This takes an oddly different tone than this bizarre Jez piece: http://jezebel.com/no-having-a-ti…

Because you can get one to come in five minutes using an iPhone app, and it will automatically charge your card. I use Lyft more often because they seem less repellent, though half of my drivers tell me they also drive for Uber, so it’s not that different.

I feel like you kind of answered your own question there. The target is people who are interested in learning how to be blond, thin and vacant rather than bitchy, funny and a good boss.

They lost me at “only available for women”. Ew.

But they WERE rude. They spoke to the server like they were stupid because they were trying to explain that they didn’t have lomein. I have said this like 20 times on this thread— if they had just politely said that they weren’t familiar with the cuisine and asked for help, nobody would be judging.

When you’re an adult, it is indeed racist to believe that all Asian countries have the same cuisine and culture.

“The server tried to be polite and point out a noodle option on the menu, but this just perplexed the girl even more. She started again, but slower and with a little more attitude. “So you don’t have Lo Mein? You know like L-o M-e-I-n?”

The mental gymnastics you’re doing here are kind of astounding. This girls were rude. And racist. Yet somehow, you’re judging everyone else more for not being overwhelmingly nice to them (even though there’s no evidence anyone was actually rude back), than you are judging them for being rude and racist.

See, that guy was nice though! These girls were being pushy and racist, that guy was just sweet and lost.

Sigh. Do you not see that what they were doing was racist? There is a HUGE difference between saying “I’ve never had this kind of food before, can you tell me about it?” and saying “You have Lo Mein, right?” and then asking for it over and over again. It sounds like the servers were way nicer to them than they should…

That would be nice of you. But do you see why it shouldn’t be the responsibility of Japanese people running a Japanese restaurant to explain to white people that they aren’t the same as Chinese people?

I get a lot of people bitching at me about how my coworkers haven’t called them back. “X isn’t in right now, would you like to leave them a voicemail?” “I LEFT a voicemail YESTERDAY and she didn’t call back!!!” It’s like they think I have a magic power to summon the person to the phone that I’m just refusing to…

I feel like no matter where you’re from, if you’re attending college you probably ought to know that Tokyo is not in China.

I feel like that manager deprived the health department of a really amusing experience, though.

Some of my friends I was living with in my early 20s went to Ikea together once. They told me they got some shot glasses and somehow managed to break all of them before they left the store.

I actually had a fine time putting together an Ikea bed frame with my boyfriend. . .but then he dumped me the next day, for theoretically unrelated reasons. BUT IT’S CLEARLY A CURSE.

I’m offended that only one of the linked articles mentions the 30 Rock IKEA episode.

At this point, I’m way more annoyed by people bitching about other people’s social media posts than I ever am by posts themselves. “Stop posting so many pics of babies! Nobody cares about what you’re eating! Stop showing off your vacation!” The whole point of these sites is for people to post things about their lives—…

Yeah, I’m hoping this was a major “aha” moment in her life and she never spoke to anyone that way again. Not that she just thought “It would have been legit to call that server names if it WAS the case that someone other than them lost my credit card, but because they didn’t I owe them an apology”.

I think it’s probably true, but the server is kinda at fault for the misunderstanding. They asked her what gratuity is, and she answered “gratuity is included on the bill for parties of more than eight” rather than “gratuity means the tip”. Of course they then assumed that gratuity was some kind of ridiculous extra…