in fact if they want to make it illegal to not have gloves when handling nuclear weapons grade peppers, that would be fine.

No, that is the main issue. That is the only issue. Double gloves.

Oh there's still plenty of falling through the cracks. This is a deli in a grocery store and for my part, I think it's actually the layout that is the most detrimental to sanitary practices. There is a lot of space but not a lot of counter space, and the chicken breader is right in the middle of everything when it…

because curing your intellectual laziness is not our problem.

At the deli:

If the Health Department really wanted to verify whether people are following health procedures or not, they should send in an undercover person, either as a technician or maintenance of some kind, and observe what goes on in the regular day to day. If that outfit is following the sanitation rules, they should be…

I have my own little pizza sub-department, but I work in a deli. They gave up on that battle a long time ago- we go through gloves like nobody's business. The words "don't use so many gloves" has never passed the lips of any of the management for as long as I've been there.

Unfortunately a lot of fast food restaurants don't mandate this. McDonalds is actually pretty good about it- you almost never see the cashier going back to work in the kitchen. But smaller operations often aren't as strict about it. Next time you go to a Quiznos or a Subway, or any other chain that's predicated on one…

ugh, no one who is cooking should be handling money or vice versa ever.

Completely. There are a few select tasks where I will wear gloves (I work the deli as well as cook, so I get the need) but the rate at which I go through them even when I'm not doing my job (making pizza, which is bullshit impossible with gloves) is astounding. At the end of business, I'd probably rather take a fine…

Are you serious? Is The Art part of Manliness all about injecting importance to something that's not actually a real skill? How do you arrive at your twenties without have at least some technique in the "art" of beer pouring? Okay, I can see the benefit in knowing how to pour from a tap, given that most people do not…

ugh they're terrible. And painful, sometimes.

it looks pretty easy to do, too

Avoid cold temperature overhead lighting. Warm temperature bulbs, candles, string lights are all more flattering, and cheap options. Candles especially- you can usually find them at dollar stores (Dollarama here in Canada usually has a really good selection of candles) and obviously they're about as energy efficient…

I also think it's worth pointing out the difference between the Silent Treatment (which is passive aggressive bullshit that's hurtful, and also a way in which us ladies are often socialized to deal with confrontation) and mutually agreeing on a truce. Because sometimes when neither person will listen to each other,…

The other thing that makes me crazy (and I try to watch myself for doing it) in any fight with anybody who is close to me is the "you always do this" or the "remember when you did this."

at a certain point, decency and compassion trump the applause that some people need to hear for being able to perform a basic search on the internet and feel affirmed and correct by finding a legal provision. To quote: "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name…

I would say that in their zeal to fulfill the glorious Constitutional rights of the accused, the authorities in this case may have overstepped their bounds. And that it's entirely possible, in light of the nature of the crime, that provisions can be made to prevent further injury to the victim.

because it's totally impossible to write legislation that makes it possible for court proceedings to proceed remotely. My point is that actually, testifying in a courtroom is traumatic enough for any victim of rape, and that there are ways of insulating victims from that.