Maybe it is just because I find US standards of service overwhelming at times, but I have never noticed a substantive difference in the quality of service I get eating in the UK and the US. The server might pop to the table are bit less, but I always get my food, drink, and relatively pleasant demeanours? I mean, the…
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I don’t know. They only use ‘ugly’ on the girl’s chair.
Yeah, my cousin’s little girl was obsessed with being pretty for a while. It was the cornerstone of her tiny four year old existence - something like this would have totally devastated her. I don’t think she’d have behaved any better - she was four, her misbehaviour was generally too much energy to contain and a…
It might not be a world ending situation, but it is still socially catastrophic. The loss of the family members is bad, but then there is the fact that no one knows what happened or why. There are no bodies to mourn, no resting places to go to. There is the chance that the disappeared will just come back one day. Some…
My mum would have murdered me. Straight up. I was a picky kid at home, but if you were out then you ate what you were given. I choked down a plate of spaghetti while watching my cousin sneeze strands down his nose and snort it back up. If I could manage that, the kid could snarf down some pizza.
Robin Thicke wasn’t ridiculed because he wrote about his breakup, he was ridiculed because it was shite and he’s a creepy perv. Miranda Lambert has written 10 breakup songs, they might be for 10 exes but the feelings were probably inspired by past breakups. Or maybe she just writes emotionally empty shite - I’m not…
How many artists have released five albums by the time they’re 25? I’m not denying she writes about her relationships, I’m saying ‘so?’. She writes about things that happen to her, why do people act like this is some big whoop?
I point it out because Swift gets unfairly maligned for ‘writing those songs’, when hundreds of other writers have done it It’s a petty, nasty attack with vaguely misogynistic understones. I dislike it. I pointed that out.
Taylor Swift is hardly the first artist to write about their romantic life and their break-ups. Pink’s written about her breakup. Heck, Don’t Speak was about Stefani’s breakup with Tony Kanal. I don’t know why people act like Taylor Swift pioneered break-up music.
A friend of mine used to have the exciting job of designing those Health Awareness posters you see in doctor’s waiting rooms (in the UK anyhow?). He got a brief to do a flu awareness jab for little kids, threw together the requisite dad and wailing toddler with BEWARE FLU* at the top. Quickly got back a reply that he…
It would be the TV thing that annoyed me too - you’d feel like you had to manage your reaction for broadcast instead of actually having a reaction. It was kinda manipulative.
Some people it would be a non-issue, others it would be a big deal - I think. In this particular situation, his girlfriend seemed OK with the relationship they had and, if I recall correctly, said that the state of his privates was his business not hers. However, there had been a certain amount of fibbing about WHY…
Oh, I saw the documentary on him earlier this year in the UK. He had been hiding the fact he didn’t have a penis from his girlfriend (who had moved to England to live with him, if I recall) and had only told her during the filming of the show, she took the whole thing pretty well. I wonder if they are still together?
That IS a good question though! I mean, the woman left, called the store, returned to the store, and presumably had some sort of melt down prior to food throwing.
I am not sure I entirely believe this one? Unless the psychologist was a ‘psychologist’ who she met in a supermarket sniffing turnips or something.
It is a sucky answer, but it depends on your pain tolerance. I have NO pain tolerance and my hip tattoo involved a lot of high-pitched dolphin noises. My friend feels no pain and got a tattoo on wrist with no wincing at all.
An old employer of mine did that at a university interview (complete with trying to get out of the room without admitting he had a dead leg) and got offered what he called ‘a quite generous’ bursary for disabled students. (He turned it down, obviously.)
There was a very weird Call of Cthulhu game where my pre-rolled character was weirdly incapable of screwing up due to a mixture of GM fiat and weird rolls. She was an ex-child prostitute who’d been rescued from a cult and had really compromised sanity, but every time I had her react to anything it went weirdly well.…
*shrugs* It is a story about taking revenge on terrible customers, and when the guy says he told the chef about how this woman ruined his night...it does frame ‘baking’ the bowl as spiteful. I figured it was more ‘spitting out hot pasta and putting ice on your tongue’* in front of a date revenge rather than ‘skin…