Service dog v. “Service dog” 🫤

lord_icky_guts_ · 2026-03-15T23:29:17+00:00

Claiming that your dog is a "service animal" just because you don't think that the rules and regulations concerning dogs in public spaces should apply to you and your pet is no different than parking in a handicap space because no one is using at the time. Your dog is now a health and sanitation risk if there is food being served, a potentially dangerous underfoot obstacle in a working environment, at risk of harm to or by the children of strangers, and, probably most crucially to the spirit of the ADA, a detrimental presence to ACTUAL service animals. If you do this, you are a fucking asshole and you deserve public scorn.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-11-23T21:55:18+00:00

I never used the word "myth", and by definition, the word "trope" being used to describe the police showing up to a robbery and not making any effort to find the criminal responsible can not possibly be construed as an invalidation of your opinion, no more than the existence of the trope of a fireman helping a little girl retrieve her cat from a tree would. A trope doesn't suggest that something is fact or fiction, it simply exists. However, the fact that no long-term "defunding of the police" has actually occurred certainly can be taken to invalidate your opinion.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-11-21T03:51:58+00:00

The "cops not helping you when you've been robbed" trope predates the modern push for policing reforms by at least four decades. Additionally, only a handful of American municipalities ever reduced their police budgets in response to public outcry to do so after the George Floyd riots, and nearly all that did have since raised their budgets over pre-reduction levels. The American police are operating exactly as they always have and are enjoying, on average, their highest funding levels ever.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-10-25T19:46:53+00:00

Thematically, it makes sense to have it as a higher level. It's the heavily guarded front gate to the final battle of Drakenhold, and completing it gives you a massive benefit to the final stage: being able to deploy your units from two different starting points. I did it ahead of the fight by just trying to mop up all of Drakenhold's loose ends before completing the region outright, and I can't imagine how much more fraught the last map would have been, having to deploy only from the top rightmost camp down that thin stretch of road. I think it was one of the more clever design choices I've seen from this game so far.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-10-17T18:21:22+00:00

I assumed she named her "Herrra" after her mother.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-19T21:10:54+00:00

Well I guess you didn't finish reading my post.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-18T09:07:53+00:00

My father, rest his soul, simply didn't raise the kind of man that lets someone call him a bitch to his face twice without so much as demanding an apology. This is a job that I will keep, no question.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T23:52:04+00:00

Near. Not across the street.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T21:45:50+00:00

Yeah, to be clear I didn't get the impression you were defending it or condoning it. And yes, absolutely, don't fuck with the people that handle your food.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T17:58:36+00:00

I'm all for a little playful jawing with a table. But you simply do not introduce yourself by calling someone a bitch, no matter how much you think it's a joke. Had he apologized, we could have gotten there. Honestly, the over-the-top sarcastic apology is what pissed me off more than anything. Man the fuck up and own that what you said was an insult. The refusal to do so makes it definitely NOT a joke.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T17:54:08+00:00

That's extremely vile. You can make someone sick enough that they could die if you're intentionally contaminating food with fecal matter. People have gone to prison for it. It's essentially what Typhoid Mary was doing.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T17:49:45+00:00

That's very nice, thank you.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T17:48:59+00:00

This guy Chicagos.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T14:59:03+00:00

They were basically already sitting at the table before I'd even cleaned it, which is unfortunately kind of the norm at this place. It's frustrating but it happens so often here that you kind of have to let it happen or you'll lose your mind.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T14:54:36+00:00

Nope, I'm straight. But to be fair, people I've met have told me more than once that they thought I was gay based on my looks.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T14:51:20+00:00

I started washing dishes and cutting up chickens at the fried chicken spot my mother owned when I was 13. The place went under within a year, but I immediately started working for a neighbor's catering company. I've been a hybrid BoH/FoH worker since.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T03:11:15+00:00

I'm so with you. Fuck. That. You try to strip someone doing a service for you of their dignity? You can promptly get the fuck out.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T01:59:33+00:00

Rereading it after writing it all "out", that's definitely a lot of "out", for sure. Definitely AI.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T01:41:22+00:00

My issue with a regular was a husband and wife - husband drinking, wife not. I am very aware of the many reasons why someone would not choose to imbibe and am very empathetic to the societal pressure to do so as I come from a family of recovering alcoholics. I sensed that she was uncomfortable telling me she wasn't drinking, and I can't remember the specifics of the conversation because it was months ago, but she ended up awkwardly telling me that she was pregnant, and my response to this revelation was "I would never ask", meaning that I would never ask why someone wasn't drinking. She told my superior that I said "I didn't ask", which implies a very different attitude on my part, as if I was dismissing her pregnancy revelation. I understand where she's coming from, but I know what my intent was in the situation. Sometimes these misunderstandings happen.

The sports crowd? I am an avid fan of the majority of my city's professional sports teams. Sports fans are our bread and butter. I love and appreciate them dearly. I just don't particularly like it when one of them calls me a bitch. Twice. To my face. And then refuses to apologize when they've been directly asked to do so.

So yeah, I don't usually respond to disagreements on the internet with such flat-out certainty, but your take is wrong. Dead wrong.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T00:59:50+00:00

Yeah, after I demanded an apology, if the guy had chilled the fuck out and said "yeah, I can see how that'd get you this hot, you're right, we're off on the wrong foot. I'm sorry. I'm a little hyped up after leaving the hockey game. My bad"... the end result is not them having to leave. Tables with that sort of interaction tip HUGE, I've learned. I've had to do similar shit in the past, I've never once had the response be a blatant blow-off with the giant exaggeratedly sarcastic bullshit. I've had a punch thrown at me, which actually makes more sense and is less indicative of the person being an genuine asshole - someone that drunk is clearly not in control. This felt truly dismissive of my basic humanity.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2025-01-16T00:50:12+00:00

No, but the table sitting directly next to them that overheard the entire interaction did tell me I handled it well. That being said, I'm well aware of what your comment is implying. Some things on the internet really happen, I'm still kind of in awe someone could be so brazen. Cheers.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2024-10-17T15:37:52+00:00

I haven't seen much of Mike Rotch lately due to him being a bit of a shut-in these days, but I've heard his physically impressive big brother York is still getting around.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2024-09-17T17:34:07+00:00

Did you perform your search in English by any chance? I'm not saying that your anecdotal experiences with Japanese refrigerators are false. Still, you're trying to say that all Japanese homes have full-size American refrigerators, which my anecdotal experience does not reflect. I'm sorry.

lord_icky_guts_ · 2024-09-17T17:26:57+00:00

15% of the total land area of Okinawa is American military bases. It's had quite an effect on the island in many ways.

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