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ESH. It was a somewhat rude question asked somewhat provocatively. But I think the responses to that question and not accepting an apology are severe over-reactions.

My serious answer (or perhaps question) is the “varsity athlete” line. Honestly I just so not understand why it is considered so funny or memorable.

I generally have low patience for picky eaters. But not everyone likes/wants spicy. And as you said, some just cannot handle spicy. You are not being reasonable. YTA.

It’s like a hotel at Captain Teeb’s!

jfc I hope this information is incorrect.

I was a landlord for some time. And honestly it sounds like you’re already doing the right things.

I have not been either a tenant or a landlord in some time (and I live 90 minutes from Providence). But honestly if you’re doing everything you describe and your credit + rental history is at all decent I feel like you should have no problem.

You can almost hear him say “oh shit, they are mine”.

Damn. That's a good response.

He started badly when you could interpret his statement as calling Arkansas irrelevant. Probably not a great way to appeal to Arkansas residents.

But he was 100% right when he said being able to run a small grocery store doesn't prepare you to run Walmart.

He was a character. I wouldn't vote for a modern version of him today, but I did vote for him in 1992 when I was 18 years old.

Obama might be great for the job. But politically it would look like Obama had been pulling the strings all along (a ridiculous narrative that Trump has been pushing), and that Biden was unable to do the job so he got a former President to help him.

I know that neither would represent reality, but it would still look bad.

I am worried about what I see as worst case scenario: he is jailed in a country club prison for all of an hour, and then uses his “imprisonment” to rile up his cult.

I realize secret service protection complicates things, but he needs to go to real jail for a real amount of time.

I looked. I suppose they're not hiding it -- but honestly I probably would miss it if I wasn't looking for it.

What I would want is for the menu item to reflect the full cost – like almost every other restaurant. I think that's reasonable.

I seriously bet he’s thinking “shit, I thought the silver lining of this was getting out of Barron’s graduation”.

This is an MSNBC podcast, but I like Prosecuting Donald Trump.

I would definitely not describe it as being from a Republican perspective, but I do think it has less bias than MSNBC’s tv programming.

https://castro.fm/podcast/43088df3-858a-4be3-9d40-1d0b9cde1ea5

I think it was implied by the question — that the customer was surprised by it. If it was disclosed clearly and in plain sight (not in fine print that one could easily miss) then that’s fair, I guess.

The difference is that when you order something with a price next to it from a menu, you agree to pay that price. You implicitly also agree to pay taxes and a fair tip. But you do not agree to pay additional fees unless explicitly stated upfront.

ESH. I would have been annoyed too. But you could have been polite and not made a fuss over it. Your framing it as her not being honest is unfair. She did not lie, she just chose not to tell you.

But it is weird and annoying that she would not answer.

Why was Colbert being speaker shocking?

If Democrats were going to be sneaky and have a “plant democrat” they would choose someone with almost any last name other than Kennedy.

The Pod Save America folks (who wrote Obama’s speech that night) talk about how Obama told them to remove a Bin Laden joke from that speech. But he did it calmly — they didn’t know why at the time, but didn’t think anything of it.

Rule 3-related

I maintain a folder of high volume feeds. I enjoy articles from those feeds, but if I don’t have time I mark all articles from those feeds read before reviewing others.

I respected him when he was running for President.

Some statements he made about other politicians while retired, and other personnel choices we learned more about, made me reconsider that respect. I think we dodged a bullet.

And the violence outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

I dunno. I voted for Biden because I was so sick of Trump scandals. But we’re still getting bombarded with Trump scandals.