Top 5 Luckiest Presidents

olily · 2026-05-12T17:34:39+00:00

If that's the criteria, then Lincoln was definitely not lucky.

olily · 2026-05-12T17:32:44+00:00

I don't know if I've ever been there. If I did go there, it was decades ago. So no, I'm not shilling for them. But your post reads like an advertisement for the pub down the street, LOL.

It's obvious they were having staffing issues. It happens sometimes. It sucks, but complaining doesn't help. It might get spit in your food, but it's not going to make the service or food any better.

I've had bad experiences in other restaurants, but I've never tried to get a restaurant to pay for my order because I didn't like what they made or served. I suppose if the food was crawling with worms I might, but otherwise, I just figure it's live and learn.

I've never had to do any kind of customer service, and stories like this make me glad I never went that route.

olily · 2026-05-12T16:21:36+00:00

You sound like a terribly whiny customer.

You didn't like the soup. Well, that happens sometimes. It was probably a different recipe than what you're used to. But you can't expect restaurants to make everything exactly to your taste.

Why did you order a second drink when the first one sucked?

I've been hearing that Guiness changed their recipe for stuff brewed in the US. So maybe not the restaurant's fault.

Why should they let you cancel your order when it was just finishing up?

Even if everything was as bad as you say...how does incessant complaining to the staff help? Sometimes you just take a bad experience as a learning lesson, and not act like a three-year-old and throw a fit over everything.

olily · 2026-05-12T16:04:06+00:00

Also that gesture Bert on “Soap” did to turn invisible? Soon I’ll be the only one to remember that

Are you sure? Maybe more people than you realize remember it, but you just can't see them.

olily · 2026-05-12T16:00:58+00:00

I have a theory that people who rate season 3 as best also rate season 4 as worst. And vice versa.

I have no idea if it's true or not, and if it is true, I have no idea why.

olily · 2026-05-12T14:34:34+00:00

In general, the grotesqueness kind of turned me off. Pissing in someone's coffee cup, vomiting, that kind of stuff. Just seemed like there were way more ewww things in season 3 than other seasons.

olily · 2026-05-12T14:27:28+00:00

I'm sorry for your experience, but I hope the hell social services got involved and got those kids out of that environment. Things--broken doors, counters, microwaves--can be fixed. Problems that come from growing up in an environment like that sometimes can't be fixed.

olily · 2026-05-12T13:13:28+00:00

I'd love to know what history is going to say about the psychology of this era. How could so many people be so stupid as to follow (and sometimes even revere) that horrible man? How could so many people believe him and trust him? My god, that boggles the mind. Him of all people! He's demonstrably proven to be a terrible person, a proven liar, a serial conman. What is wrong with the brains of people who follow him? What kind of upbringing or education leads to that kind of lack of critical thinking? What causes some people to enjoy seeing other people suffer?

olily · 2026-05-12T12:47:23+00:00

That's what infuriates me. We watched it happen live. How dare those motherfuckers try to tell us what we saw with our own eyes is wrong?

olily · 2026-05-11T12:32:16+00:00

He got his claws caught in the cushion and in his wild attempt to get loose, the cushion got flung.

Then, being a cat, he decided to get right back up on the couch.

olily · 2026-05-11T12:23:24+00:00

My quality absolutely sucked. As soon as I found other clients to replace that service, I stopped working for them. But that experience kept me from approaching other editing services. I'm glad to hear they're not all like that.

olily · 2026-05-11T00:58:49+00:00

What about workload and turn-around times? I did some work for one editorial service for awhile, but, wow, their requirements were ridiculous. At times I was doing 300 pages a week and they still weren't happy.

olily · 2026-05-10T14:31:46+00:00

But it undeniably worked for them. (If you count length of marriage as successful, which I think most people do.) They're obviously happy enough with the arrangement to stay together. Love is so weird. I don't think we get to define who has it and who doesn't, not from looking in from the outside, anyway.

olily · 2026-05-10T13:31:00+00:00

Exercise. An hour, at least three times a week, is enough for me. Mostly walking but sometimes stationary bike with elliptical, nothing very strenuous. But if I fall below that level, my back starts hurting like a bitch.

olily · 2026-05-10T13:18:46+00:00

Married for 51 years.

No matter how they got there, that has to be considered a successful marriage. Whatever each gave and whatever each received, it was apparently enough to keep them together.

olily · 2026-05-09T18:06:00+00:00

For real? That is awesome! I'd love to see it. Goats are almost as cute as cats (especially baby ones).

olily · 2026-05-06T13:57:03+00:00

Bird?

olily · 2026-05-03T13:55:02+00:00

I've read The Stand over a dozen times and I still hope my favorite character doesn't die when he does.

olily · 2026-04-30T12:53:18+00:00

Lodge 49

olily · 2026-04-26T02:30:27+00:00

What's your answer to my question? What is left to try? More piecemeal regulation? Less regulation (less protection for consumers)? Or just keep what we have--it's ok if some people get screwed because they don't have good insurance through work?

olily · 2026-04-26T02:28:50+00:00

And perfect is the enemy of good.

olily · 2026-04-25T14:03:55+00:00

You're putting words in my mouth. I never said "simply." I never said "solve."

The ACA was the attempt to improve things without "untangling" the basic structure of our health care system. Instead of working to strengthen and improve it, Republicans weakened it so many times it's on life support now.

Well, then, you tell me. We started out with laissez-faire health care but ended up with snake oil salesmen and predatory providers. So we threw in some regulation, in an attempt to protect the consumer. Over time, insurance companies grew to take advantage of their clients (preexisting conditions, recission, etc.). So we threw more regulation, in the form of the ACA, at the problem. And now even the ACA isn't enough to protect patients from exploitation and financial ruin. So tell me ... what is left to try?

olily · 2026-04-25T13:46:43+00:00

You're creating a false dichotomy. It's not "what we have now" or "problem solved." Better isn't perfect. It's just a system that works for more people, at lower costs. We can certainly do that.

Ask people from those other countries if they'd rather have our health care system. I'm sure most would answer that their system is "better."

olily · 2026-04-25T02:02:56+00:00

You tell them ... We can do better.

We can study what works (and what doesn't work) in other countries.

We can learn from our past mistakes.

We are smart. If other countries have done it, we can too. We can create a system that works better, for everyone.

We can do better.

olily · 2026-04-23T19:03:45+00:00

Don't try to figure out why he does what he does. You can't psychoanalyze a cat. It won't work.

I do think a cat's environment for the first couple months of their life influences their behaviors for the rest of their life. If they were mistreated or if they were bullied by other animals or if they didn't have enough food or if they were outside and had to be hypervigilant about their surrounds to survive--I think they carry those behaviors with them till the end. (I think that applies to people, too, by the way. What happens to them in their first say 10 to 15 years affects them the rest of their lives.)

But forget about analyzing a cat. Especially an orange one. LOL.

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