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• Commented on Sorry, Scottish iPhone Users, Siri Doesn't Understand You & Has Never Seen 'Braveheart'
  To be fair to Siri, I have no idea what he's saying either....
• Commented on Tips For Working While You're Sick
  IBS isn't contagious, though. I can't imagine the policy would apply to non-viral/bacterial condition....
• Commented on Do All Retail/Restaurant Workers Have To Deal With Poo-Related Vandalism?
  Paranoid women hover. I'm a woman, I don't hover, because it's moronic. What, do they think they're going to get AIDS from a toilet seat? Really now? Grow the fuck up and sit your ass down on the toilet like...
• Commented on Why Don't We Have Color E-Ink Readers Here In The U.S.?
  I could care less about color e-ink, I'd just like to see an e-ink screen without that flicker between pages, it's half the reason I bought a nook color instead of an e-ink nook, that flicker drives me nuts....
• Commented on Indiana, Enjoy Your Final Two Years Of "Tax-Free" Amazon Purchases
  I'm willing to bet most people don't do that....
• Commented on Indiana, Enjoy Your Final Two Years Of "Tax-Free" Amazon Purchases
  Other online retailers charge sales tax based on the state the goods are shipping to. What makes Amazon different that they don't already do this?...
• Commented on Best Buy Upgrade & Save Promo: Upgrade, Don't Really Save All That Much
  They probably discovered the problem with the ad because your coupon wouldn't scan. After the manager did the override, he likely got in touch with someone in upper management to report the problem, at which point they realized it did...
• Commented on If You Want To Spend Less, Here Are 5 Things To Stop Buying
  We started only used paper towels for really gross messes like when one of the dogs doesn't get let outside soon enough or the cat decides to leave a dead mouse on the kitchen floor....
• Commented on Dunkin' Donuts To Bring Double The Delight With Additional U.S. Locations
  I think that might vary by location. Some Dunkin's I've been to have sugar and those little cups of creamer out by the straws and napkins, and some don't. If they don't I always just ask for sugar on the...
• Commented on Dunkin' Donuts To Bring Double The Delight With Additional U.S. Locations
  I'm from eastern Massachusetts, where there's a DD every ten feet or so. The town I grew up in on the south shore has six of the damn things. And it's not even that big of a town....
• Commented on Man Enjoys Lamborghini He Won For All Of Six Hours Before Crashing It
  Back in the 70's my dad got a CDL license in Florida. He did his driving test in a Cadillac. When he moved back to Massachusetts and tried to convert it to a Massachusetts CDL, the DMV clerk laughed and...
• Commented on While E-Readers Get Cheaper, E-Books Make Up For It With Rising Prices
  While I'd like tos ee ebook's priced at least a few bucks cheaper than ebooks, it's not a big deal to me because the main reason I bought a nook was space constraints. I live in a relatively small space...
• Commented on Target Doesn't Want Your Group Of Students To Spend Thousands Of Dollars At Its Store
  I would've just brought them in anyway, what are they gonna do?...
• Commented on Who Is Responsible When A Shopper Loses Items He Just Bought?
  Except from the sound of it this guy claims to have talked to people at this store who don't exist - which just screams 'scammer' to me, having worked retail for several years....
• Commented on More Shoppers "Renting" Electronics From Retailers
  Anyone who has ever worked returns in a retail store could have told you this. I work at a big box hardware store and we get people obviously "renting" tools all the time....
• Commented on Angry Birds To Go From Game To Real Playground For Kids
  I've seen them in the US, too. There's a Sanrio shop in the mall in Manchester, NH....
• Commented on Ideas On Scraping Up Extra Cash For The Holidays
  What you're suggesting people do to "become a photographer" is called spec work and it is NOT OKAY in the creative industry....
• Commented on Congress Lifts Ban On Funding Horse Meat Inspections, Slaughterhouses Could Open Soon
  There's a reality tv show on discovery or something about people down south who hunt them down for a living....
• Commented on Ban A Bad Shopping Habit To Save Money
  Not everyone lives in a town with a good library. My library is tiny and most of the books are at least 10-15 years old. Not a good source of the more recent fiction I like to read....
• Commented on Restaurant Cook Decides That Giving Sake To A 2-Year-Old Is A Good Idea
  My parents used whiskey when I was teething....
• Commented on Diaspora Co-Founder Dead In Apparent Suicide
  It's not even open yet. It's in private, invite-only Alpha testing....
• Commented on TSA Warns Passengers: Wrapped Gifts May Need To Be Unwrapped
  My boyfriends mom uses gift bags for EVERYTHING. She even has ginormous ones for big presents and she collects them all up after gifts have been opened (and most of the relatives give her their as well) and saves them...
• Commented on Quick, Cheap Ways To Lock Down Home Security
  One of my dogs would try to make friends with an intruder (because she's a beagle mix and thinks everyone wants to be her friend), and the other would bark at them from another room and hide under a desk...
• Commented on Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Health Care Reform Case
  You do if you don't live in an area with public transportation, like a huge number of Americans do. For example, I live in New Hampshire, where there's close to zero public transportation. If I don't have a car, I...
• Commented on National Grid Blames Meteorologists For Storm That Left 421,000 Without Power
  In NH we also had the wind storm in 2010 that left hundreds of thousands without power for up to a week....
• Commented on Who's More To Blame For My Horrible Walmart Experience: Store Staff Or The Extreme Couponer?
  Barnes and Noble as a single-line setup and they basically use racks of product lihe gift cards, notebooks, candy, and over-priced CD's to form the line....
• Commented on DirecTV Accuses Fox Of Misleading TV Viewers
  Or maybe she hung up because you were badgering a front-line customer service rep about things that she neither has any control over, nor likely any training with which to answer questions about....
• Commented on Vegas Dismisses $896 Ticket They Gave Car Parked In New York
  I work in retail, and am responsible for answering incoming calls. It's funny when people sometimes try to use this tactic when they don't like my answer to their question. They don't realize I'm the only person answering the phone...
• Commented on Liquidated Borders Store Reincarnated As Temporary Halloween Shop
  There's a former furniture store near me that has a Halloween store in it every year. The place has been vacant as long as I've lived here (6 years), except for that Halloween store every year....
• Commented on Home Depot Salt Pellet Deal Shrivels Under Scrutiny
  Nice. Some idiot probably moved the wrong pallet when they ran low....