A Modern Interaction

Play nicely?
Nah. Just get insurance from my namesake. It’ll be fine.

Driving for Uber in Chicago.
And yet the people of Chicago keep electing the politicians with the worst policies.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
–H.L. Mencken

I have added a comment in the previous thread regarding the MP who was murdered by a Muslim terrorist: It appears that the Daily Mail’s reporting was…inaccurate.

Further to a previous discussion on pronunciation in The Olde Countrie:
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She probably isn’t an employee, but an independent contractor (voiceover: we in ExpeediteUrShiit are proud of our Social Impact in fostering entrepreneurship, integration, and work-life balance among our family of Friendly Partners).
She’d evidently been stewing during the long drive, because Friendly Partners absorb the risk of traffic, bad maps, mechanical failure, weather, street crime, dog bites, and cranky customers. No employee would be treated like that. She’d been rehearsing the Conversation she was going to have, only to be dismissed at the doorbell – that’ll be all, leave it at the tradesman’s entrance.
And now that she’s lost her temper with a customer, she’ll be dismissed like a Victorian maid without notice or references. Employees aren’t treated like that any more. The video recording and public mockery are a 21st century bonus.
Cheap labour isn’t cheap, but people like to have food delivered without moving from their couch and don’t like to think through the externalities. The chance of a diversity seminar before (or instead of) your food at least some kind of feedback or pushback or disruption. And disruption is good according to companies like ExpeediteUrShiit who boast about disrupting the traditional economy, especially its old hidebound rules about obligations to employees.

Today I was introduced to the concept of the pre-breakfast cakelet.
Just sayin’.

@Buck Fiden:
“I see a lot of uncompensated emotional labor in that video.”
‘Emotional’ being the primary part.

I don’t want to tempt fate … but have we reached Peak Presidential Pervy yet?

Lil Nas X’s Satanic video has something to teach the Church.
Jesuits. [ shakes head ]

pronunciation in The Olde Countrie
“borchestershire shot” should be “borcester shot”, but even that would be wrong, because it would be pronounced with a short “oo” instead of a long “oo”.

“The Customer is always right”
One thing that John Lewis commercial on the previous thread reminded me of…Bak in the mid 70’s I was staying with dear friends of our family in Atlanta, and my best friend from when we all lived in Pittsburgh. The father, a great, funny, wonderful man who ran the automotive department at the “Macy’s of Atlanta”, Rich’s (which was eventually bought by Macy’s) was explaining over dinner one night to his oldest daughter, a college student working at Rich’s that summer, about Rich’s “the customer is always right” policy. The daughter was disturbed by this policy as, per what she related, a woman had claimed that a can of spray paint had “malfunctioned” and as she ran through her house trying to dispose of it, it had ruined everything in her house. Rich’s, apparently…going by what they seemed to both acknowledge, replaced everything in her home that was ruined by the spray paint. Because “the customer is always right”. Now I was maybe 12, possibly 14 or so at the time but it was quite clear to me, and apparently to the daughter…at that time…as well that such a policy was not sustainable. But apparently the executives etc. right down to the manager of the automotive department as well, believed otherwise. These were not stupid people. They were just stupid people. 40-50 years ago. Perhaps their progeny crossed the pond to work for JL?

Testing testing
uh-oh

[exits correction booth]
Well, that was refreshing.
[twitches uncontrollably]

Speaking of which…

She took another scan of the horizon, as did Spencer. The music might be keeping wildlife away. There was nothing paste the goat pen, except a distant huddle of wild sheep.
Spencer asked, “What the hell is that whomp whomp sound?”
“Probably Skrillex,” she said.
“Is that a band or a style?”
“That’s the band. The genre is dubstep.”
“Oh, that’s dubstep,” he said. “I’d occasionally heard it, but never known the name.”
“Seriously?”
“Really.”
“What do you think of it?”
“It sounds like Optimus Prime fucking a dishwasher.”
–A Long Time Until Now, by Michael Z. Williamson

…and that exhausts my “knowledge” of dubstep.
Optimus Prime. I love it.

Breadlines build character! American leftist tries to tell us that empty grocery store shelves are a good thing.

Re: the Walgreen’s closing stores in SF story. In chicago I visited a large grocery (Jewel?) just SW of the loop. They had 2 full-time big cops as security. Not cheap. The idea that criminals are victims is so insane.

Praying for you in this difficult time.
Or, “Person with serious mental health problems would rather go without heating, throughout winter, than be exposed to the presence, however temporarily, of any people not afflicted with the same serious mental health problems.”
Or, “Mentally ill person is mentally ill.”

The unhappy Oberlinite reminds me of an early eye-opener back in the mid 1980’s.
The staff at my local library in what was even then referred to as the Socialist Republic of Brent (the MP’s at the time were Paul Boateng and Ken Livingstone – get the picture?) were unhappy about the lack of adequate heating in their workplace. So they organised an outside protest in near-freezing winter temperatures.
After posing for the obligatory photos and interviews with the bbc they quickly decamped to a nearby hostelry. The protest was not repeated.

@Felicity: I’d like to think it’s a very clever parody, but these days… *throws up hands in despair*

Worcestershire and Worcester
According to the folks at Merriam-Webster, Worcestershire has three syllables, and Worcester is pronounced with a short “oo”.

According to the folks at Merriam-Webster, Worcestershire has three syllables, and Worcester is pronounced with a short “oo”.
Merriam-Webster is correct in saying that Worcestershire has three syllables. Usually. But for some reason Worcestershire Sauce is always referred to as though it is Worcester Sauce (i.e. the sauce of the city of Worcester rather than the county of Worcestershire) despite the spelling on the label.
Every time you hear someone refer to the sauce with the county name it is of the greatest importance that you correct him. Roughly if necessary.
It is pronounced Wooster Sauce and not Woostershuh Sauce.

Worcester and Booster
Worcester is pronounced with a short “oo”.
Booster is pronounced with a long “oo”.

Worcester and Booster
David, I think that now might be a good time to put away the breakables.

a-LOOO-min-um
So…if I put wooster sauce or “I believe what you Americans commonly refer to as ‘brown sauce'”…as was once ‘splained to me by a kindly innkeeper in Bath….on a hot dog, does THAT make it a sandwich? I say definitely.
In other news…saw a first (for me) in our hotel lobby this morning. A young lady doing the walk-of-shame in her emerald green bridesmaid dress. I don’t know what that says about the direction we’re going through. Have we hit bottom and thus on the way up or am I being too stupidly optimistic again?

which syllable should be accented?
By which I mean CONtroversy or conTROversy, of course.
[edges towards door]