Ok, clearly you have a crazy small food pallet. Half of the things on here are good. Let’s take this step by step.
1. Cookie grilled cheese… ok that’s awful
2. Veggie corn dogs…. those look great, and it’s a good substitution for a vegetarian to try
3. lobster mac and cheese…yes please.
4. Cucumber sandwich… this looks like a fun sandwich for a picnic
5. diet creamsicle cupcakes… if they are anything like regular creamsicle cupcakes, then they will be amazing.
6. Cauliflower crust pizza… perfect for someone with Celiac’s disease or a vegan going the extra mile.
7. Mac and cheese balls… perfect finger food for a party
8. Pickle rolls ups… these look delicious
9. doughnut burger… I can see how this is good, but I don’t want a heart attack
10. Hot Dog pasta… good meal for a kid
11. Cake pops… these are incredibly fun to make and decorate and perfect for kids
12. Kale granola… yummy!
13. foie gras doughnut… not for me but I see what they are doing with the flavor combo.
14. Bacon taco…. delicious heart attack. It’s bacon for pete’s sake.
15. cake batter smoothie…. Cake batter is delicious so cake batter smoothie would be delicious too… and no raw eggs in it, so bonus!
16. Tofu cookies… I always heard tofu takes on the flavor of what you cook it with so these are probably good. Also, for a vegan, this is a great option.
17. zucchini fries… we actually make these on a regular basis, they are AMAZING!

I’m gonna be annoying, stereotypical and stupid, but that’s the way this article is as well
#1: I guess it’s a big problem for you Americans to have A WALK to another store, that might be why you’re fat
#2: diet soda won’t make you less fat
#3: and why is exactly room temperature water NOT OK? when you drink ice cold water in hot weather you get a temperature shock and that’s definitely not good
#4: yeah, everyone drinks espresso, because the whole Europe is actually Italy
#5: yeah, this is actually shitty, but it’s not like you NEED tv shows for your survival
#6: going everywhere by car makes you lazy and fat, with public transport you have to walk AT LEAST A BIT
#7: oh yeah, low-fat, that’s the important thing again
#8: ok, I agree with this actually
#9: wide variety of sizes - is that because XXL is not big enough for you?
#10: we cook. or don’t eat at all, because eating a lot at night makes you fat
#11: WTF there’s wifi almost everywhere, where have you been?
#12: yeah, this is shit, I agree with this one
#13: PB & Jelly is the most disgusting thing ever
#14: WTF is this about?
#15: yes, because the whole Europe is touchy-feely.. especially Germany and Northern Europe
#16: you can bring a DVD, stop whining
#17: there’s actually a lot of non smoking pubs and restaurants everywhere in Europe, it’s forbidden to smoke in pubs in the majority of European countries, again, where the hell have you been??
#18: yes, not enough sushi here, just one sushi restaurant at every corner
#19: what the hell, rugby is not fucking football
#20: again, THIS IS WHY YOU’RE FAT
#21: what phone company are you using??!
#22: this is not even popular
#23: THIS-IS-WHY-YOU’RE-FAT (not with water though, but with everything else)
#24: oh, that’s terrible, it’s not like you can’t celebrate them on your own
#25: we don’t have french fries, we have chips
#26: oh, too much work for you? … *ehm* lazy *ehm* fat *ehm*
#27: too much math for you? … *ehm* american school system *ehm*
#28: learn to cook and you can make any kind of pancakes you want, you lazy ass
#29: try adapt more and save the environment, god.. (and it’s not like we don’t have air-conditioning almost everywhere)
#30: like you can’t carry a water bottle with you, too heavy for you?
#31: learn-to-cook-you-fatass
#32: because they all wait in front of your window for you to open it
#33: the important ones ARE open
#34: because there’s not enough kinds of other bagels EVERYWHERE
#35: and USD all look the same, so it’s difficult to tell them apart…

from someone that used to do a good amount of theater acting, general zod missed his lines for the first half of the film he just didn’t say them very naturally, the overall was very good, and not just passable. there is one notion with these restarts is that it lets the average movie goer/fan see into details that were just available to comic fans. another good thing about the re-starts is that it explains as much as possible of the origin of these d.c. characters, the dark knight and now man of steel. the first re-start films of both genres do a great job explaining what brings the good out in people both reeves’ portrayed a jolly and always seemingly happy superman, willing to help for his civic duty and blah blah blah, they got their joy from their good deeds, no further background information is necessary. in man of steel, as well as batman begins, it shows you what someone has to go through in order to become good, it shows your the raw immature nature of a young man or kryptonian, for example when bruce wayne wanted to kill his parent’s killer, and then with man of steel, the frustration of holding back his powers in his youth, kevin costner’s father just knew that a young person with unlimited powers would just do what young people would do with unlimited power, at some point - abuse it. (the ultimate nerds reading this one would almost equivocate this to a certain anime in which an experienced father sealed the power of the AE86, so his son could learn more about himself and about the car in order to unleash the power of the high-rev engine.. i’ll stop) but you get my point, the formation of a superhero is more than just his powers, and the cool situations that he uses them in, it’s about what makes him fight for good instead of evil, and what he sees in the people he ends up putting his life on the life on to save. i agree with you though, the building destroying was meh, in my head they destroyed half of the city and killed a bunch of people with their fights, if he really had people’s best interest in mind, he would have pulled zod into a neutral realm to fight, a forrest, canyon, the ocean, whatever else. also the fight in kansas, they destroyed main street, that fight could have taken place somewhere a lot more safer in my head, but i’m probably wrong with this, which is why i work in finance and not in movies.

Here is my response :) Why Atheists are better than God Botherers…. and I am neither :)
1) God Botherers really enjoy misinterpreting a book which is out of date and applying psalms to any and every situation they disagree with…. bit of a hobby for them really.
2) God Botherers tend to be annoying to the rest of society what with all that praying, praising, door knocking, homophobia and hating on other religions…..
3) God Botherers have made misquoting one book a fine art.
4) God Botherers disapprove of hard working people who live good lives, have children and take credit for the good things their hard work has provided, rather insisting they praise some mystical being for it all….
5)God Botherers cannot hold a scientific and rational conversation, which asks for tangible evidence be given and debated… no they just continually quote and rave about a book they call the Bible, which apparently holds all the answers, which was written by men, composed by some other men, then later translated by other men…. hmmmmmm cant say I could call this evidence, more like here say.
6)God Botherers are the biggest sooks on the internet. They’ll probably sook because Ive done this :)
7). Have you ever tried to hold a rational and realistic conversation with a God Botherer about the creation of the Universe? Apparently no evolution, no dinosaurs…..hmmm wonder where all those big bones came from then????? Did God have pets???? ( notice I didnt call anyone an A**hole)….
8). God Botherers are the sort of people who love to tell small children and anyone who will listen really that they are condemned to hell because they didnt follow all the commandments in the Bible. That because they question God, faith or the church, they now will spend eternity in the fires of hell……. hmmmm yeah I ruined lives saying I bought you the trampoline, not Santa….riiighhhhtttt.
9) God Botherers feel the constant need to attribute every right and wrong to one mystical being…My life is good because I worked hard to gain a degree and to work and pay my bills. I have good children because I brought them up correctly - didnt see God beside me when I was teaching my children the importance of manners….. didnt hear God back me up when I was talking to my children about respect….
10) And this one made me laugh the most, God left the author hanging here I think - they ran right out of ideas!! Should’ve called it the 9 reasons Atheists suck…. Did you praise the Lord for looking like a fool?  Personally I dont believe in God, but I dont consider myself an Atheist either - I felt compelled to say something here, simply because your original post was such a tragic waste of time. Have a great day :)

you’re absolutely right that atheists and christians (and many other religions alike) intend to push their beliefs on others. it’s written into the code of many religions! it’s how to be a good _____!  if you’d put the “they” in “they brought it upon themselves” in quotes, i’d be much more at ease. we’re all the “they” to somebody. everybody is a “those people” to someone. i just…i don’t want to believe that all we can do is war with each other, whether with words or weapons. it IS all that we do. so maybe i’m just naive. but i really FEEL that it’s so much more interesting to discuss differences in faith or belief and why people hold their beliefs than it is to ridicule or fight. i have no respect for someone who wants to engage a holy war for their beliefs through ridicule and anger. espouse the benefits of a belief system, and you have my ear. tell me why other beliefs are stupid and wrong, and you’re discounting your own to instead engage in a stupid argument. also, you’re right. when atheists are vocal, they’re can really be jerks about it. but the same can be said for anybody of any religion. atheists might own the comment boards, but asshole christians own lots of the airwaves (in america). i do NOT assume that those assholes represent the good christians who i know are out there, who i know personally, who are good people, who can have a discussion about faith and belief without resorting to stereotypes and hyperbole. i’ve taken this much too seriously, but it’s because i’m really bothered by our inability to see beyond the “us/them” in america, especially lately, and it bugged me too much today. :)

I’m curious, does anybody actually from the UK other than the poster think Rihanna pronounced “Yorkshire” that poorly? I’m a Yank myself, and I admit that she obviously said it in an American accent, but I can’t see how anyone could possibly have heard what she said as “Yerrkshyar,” as the poster claims. I mean, let’s go through that phonetic transcription. The first thing she allegedly did wrong was pronounce the “o” as an “e,” but I just can’t hear it that way. I distinctly hear her pronounce the first syllable as jɔɹk (in IPA), which is the normal way of pronouncing it in American English. And the only difference between that and the standard British pronunciation is that standard British English is non-rhotic: jɔːk. That explains the double “r” in the transcription, and it does mean that the vowel is pronounced slightly longer in the British version than the American, but, length aside, the vowel itself sounds perfectly fine, at least to me. Then there’s the “shyar” in the transcription. I do not hear any excessive palatalization in the “sh” sound at all (in other words, no “y” sound). I hear her pronouncing the second syllable as ʃɪɹ, which, again, is the standard American pronunciation. The standard British pronunciation is ʃɪə, so again the only difference is rhotic vs. non-rhotic. And it’s the standard British version, not Rihanna’s version, that contains a schwa sound in the second syllable, so, if I were to render one version as having “a” for the second-syllable vowel, it would instead be the British one, although it really fits neither. In brief, the only part of that phonetic transcription that seems accurate to me is the doubled “r” in the first syllable (and it seems that the “r” at the end of the word should also be doubled to be consistent). Both vowels sound more or less the same as the British version to me. What do the natives think?

As someone in dental school, I have a few things to say about this:
- Stop being cheap and go to an endodontist if you need a root canal! seriously. Majority of general dentists screw up root canals, and that could have happened anywhere.  - Usually, when the cavity is really really close to the pulp of the tooth (with the nerve and blood vessels), dentists go ahead and do a root canal. That is a standard thing. Some people do a pulp cap where you add medicine, and put a filling over it. But pulp caps usually fail when they are placed over teeth with cavities (they are mainly used and are successful when someone has a fracture due to trauma ie car accident or hit in the face with a ball). Had she not taken any action or alerted you to what had been going on, it would have been considered malpractice. Note - you could have said no, I will wait on this tooth. That is always a choice. -Most general dentists spend a few minutes to complete each filling. If you had issues with the floss going through, you should have gone back, and she could have reduced the bulkiness of the filling. It is hard to tell when you have received anesthesia as to whether the filling is too bulky when biting down, so sometimes, people go back to have the dentist reduce the filling more. She should have checked with floss before you left on day one, but that is an easily fixable issue that you could have gone back to her for.  -I’m not really sure what she meant by bonded fillings - all white fillings are bonded. But if the fillings were falling out within a month, you should have gone back and had her redo it. If it is genuinely their screw up and you confront them on it, some will redo the filling for free or a low cost, or at the very least will not submit info to your insurance so you can go somewhere else to have the procedure redone. But if it was done in good faith/judgement, they are not obligated to do free work and all insurance and malpractice claims will back up the dentist in such good judgement instances.  -Every clinician is going to have a different opinion of what is considered acceptable. Most dentists will either place a white filling or do a root canal when the cavity is huge since that is now the norm in dentistry. It sounds like she was following what is typically done at most offices, and she was trying to save you money by doing fillings instead of a root canal on everything. Yeah there are dentists out there who would just do root canals on all suspect teeth. -If you wanted something that was cheap and would not fall out, a silver filling would have actually been the best option, but unfortunately due to misinformation and aesthetics, everyone is too scared to get those done anymore. Some general dentists have not done those since the 80s!  -Since most of what she did sounds like she was following protocol, that is why insurance is not willing to reason with you. Most patients never know what they are talking about (no offense), and will blame stuff on their dentists that the dentists could not have possibly controlled. Ie - recurrent cavities on teeth with prior fillings. No filling is ever going to last forever, and most do end up getting cavities again underneath the original fillings.
-Maybe she was a bad dentist, maybe not. But if you were really that unhappy, you should have gone back to have her fix the so called mistakes. If you moved on without saying anything, then I don’t know what to tell you because they are not mind readers. Think about how much money you’ve spent on your cell phone and bills, internet, cable, and car. Your teeth should be your biggest investment of them all because unlike all that other stuff, that is what people see on your face every single day.  -My take on this is that you should maybe get one procedure done at a time, starting with the simplest ones, instead of doing everything at once with a new dentist. Then, if it is not working for you, you can go somewhere else.

Hey Buzzfeed, guess what? There are actually plenty of artists out right now (yes, even popular ones!) that are writing beautiful music & lyrics. There were also plenty of artists back in the Beatles time that made absolutely shitty pop music, but people fail to remember them when they get all nostalgic about the “golden era” of music. Yes, the Beatles were musical gods, but as far as music in general, I honestly don’t think it is any better or any worse than it was in any other decade. And this is coming from someone who considers themselves pretty knowledgeable in all genres and decades of music. People’s tastes may change, people may get older and not be as open to new forms of music, social norms may change and music may evolve with that, but I think this method of trying to somehow ‘prove’ that music has gone to shit just makes you come across as close-minded, and I’m pretty sure that older people used to say the same thing about whatever music you listened to when you were a young person.

SEVERAL THINGS WRONG WITH THIS ARTICLE:
1. “The Postal Service” nag is way over. The Postal Service never complained, or filed a lawsuit, or said anything about Owl City. Nor should they. Their music is not as complex nor has the same mood as Owl City. Their music is more robotic, relying more on basic synths. Owl City has used piano, strings, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and even accordions. So please shut up about this comparison. The reason why Owl City has had more success than The Postal Service is because he signed to a major label, so if that’s why you’re complaining stop. The Postal Service is a band that was indie and stayed indie. Owl City is a project that started indie and is now mainstream. 2. OH MY GOSH IT’S TOO FREAKIN’ SWEET, I’M GOING TO GET A CAVITY. BS. First of all, it’s a song FOR A COMMERCIAL. The lyrics were already written before he made the song. THE LYRICS WERE MADE BY THE OREO COMPANY. Oh, and the style? Coca-cola, Old Navy, Apple, and various other companies have used similar “Sweet” songs to get peoples attention.  3. “EWWWW OWL CITY” Well, sorry if oreo perfers not to be represented by Nicki Minaj (Pepsi) or the “rapper” Pitbull (Coors).  4. OH MY GOD IT’s TOO SUGARY. That’s because it’s aimed at… YOUNGER DEMOGRAPHICS. You know, like ADVENTURE TIME???? Oh, but you wouldn’t complain about that because you think it’s cool to watch it. Oh and all those other kids shows you watch because you think their “retro”. Those are all very sugary shows made for YOUNGER AUDIENCES. “But it’s not a show, it’s a song”. FINE. Do you like the terrible “Ghostbuster’s Theme”, or any 80’s theme song or just plain old song from the 80’s? or songs by ANY POP ARTIST OF THIS DECADE? Or any song by those boy bands that are “cool” now (Backstreet Boys, NSYNC).  5. “How High was he?” Owl City does not take drugs. AND AGAIN, THE LYRICS WERE MADE BEFORE THE SONG BY THE COMPANY. 6. They try too hard. Okay, I will let you know that Owl City never “tries” to be indie. He sits on the border between indie and pop, and stays their, too happy sounding for the “Deeper” (YEAH RIGHT) meanings behind “indie” music, but to alternative for pop. People think he wants to be the next (ugh) Postal Service. He doesn’t mention them… like ever. He made a pop album. He uses better quality sound, instruments, and tools. He made more than one album. He has had a number one hit. He prefers to be associated with Angels & Airwaves than The Postal Service.  Why buzzfeed, did you choose to belittle an artist who is very creative, minds his own business, and makes his music without labels butting in. You may not know it, but Adam Young, the man behind Owl City, made all his music by himself. He learned how to do it himself. Millions of computer programs, he knows how to use. He didn’t go to some school about musical programming, he did it on his own, by himself. So called “artists” of this day and age barely have any hand in production, let alone songwriting. Rihanna doesn’t write her own songs. Nicki Minaj writes her raps, but doesn’t do anything else besides that. Lady GaGa, Ke$ha, and Katy Perry all write some of the songs, but the rest of it is left up to the production team. Owl City makes music by himself, only letting a few collaborations with people who do things similar to himself. The only thing you can do by yourself is jack off to porn.

1.Get over it, it’s a movie, not a photo op. No one is looking at you.
2.Wear contacts, buy prescription shades, or get over it
3-6. I have been wearing glasses my whole life and I have never had my glasses fog up from drinking a cup of coffee. You ppl are doing this shit wrong. Try entering and exiting a walk in cooler or opening a commercial dishwasher (ok, any dishwasher), this will result in the dramatic fogging action you ppl find so traumatic.
7. Please, don’t care. Boys love my glasses and think they’re cute, so I get bonus kisses.
8-11. Real problems. This is real shit. Fuck this.
12. Stop complaining. Carry a cotton or microfiber towel.
13. This should be muscle memory for all of us by now. You don’t even realize you do it. Pushing your glasses up with your middle finger is also a fun, discreet way to flip a bird.
14. This is a beautiful thing. They are so much better than contacts. You’re just done at the end of the day, you don’t have to put them in special juice so you can put them back on your freaking corneas. Taking your glasses off at the end of the day is GREAT!
15. Alright, yeah, good times in any body of water are made a little inconvenient by glasses. But hey! At least you still have you know, a whole, functioning body with which to enjoy the pool and sun!
16. Showering blind? How blind?? So blind that you cannot pick up a bottle and read it less than two feet away from your face? Your problems are probably somewhat more serious than shower blindness, then.
17. Pay for the glare resistant coating. Deal with it. It’s a problem that comes with vision correction. Ppl in deep poverty cannot afford this coating. You’re very lucky, so stop taking that sweet glare resistant coating for granted.
18. This is a made up problem. The only time this is really an issue is when I am wearing a headset at work that places an 8 ounce battery pack directly on top of that very top frill of cartilage at the top of the ear. This pinches the ear between the HARD PLASTIC earpiece of the headset and my frames. This is not going to be a problem for you with your Beats by Dre headphones. I promise. If it’s that serious, earbuds. Stop complaining.
19. You picked the wrong glasses. You know damn well you’re going to wear those motherfuckers every day, all the time. They will adjust them for you at the store. Oh, they fit perfectly when you bought them? STOP FALLING ASLEEP ON THE COUCH WITH THEM ON.
20. How is taking one’s glasses off at the end of the day “it” for the day? Can you not put them back on? Did your hands stop working? I have turned down invites out on the town because I’ve already taken my contacts out. I can put my glasses back on if what you are proposing is exciting enough.
21. We’ve already gone over this. Stop falling asleep in your damn glasses. I think this is an issue of you don’t know how to take care of that very expensive thing sitting on your nose. Do you treat all your things this badly?
22. Alright, yeah, this happened to me once. It sucked. It happened because I bought a pair of frames that I loved but were slightly oversized. They fell, I stepped, I cried. Wanna know what I did next? SUPER GLUE AND A HELLO KITTY BAND AID, WUT.
For real. Stop bitching.

my response to every point… half of these were ignorant and half were relatively correct. but overall, pretty offensive.  1. false
2. SO true, my mom said those things were of horrible quality. i would def get persian leftovers but not ALL the time
3. i dunno what kind of BMW my mom has but she has one and thats persian enough
4. so wrong, no one in my family is medically or mathematically gifted…and maz has just a regular sense of humor, he just tapped into the persian market sooner than i did
5. complete opposite, my daddy has always told me to take my time
6. yea my mom was mortified when she found my hookup list lol (yea u made it HOORAH)
7. ew my uncle has no white arm hair and has a less obnoxious rolex lol
8. my dad hates cologne and is allergic to it (he gets headaches from it, as do i)
9. eh a lot of them but they mostly dye it brown just cause its more realistic
10. nah, im not nouveau riche stupid ignorant iranian
11. nope im a bit ashamed cause theyre usually horrible actors
12. we dont stack them, we lay them out neatly and elegantly in the appropriate areas (they hide them in me and taras rooms cause its quite tacky to put them all over the house…talk about westernized parents)
13. ew i dont have a fucking bidet
14. that is called doogh and i do not drink it (although it is apparently quite refreshing)
15. no im more of a coffee gal although it does taste quite nice. but no im no iranian pilgrim who drinks tea 945349534 times a day
16. ew rose water? really? can you get more desperate than that? i wouldnt even bathe my child in that bottled shit
17. LITERALLY SO DELICIOUS persian ice cream is the titties
18. ummm do you think im ignorant enough to think cotton candy and gauze tape resemble eachother? fuck off
19. im not in my big fat greek wedding thinking to put windex on everything…fucking RUDE
20. i actually laughed when i realized what ‘dirt on my head was referring to’…means ‘khak bar saret’ which basically means fuck you in a more organic way
21. yea we like to smooch
22. eh sort of, but we dont eat almonds we eat slimy delicious sugary treats
23. only men and women above the age of 45 do that because their botox doesnt allow them to create any facial expressions, so they nod. or if theyre above the age of 75 theyre definitely too old, deaf, and apathetic to understand what youre saying
24. literally so true…my dad is the only exception he escapes as soon as he can. too many iranian MILFS hover around him
25. nah my parents are like PEACE NIGGGAAAAA, but their friends help them at their dinner parties lol
26. my aunt pretends to go to the bathroom and secretly pays the bill cause otherwise it turns into a disgusting verbal argument, cannot even begin to explain…
27. I NEVER WENT TO A PARKING LOT we always go to proper beautiful backyards to jump over fire to celebrate the new year! weird i know but whatever nigga we get drunk and jump over fire, can you say anyone else does that? DIDNT THINK SO
28. my mom isnt retarded. only stupid uneducated women (which makes up 75% of the iranian female population) say it like that because they live in LA and are too stupid to get it right

Michigander here:
1: Corn what?
2: Steak and what?
3,4,5: I’ll take it.
6: Don’t think he’s a regional icon.
7: There’s a reason a bunch of Caribous are closing.
8: Fact. Ohi-no.
9: I’ve never heard of this. Fish fry night? Is that a Catholic thing?
10: Farms are not an exclusively Midwest thing.
11: There are also malls of varying quality everywhere.
12: Pretty sure that’s a casserole.
13: It did in fact take me no time to all to realize not all girls wore Uggs and sweatpants to the mall, I just looked around.
14: This is true, it is amazing to swim in a massive body of fresh water: like an ocean, but without the salt.
15: Is this a Midwest thing? Maybe. I guess I can’t complain.
16: We do like a State Fair.
17: Ranch dressing is from California. Google it.
18: Not a fan myself, but many do enjoy Cedar Point.
19: Sure. I’ve been told by outsiders we are a nice bunch.
20: Tornados? Did Kansas get added to the list?
21: These are not grammatically acceptable and I’ve literally never heard anyone say that.
22: Wisconsin only? I’m sure they are wonderful though.
23: Fireflies are amazing, but we have not managed to trap them in the Midwest, yet.
24: For real though? Pretty sure these also exist all over.
25: This photo was taken in Utah. Nuff said.
26: Puppy chow is delicious. I’ve also only ever had it in Michigan.
27: Can’t say I’m sure what this means. I-94 is my jam though.
28: It is not. Put on some pants. No one is impressed, they just think you’re dumb.
29: This is fact. It is pop. Saying soda makes me die a little.

Because I am bored, and why the hell not. 1. Like the poster above said, it does make sense if you are doing large quantities of things that need constant stirring. Plus, see #3 2. That meatloaf looks so gross 4. When you get arthritis, you can complain about things that make using your hands easier. 6. See #3 7. This is genius! You can have a iced buffet! No more food poisioning from rotten mayo!! I might even buy one. 9. Some people like their microwave, ok? 12. My sister has the bacon wave, it makes super nice, straight, bacon slices, all while draining all the grease off the bacon. I hate getting popped with scalding hot grease! Also, see #9 13. I love dip. When I entertain, I often make special dips that are best with certain dippers. This makes sense. 15. For those of us that are super paranoid about things in our drinks, it offers peace of mind. For the rest of us that don’t want to finish that entire 40, we can save it for later!! SAVE THE BEER, SAVE THE WORLD. 16. See #3, plus anyone that makes pies, soups, etc, and has to peel lbs and lbs of potatoes/apples/pears know an automatic machine is such a time, hands, arm saver! 17. Ok, I will give you this one. Just, no.

I worked in the food service industry for years and this article is ridiculous. I understand some parts of it but really? You can’t ever send your drink back, even if it’s terrible not even once and furthermore still be expected to tip 20% or $1 for it? If it’s an awful drink sending it back once is fine, getting nit-picky and sending it back multiple times is annoying OR if someone is experimenting with drinks and just doesn’t like it that’s their problem. A bartender is supposed to know how to make drinks correctly.
It should also not be a problem for someone to order a more complex drink. That is a bartenders job, to make drinks. I understand it’s annoying and time consuming to make some, but it’s their job. Anyone can pour vodka and cranberry juice in a glass at home. However, it takes a bit more skill, that a bartender should posses to make margaritas, bloody marys and whatever else. The best bartenders I ever met were the ones who enjoied making these drinks and experimenting with them to make them even better.
Also, tipping on credit cards isn’t the same everywhere. I never pulled it from a register, I had to get a lot more tax taken out. Just sayin

In the internet age there are no standards. People born after the invention of the net don’t know this. That is why weak-skilled people can ‘blow up’. There are many more examples than are needed. You just need a video bored young people can latch on to for no real reason. This girl’s work is schlock and now schlock is considered noteable. Her content is like what middle schoolers at day camp would come up with to impress themselves. A lot like Tyler the Creator. But this is all perfectly valid as junkculture, instantly disposeable, and mostly significant for showing how utterly desperate people can be to get attention. On the internet that is what becomes of all art forms, they end up being just foils for self-promotion. The Iggys and Kreaysare other strong examples, self-self parodies who parody the art forms they fail to master. Weird Al Yankovich is the real, unacknowledged master of this vein of creativity, these young people are just oblivious that he opened the door for them. And anyone who sees this comment as hate is self-deluded also, since ‘hating’ implies there is some envy.

Hi. I’m a bartender that is actually GOOD at his job. I’ve also trained a few dozen legit bartenders over the years. So, where to begin with this list… 1. True - I like people who don’t dither, but I’ll still get around to you even if you don’t have money out. 2. False - what? Just, what? Who the fuck is going to come back to the bar if they’re served drinks that they don’t like, and are met with whiny face when they say so? Yeah, you don’t need to be a dick about it, but if something is too sweet/bitter/weak/strong let me know, and I’ll try to make it more to your taste. 3. Revolting - mistakes happen, but this is the most basic element of a bar. If you can’t manage to get out a clean glass, or at least be properly mortified/apologetic (IE the drink, once it’s remade, in a CLEAN glass, is on the house) serve in Solo cups. Or better yet, stop calling yourself a bartender. 4. True - I get tipped either way. 5. False - that’s the management’s problem, not mine. This is 2013. If the management hasn’t figured out a way to get a better deal on credit card swipes, either switch to cash-only (and deal with the fun of usurious ATMs with $5 fees that always break down) or charge more for your drinks. Either way, money is money. 6. Revolting - it takes me 10 seconds to cut down a lime, a little bit more for a lemon. If you think you’re going to get slammed, it’s ok to plan ahead and cut a bit extra when there’s downtime (which you then wrap tightly in clingwrap and put in the fridge). But leaving them out all day, exposed to fruit flies, other people’s germs? Christ, don’t these bartenders have any fucking pride? Would they want a drink made with a slimy fucking lemon? 7. False - this is literally your job - make drinks, make it good, and make the customer happy. I’m beginning to think that these opinions were given by people that worked exclusively in dance clubs or TGI-Fridays. I’ve never come across this attitude in a legit bartender - hate making mojitos? Practice making them at home until you’re really good at it and can do it without thinking. Margaritas? I literally can’t think of a simpler drink. An unhappy customer is not going to tip you well for getting a subpar experience. Speaking of which… 8. False - you expect drunks to whip out their phones to calculate 20%? Now I really think this article was written by embittered waiters who had to work barback one night a week. Dollar a drink for decent to good service. If it’s great service, or if I’ve made the best drink you’ve ever had, the sky is the limit. That’s all ye need to know. 9. False - this shit’s just getting contradictory now. Talk to bartenders, make friends, and then the next one says, don’t be friendly to bartenders, leave them alone, the bar is not your living room. Which is it? Be yourself - if I like you, and I have the time, I’ll engage you in conversation. If I don’t like you, you’ll get your drink with pleasant and efficient service, then I’ll move onto someone else. But I can smell agenda like shit on a stick. 10. False - if your super-sensitive bartendery feelings get offended at someone calling you boss… just quit. Just fucking quit. If any of the bartenders I trained reacted like this, I’d say the same thing - just fucking quit. They’re your customers. They’re not there for your comfort or convenience. YOU ARE SERVING THEM. 11. False - It’s a kind offer, but I’m far too busy with my job to be drinking. If I like you, we can meet up later. But this is my job, and I really don’t care if other bartenders drank with you. In short, unless you’re at the kind of shitty college/dudebro/Top 40 dancehit bar, almost all of these ‘truths’ are false. I don’t know who these supposed ‘bartenders’ are, but I would never work with them, and I would never train someone to act like this. Now I just want to know where these people work, so I know never to go there.

A few notes: 3. Awful. Compare awesome. 4. Brave. The German word for “brave” in the current sense is tapfer. This is a cognate with our dapper, showing that the two ideas are (or can be) related. 6. Doom. Doomsday is the original term for Judgment Day. Even cooler, where the Authorized Version of the Bible has “judge righteous judgment”, Wycliffe has “deem ye a rightful doom” (in Icelandic, “dæmið réttlátan dóm”). 7. Egregious: outstanding either as good or bad, standing apart from the flock (Latin grex, greg-is). Cf. gregarious, meaning something like “well-suited to the flock”. 8. Evil. Sort of. Origin somewhat obscure, but the OED has this: “Middle English uvel (ü), Old English yfel = Old Saxon uƀil, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch evel (Dutch euvel), Old High German ubil, upil (German übel), Gothic ubils < Old Germanic *uƀilo-z; usually referred to the root of up, over; on this view the primary sense would be either ‘exceeding due measure’ or ‘overstepping proper limits’.” (Hybristic?) 9. Facetious. Perhaps better, “characterized by pleasantries or jokes [Latin facetiae]”. 11. Guy. Yes, but specifically an effigy of Guy Fawkes. 13. Last. Literally “latest” (with the the middle -t- dropped out). Cf. next (lit. “nighest”, from when the -gh in nigh was still a consonant). 16. Nice. Yes, from nescius (through French). In Shakespeare’s language it means (overly) precise or fastidious. (A pedant would be “nice”, as would a girl who takes too long to agree to sex.) [Bonus: girl used to mean a child of either sex.] 21. Protest. Yes! When Gertrude nervously says of the play within the play, “Methinks the lady doth protest too much” she’s saying “My goodness, it’s far too much for a wife to promise her husband that she’ll never remarry.” (One of the most consistently misquoted, or inappropriately quoted, lines from Shakespeare. Along with “Now is the winter of our discontent…”) 22. Radical. Literally, “having to do with the root [Latin radix, radic-is]”. Think of square roots, and of… radishes! 23. Sad. Yes, cognate with Latin satis (“enough”) and German satt (“satisfied, having eaten enough”). In Shakespeare it has the meaning “serious” (or as he might also put it, “care-full”). 26. Success. In Latin “a going under” or after: a succession. Compare Latin eventus and its English calque outcome. Best use of success in a sentence: “If th’assassination could trammel up the consequence and catch, with his surcease, success…” (Macbeth 1.7). 27. Villain. Perhaps better, “a country-dweller” or “rustic”, someone who lives in a villa. The opposite, in fact, (at least etymologically) of urbane!

Please grow up. The Seth McFarlane controversy died down quickly because A) hes actually a hugely vocal advocate of womens rights/reproductive rights/anti domestic violence/pro marraige equality etc etc b) the actresses parodied werent offended c) IT.WAS.SATIRE. Steubenville had been a news story for months at the time of the oscars. were people sharing outrage about THAT on facebook, no just OMG SEXISM YOU GUYS. You hate hipster sexism? I hate (wrongheaded, reactionary internet warrior) hipster feminism. The kind that lashes out willy nilly every time a woman is sexualized in any way. The kind that starts a jezebel comment army raging every time a critic says that Lena Dunham is a mediocre writer with a really unpleasant ass. The kind that cant take a joke or allow for an opinion that isnt getle with its feelings. The kind that never had to actuall fight for ANYTHING because it grew up in a world where real feminists…real activists already kicked the door down. The kind that wastes time and talent (?) writing stunning exposes the imagined sexism that appears everytime a male opens his mouth and does jack shit to help the real everyday problems women face in the world. I mean obviously, this takedown of Korine and the previous Mass evisceration of SMF taught them a lesson, drained their bank accounts and magically freed every eight year old girl being sold in a sri lankan brothel…obviously “hit share outrage” actually changes stuff and gets things done. Obviously that is sarcasm, and obviously you lot are notorious for your sense of humor. GROW UP. GROW THE FUCK UP AND GO DO SOMETHING.