I’m all in favour of abstract art but er…
Maybe the kid’s got some tunes, at least give it a listen lol.
Can’t be any worse than Yoko Ono.
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this otherwise mundane space-filler article on white house dogs and who takes care of them is worth it just for the Gerald Ford anecdote (not very far in)
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This is a very enjoyable read. Absolutely everyone involved is awful.
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Some residents also railed against surging fees at the building’s private restaurant, overseen by the Michelin-star chef, Shaun Hergatt. When the building opened in late 2015, homeowners were required to spend $1,200 a year on the service; in 2021, that requirement jumps to $15,000, despite limited hours of operation because of the pandemic. And breakfast is no longer free.
lol
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that building is so fucking ugly, just absolute garbage, anyone who bought a unit absolutely deserves all of that and more
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Importing drones (to spy on govt activities or report protests) is a major crime in Nicaragua. Poorest country in Central America, but they have a $10M giant machine at the border that basically just scans for guns and drones.
If this really airs during the superbowl, I will re-start my Amazon Prime membership. If they keep the husband’s line about the sprinklers, I’ll even add HBO and Starz to it.
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Ms. Abramovich and her husband, Mikhail, retired business owners who worked in the oil and gas business, bought a high-floor, 3,500-square-foot apartment at the tower for nearly $17 million in 2016, to have a secondary home near their adult children.
I used to live in Nob Hill (old money part of SF) where we had a view of lots of fancy places nearby. Most of the penthouses seemed to be dark most of the time. Basically second homes for billionaires who want a place to crash after going to the opera.
I’m always shocked it don’t just blow over. I guess the creaking walls are part of stretching the design and materials to their absolute limit.
An article about a restaurant owner’s perspective on everyone in Washington
Baseball caps violated our dress code, so for those more decorated Trumpets, most meals began with an unwanted amuse-bouche of flambéed persecution complex. Knowing they would otherwise tip badly, I’d fall all over myself to send them little comps—a round of prosecco even if I wasn’t sure that seat 3 was 21, gratis simple salads for the 90 percent of guests who hadn’t ordered apps, gelato and a few slices of “celebration” cake at the end of the meal—and they would still, more often than not, tip less than 18 or even 15 percent, which wouldn’t have been ruinous if the tip-out had been less than 10.5 percent of sales.
My most polite guests during inauguration weekend 2017 were a consultant who charged a $30 ride back to his hotel on my Uber account and never paid me back (though he did leave a fawning Tripadvisor review, which was not nothing) and a man whose date was so verbally abusive to me he literally asked how much I’d charge to let him take me to his party instead. Once I got a manager to concoct a fake military discount for a guy who asked if we gave military discounts (we didn’t), and still that guest tipped 10 percent. (“You’re lucky,” one of the old heads at the restaurant told me. “One time I had a Marine write ‘Zero dollars, my SERVICE is my service charge.’ ”)
(Feinstein had the impossible habit of accusing you of forgetting about her drink when you hadn’t even finished taking the orders of the other people at her table; as it turns out I shouldn’t have taken this personally.)
And despite the multitude of portentous red flags on the internet, no one at the hotel was prepared for what would happen if one of them asked a guest to please put on a mask before coming inside. “In 10 years of serving hundreds of customers a day, 52 weeks a year,” one of the baristas told my husband, eyes wide, “ no one has ever … ” It didn’t need to be said; a front desk employee confirmed that the N-word had been repeatedly invoked.
Trump couldn’t pull off a coup, but he had inspired thousands of regular-ass Americans to roam the streets of their own country like Blackwater mercenaries screaming obscenities to $12-an-hour retail workers and restaurant hostesses for having the audacity to ask them to don masks during a pandemic that was killing more than 100 fellow citizens every hour. My husband was almost shaking as he related their stories: He’d been too preoccupied trying to nail down a room service special that might entice the Trumpers to think about the physical threat they might pose to the front lines. Like everyone else in the restaurant industry, we’d all been too desperate for business to turn up our noses at Trumpers, both the Ivy League–educated insiders and the steal-stopping legion.
But now that they’re gone, good God it must be said: They really were the scum of the earth, and while some of them, I’m sure, are good people, I’ll be plenty happy with merely a $1,400 check if I never have to see another one of them in my section again.
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church people are also near universally bad in restaurant behavior and tipping
basically any group with a persecution complex will think the world owes them something. This results in horrible tipping and abuse towards staff.
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Can’t they just say they fucked up the paperwork? Why in god’s name would you admit you deliberately lied to the court?
“businesswomen” at lunch. Hands down the worst.
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I’m gonna attempt to one up you by saying “people who just left their weekly Amway meeting”.
Talking bout a dozen people all leaving .05 tip on $3 tabs for cups of coffee that got refilled ten times, and then try and recruit you to join their “network” and become ballers like them.
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