Don’t listen to that person, scrapple is delicious. It’s basically just sausage + cornmeal + frying. The inside is kind of soft and the outside is nicely crispy. A small amount of ketchup on top is generally preferred.

Actually, the replays clearly show that neither of them came anywhere near it. Not, “just barely missed the base”, but “not even within a couple of feet”.

I’m mildly allergic to grapes, but I’m fine with both raisins and wine. Your guess is as good as mine as to the exact chemical involved.

Yeah, no. The pizzaria across the street generally has more white pizza variations ready for people wanting individual slices than ones with tomato sauce, and that’s pretty typical here in NJ. Even when I lived down in South Carolina almost every little local place had plain white available, and what they served…

You’re still treating it like a product being bought. Kickstarter (like all other crowdfunding sites) is just a way to donate money to someone.

That’s a terribly stupid thing to say. Outside of the comparably small number of countries where critizing the government threatens your life/health, in comparison the US practically bends over backwards for its politicians. See for a lighthearted example Great Britain, almost the entire population of which has spent…

Exactly right!

Yes, it does. There are specific exceptions, I believe (which I don’t actually remember anything about, because I’m not a lawyer), but otherwise federal law always overrules state law. As a general rule, where you see state and federal law on the same topic vary, the state can be more restrictive (as long as it…

...still baffled. The letter writer used the term correctly. If you’re talking about the spelling, “ph” is a perfectly valid alternate spelling for that usage, as even the quote you used in your original comment acknowledged (it’s the third listed spelling).

I’m baffled by what point you’re trying to make?

Normally I’d give the funny answer, but for once, I’ll give the honest answer. 95% of religious folk are perfectly normal and nice. But then religion gives the majority of the remaining 5%, who would have been whackos and/or assholes even as agnostics and atheists, a societially-approved excuse to act exactly like…

You made a broad statement that boiled down to that it is rude to speak in another language with one person while also being involved in a customer transaction with another person who only speaks English. You implicitly include this situation in that by first explicitly mentioning this woman and then immediately…

1) Being berated by an insane customer isn’t a “conversation”. It’s hard to hear anyone in the video but her, but mostly the servers appear to have been stoically waiting her out.

You and I have very different standards of rude, and very different conceptions of how much of themselves a person providing service owes a customer. In my book, an aside to your coworker is perfectly appropriate during a prolonged transaction, and if you assume it’s about you instead of, say, “I need to be at daycare…

Wait, are you being serious right now?

Important note: YMMV. I might have just had good luck in always getting nice billing people, but your local hospital might be full of bastards. I’d still hold off paying for a couple of months either way, though. If the bill is paid off, there’s no incentive for them to try to get money from an insurance that’s…

Negligible to nothing. I’ve never actually had a hospital report me to a credit bureau for late payment, even six months on.

I second the hospital bill tip. I never pay one that’s over $100 immediately, and for a large one I’ll wait at least 4 months. That gives their billing department a chance to do at least two rounds with my insurance to get every penny they can out of them, and then apply their automatic (usually massive) discount to…

Oddly enough, this past week, staying in one of the few reasonably priced hotels in north Jersey that takes pets, has taught me that dog show people are also humo(u)rless assholes.

Surely every dog owner at some point does the half-naked catch-the-escaping-dog dash, complete with leashless walk of shame back? (At least, I know I have.)