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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Is the gift so expensive that you feel it necessary to reclaim the money? Would it feel as though something was missing if they hadn’t got you anything? It seems like the more appropriate choice in this situation might have been to accept the gift generously and simply not used it, or not used it often and continued to use the older item. Then, if asked about it, perhaps explained it at that point instead of making a point of explaining that you wanted to return the item and get the money for it.



  • Seat selection, and it seems like every other friggin extra airline fee in the US, seems to be based on how full the flight is and how much people are willing to pay for it. 90% sure they are experimenting with it to the point where that fee will change just by refreshing the page and they likely have everything from $5-$200 ‘upgrade’ fees based on what they’ve found they can get away with. Hell, I’m surprised they haven’t started auctioning the seats while waiting to board. Maybe just typing this was a bad idea.


  • I would argue the other way. Not all airplanes have this, and unless you fly a lot you may not come across it, and if you do happen to notice, there’s no reason to immediately assume that they would necessarily call them window seats. Lots of industries have ‘common parlance’ that many of their customers may not run into until it causes an issue, and blaming the confusion on the customer is unfair.

    If anything, they should lose the case and be forced to modify their terminology to something like ‘window side’ seating or something. I mean you could easily argue that a ‘window’ seat doesn’t necessarily give you a great view because it’s over the wing or something, but to call it a window seat when it has no window is close to calling a hotel room a ‘queen bed room’ and then getting there and there’s no bed, and claiming it’s the same size as a room they would normally put a queen bed in. I mean what are you paying extra for if you pick a fake window seat? Maybe not having someone to the wall side of you, but at bare minimum they should be liable for charging extra while neglecting to mention it’s a window seat with no window.

    If nothing else, if you think a ‘window seat with no window’ seems like an odd phrase, and not an obvious thing sometime should say, then it’s not being pedantic to call this out.



  • Just remember that Trump dying would set off an internal power struggle. Nobody likes or give a shit who or what Vance supports, so he would have precisely fuck-all a far as pull in down ballot elections. For whatever reason, the base will slobber over every word trump blurts out so any dissent is crippling in a Republican, that would disappear and every Republican worth the title of ‘politician’ would take advantage of a Vance leadership as a once in a lifetime opportunity out-Trump the competition, but without the centralizing firehose of bullshit trump has been able to use to distract from issues as they come up. Right now trump is able to distract from almost literally any topic by being a force to deal with immediately as he sets other fires to deal with. Vance will have the position, butwon’t have that talent and by virtue of their position no other GOP personality will have the power.

    Basically don’t stop looking forward to a least bad outcome like natural causes.




  • Well, no one has ever said no to him and ‘really’ meant it, or could withstand the frivolous lawsuits he brought against them. All the other times didn’t really happen. One imagines anything that doesn’t match his own warped sense of reality fades very quickly in his mind. The parts of the story where he isn’t the big strong guy are quickly rewritten by the people surrounding him, and they never print out headlines or pictures to remind him about that sort of thing.



  • That is sad in both directions. You’d think coming to and realizing you are a pathetic piece of shit should be some kind of punishment, but then you realize he would probably still get his sadistic pleasure out of remembering all the bodies he stepped on to get to where he is now.

    Really that’s the whole story, in that the world he lives in genuinely rewards greed and disgusting behavior, it’s just that most people have some sense or realization of the shame it involves to get there, and he’s just not equipped with the self reflection it takes for that shame to do anything.







  • He prescribes ibuprofen. You have a one in a billion allergy to one of the normally inert binders in the pill. You don’t tell him the entire truth about why you missed one of the questions on a quiz you got in second grade. He has to perform an exploratory ear amputation and reattachment to treat for potential parasites which is inconclusive but the way the stitches fit so precisely hints towards a plasticization effect which can only be lupus or thermogenic pulmerization of the t-cells exacerbated by stress induced by cheating, which is why you missed the question in second grade… You actually knew the answer but cheated off your friend who had the wrong answer the whole time!