There’s nuance here. If it’s ‘bad’ as in like the meat is still raw, or there’s a lump of the chef’s hair wadded up in it, then yeah it’s refund time.

If it’s ‘bad’ as in they made it properly but you didn’t like it, just suck it up and don’t order it next time. It’s good to try new things, but you can’t expect all of them to be a banger. The number of people I’ve seen punish the restaurant for giving them exactly what they asked for is kinda bonkers.

Some of them went over the top the try to ‘make it right’. Dude I went to highschool with did this shit almost like it was a hobby. He’d call the customer support line and complain about whatever bullshit he could come up with - gummy lump in his drink, hard flake in his bag of chips that 'might have been a fingernail!… they’d take his number and address, and that was usually the end of it.

Then occasionally a box would randomly show up at his front door with like 50 bottles of soda or candy bars or w/e, and a letter apologizing for the trouble lol.

Manipulative little shit. And that was when we were like 14 years old… dude’s probably running his own organized crime ring nowadays. xD

Here, just use mine.

@

That’s clever honestly. I could see that working well for things like banners addressing a broad audience - marketing type stuff.

My bitching is more geared to why it was structured that way in the first place… and obviously it didn’t just appear overnight, but developed over ages like most other languages. Some trends stick and others don’t… gendering random inanimate objects is one that stuck. …for some weird-ass reason.

Am American. Canada and Greenland infact do not exist. Still sticking with what I learned directly from the culture in question over an internet stranger and a handful of articles.

Speaking also as an internet stranger to all of our readers, I know my own posts carry the same amount of weight as yours - that is, none at all.

Didn’t intend to stir up any drama in sharing my experience. I’ll be sure to learn the regional etiquette if and when I visit other areas.

I know a black guy

Try, 'I walked on eggshells about it around dozens of them scattered about Juneau, Anchorage, and Fairbanks, and it outed me as a clueless white dude 100% of the time.

I went in with the understanding that it was a slur. I treated it as a slur. I was corrected.

X-kimo, final offer.

Oh, thinking you can change a major language structure to make it more PC is dumb as hell. I’m not advocating for it, but I do understand a shred of of where that push is coming from. Spanish is VERY MUCH A GENDERED LANGUAGE… but… why? Why is my chair a girl, and shoe a boy? The status quo in this case is about as dumb as thinking we can change it.

While I do get wanting to steer the language away from pointlessly gendering everything (why tf do I need to know if my blender is a boy or girl??) …yeah “Latinx” ain’t it.

To me it always reads phonetically like “lah-teenks”. I hate it.

Back when I was a wee little shit, and the parents were ritualistically sacrificing my Sunday mornings to Sky Daddy & Super-J by dragging my ass to church: I recall our pastor actually addressing this. Idr the verse he referenced, but it boiled down your ‘soul’ or some shit being driven to god even if you haven’t been exposed to him here on Earth. TLDR, even if you don’t know, you still go to hell for being a dirty heathen, so good 'ol christians have a duty to go shove their shit down as many throats as possible to ‘save’ them.

Whether or not that’s true to their lore, I have no idea - there are so many contradictions in that shit that you can basically make it say whatever you want.

Spent some time in Alaska - the natives I had a chance to speak to referred to themselves as Eskimos. And it wasn’t one of those ‘we can say it, but it’s derogatory coming from anyone else’ words… it’s just a word they use for their people. They were kind of amused at the whole controversy.

It’s anecdote, and the number of them actually offended by the term Eskimo is probably higher than zero, but by and large this is white people being offended on their behalf at something that is a non-issue.

So, call em Eskimos. Or Inuit. Or Natives. From the source, they’re cool with it.

I wonder if that’s why I hate ads so much. Grew up with the understanding that they are a literal attack to both me and my property. …I mean, that’s still exactly what they are, but acknowledging them as such is definitely a minority mindset nowadays.

There’s also Langar’s Lines, which are a large factor in where your surgeon decides to cut!

AI didn’t turn out the way any of us imagined… Cuz it still remains limited to our imaginations. Fiction.

It didn’t turn out at all.

Get back to us when AI becomes a reality, and not just a hypermarketed spell checker that’s wrong occasionally.

No they didn’t - they were with me rocking some Halo CE splitscreen and gorging on Mountain Dew and pizza. It was an all-nighter, so they wouldn’t have had the time to be anywhere else.

…I don’t even bother unsubscribing anymore. I just click the ‘report spam’ button and never see their shit again.

That I didn’t know, but they absolutely work if you don’t know it’s a placebo!

So… don’t go correcting Grandma when she starts talking about how healing crystals and acupuncture cured her arthritis. “I’m so glad you found a solution!!” and start talking about cookies or some shit.

On that note, Costco!

I mean this is anecdote so take it as you will, but the rotating advice is straight from my own doc after we bitched about benadryl not working anymore.

Granted, this was a solid 20 or so years ago, so new findings and best practice are expected.

But, benadryl remains a dud for me, while I haven’t developed a tolerance to any of the others.

Growing up with severe allergies to pretty much anything with 4 legs, and the self control of a toddler who just spotted a cute-ass puppy… yeah I went through a lot of benadryl. What I’ve learned after a lifetime of eating that shit like candy: you gain a tolerance to it like any other drug.

My super power now is I can eat a whole handful of that shit and it’ll do nothing. No drowsiness. No hatman (is that actually a thing, or is this just some weird internet bullshit?). The tradeoff being: no relief from allergies. Which is kind of a bummer considering allergies can do things like close your airway.

Morale of the story: ROTATE YOUR ANTIHISTAMINES!! If you’re taking that shit every day, use benadryl one day, then loratadine the next, then cetirizine the next, etc. Give your body breaks from any one of them so you have time to shake that tolerance before it develops. Cuz when you need it to work, you NEED it to work!!

Bonus tip: read the back labels of your meds. You’d be amazed how much shit is just rebranded and price-jacked diphenhydramine (benadryl). Especially sleep aids… like that “Zzzquil” shit is just stupid expensive benadryl.

Bonus tip tradeoff: you just lost any benefit you might have been gaining from the placebo effect. Sorry.