Disappointed that you did not suggest adding bacon to a McDonald’s Bacon Burger (any variety).

Fashion models are tall but never weigh more than 120 pounds.

Fries look like they add nothing to a salad and the salad looks like it makes the fries soggy. It’s the worst of both worlds.

And gravity doesn’t seem to affect her hair. Maybe that’s common in fashion shoots, I don’t know, but it looks a little odd to me.

Aw, come on! It’s not much over 1,000 calories, with 60g of fat! (Wow.)

I’m sitting in the aisle seat; a man in an airline uniform is sleeping in the window seat; an empty space separates us. The flight attendant walks by, tosses a bag of chips and a Kit Kat bar onto the middle seat. “These are yours,” she says.

magazines are still printed? I haven’t seen one in years.. i need to get out more.

Uh, yeah. I’d extend to “can of turkey chili.” Is there a good canned chili of any kind?

It’s a... *drum roll*... hatchback.

...he is regarded as “a policy expert, professor and op-ed contributor,” per the Social Security Administration’s website.

Also: “vexed.”

Just another good idea from the Communist Party, like public schools and a progressive income tax.

Crying into my Diary sounds like a solid title for a memoir. You never know, right? :-)

I kept a journal regularly for several years. I wasn’t a journal-keeping person until my life became more interesting than I wanted it to be; writing in a journal helped me figure out how to structure my fragmented thoughts and experiences into something coherent.

Thanks for the broader perspective--you’re exactly right about manipulation.

It wasn’t creepy at all, but the first couple of times it happened I was like “Aaaahhh!”

You’ve flagged an important issue that I haven’t seen mentioned earlier: the question is totally culture-specific. That is, Hands Off Please is asking about what’s appropriate in U.S. culture (and appropriateness may even vary between different regions of the U.S.) for a specific set of roles in social interaction. So…

Also, the police spokesperson should learn the difference between “proximate” and “approximate”—someone might think she has no idea what she’s talking about.

more popular that Yelp reviews

On target. I remember when I was in grade school and would doodle on my notebook and binder covers. They were clearly mine, an expression of me. Car badges? Why not?