Hugs! Also, it’s an all too common bit of ignorance, exhibited by quite a few commenters on this thread, in regards to how legal status for immigrants to the USA work: For many immigrants, whether they’re “legal” or not is in flux and subject to luck. The lapse of a day can be the difference between legal and illegal.…

This actually matters.

It’s a frustrating peculiarity of our system that it’s really only a few thousand votes in a handful of states that decide our presidential elections. A few thousand in North Carolina...Wisconsin...Iowa...and it’s a different world.

Wouldn’t people voting for Johnson take away from Trump’s votes? Why is it assumed that if these people hadn’t voted for Johnson, they would’ve voted for Hillary?

Fuck Hillary supporters who said “Nah, they aren’t tilting this thing towards Hillary” even though the DNC head WAS a former Clinton Co-Chair? Fuck them for nominating a Female George Bush that got caught in lie, after lie, after lie and instead of owning up, decided to blame Russia and bemoan that Trump said mean…

Also there’s this nuclear button bullshit. Some people seem to think they are “bad as each other” when it comes to risk of massive war, fall of civilization etc. I mean, really? You think the person who was actually SECRETARY OF STATE is MORE likely than any previous candidate to start a nuclear war? A person who…

The truly amazing thing about this whole campaign (and the 30 years that preceeded it) is how a woman who independent and impartial analysis rates as “somewhat better than the rest of ‘em”, with a 30 year record of public service in which her worst verifiable transgressions are “changed position on various social…

Oh man, I worked at ASDA which is Walmart’s subsidiary in the UK and they tried to make us smile and be pleasant to customers. This is beyond my skills. I’m Northern Irish and congenitally dour. I don’t hate the stranger but I strongly suspect he has committed murder.

I hate when cashiers comment on my food purchases. I can live with someone going ‘Ooh, that’s a nice top’ when I’m buying clothes but please do not look at my food purchases and try and guess what’s going on with me. No, I’m not having a party, I am going to sit in my empty bathtub and eat this packet of cocktail…

That’s crazy. People can be very unreasonable. I once had a woman pop into the salon as we were closing and ask for a hair pin. She was dressed for a night out and her chignon was coming loose. I was happy to give her one. She wasn’t a client but she might be one after this, right?

Because unsmiling employees reveal the exploitative nature of capitalism? And we desperately want to pretend we’re not upholding toxic systems? That’s my theory.

I just got back from France and was shocked at how nice they were compared to my visit twelve years ago when I was much cuter, thinner and remembered more of my highschool French. Though, I am better dressed now. I don’t know what was going on. I had the French waiter sit and ask me to explain Donald Trump, like why…

No it isn’t. When you are a crew member at TJ’s, you’re expected to stock the shelves sometimes, work as a cashier sometimes, haul in the truck sometimes, etc. They don’t departmentalize. Jesus christ.

I’m not talking about people complaining about poor service. I’m talking about people who consider a neutral facial expression to be poor service.

I am French (well half anyways), have lived in France, now live in Québéc, and there is very little difference in the pronunciation of the word mayonnaise between the two languages. And if you’ve never heard someone order “des frites avec mayo” then you probably haven’t been in France or Belgium after the bars close.

It’s like their attitude is that they feel like strangers owe them the feeling like they’re happy to see them while they simultaneously treat those people like they’re beneath them. I’ve actually decided not to have second dates over this bullshit, it’s not cute when adults act like entitled emotionally fragile babies.

There are people who are naturally shy and don’t feel comfortable engaging in conversation with complete strangers. And please cut that whole, “if you don’t like people don’t work in customer service” shtick! It’s unfair to people who have no choice other than to work those kind of jobs.

Toothpaste’s entire job is to be mildly abrasive in order to scrub the top layer off of hard surfaces!!!! Whyyyyyy!?

Back in my day, real men claimed to be playing squash while they were actually slamming their mistresses

Whatever happened to cutting a hole in a vegetable or gourd of some sort, microwaving it for a couple of seconds, and fucking it?