The number of tankies in this thread is just epic

Navy SEAL is an acronym. Doesn’t count.

Isn’t “Arbeitsnehmer” one who takes labor? I would think the worker gives his or her labor, and the industrialist takes it.

It’s not a social construct, it’s a legal concept

… and other fairy tales

I don’t care what your fucking fairy tale book says

Purple? Did you misspell lavender?

I can’t stress how important this is: babysitting does not, in fact, involve sitting on baby.

For real. Once I retire in a decade or so, I’ll try to live off social security for as log as possible, but once I need to dip into my savings, I’m just tapping my kid’s inheritance. At that point, death is the only financially rational option.

I assume that anything in slang or music that I don’t understand is either about sex or drugs.

Yeah, that’s not a danish, that’s an entire cake. It’s 14 ounces.

Around 2004-5 I regularly stayed at a large chain hotel near Tucson airport (something like Doubletree, but I’m not sure if it was that one). They charged a daily fee for the phone in your room. Not for using it, mind you, just for the phone being there. And no, they did not have rooms without phones.

Cluttered?

Pretty sure Hilton will just sell you one

I’ve left it at the default

“Aside from people who [benefit from self-checkout], it’s hard to see who benefits from self-checkout.

I’m at 17, no lie.

Took me a minute that he wasn’t talking about an actor pretending to be dead, so I was confused at first.

What if we plugged the holes with the corpses of the workers we had to sacrifice to achieve a hole-free hull?

I agree with your friend, I’ve been in the same job. But I also return my cart.