The media used to cover up indiscretions, like Babe Ruth's drinking and Franklin Roosevelt's...errr...peccadillos. Now, it's a race to see who can reveal embarrassing things even if they're not true.

But you HAVE heard of him...

Why the long face?

To be accurate, she should be bringing a notepad to write down everything to be brought up at a future argument.

I bet as lot of people see this post and say, "Oh, how nice."

But, I have to tell you...that's really fantastic. Not just how good it looks, but how cool the tale is.

Wow. The Big Boss is really the BIG Boss.

When intimidating his underlings, I wonder if he ever says "I eat small fry like you for breakfast. Literally!"

I've never seen a more perfect embodiment to "I literally can't even."

Under what CATegory do you CATalog him?

One thing about that is, if you're interested in management or a full-time commission sales role or hoping to go into the back of a store for inventory control, how would they know unless you tell them "In a few years, I'd like to be working towards an XYZ role?"

I always answered "I'd still like to be doing what I'm doing--designing products--but with more challenges and responsibility if my experience and results warrant it." It was clear that I DIDN'T want to be on a management track, but DID want to be the "Go To Guy" for stuff that was tricky to accomplish. But nobody knows unless you tell 'em.

He was banned for wise cracks?

There was an episode of Night Gallery (1970s Rod Serling follow-up to Twilight Zone) where he played a hippy that got killed, and thought he was going to Hell and it was gonna be so cool with torture and flames and whips. But he was stuck in a room with a few people who were all square, uncool, and boring. I think you can foresee the "twist ending."

'at's bleedin' roight, innit?

Guaranteed to anger my wife.

Huh. I guess they don't have any little kids such that she can officially be the Au Pair as a reason to be in the household.

I guess that what you do is to congratulate your friends, because you're happy for them in that they're doing something that they want and like. IOW, sharing their joy.

This sourpuss seems to be railing against congratulating strangers on their having kids. I suppose that's understandable, but who's telling you to congratulate people you don't know? Strangers online?

But, given that's from the r/childfree sub, the poster is probably just a crank.

Possibilities for the metal box fixing RADAR device:
=Bad ground in setup, which gets fixed with metal box grounding thing that needs it
-Metal box shields sensitive circuit from spurious electromagnetic interference generated from RADAR circuit
-Actual magic

How many "young 'uns" hear that and think "Maybe I should consider the greater wisdom and worldly experience that my parents have," vs. "They're keeping me from having fun and doing what I want! My parents are RUINING MY LIFE!!"

We're worried about livestock's contribution to climate change, meanwhile China is burning so much coal that they exceed the rest of the world combined in emissions. The smog is so bad that in scenic areas where people used to take a touristy photo with something memorable in the background, they have a giant picture of the old scenic background because you can't see through the pollution any more.

People who think that owning rental property is "passive" income.

WAIT...that masterpiece was an accident?

During the Spanish American War (~1898), the US government added a "temporary" tax on these newfangled telephone things that only rich folks had. It was just to fund that war effort. After the war, it grew into a tax on "communications services."

I had thought it was finally repealed 15 years ago, but in looking up the details to avoid providing bad info, I found that:
"On January 25, 2011, Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced H.R. 428, a bill "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communications services"; it was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee,[33] but was not enacted."