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I can only guess that perhaps they had not, in fact, reached the Chinese restaurant, but rather a gleeful prankster one digit off?

I ordered deep-dish pizza in Chicago on the night of the blizzard of New Years 1999. I had just flown back from LA and had no food in the house. Having heard the weather report I skipped the Blue Line and just took a cab straight from OHare to Hyde Park, worth every penny, because the snow was just starting to come…

I feel like this could be taken as shots fired in a glorious pizza chain war that could carry on for months, if not years. You deliver a pizza to our pizza joint, so we send our employees undercover to pose as asshole customers and make ridiculous demands. They spike our water supply, so we burn down their city hall.

Oklahoma is what the right wing would like for all of America to look like, statistically. The state is incredibly poor and uneducated. People work for comically low wages and attack anyone who tries to change that (proactively passing Right To Work when something like 2% of the workers in the state are unionized;…

Definitely. I was a teenager in the 80s and even then, sex while incapacitated was considered “regrettable sex” and not “rape.” There was no phrase for “date rape” in 1975. Rape was a violent act committed by a stranger, basically.

I’m 54 - so right there WRT age. I was date raped in 1975 - I was 15. We didn’t have the words then to describe what happened to us. It’s unfair to ascribe current thinking to a 40 year old situation. They were children in a situation they didn’t know how to process.

I’m about the same age - and this was not viewed as rape then (and some people still think if the victim of assault can’t consent, well she can’t say “no” either). Been there, have the t-shirt (and not as a bystander or rapist). Blamed myself. Only each person knows for sure what they did and didn’t know/see. They…

On the one hand, given the sensitive and confidential nature of child custody cases I try to keep in mind that there are all sorts of factors that could be in play here and strong policy reasons not to have parties arguing in the court of public opinion. On the other hand, judge is plainly acting without jurisdiction.

Wisconsin had a chance to get rid of Walker in a recall election, so clearly they’re not better than this.

He’s such a tintype plate of “fucking loathsome” that I’m not sure how everyone exposed to his policies hasn’t run screaming in the other direction. So, I’ll just stick with what I’ve presumed thus far: You can judge a populace by their elected representatives. So, Wisconsinites are awful.

Agreed. Honestly, ghosting can be extremely manipulative because you pretty much ensure that person will continue to think about you/try to contact you for a long time to come. It’s basic psychology, folks.

If you are ghosting someone because they’ve done some heinous shit to you and you have had it and there’s nothing left to say? Absolutely harder to do the ghosting. The ghostee clearly doesn’t give a fuck about you or your relationship anyway, so they’re not losing any sleep; whereas you, the ghoster, have to sit…

Well, there’s my friend the projectionist who got an emergency call to work some grindhouse in L.A. because their projectionist had died on the job. When my friend got there, the ex-projectionist was propped up on a chair in a corner of the booth; the paramedics had pronounced him dead but the coroner hadn’t shown up…

Whenever some real asshole with some scars from hard living gets in my face I’m like, “What would your parole officer say about that?” They are horrified, either because they actually are on probation or because they realize that it shows that they used to be.

If you were that huge an asshole you would not. You’d just make a big, continously-simmering family fight out of it, about how your child thinks you are such a terrible monster that they spread lies about you being brain damaged. It would never really get dropped, and sometimes, you’d just start yelling at them about…

Precisely. My mother thinks it’s just the saddest most tragic coincidence ever that BOTH her children ended up being ungrateful life-ruining assholes who left home and never looked back mere days before she and her red solo cup of a husband could kick us out on our 18th birthdays. WE were the broken ones, not my…

I worked in a hotel where the customer service policy was pretty much “give the customer whatever they ask for to resolve complaints, no questions, but make the customer name their price, don’t offer anything” which was a really fun policy for dealing with angry people. If they felt their room should be comped, done.…

When we had the yearly day where we showed all three Lord of the Rings movies there was one lady who would take over a ten person section with Barbie cars full of dolls and action figures, feed them fries and chat with them about the movie.