As much as I complain about the rather dimwitted and entitled customer base we have, I can’t say much better for our staff. We do have some excellent people, but we also have… to be generous, tards. Except actual Downs tards are generally super nice, kind, cheerful, and diligent people. Ours are none of those things. One in particular is a persistent whiner and likes to do that in front of customers (this is the same one who notes on her orders that the customer wants “lettus” on their burger). So after increasing our beer selection to seven choices and reviewing the PRINTED list with her at least three times, she came whining to me that someone ordered a Pacifico. “I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT IS!” “It’s on the beer list.” “WHY ISN’T ANYONE TELLING ME THESE THINGS???” “We’ll talk about it later, just take care of the customers.” “WHERE DO I FIND IT???” “Ummm, in the beer fridge. We only have one.” “WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?” “Umm, it says ‘Pacifico’ on the label.”
Five minutes later, she’s back. “I CAN’T OPEN THIS NO MATTER HOW HARD I TWIST!” “Use the bottle opener on the bar.” Five more minutes. “NOBODY SHOWED ME HOW TO DO THAT!!!” I sighed, went out front, grabbed the opener, and popped the cap. Then she served the beer, apologizing for the delay, “I’m sorry, nobody showed me anything so I had no idea what to do.”
I was close to murder. Thank god she’s unlikely to ever reproduce. Oh, sorry, THEM is unlikely to reproduce because THEM is, of course, loudly “non-binary.”
Birthdays today are a meager lot compared to yesterday, but still, there’s a guy who truly led his best life; the best guitarist I’ve ever seen; an absolute killing machine; one of the most creative and insanely talented woodwind players and barbeque inspirations to ever walk this Earth; a guy who was a better Bela Lugosi than Bela Lugosi; a guy who couldn’t even quarterback for the Browns; an erstwhile hottie with an absolutely perfect voice; a guy with some involvement with Rick James’s penis; and an actor with such an outsized persona that he takes over every film he’s in (in a good way).
It’s nice to know he has a hand in my pocket. Always nice to fund people who want to kill my family.
“Our biggest worry is that we’ll be millionaires and then our friends will want to eat us.” There really is some hilarious ignorance on display here.
“Shut up and give us money.” No, no, YOU shut up and give us money!
Once again, laser pointers and cats.
Give it to them good and hard.
Time to revive the hickory shampoo?
“The toy could not be resold.”
This gave me a bit of a nostalgic twinge. But I was distressed to learn that Taylor’s Refresher isn’t there any more and wineries are charging over $100 for tastings. Thank you, no.
You mean academic social science is bullshit??? Where’s my fainting couch?
The Old Guy is in the mood for some Big Band today. But not just any Big Band. A screamingly creative Big Band. Back in the days when I was writing a jazz column for a LA-area newspaper, I got to see them and interview Tabackin afterward. Super nice and casual fellow, which of course belies the driven nature required to achieve this level of musical success in a complex genre.
There ain’t no cure.
“Thank god she’s unlikely to ever reproduce.”
You would be surprised.
Some retard hired it. Someone may be even dumber and fuck it.
Hire the handicapped, but don’t let them take your rectal temperature.
Not sure how you can run a business with employees like that, OM.
Never, in my wildest dreams, would I have expected someone like that to last more than 1/2 a day on the job.
Kinda surprised she was able to fill out an application.
It’s got to be slim pickins with most of the “talent” out of town for the summer.
More cowbell?
loudly “non-binary.”
Is this an argument that ‘them’ was born that way?
Happy Birthday every signal-caller since Otto Graham?
I know that it was only one season and it isn’t a perfect metric but Milt Plum did hold the NFL single-season QBR record for a very long time.
We’re only up to 42 QBs since the Browns came back after the shithole of Baltimore and the most hated Jew in Cleveland stole them from us.
Of course… there’s rumblings that the Browns are going to go after Sorsby in the supplemental draft, because gods forbid we go into training camp with less than 5 QBs on the roster.
Dawson couldn’t QB anywhere in the NFL these days, as I seem to recall him on the sideline smoking a cigarette.
whaddup doh
an absolute killing machine
Happy birthday Hillary Clinton!
“ Time to revive the hickory shampoo?”
Water cannons. Rubber ball grenades.
The hickory shampoo did knock sense into people. These entitled idiots have no concept of consequences.
Whenever I watch bodycam footage, it’s not uncommon for me to be rooting for the application of excessive force.
So many people deserve having some sense knocked into them – or at least shut up as an example to others.
Excessive? That’s just a word.
Throw their parents in jail for “child endangerment” or whatever it takes.
a) “British” barrister Karim Khan
ii) What good is it to get to the proverbial C-Suite if you can’t enjoy perks like getting handsy with the staff?
iii) It’s shockingly depressing that the only way we get accountability for any bureaucrat of any stripe is through vague accusations of ‘inappropriate’ behavior, provided ‘victim’ is of a preferred class.
It’s nice to know he has a hand in my pocket.
Is the other one hailing a taxicab?
adding at least $850,000 to what a typical contract would have cost
That is a single-A rookie number. Really shows this wasn’t an experienced government contractor!
Since that is “none,” I guess we’re done here.
Sociology might be running out of time to fix itself, and I don’t say that for effect.
For the life of me I can’t imagine why he is writing the present tense about something that happened quite a while back.
In Re the dead thread – yes, I had a bowl of chili for breakfast. I had it in the slow cooker overnight, so I figured I’d see how it turned out.
What’s the verdict?
A bit watery. I added too much beef stock.
That’s easily enough remedied.
[takes off glasses, wipes them, puts them back on]
WTF?
This looks like firing her would be a good learning opportunity.
You can’t do that shit. Fucking period. If I were to do that on the floor at Publix, I’d be fired immediately.
And someone needs to teach her that being a retard isn’t an excuse for incompetence.
FR.
Barring that, could she be trusted to wash the dishes? The sink could catch all her tears. 🙄
Honestly, what fucking college student doesn’t know how to open a beer?
You want proof our education system is lacking? There it is.
*Raises Hand*
I didn’t drink, and nobody socialized with me, so I never bothered to learn that antiquated, inferior beverage sealing technology.
What’s next? Expecting me to have had a corkscrew?
She’s a college GRADUATE. Ummm, sorry, them is a college graduate.
UCS:
It’s a simple lever, one of the first tools mankind designed, and it’s not just alcoholic beverages that use pop off caps (which provide a better seal than twist offs). And yes, I expect a functional adult to have a corkscrew in the house.
Please tell me she was not a hospitality major
Art History and Cinema. So thus qualified to be a barista or waitress.
They do be like that, Mr. OMWC.
So thus qualified to be a barista or waitress.
“Qualified” needs to be in scare quotes.
No, mr Ilium, it is a bit of crinkled metal folded over glass. we have made better closures.
as for shoving a lump of tree bark down the bottle’s neck – only savages stoop so low
That explains everything.
UCS:
Alright, I’ll bite. You have made a home made ginger ale. How are you packaging it that’s better than a crown cap? Keep in mind that if you want it to be carbonated, it’ll need to be able to handle pressure without leaking (yes Ted’s, I know, leave it uncarbonated).
You’re stealing several bases with your first premise.
You’re switching from the context of mass market beverages to a hobbyist who is unlikely to invest in a proper bottling line. A hobbyist makes do with what their space and capital investment limitations permit.
Mass market products cling to customer expectations, and customers have unfortunately become too accustomed to that method.
And in today’s episode, UCS outs himself as a Grolsch fan.
Having spent about 15 years in the beverage closure business, I can say with some knowledge, practical and lab experience, and data, that crown caps are absolutely the best option with respect to seal quality, gas impermeability, leak resistance, and durability.
@sean – you lost me. kindly explain.
https://moorestownbuyrite.com/shop/product/grolsch-swing-top-16oz-nr-4pk/5670324475627550505d0200
@OMWC – Up to now I was staking a position of argument because I was bored.
You’ve convinced me – they need to be banned 😜
UCS:
No I’m not stealing any bases. Nearly every mass market food/beverage product started as a home product. Craft pop uses crown caps, as do some major bottlers. You’re out over your skiis here.
I can only speculate that any of her potential replacements would somehow be worse.
One of the realities of being in a remote college town is that we can’t even find potential replacements. Especially during the summer.
I would think some high-schooler would be an improvement.
They can’t serve alcoholic beverages which means they can’t serve tables at dinner.
We have two high school (age, but they’re home-schooled) baristas who are absolutely superb. Ditto our dinner cook. But they leave for college.
Lettus be kind people!
Morning, glibs.
Oil change and tire rotations this morning.
And that’s it! It is forbidden for other problems to turn up and burn my wallet and day. Comprende?
Grauniad readers asked their opinions about the equities market and personal finance. Answers are hilariously on point.
Ideally my mutual funds got in at the right time, but beyond that, I’m not impacted at all.
That must burn.
But he gets a pass because he is a communist like him and the rest – I guess that trumps Jew for some reason.
“Columbia encampment organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier”
OFFS!
Did not know that and completely not surprised.
The pro-terror and pro-commie Venn diagram is a perfect circle, and (see the Tablet article again) the commie takeover of the Dems is almost complete.
“inappropriate relationship with a female staff member”
Why so vague?
He asked her to make him a sammich
So the U.S. has not only won two games, but also clinched the group with a game to spare, thanks to Paraguay stuffing Turkiye. It will be interesting to see Poch’s approach to the last game – rest some guys, particularly those sitting on yellow cards? Or just keep the team firing on all cylinders?
Screw the non-English spellings of places with English names.
Its not ‘turkiye’, It’s “Occupied Byzantium”
Well if I used the old spelling, the pun would’ve been to obvious.
Here here!
Their dictator asked the UN to direct the world to change their language and of course they agreed. Aside from how stupid it is, that’s reason enough to not comply.
I’m happy Paraguay won after the application of that disgraceful new rule to punish wrongthought.
I just read that because I wonder why covering your mouth is bad.
Unreal. Not that I care about soccer, however…
I so wish Vini had been ‘racially abused’ by some Haitian players.
I care but FIFA is trying very hard to make me not want to.
Time to revive the hickory shampoo?
No pictures of the “teens”, of course.
someone ordered a Pacifico – why would anyone do that?
because they’re qualified to work for OMWC?
Pie is a Corona drinker?
You take that back
Pacifico used to be a decent cheap Mexican beer. It’s still decent, but by no means cheap anymore.
“No arrests were made.”
Also, no pictures of the teens. Coincidence?
“We just can’t figure out why this keeps happening!”
Turns out the voices in his head were just Anna asking “Do you want to fuck a snowman?”
They were probably just having a friendly snowball fight 😉
Further on in the article, apparently a stuffed unicorn was involved. I’m wondering if the suspect was pitching or catching with the unicorn?
*taps out from laughter*
Not enough to fill a gnat’s ass.
What exactly is the point of the UN? Seems like it should go.away
To embezzle American tax dollars towards connected pockets and every fucked up progressive cause on the planet.
Mostly to cater to the whims of third-world tyrants, often by taking money from the West and handing it to them.
Like me threatening my kids.
“Meader is also accused of performing sexual acts on a unicorn stuffed animal”
Gay
So what is everyone drinking?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/podrumi+aleksandrovic+prokupac+oplenac+central+serbia/2020
Decent
Water from the dealership’s water cooler.
Cool, and flavorless – 2/5
Isn’t flavorless a good quality in water?
not when I’m decaffinated and cranky. I want to fool myself into thinking I’m getting caffine.
Unsweetened iced tea now, but going to run out to a local distillery for a special release today. A Black Cherry Mead Cask whiskey.
Sounds gimmicky
Pie:
Distillery partnered with a local meadery/brewery, started with their black cherry wood bourbon (no adjuncts, but aged on black cherry wood) and then finished it in a mead barrel for three years.
You mean Ohio ditch water?
This came in yesterday. A French customer spotted me putting it in the wine fridge and immediately ordered it without even asking the price. He was nice enough to leave a glass for me.
Folger’s, big cup
But having money in Nvidia at its current AI inflated value isn’t a problem.
JFC. Do they understand portfolio theory?
For those that care:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory
Actual smart people devised it because there is a desire to find an answer and make a buck. Otherwise you go into sociology.
/Quickly turns diploma over
You’ll note it started with (((Markowitz))).
Proof of them running the world or being genuinely smart people. Your choice!
I would like to think that this would laughed out of even NY courts but I am not so sure anymore.
I have to admit the plan is genius though. If you can’t get enough votes to implement communism just steal you’re way there. A time-honored tradition.
Speaking of cats and laser pointers, there are times His Ego-ness really could tone it down.
I dare any man to write the following…
any room containing several dozen women of a certain age and Summer Shandy on tap
TW(s): The Atlantic, women, Democrats, Cleveland
… Is best avoided, for everyone’s sake.
Yes. Sake is superior to Shandy.
They don’t even name the suburb? How am I supposed to know who the assholes are?
I mean… I have several guesses…
Sorry, ladies of a certain age. Your time is done. Let the youth take over. They have all kinds of ideas and you’re not going to like them.
Bonus music history lesson
Why do you still employ they?
Some people have negative productivity. I have fired a couple of they.
Because there’s no alternative warm body available. Firing they is a costly and dangerous process in New York.
Sounds like you need more Latino immigrants.
Holy myth-making Batman!
The top story on Google News is the reflecting pool. JFC.
Idiocracy was a warning.
Have you not seen the UFC Trump/Idiocracy memes running around?
Maybe Trump should go piss in it.
Its Berkeley. How is that surprising.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/19/us-news/number-of-uc-berkeley-law-students-who-claim-theyre-disabled-skyrockets/
The number of law graduates in general is like 90% Team Blue now so we are well and truly fucked as they enter the workforce.
OFFS!
I posted this last night.
Article I read said two shots. I wonder why the video stops after one…
LAPD releases bodycam video showing moments before officer shoots and kills dog in Canoga Park
The Bee cribbing from SF, again.
Rubbing is racing!
In local news. Woke town in woke county in woke state. Before clicking I knew it was going to involve either watermelon or fried chicken.
Montclair Schools Negotiate New Deal with Sodexo Following Juneteenth Menu Incident