Being delicious one time works, since everyone else in your tribe can see what delicious gets you.

Or the other way round.

Some franchises try to eke out more profits and corporate might not like how that degrades their brand.

No, I’d show my local this photo and ask why they were shafting me.

Digg is still a thing?

This was nearly 30 years ago. I hope they don’t still make that assumption. Back then, they didn’t even ask. If I hadn’t stopped them, they would have just done it as a matter of routine. I really hope that’s changed now, and I’m curious if people who have had kids more recently in the US have a different experience. I hope so.

e: did they even ask you? Did you even consider it before recently, or is this still just what’s done?

The hospital did this with my son, too.

I’d already told them before he was born we weren’t having him circumcised, but a nurse showed up the morning after to take him, and I’m glad I was awake, because they weren’t going to ask me. I groggily asked ‘where are you taking him?’ as she was walking away (I figured it was for blood work), and she said, ‘oh, you’re up? For his circumcision’. ‘No, no, we’re not doing that.’ She put him back in the crib.

They just assumed, and then it showed up on my bill. Took months to get the charge removed.

I’m not religious, and we don’t need to routinely mutilate baby penises, thanks.

Where’ssss my foreskin, preciousss?

He looks like licking him would let me see sooooo many colours. Why tasty look if not tasty?

No. In the US, a huge amount of the population is armed. It’s a whole lifestyle and one of the hallmarks of being American™.

That didn’t stop the fascists. Now there are just shitloads of armed fascists.

e: I’d really like my downvoters to either ask me your question or tell me why I’m wrong.

The moment the seatbelt sign goes off, a bunch of people always stand in the aisle, even though the exit door won’t open for several minutes and even though several of them are a dozen rows from their belongings.

They can’t deboard yet, and are only making themselves an impediment, so those in forward rows can’t even try to access the bins. In this photo, like on most flights, the majority of people in the forward seats can’t stand, because the aisle is filled with people who can’t deboard yet, likely because the door hasn’t opened yet.

This saves the bargers at best 30 seconds at the expense of everyone else forward in the plane, and it’s very rude.

Fucking socialist fungi.

Yes. Learn to queue. It’s not hard, and it’s much more efficient – we all get there faster if you’re not barging

Don’t do that. Don’t be the dickhead who stands and blocks everyone. You’re not going to move faster, but you will inconvenience everyone around you. This is stupid. Just be a normal human and wait your turn patiently so others can get their things. The door out is people-sized, and you’ll not extrude others by a few seconds, so sit the fuck down. It’s not about you. It looks like OP is one of these dickheads, standing in the aisle and blaming others for the congestion.

It’s not about moving off faster than everyone else, because that’s not how this works. Just fucking sit and wait like an adult. It’s not ‘get off the plane’, because you can’t. It’s ‘sit the fuck down’ and stop making it about you.

e: look at all those people seated in the forward rows, and OP standing in the aisle bunched against the first man in frame. All those seated people will have to wait to access their overheads until OP barges by, but it’s the others standing ahead of OP in the aisle who are the problem. 🙄

Yeah. I talked to him (virtually) back in the day.

I’m mostly wondering where he went.

e: I don’t know where to click:

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There are so many public panels, none of which I’ve subscribed to.

That UI is still a mess, and I can’t figure anything out, even after all these years. I can’t figure out how to search for a username. He was in my friends list, and I can’t remember how to look for that.

I’m okay asking this publicly, because I’ve heard he’s basically vanished. I mostly want to find the conversations we had years ago in my conversation history.

Hey man, my family has noble Scottish heritage!

(Nevermind they lost a battle and the castle eroded into a hillside, then many of the clan became labourers – if we go back to before 1548, we’d be important!) That’s a true story by the way. And my great uncle was Secretary of State and Postmaster General in the US, for all the good that does me (none).

e: or we could all go back to when many of us were related to the Great Khan. So pick your year, commensurate with how important you want to feel based on heritage. It’s all bullshit.

Yeah. And about that much live in my small town. But billionaires aren’t flocking here, either.

Again, what’s the great attraction?

I’m sure it’s a lovely place, but billionaire worth? Such that we could reasonably say billionaires are landing in Saint Thomas for its own purpose and not as a puddle-jump to Epstein’s island? If rich people started flying into the airport down the street from me, my town would be ecstatic, but we’d be curious why. We wouldn’t ask publicly, perhaps, but there’d be talk at the pubs.

e: I have supplements to sell you.

Right before the foreground light turned off, and for a second after. The tiny thing with glowing eyes. Frog sized, in the undergrowth. Very cute.

Okay wait – did you see the weird figure? You all saw that.

I don’t think OP added it. I slowed it down, and it was still there.

Oh lord, there’s no difference between onions and apples now.

In my opinion.