America is too Calvinist for that to be anything but a threat.

Be sure to keep this in mind for the next time you're at a wedding.

"I hope you two get the marriage you deserve" will go over great.

Until I read this thread it would never have crossed my mind to read that as other than friendly and supportive. This is really weird to me.

3: Same.

The kids would have made the point with a picture of a woman yelling at a cat.

Highly context-dependent, surely.

I have a nephew who sent me a video via FB chat. He is play-acting at being a news reporter for some Q-adjacent web site, and was outside the Capitol during the insurrection. He ridiculed the idea that the Capitol was violently attacked.

Crazy Nephew: There was no riot prior to the shooting. ... I could not believe the narrative being pushed by Republicans on Fox News. ... The cognitive dissonance is surreal.

Me: Indeed.

I thought it was friendly and supportive, and heebie was reading it as menacing for our amusement.

Do you people even read the comments here?

9:. Are they the comments we deserve?

it's so great to see an UMC wholesome woman leave an ominous threat like that in such an otherwise upbeat, supportive thread.

Bless her heart.

9: I read my comments. Usually that's sufficient.

8 is correct. It was intended as warm and supportive. I was just amusing myself.

I'm sure it was supportive, but it would take a second for me to register that if I read it even in a context that wasn't as given to cynicism as here.

7: Setting aside the copious video to the contrary, the fact that the shooting was deep inside the Capitol should be taken as clear evidence to the contrary.

Your nephew is a dumbass, and he should feel bad.

I always thought a good slogan for the MAGAs would be "Trump: The President America Deserves."

That's just painful.

I think "Head Like a Hole" permanently darkened that phrasing for me.

The title made me expect this thread to turn into another argument over whether the phrase is to "have another thing coming" or "have another think coming."

I'm not sure which thread this is on topic for, but the cynicism thread will do. I just noticed that one of the white nationalists was urging followers who had been at the Capitol to destroy their phones. How hard would it be to go to one of the sites where people talk about that kind of stuff and say that Joe Biden is coming for you and if you followed Trump on Twitter, you need to destroy your phone? Asking for a friend.

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I need help. I ordered some athletic gear online and my order was cancelled, because this stuff is sold out everywhere. There is a chance the sporting-goods store in the next town has what I need. It seems that it would be better for me to call ahead before I go, to see if they have the item in my size. My question is this:

Is it incredibly rude to call a big-box chain store to ask if they can check their stock for a particular item? I can hardly bring myself to pick up the phone because I'm so convinced this is a dick move. How imperious and entitled would I have to be to call a store on the phone and ask the employee who picks up if they can check for an item, go ahead, you check for the item, I'll just wait here on the phone until you come back and answer my question. Even if I am as courteous as possible, this feels abusive. I would like one of you to please tell me that it's okay, I am not going to hell for this, and it really is more kind of me to call than to scuttle into the store and breathe around everyone for fifteen minutes while determining that no, they don't have the thing.

Thank you in advance. Oh my god.
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Please just call the store. It's not a problem. Your proposed course of action is both reasonable and common.

I know! It's the most normal thing in the world and I've gone insane. I know. Aaarghh.

Try the website first? A lot of big chain stores these days have that functionality to check if something's in stock at a particular location.

I called, they found it and put it on hold for me, less than 3 minutes' interaction. Thank you for accommodating my self-mockery and terror.

Glad to help.

My neighbor somehow managed to purchase seven kettlebells in different weights. Because they were placed in front of my car hole, I had to move them all. I felt better for it. May get one myself.

I don't even have a car hole, nor indeed a whole car, but a while back on other social media I told someone I would give their argument all the consideration it deserved. And they thanked me.

My gast, it was flabbered.

Your nephew is a dumbass, and he should feel bad.

Yeah, I don't think he is a happy person.

Well done lk -- it's a good way to interact, saving yourself the drive. It sounds like it worked out great; in general, if they have computerized inventory they can check inventory trivially from the computer near the phone, so it's not really putting you out. Local stores all expect to have to do some of that as customer service, their only edge against online discounting.