lots of them in fact. But I’ve never heard of a professional bartender in a place that serves cocktails not know how to make it at all.

Surely, knowing what “neat” means is just common knowledge outside of bartending.

It really all depends on whether she pronounced it “whiskey” or “whisky”.

The NYT are wrong then.

No.

There’s an especially unfunny “humorous” t-shirt that was popular about 10 years ago with the slogan “I used up all my sick days so I called in dead”. I never understood why it was popular here in the UK, because having a limited number of sick days isn’t a thing here.

When I read the words “chopping mechanism” and “Jacob was assigned the job” I panicked a little bit.

Most of the time, your mother and sister etc aren’t in your immediate vicinity I’d guess, so there’s no need to try to distinguish you from them; yet you still insist on it.

How many times per minute does a 6-year-old think about sex?

Unless you understand all the intimate details of how your comment was transformed into electricity and shot down wires to then appear before all of our eyes, you haven’t really thought your position through properly.

On the other hand, imagine that same 6-year-old saying those things while smoking a pipe and carrying a newspaper. Doesn’t seem so strange now, does it?

If I recall correctly, children, especially teenagers, particularly respect teachers who try to be cool, go by their first name, and try to use teenage slang. I think I’m remembering that correctly.

For the reason Ms Willett went on to explain.

I hate it.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of people (or more) with whatever your first name is. So to follow your logic, you should by rights insist that everyone address you as Firstname Surname every time.

Maybe people don’t feel so kindly disposed to people who trespass on their lawns.

Is it possible* that you just concluded that adults who wanted you to call them by their first names must be cool, and anyone who insisted on more formality was a dickbag? Seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me.

*This is a rhetorical question.

I once worked in a call center where we were supposed to call customers by their first name and I refused because these people are strangers and we’re trying to conduct business.