You can also think of it in the sense of cost for the restaurant. If someone forgets your mashed potatoes and they arrive 3/4 of the way through your meal, you are probably asking them to waste about 10 cents to keep you happy by taking it off your bill. In a franchise or even medium-quality restaurant I imagine an app…

I have no doubt that that was what was happening and that you nailed what was going on in Mulaney’s own head.

Comedy often doesn’t age too well in general.

Welp, it looks like Jerry is old enough and put enough things into the world to be hated by the internet.  Congrats Jerry.

“Some lucky office workers word salad”

Bad take. The above is talking about how colonizers from back when used it, not the root origin. You’re purposely highlighting the worst possible context in which to use the word, when in reality the base definition is just a descriptor.  This is what annoys the shit out of some people, and rightfully so.

If you own a smart phone or a computer you are fucked like the rest of us with or without Facebook.

I’m still surprised at how common this is though. I have to look into how expensive those ads are, because I’m constantly shown ads for stuff that I looked at out of curiosity but had almost no intention of buying. The whole model, or at least that specific type of ad, seems built completely around the idea that every…

Maybe reel it in just slightly? You have to admit it’s interesting what famous novels people actually like or don’t like when they’re not being told by someone else what books they’re supposed to think are “classics”. Now of course there are plenty of ways to poison that well and it’s far from gospel, but if anything…

It seems like all we’re doing these days is figuring out ways to pay people less than minimum wage.

Yes and no? I think it’s also partly due to the fact that things just change. People nowadays (especially digital natives) are used to getting stimulation fast, and the option to bail out and pick something else if the first thing didn’t impress you is so common now. The ridiculous amount of choice makes people less…

I actually wanted to read this and was told to start with The Crying of Lot 49.  I didn’t finish it because life must’ve happened or something, but I thought the writing was really good.

If nothing else I think it is a smooth introduction to the idea of loss for kids that are often too young to have experienced it yet. Not that I’m proposing we make kids feel like shit to toughen them up, just saying that a lot of kids read that book around what? Age 8-12? It could prepare them for feelings they’ve…

Trust me, Dickens is even worse when you have a slow-talking teacher who feels the need to explain literally everything.  I remember him taking a few minutes to explain to us what Dickens was trying to say when a character asked “what it is o’clock”.

I’m on it just about every day and have never encountered anything resembling this. Don’t go by the 2% of users who are vindictive, probably lonely, and have messed up priorities in life.

I really liked it but even at such a short length there’s not much in the way of breaking things up. It just goes on and on ‘til it’s done.  Really good though IMO.

“We’ve got lots of hacks for this, the best IMO being taking a screenshot of your pass, although that certainly doesn’t help if your phone craps out in the moment you need it most.”

Lol oh jeez that’s like my nightmare.

Same here. It makes it sound like she’s helming the project and playing the main character, and unless they cut out the main protagonist from the comics, neither are true.

It’s pretty crap but it also sounds nothing like a Christmas song, making it better than at least 75% of Christmas songs. Plus, try actually sitting through the entirety of songs like Silent Night or The Little Drummer Boy.  Slow Christmas music is a black mark on the entire art form IMO.