I’m wondering if the couple had them confused with Papa Murphy’s (which does take and bake). You would think that they would have figured it out pretty quickly, though.

AND, be required to live off their pay. I know a couple of rich kids in undergrad who got food service jobs, and would just quit at the drop of a hat, because they “didn’t have to deal with this shit. It’s not worth it for the extra drinking money.”

Nah, he’s totally being targeted by those sinister members of the reality-based community. It’s all a plot against him, using facts from his past.

Yeah, it’s bad. He reads like a teenager who is convinced that he’s smarter and more insightful than everyone around him. The dropping Flannery O’Conner quotes to embarass the interviewer... dude, you’re trying too hard.

Seriously? Have any of those people ever been to JPL? What the book described is pretty much what any major US aerospace facility looks like.

I will add that I give people one chance to drop it before I get kind of bitchy. If people don’t take the completely ridiculous story as a hint, and prod for more details, my next response is usually. “No, that’s not what happened. I was trying to find a polite way to deflect a completely inappropriate question”, or…

I have a very prominent surgical scar on my arm (similar situation to yours, I’ve had it since I was a small child, not really traumatic), and I’ve been known to deadpan completely ridiculous answers to people asking how I got it.

Yep, same thing with upskirt shots. You can easily get much more revealing photos on porn sites, but the appeal of the upskirt photos is that they don’t have the consent of the person whose picture is being taken.

Jesus. I’m so sorry you had to go through that. The school’s response was woefully inadequate, but I’m sure you know that. I’m sure you also already know that it was NOT your fault for not reporting your assault, but I’ll say that as well.

Ow. That kind of stupidity just hurts. It isn’t even internally consistent. Which do you think “big pharma” is going to make more money off of, MMR vaccines, or a measels epidemic, where thousands upon thousands of people are hospitalized for days at a time, with all of the fluids, anti-fever drugs, drugs to control…

Yep, the biotech company I used to work for would have a disclaimer on all of our salary and bonus info saying that this was confidential, and we could be fired for discussing it with other employees.

Thanks!

It took me three tries before I read it as anything other than “we need unicorns”. I really should just go home now (not that that’s going to happen, I’ve got at least 3 more hours in the lab).

I’ll take them seriously the day they put forth legislation saying that the government can mandate that everyone has be typed for organ donation, and you have to donate bone marrow, a lobe of your liver, a kidney, etc if there is someone on a recipient list who is a match, and will die within the next 6 months without…

I think we agree.

This really does seem like someone took their percoset and heating pad-fueled musings about what would happen if you took the trend of connected devices to its extreme, and then decided to make a kickstarter out of it.

This seems to be a solution in search of a problem.

No. Just, no. If you’re not going to eat cheese, don’t eat cheese. Don’t try to tell me that you can get “cheese” from cashews, that’s not ok. </wisconsinite>

I’m pretty sure there’s a 14-sylable German word for the simultaneous heartbreak and heartwarming that I’m feeling right now. Either way, I’m crying right along with you.

I was at Queen’s (which is a pretty academically rigourous school) in the early 00’s, and a shocking number of the women there were completely open about the fact that they were the for an Mrs. degree.