Absolutely cannot take your side on the drive thru bit. I can not count how many times my order has not only been wrong, but DRASTICALLY wrong, ordering to go, both at the drive through and from the counter. I don’t even mean extra/lack of sauce. Items prepared entirely wrong on special orders. Whole menu items,…

My browser lacks an Open Image In New Tab option. I use Firefox. It’s just not there. So that’s a reason.

This is an attitude known as “blaming the victim”.

We always talk about guns, but what about the bullets needed to fire them? It is easier to buy ammo than it is to buy certain decongestants. As I understand it, all that’s required now is just to convince the person behind the counter you’re over 18. Putting aside the fact that, yes, it is possible to roll one’s own…

That’s not even close to the weirdest thing. I have always been most aghast at the fact that stores are forced to take nice, hot items like rotisserie chicken, and then refrigerate it before it can be sold with EBT. Exact same item, except instead of being put in a heat lamp afterwards, it’s been put in a…

Well, as I said before, I wasn’t specifically speaking of Snapchat’s redesign. I don’t use it, and don’t know what, exactly, they changed. I have assumed it, in part, involves trying to duplicate what some other more currently popular app is doing. That may be incorrect. If the big takeaway is just that they’ve found…

I feel like you’re practically making my point for me here. You take a product that’s slipping, make a drastic bid to grab new people, and in the process alienate and lose your existing customers. I see it over and over. That’s a sure way to guarantee a failure, because without the power of an existing base, you may…

I don’t use Snapchat, so this specific instance isn’t relevant to me, but it’s part of a trend and practice I do not understand. You have an app/software that people like, that people use. But maybe you start grubbing for some extra market share, so you look to your competitors. You copy the things you think people…

The key word in xevioso’s post was “openly”. The number of “actual racists” may not have significantly increased (and may have even decreased), but certainly the extant ones have been further emboldened to more openly express those feelings, perhaps in more extreme ways than they might have previously.

My mind boggled, years ago, the first time I noticed a show censor out “god” but not “damn” in that phrase. Just... WTF.

It took me a while to place it, but his delivery of the speech reminded me intensely of Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor in Batman Vs. Superman.

Of course they were, of course they were. Because every white group and individual can find immigrants in their near-past family tree, so of course THOSE ones were the good ones. Conveniently forgetting that there has been essentially NO group of immigrants that haven’t been accused of coming to “destroy America and…

Or, in fact, nearly any other named character from the various Dragonball series. Goku is one of the few that aren’t terrible pun-like abominations or just plain common English words.

Or Poltergeist!

In leadership positions? Of course not. Why would we? You don’t get to a position like that in Starfleet without being the best of the best.

My grandmother always insists on stacking all the plates and such when we are out with her. It’s not often anymore, but it seems to have started to spread as a habit to the other members of my family. Granted, silverware is generally neatly moved to the top of the stack, so at least it’s stable. I will probably…

The GBC game is actually based on the Beast Wars II cartoon, as mentioned. As such, it does feature a few characters from the Beast Wars series, but most of them are from BWII, which featured a mix of new toys and redecos of toys from Beast Wars and a few from earlier series.

Those ones listed WILL be broken. If not in the box, then shortly after removed from it and handled. You did nothing wrong, but they are doomed. There is a Japanese version of one of the original spring-loaded Basic figures that is susceptible to this. I remember reading about someone who’d gotten one mint in sealed…

And of course the article this comment is attached to explained the in-fiction need for it in some detail. I will never understand people who make comments on articles they haven’t read.

Oh yeah, terrible site design. Just terrible. Comments are halfway unreadable. BUT that’s where (the successor to) Behind Closed Ovens lives now.