RL Anger

[WTFE]

Wouldn't life be so much easier if the USA was just more mature about booze instead of the ludicrousness of having people old enough to vote, old enough to go overseas to die, but not old enough to buy beer?

[Cobalt]

@WTFE In theory.

I'd probably still have to card people who aren't "gray and bent over" even if the legal drinking age was 18 rather than 21. That's a company policy not a law.

[Miss Demeanor]

@Cobaltasaurus I cannot upvote this enough. Bonus points if they're both dressed in 'hip' spandex jogging shorts and oversized tanktops and running shoes. You know, clothes that you would generally associate with someone in their 20s to 30s. Anything Danskin. And as I have told MANY a customer, gray hair no longer equals age. I've had gray hairs since I was 20. I know people in their 40s and 50s that still aren't gray at all. I look at the corners of the eyes, the corners of the mouth, the neck, and the hands.

[Autumn]

I've never understood why people get so peeved about being carded for alcohol, and, now that I'm closer to retirement age than underage, I understand it even less. So, you're saying I'm not obviously well over the age of 21? How nice of you to say so!

[ThatGuyThere]

I agree with Autumn, I have never taken being asked for my ID as anything but a compliment as I get older. Or baring that amusement at the question. For example Buffalo Wild Wings (at least the one I go to) cards everyone who orders a beer weather you look 21 or 90, I go there with my older brother sometimes to watch games neither of us is close to 21, yet we both smile a bit and show our ID, then delude ourselves into thinking it was cause we look young rather then policy that it was asked for.
Of course I would never leave the house without ID unless it was some sort of life threatening emergency either.

[Vorpal]

I've been prematurely grey since I was 16. When I turned 21 and started buying alcohol in the US, I got peeved at the fact I wasn't carded.

Today, in my mid-thirties, people assume I am in my forties or fifties because of my silver hair when, they admit, if they were to judge by my face alone they would say I'm 26. Gaaaaah.

[TiredEwok]

Cab fare anymore is something akin to highway robbery. I get that some of that has to do with the cost of gas and whatnot but still. It is fucking annoying.

[Arkandel]

@Apu While I'm wavering back and forth on the merits/evils of Uber I think more competition will be good to have.

[Coin]

I suspect Uber will not work out here.

If you think the Taxi mob is tough in New York, you definitely haven't experienced cabs in Buenos Aires.

[Lithium]

Fuck those people who put shit in their mouths and then hand them to cashiers. Fuck them to hell with a chainsaw coated in ebola.

I don't want to touch /anything/ that's been in a fucking random strangers mouth, at all. Ever.

[TiredEwok]

@Arkandel I am not even sure we have Uber here. I'll have to look into that.

@Coin Sounds scary. I think I'll pass!

[WTFE]

@Lithium said in RL Anger:

Fuck those people who put shit in their mouths and then hand them to cashiers. Fuck them to hell with a chainsaw coated in ebola.

I don't want to touch /anything/ that's been in a fucking random strangers mouth, at all. Ever.

I'm not following.

You're saying you wish to have sexual intercourse with people who've demonstrated they don't understand hygiene? WTF!?

[Lithium]

@WTFE In as much as a diseased chainsaw inserted into an individual can be considered sexual intercourse... yes.

[mietze]

Can people actually tell at a glance how old anyone is? I mean, obviously I can tell the difference between a child and elderly person, but 25-45 looks remarkably the same to me. Maybe I just know a lot of pact-with-the-devil well aging people or something. And usually people ping me for my mid-30s not a 40something. I think most of the grocery stores around here card anyone "35 and under", which I find hilarious. I'd have to card every adult that wasn't obviously elderly. Also find it weird that people think 30 is old. Most buddhist groups I've been to, as well as political organizations--I mean you are still in the Young/Young Adult category until you are 35.

Of course I also failed my meat judging class in college too. (Basically, where you look at a living steer or hog ass and say what you think the quality of meat will be). So maybe I'm just body-blind of distinguishing markers across multiple mammalian species or something, and most people CAN tell the difference between someone who is 34 and 42.

[Ganymede]

@Lithium said in RL Anger:

In as much as a diseased chainsaw inserted into an individual can be considered sexual intercourse... yes.

You're just inviting one of us to find an appropriate Google image.

[Olsson]

I'm turning 22 now and people have told me once or twice that I look "middle aged" so plenty of people who can't tell.

[WTFE]

Either that or you're dried out and worn-looking.

[Arkandel]

Cat.

Cat decided having less than 30% food in her bowl wasn't acceptable at 4 am. She came and whined at me until I fixed this atrocity.

Then as I was drifting back to sleep she was of course gobbling it up like a fool so, as usual, she threw half of it out again. But that made her feel bad! So she came and whined at me to pet her so she'd feel better... at 4:30 am.

I should surely be sainted since, when I finally managed to get up to my alarm in the morning bleary eyed and stumbling about only to see her blissfully asleep on a couch I didn't wake her up out of pure spite.

[Coin]

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Cat.

Cat decided having less than 30% food in her bowl wasn't acceptable at 4 am. She came and whined at me until I fixed this atrocity.

Then as I was drifting back to sleep she was of course gobbling it up like a fool so, as usual, she threw half of it out again. But that made her feel bad! So she came and whined at me to pet her so she'd feel better... at 4:30 am.

I should surely be sainted since, when I finally managed to get up to my alarm in the morning bleary eyed and stumbling about only to see her blissfully asleep on a couch I didn't wake her up out of pure spite.

I would have.

Teach that furball a lesson.

[Lithium]

@Arkandel You own a cat. You have given yourself over to the lordship of the furry kind. You shall garner no sympathy since you have /chosen/ to be /enslaved/ by a feline.

The fault is all yours.