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9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 3 replies · +17 points

My dad's analogous behavior is making himself a cup of tea (or pouring a glass of water) and drinking all but the last half inch. Then he leaves the cup or glass wherever he happened to be when he decided he was done and forgets that it ever existed.

9 years ago @ The Toast - So, You're Thinking Ab... · 0 replies · +6 points

YES THIS. Especially if you spend a lot of money on the tickets, or (even worse!) someone else spent a lot of money on the tickets and then WENT TO SEE THE SHOW WITH YOU.

9 years ago @ The Toast - So, You're Thinking Ab... · 1 reply · +13 points

Let me put in a shoutout for leaving at intermission! The sense of relief you feel when you realize you're free of a bad play is so incredibly gratifying.

9 years ago @ The Toast - "Happy Birthday" and t... · 0 replies · +8 points

To make matters more complicated, when you cover a song, you cannot be prevented from doing so as long as you pay the compulsory licensing fee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_States), whereas the owner of the copyright to the recording can prevent you from using the sample if they want to. And even with a cover the copyright owner *can* prevent you from publicly performing or broadcasting the cover, even if they can't prevent you from recording it and selling physical copies.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Reactions I've Had To ... · 1 reply · +130 points

A friend of mine had a colleague who was pregnant with twin boys. Before giving a presentation to a bunch of really bro-y dudes (with whom it was apparently tradition to give talks while standing and pacing), she announced that she had more dicks in her than anyone else in the room and so she was going to sit down to give the talk, thank you very much.

9 years ago @ The Toast - How Do You Handle Jet ... · 9 replies · +224 points

It's too late for this advice, but when I was a kid my parents were friends with this Australian woman who swore that the best thing to do was to spend the week before your flight getting as drunk as possible, and then to stop drinking when you arrived. Her theory was that your liver would be so grateful that it would respond by curing your jet lag.

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