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  • All jokes aside though- how to does this store work?

    Are they expecting people to just strip down inbetween the racks to try on shirts, or are we expected to just guess and hope theyll fit?

    And after my 3 strikes on pants for the day… what? Do they expect me to come back the next day to try on the next 3?








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    16 days ago

    See also Moron, imbecile, and cretin.
    All Originally medical terms, that then entered comon usage as insults, fell out of favor medically because of that, were rejected by polite society, then after a refractory period and enough replacements, became lower grade insults that were more acceptable for common use.


  • Thats the thing, our cops tend to be pretty solid about community oriented stuff. We’re also a wealthy vacation town (think like the hamptons) which tends to help.

    If i lived in a community where that was not the case, I would have tried dealt with this through other means. Like I said, the moment I moved this outside, a beat cop happened by and immediately recognized a situation and moved to help, not threaten with violence or arrest.

    The issue here was the dispatcher, who, to be fair, was a gal who I went to school with, and was… not the best critical thinker.




  • Most ridiculous call ive made was an attempted suicide.

    A guy had set up in a local coffee shop, and was going to drink a quart of latex paint, which he planned to wash down with a pint of paint thinner, to prove the paint was nontoxic.

    So I called and asked them to send police and ems down to help help stop a suicide. The dispatcher said she wasnt sure suicide was against the law. I told her that it was, it still counted as murder in our jurisdiction. She remained dubious and also wasn’t sure that drinking paint would be lethal. I pointed out drinking a pint of paint thinner definitely was.

    Finally I changed tack; i said that when this guy went into convulsions, he was sure to make a mess of the floor of the buisness he was in, between the spilled and the vomited paint, and that most assuredly violated destruction of private property laws.

    Her entire demeanor changed. She responded brightly with 'oh yeah, you should have led with that, ill have officers and emts at your location within 10 minutes!



  • “In court, free speech is free speech, and that’s the only position the government should have.”

    In practice this isnt though- every right has to have some limit to prevent abuse. For free speech, there are 2: the fire in a crowded theater scenario, and assault. For instance in my state, assault includes specific threats of violence. (By specific i mean the kkk would unfortunately be free to say ‘we should kill all black people,’ but 'were going tp burn down t