This is rage bait for sure. My dogs will happily snore cuddled in bed all day. My cat is demanding food at all hours even though he gets fed at exactly 8am and 5pm every day. We call the noise he makes machine gun meows because they are fast, loud, and relentless. The spray bottle lives on my bedside so I can get some sleep.

I live in Australia where this has already been rolled out. I used a sample licence they said “Sam s sample” and had a picture of Mr bean. It worked first try.

Growing up in Oklahoma there were two dishes that confused me as a child.

Cranberry salad was a bowl of strawberry jello with cranberries and pecans with a layer of cool whip on top.

There was also always sweet potato casserole which was a tray of thick slices of sweet potato covered in maple syrup, sprinkled with brown sugar, and marshmallows placed on top veggie baking the entire thing.

And yes both were served with the savoury food, and yes there was always 10 different pies, ice cream, an assortment of cookies, and homemade caramels for dessert afterwards.

Looking back, it explains why every single male in the family was overweight.

I defaulted on a loan and my credit score dropped down to 500. Still being chased by the debt collectors a year later and it’s gone back up to 700 by itself. I have no credit cards or anything. The whole thing is a joke.

Iirc it was printed as a guide with maps and stars marking the restaurants locations and given out with the tyres for free. I guess people back then had nothing better to do than road trip to restaurants. It was popular enough restaurants wanted to be in it which caused them to up their game so the reviewers would add them to the guide and it escalated to where it is now.

I was in hospitality for a while until I injured my back and had to leave the industry. I never sat at people’s tables when taking orders, but do you have any idea what it’s like to stand 10 hours a day, most days with no break at all? The amount of foot pain? And you get told off if you sit down even when there’s no customers. Sometimes customers would rock up and get upset that I was sitting on a stool when it had been like 3 hours since the last customers had been through and I was doing stock take at the till. Like what the fuck. I’m not your servant, you’re not paying nearly enough for that. Get off your high horse and get over yourself.

I now have life long back pain and nerve damage after spinal surgery at 30 because of the stress hospitality put my body through and people like you were part of the reason. Don’t go out if you don’t want to talk to people.

I was a bar manager and used to get a flood of applicants every time I needed to hire people. I wasn’t particularly picky since I was always happy to train people up to my standards since I usually had to untrain bad habits anyways, so I would only schedule one interview at a time and generally just hired the first person I interviewed to save myself the work unless their vibes were off.

The one time I interviewed someone where I thought “damn he’s hot asf”, and he was experienced in the role, seemed nice and could answer my questions so I hired him on the spot. I have never had to fire someone so fast. Dude lost his shit at another bartender for bumping into him, I gave him a warning and told him it would be his only one. Then a customer that was smoking in the alley after we shut asked him a question as we were leaving and he said “why the fuck are you talking to me”. Had to tell him not to bother coming in for his next shift…

I used to manage a pub and when hiring new staff and giving them their branded uniform t shirt (that were provided by the head office from the parent company), I had to explain to the girls that yes, you are xxxl if you want a “female” shirt, and yes most of it is boob space. Most opted for the men’s xs because it actually fit a human body.

Unsurprisingly we had a ton of women’s small shirts in storage because they never got used. They were basically baby sized…

Not a plastic swizzle stick, a bar spoon. They are stainless steel and have various ends. This is the teardrop, makes stirring ice easier. There’s also a coin (flat disc on the end that op was talking about), that is used for muddling and can also be used to stir ice, and the trident used to get garnishes out of jars like cherries and olives. Source: I am a bartender

The right wing party in Australia (a few elections ago) increased retirement age but with a “rolling date”. Meaning they all get to retire on time with the earlier date but the later you were born the later your retirement age. They literally set their retirement age in stone then fucked younger generations on their way out. It’s still currently rolling out, recently increased to 67 in 2023.

(In more ways than one bit this one is particularly obvious and idk how they got away with it).