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I was incorrect-the adjectival form is Scots

The Scot parliament the Scot tradition etc. anywhere that we would use scottish

Actually, Scot is either adjective or noun.

I think it is important to call somebody what they want they want to be called, rather than trotting out the Oxford English Dictionary to show them that they are wrong to want to be called that.

I love big dicks - long thick heavy dicks, but I don't need 'em. I'm into a guy's body and ass as much as I'm into his dick. So, if he's average or less, it's OK with me.

I used to make a vegan chile that had raw cashews. It didn't matter the crowd, it was always a hit. haven't made it in a long time.

I always remember a guy I knew in high school. His family had just moved to the US from Scotland. I was asking him about scot/scottish/scotch and he said, in a rather arch tone, "I am a Scot."

Just what I have found -- Whole Foods is more affordable than you would think. Another thing I have noticed is that the worst price inflation is in mass-market groceries. Prices in the upscale market were already high and haven't gone up so much. I'm mostly homebound at the moment because of my autoimmune problem, so I still get groceries delivered. Groceries from Whole Foods don't actually cost much more than groceries from Lucky. Groceries from Safeway are absurd because their online prices are higher than store prices and then they add on the service charges, etc.

I get pasture-raised. Factory farming is an abomination.

They most like to be referred to as Scot(s).

I don't think I have ever heard a real person say "high fallutin" - just in movies and TV. I think I can remember one time hearing "putting on airs." It was said by the cleaning lady in an apartment building where I lived in Denver, a LOT of years ago. She grew up on a farm in Southern Indiana.

I dstinctly remember one client or another relating on here that a provider, with whom they had a long-standing relationship, comped a session. In fact, I had a provider comp a session. So it does happen. I think it's a very rare occurrence - it has only happened to me once and the stories of a provider comping a session are few and far between. I wouldn't expect providers to be forthcoming with an answer to a question like this because it asks them to reveal confidential details of their business model.

True, southern guys have a special something.

Ditto. LA is just crawling with amazing guys. I haven’t spent much time in New York, but if the profiles on RM are any indication …

It might have been so a LONG time ago e.g. when I was a kid, we had a family friend, a good-looking young hunk from a middle-class family, who graduated from college in the early 60s, who actually worked summers for a moving company. College boys now are not going to bust their asses doing hard physical work when their parents are supporting them and when they can spend a couple months coding an app that will make them more money than years of working for a moving company. It's a quaint fantasy tho.

One would have thought, yes. But obviously with this crowd not. Another thing struck me is that, at events like that, they aren't there for the food, so the food doesn't run out. But this crowd just couldn't get enough to eat.

Yes - one of those awkward situations where the business owner had to suck it up and say "the client is always right."

Yep - just to shut the guy up, they sent additional food.

A long time ago, I was a captain for a catering company. We were hired to cater an event at which Yoko was going to appear. The crowd turned out to be way larger than expected and the event sponsor hadn't ordered enough food. So the people were clamoring for food, the event sponsor was trying to get more food without paying any more money and they were all waiting to get a glimpse of Yoko. Yoko showed up, and everybody was angling to get a look at her. A guy in the crowd had a heart attack and none of the crowd would move so that we could get through to give the guy some help. They wouldn't even move when paramedics showed up with a gurney to transport the guy. I have always remembered that event as a lesson in crowd psychology.

Good lord. Does anybody actually believe that a crew of hot young college hunks shows up to do your move? It's advertising bullshit.

It's not that bad - being a cube rat in Silicon Valley tends to pay well.

We were all cube rats - not much face-to-face interaction.

I used to work for a tech company in Fremont-there were quite a few Filipino restaurants in the area where we had lunch. My favorite was a rice congee with chicken. It was always topped with lots of sautéed garlic and onion.

My husband and I were having dinner in a restaurant in Sorrento. The owner treated us to a whole squid topped with a red sauce. My husband couldn’t eat it-it grossed him out. I said “We can’t not eat it-he gave it to us.” So I ate the whole thing. I didn’t care for the tentacles, but the rest was ok.