Yup. Ever notice that people who are generally nice to others rarely have issues at restaurants, etc., while those who are generally not nice seem to always have problems. (My father-in-law seemed to just create chaos wherever he went. I swear he could just make restaurant ovens malfunction.)

Retail is rarely a place where you can “succeed” (unless you are very, very motivated and love that environment). Ask your store manager how much he or she makes. Not a lot, usually, compared to someone with the same number of years experience in a trade.

After thoroughly pissing off my wallet many years ago, I gave this game up. Not quite as bad as having to pay a hefty monthly fee, but probably pretty close. Good on you guys who can be (and don’t mind) putting out that kind of cash.

What is this “offline” thing you speak of?

I used to live in London. One day, back when newspapers were a thing, I opened up my newspaper (don’t remember which) and saw “Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers!” Yikes! I waited until I figured my mom was up (time difference) and called to apologize. She could not figure out (for a bit) what I was talking about.…

Once, while traveling in Germany, we stayed at a hotel in Frankfort. When we got to the hotel desk, they asked us if we would mind receiving an upgrade to our (run-of-the-mill) room in return for filling out a customer questionnaire online. Clearly, they were attempting to “buy” our good remarks on that questionnaire.…

You’re right. Sorry. A little Youtube frustration there.

This doesn’t work as advertised. I have done exactly the above, repeatedly, both individually, and as a whole. Still, months later, I am getting recommendations for things I deleted months, and years ago. I also checked my search history and comments history. None of the “recommended videos” was in any of my search…

As a historically depressed and alienated person, I have never wanted to hear or read about anyone else’s like experiences unless there was a story of hope that would someone assist me (and others, too, I guess /s) in dragging my butt out of that quagmire. Otherwise, it’s just whining, which is boring to me.

Many Asian “religions” present a study of the “death process”, which is pretty close to the process outlined above. (Buddhism is atheistic also.) Google “Buddhist death process”.

I think if autonomous vehicles reduce accidents and deaths by even 10%, they should (in my book, at least) be considered a success, with hopefully greater success to come, with the goal of zero accidents and deaths being the ultimate, but that last 20% is usually pretty tough.

We went on a tour to Rome over Christmas as the wife wanted to be in Vatican Square when the Pope gave his Christmas blessing to all on the square. We did a little shopping prior to the event on the far end of the square so when the event started sooner than we anticipated, the square was already jammed packed. We…

Rascists are usually quite racist against the many other tribes in their own race, much less against other races. Real Christians and Real Buddhists are indistinguishable from each other. (Or the “real thing” in most other religions that truly see the world as it is.) Fools, on the other hand, if their actions don’t…

That Irish bloke, Siannnne Guinnessberg.

garbage in, garbage out.

On the PestWorld site, they list Baldfaced Hornets with following caveat: “ if their nest is located near a structure, control is warranted.” Which is exteminator speak for KILL IT! We had a nest of them in our front yard, and when I showed the pest guy, he just said he was calling for help, asked me to get back into…

Fister certainly isn’t an upgrade over BC. Gotta root for BC, unless he is pitching against my team.

Ha! So does darn near everyone who uses a poll in a blog/article. Also, who allows a poll taker any time any more? Most of them that call seem to be ran by a political party just trying to add you to their list of possible donors. Voicemail and delete, ftw.

The main complaint I have about these articles is that there are not more of them. Thank you.

Indeed, they are all going to march into the gates of hell together, trying to figure out where the “enemy” is.