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  • I had to deal with the opposite once.
    Was managing a bar where doing shots with customers was common. We also kept a bunch of leroux blackberry brandy in stock that was common for this (a tradition dating back 30 years)

    One of the bartenders refilled an empty bottle with robitussin, becauae he was sick, and was shooting that instead when he did shots.

    A server then snagged thay bottle and a couple of shot glasses to pour some shots tableside for a group, and then accused the bartender of dosing him on lean. (Promethazine and roxycodone)







  • My friends got a funnier version of this. The local elementary school has a service that translates automated phone messages for parents into any language.

    She’s bilingual, but her mother only speaks Russian and shes been teaching the kids Russian. So she gets each message, 2x, once in english, and once in Russian. But, whenever the system hits a loan word, or word that is the same in both languages, (superintendent was the word it hit when I was driving with her thw other day)

    it gets derailed, and finishes in english with a really over the top Russian accent.

    Not the same Russian voice mind you, it switched from a woman speeking fairly fast to a man speaking english slowly and angrily, with a Russian accent, like it was trained off of cold war movie 'Soviets or something.





  • My friends mom has been trying the opposite- shes trying to avoid buying any plastic packaged food. Not so much out of concern for microplastics, but as a way to reduce her environmental impact.

    Its also helped her eat much healthier- most candy is out, all her veggies are fresh instead of frozen, fresh meats instead of prepackaged ones, etc.




  • On of my friends gfs did that back in the day.

    The crew was going to a local punk concert, and she was generally a bit more straight laced.

    So we were all a bit surprised when she showed up in a red wig, and leather, and said her name was Jackie. We were joking about her maybe thinking we all had 'punk names… that we just all used all the time because we were always dressed a bit punk.

    We all go back to the house most of them relived at to crash, and wake up in the morning to them fighting, and her accusing him of sleeping with Jackie. And him being like ‘I thought it was just a bit of role play!’

    He goes into the bathroom, and she comes out to the kitchen and wete all just like, really, we all knew it was you the whole time… also your tattoo was showing…



  • I used to be a never gets sick person. Worked in restaurants in a resort area, so I was constantly exposed to germs from all over the world.

    Even my constant exposure to the school germ breading grounds via best friends kids never got me sick.

    I made it through covid with only 2 positive tests, both while completely asymptomatic, and both times being clear after 48 hours. And I was serrious about it because I was living with an elderly parent.

    At one point, early on, I shared a wine glass with the owner of the restaurant, not just once, 2-3 hours of sharing a cup. A couple days later, it turned out she had gotten covid from her BF. I never got it off od her.

    Then I left the restaurant industry. Within 3 months, my immune system normalized, and I was catching colds of my my friends kids, nights out at packed bars, etc.



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    I think hes fundamentally misunderstanding the 1st amendment. Specifically, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free excercise thereof…

    The government can’t make laws against Islam (or any other, obviously) or stop people from practicing theres.

    As a citizen, he IS entirely within his rights to refuse to acknowledge the validity of any or all religions, judge people for the parts of theirs that do not align with his own morals and beliefs.

    His ‘paradox’ is that. He apears to be interpreting the first part of 1A as saying he both must and it allowed not to hold his own beliefs with respect to others religion.

    He is even entitled to the opinion that 1A is wrong / immoral. And thats what its also saying. Just as the government isnt allowed to tell Muslims their religion is wrong, the government also isnt allowed to tell him that he can’t say he believes they’re wrong, ignore them in his everyday life etc (Free speech, association)

    Now, like anything, theres limits (hate speech, discrimination if hes acting as a buisness, etc)

    But quite literally, he could go around saying “I dont believe Muslims should be entitled to practice Islam in america” and the government can’t stop him. Just as wed all be free to call him an asshole and say we dont believe he should have the right to espouse that opinion, etc.

    The government is just barred from agreeing with him, or us for that matter. and obviously, everyone is barred from actually trying to enforce their beliefs on other people- the courts are barred from giving him a judicial path to that end, and theres no legal way for him to prevent Muslims from worshipping by his own hand, just as theres no way for us silence him, by design.