You are in public. There is no reason to expect privacy when you are in a public place

Love to read but don’t have the team to sit down and actually read a book?

Love to read but don’t have the team to sit down and actually read a book?

They’re “fairly” common here in the reasonably well-off North-East. I’d guess that at least one out of four weddings in this area are black tie, dress and hat for the ladies, and more popular within certain immigrant/heritage groups than others.
That said, I’ve been to a beach wedding where the requested attire was…

Maybe it’s a regional thing, but I’ve never been to a wedding where the guests were expected to wear black tie. The dressiest weddings around here require a suit for the men, not a tux.

It’s very rare to come across an establishment where you have to be dressed up to dine at.

the only faux pas would have been if either of them were wearing socks with sandals or flip flops.

Slides are sandals without a heel strap.
Flip-flops are toe-divided sandals without a heel strap.

the only faux pas would have been if either of them were wearing socks with sandals or flip flops.

Wearing jeans, t-shirts, sandals or shorts to weddings is a big no, unless it’s explicitly listed as acceptable attire. And crocs are not acceptable even then.
If nothing else is said, I’d go with black tie, and if it says casual dinner, drop the tie and cummerbund and go with an unstarched shirt.

Given that the historical data from CDC shows a higher percentage of food/hygiene violations for ethnic[*] restaurants for the decade ending in 2003, before public internet reporting and back when all food establishments were checked twice a year, people’s prejudices causing overreporting seems unlikely to be the…

Smells like an extortionary attempt playing on longstanding tropes of Asian food as “exotic,” “mysterious,” “and unclean.”

Doesn’t she actually have to prove that her illness came from that specific restaurant, as opposed to just kinda saying it?

“Even if it’s a buck”?

What’s at the supermarket (and indeed what Martha Stewart made) aren’t real marshmallows. If the foam is not made from marshmallow plants, it’s just “foam puffs”.

You may call it duck fat mayo, and it may be delicious too, but it isn’t mayonnaise, which is made with non-virgin olive oil, egg yolks and vinegar or lemon juice. Using any other oil is as wrong as hamburgers not made from beef or beer not made from barley.

Or you can read it like 5% of the population are Real Men.
Like real men, their toilet paper is rough, and it’s tough,and it takes no shit.

Now, if someone could tackle the great untalked about problem of urinal splashback on suit pants, I’d be grateful.

First of all, there’s a big difference between washlets and bidets. A washlet has an arm that sprays your anus. A bidet has a bowl of heated water that you actually wash yourself with.
Both can have drying facilities, but a washlet is not a bidet, no matter how many call it that.
A bidet can get rid of the Klingons near…

I grew up using an ass rag, a washcloth specifically for wiping after pooping.

As long as we’re dispensing poop advice, I’d add this: Look at your poop!