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[Kotchman]

Just now, Lhalo said:

Well I guess when one theory shits the bed you can just get more vague and blame every weather incident on ketchup packets.

Yes I remember when we had to stop using paper bags and went to plastic. Now  they prefer the reusable bag from home that the dog likely pissed on after wiping his ass on it. 

[Taylor]

21 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Well I guess when one theory shits the bed you can just get more vague and blame every weather incident on ketchup packets.

It's the same theory, son. We libs just gave it shiny new name to annoy you.

[Taylor]

Speaking of the ketchup packets thing, I can't remember the last time a fast food place gave me any condiments without me asking for them. So I actually think restaurants will like the new law because it will save them money.

[Crampknees]

29 minutes ago, Tank said:

it's like thinking every single muslim out there will eventually become a suicide bomber. 

Kinda like KC who gives you a like for this, lol.  You guys are so easy. 

[Lhalo]

11 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Speaking of the ketchup packets thing, I can't remember the last time a fast food place gave me any condiments without me asking for them. So I actually think restaurants will like the new law because it will save them money.

I’m N Out asked me if I want ketchup every time. Deal Taco and Chic Fil A ask me if I want sauce as well. Those are the only fast food restaurants I go to though some I’m not sure what others do. 

Edited October 8, 2021 by Lhalo

[Lhalo]

15 minutes ago, Taylor said:

It's the same theory, son. We libs just gave it shiny new name to annoy you.

That man changes the climate? You guys give yourselves too much credit. 

[Taylor]

4 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

I’m N Out asked me if I want ketchup every time. Deal Taco and Chic Fil A ask me if I want sauce as well. Those are the only fast food restaurants I go to though some I’m not sure what others do. 

True, they will ask. Does the new law prevent them from offering it? I thought it just prevents them from putting sauce in the bag automatically.

[Taylor]

1 minute ago, Lhalo said:

That man changes the climate? You guys give yourselves too much credit. 

True, but when a large minority of the country believes it's a hoax or conspiracy, it needs to have a plainer name. 

[Lhalo]

Just now, Taylor said:

True, they will ask. Does the new law prevent them from offering it? I thought it just prevents them from putting sauce in the bag automatically.

Still waiting for @Stradling’s research…

[gotbeer]

45 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Speaking of the ketchup packets thing, I can't remember the last time a fast food place gave me any condiments without me asking for them. So I actually think restaurants will like the new law because it will save them money.

What I hate is when you say yes to I want hot sauce, they ask how many.  Like I know exactly how many I'll need, just give me a damn handful.  

[gotbeer]

31 minutes ago, Taylor said:

True, they will ask. Does the new law prevent them from offering it? I thought it just prevents them from putting sauce in the bag automatically.

The new proposed law 

Starting Next Year, California Is Banning This From Restaurant Orders

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From June 1, the new Assembly Bill No. 1276 will prohibit servers to include "single-use foodware accessories and standard condiments," aka sweetener and condiment packets and disposable utensils in a customer's order, unless those items are specifically asked for.

 

[Tank]

48 minutes ago, Crampknees said:

Kinda like KC who gives you a like for this, lol.  You guys are so easy. 

except you're wrong.

you're stereotyping an entire group by the loudest supporters of that cause, and you're just plain wrong.

[Taylor]

13 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

What I hate is when you say yes to I want hot sauce, they ask how many.  Like I know exactly how many I'll need, just give me a damn handful.  

Funny, usually when I say I want ketchup, they give me like two packets. So I have to clarify that I need more.

[Taylor]

6 minutes ago, Tank said:

except you're wrong.

you're stereotyping an entire group by the loudest supporters of that cause, and you're just plain wrong.

I do know some Christian Trump supporters who see him as some kind of God-sent champion of Christian values. But I know plenty more who voted for him not because they like him but because they saw him as the lesser or two evils.

[Lhalo]

20 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

What I hate is when you say yes to I want hot sauce, they ask how many.  Like I know exactly how many I'll need, just give me a damn handful.  

I usually respond with "a handful."

Did I type that correctly @Taylor?

[Stradling]

1 hour ago, Lhalo said:

Still waiting for @Stradling’s research…

I haven’t gotten clarification yet. Also by the time it goes into effect I’ll be in a different role so I won’t have much of a voice on how we will proceed with our procedures. 

[gotbeer]

Remember when the politicians said people getting unemployment were doing it because they were getting paid more in unemployment than to work?

PERSONAL FINANCE

September jobs report hints at unemployment benefits’ muted role in pandemic labor market

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• The data offers the latest evidence that pandemic-era benefits didn’t play a major role in disrupting the labor market, according to labor economists.

 

And in the no shit stupid economists moment.

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“All the evidence points toward pandemic [unemployment benefits] not being the main factor,” according to Nick Bunker, economic research director for North America at the Indeed Hiring Lab. “The best estimate right now is that it’s the pandemic itself.”

 

[Taylor]

44 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

I usually respond with "a handful."

Did I type that correctly @Taylor?

Technically, you should have written it like this:

I usually respond with, "A handful."

[WicketMaiden]

27 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Technically, you should have written it like this:

I usually respond with, "A handful."

Pedant alert!

Sorry but you have an erroneous full-stop (period) there @Taylor. The sentence requires another full-stop at the end, outside of the quotation marks, or, simply move the full-stop within the quotation marks to the end of the sentence. It all depends on whether the quoted phrase should have a full-stop or not. 

(If a sentence begins and ends within parentheses or quotation marks and all of the sentence is within, only then does the full-stop stay within.) 

[Lhalo]

2 minutes ago, WicketMaiden said:

Pedant alert!

Sorry but you have an erroneous full-stop (period) there @Taylor. The sentence requires another full-stop at the end, outside of the quotation marks, or, simply move the full-stop within the quotation marks to the end of the sentence. It all depends on whether the quoted phrase should have a full-stop or not. 

(If a sentence begins and ends within parentheses or quotation marks and all of the sentence is within, only then does the full-stop stay within.) 

You British think you're special with your Oxford commas. Humph.

[Kotchman]

I’m willing to bet any man this interested in punctuation is probably an expert ball Cupper

Edited October 8, 2021 by Kotchman

[WicketMaiden]

19 minutes ago, Kotchman said:

I’m willing to bet any man this interested in punctuation is probably an expert ball Cupper

Hardly an interest, over here we teach this at around 12 years old. Maybe you didn't make it that far.  

[St1ck]

14 minutes ago, WicketMaiden said:

Hardly an interest, over here we teach this at around 12 years old. Maybe you didn't make it that far.  

 

[Taylor]

30 minutes ago, WicketMaiden said:

Pedant alert!

Sorry but you have an erroneous full-stop (period) there @Taylor. The sentence requires another full-stop at the end, outside of the quotation marks, or, simply move the full-stop within the quotation marks to the end of the sentence. It all depends on whether the quoted phrase should have a full-stop or not. 

(If a sentence begins and ends within parentheses or quotation marks and all of the sentence is within, only then does the full-stop stay within.) 

That might be true in UK English, but not in American English — at least not according to AP Style or the Chicago Manual of Style.

[WicketMaiden]

19 minutes ago, Taylor said:

That might be true in UK English, but not in American English — at least not according to AP Style or the Chicago Manual of Style.

Your original phrasing leaves it unclear to the reader whether the correct quote should be "A handful." including the period, or alternatively "A handful", without it. I really can't see that passing AP content standards.