Because Americans are louder and tend not to confine their activities to the country-specific forums

Yeah, dealing with people is the absolute worst. Just put me in the back with people who are working for a living. Just way better.

I forgot this one: One of the customers said she loved our house-made whatever dip. I said no, it comes from a tub. She said no, it’s definitely house made, it’s so good. I went to the back and got one of the tubs to show her where it came from.

There’s a reason some of the managers hated me 😃

I worked in a restaurant. I spat in the trashcan in the kitchen right by the food line. I bummed cigarettes from customers. I also worked my ass off, working doubles or picking up shifts, because combination of 0 money and just my general nature. I practically knocked down a waitress one time just because I was sort of rushing around not looking where I was going. I stole food sometimes. I was a menace. I frequently called out. I was the only white guy who would work busing or dish room without whining about it, and also I would genuinely try to do a good job. The managers were sort of evenly divided with most slightly in favor of me and some with intense bad feelings about me, but in general I was perpetually semi-close to getting fired. Eventually, I quit because too dysfunctional and was moving to another city, and was too generally disorganized to even pick up my last check for some reason.

I also hated waiting tables because of dealing with customers, and would try to avoid it in favor of even other less valued positions when I could afford to.

Does that count?

I mean they could have had it analyzed, probably found out some pretty fascinating things about Roman wine, and then if they wanted to drink it after before it went bad, maybe they could just save some out when they were delivering it for study. Or they could have sold the thing to finance a whole other expedition probably.

I get it. You can’t live your life just saving it all in the right file folders. At the same time…

Fun fact: Jacques Cousteau and his team once discovered a shipwreck with some intact jugs of 2000-year-old Roman wine. For whatever reason, they broke one open and drank some of it. They said it wasn’t all that tasty at that point.

Except, after they had their party and were working on recovering the rest of the wreck, they realized that the intact one they’d found right at the beginning was the only one that had been intact. Literally the singular one. They searched extensively to try to find another, and couldn’t.

Oops.

It also got people thinking in a different direction than “I agree with this” and “I disagree with this” as the main meaning of the vote.

At this point, I think most mainstream social media is corrupted enough by the dopamine loop that it’s fairly predictable that most of the comments would be taken over by it as well. Reddit comments used to be more informative than the article a lot of the time.

Think of all the stuff they are breathing…

Supplies cannot meet the rising demands.