As an immigrant to the US this is the one thing I’ll never understand about native citizens - the deification of servicemen. I’m sure there is a miniscule minority of people who enter military life because of a call to serve, but it’s obvious to everyone else in the world that it’s just a job for most people. The same…

I don’t feel bad for Hardwick.  Exactly nothing in his life changed.  

Nah. Most people could run a dog fighting ring. Just takes the “right” upbringing. Look at cockfighting’s prevalence in some countries.

My hope is that Dennis never tells us what happened to his family.  Dennis is funnier when we’re not entirely sure the extent of his madness.  Refusing to ever give more than a vague explanation about why he came back would be perfect Dennis.

Does anyone else think that the Cindy role would have been done better by Tiya Sircar (Real Eleanor from The Good Place)? I love her delivery in that show and I think she would have killed it in this role

I dunno man. I like having that list, i’m not overly eager to put places on there, but sometimes they deserve it.

(last place that got put on there had a sick employee that coughed into my pho as he was walking by before heading over to about 15 full water glasses all ready to go to tables and then sneezing directly…

I didn’t make up anything; I presented two alternate and plausible scenarios for the undefined interaction. You seem to be pretty invested in your own interpretation of events.

“...one of the workers came running out and accused me of dining and dashing. He said no one had seen me pay.”

Having someone chase you out of a restaurant and falsely accuse you of theft falls under the rudeness/bad treatment umbrella in my book. And the letter writer noted a lackluster apology, which is pretty poor form when you have just leveled false accusations.

A mistake would be giving the wrong change. This guy was accused of theft in a situation where it would be impossible (pre-pay) by an aggressively wrong employee.

The trick here is to keep going back and calling over the said employee to witness his transaction, every single time.

“...it’s ultimately up to audiences to decide when...”

Suicide? Kill himself or tell jokes? That’s somehow better than comedian and doctor comparison?

Oh I’m sure he did plenty. Anybody who sleeps with his wife’s adopted daughter is not getting the benefit of the doubt from me.

Yep. Except this is an article about how a popular venue put him in front of an audience who had not made said decision. So clearly the venue had made a decision regarding their opinion of his public image and if time + apology had allowed for redemption. We are simply discussing the notion further.

You’re absolutely... well, not really so much right about ‘child murderers’, they do have things like life sentences and the death penalty, but your general point is correct. Criminals serve their time and are allowed back into society.

More than 10 months isn’t forever.

Whenever I hear about a guy who was credibly accused bouncing back from it to work again...I think about this interview shortly after the MeToo movement stood tall at the Golden Globes.

I do have to admit, taking one sentence out of context of the piece, conflating it to be about a criminal trial instead of a one-off metaphor for how long should someone be contrite, extending the metaphor beyond any sort of semblance to the overall and original point (also, metaphors and analogies usually always are…

I don’t think Penn Jillette just doesn’t give a fuck. I know more about him than just his supposed political affiliation. But politics right now is so ridiculously binary that voting any which way besides for one side or the other can be fatal, as we saw in 2016. Republicans benefited greatly from the Green Party…