I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

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cats can:

sniff

fall off things

Lick your face until it’s raw

Sit on your lap the exact moment you were going to get up

Rub against your hand, get overstimulated, then bite your hand

Play with random bits of garbage

Sit on your hands when you’re playing video games

Meowth, that’s right!

But the whole time, he was saying

Not many of my followers know, but I’m a bartender and after this weekend (and for the last 5 years) I thought I’d make a quick a simple list of bar manners to mind.

If you use a lime after a shot do not stick your gross ass chewed up lime on the bar. Put it back into the shot glass, on a napkin or find a trash can for the love of god. 

If you don’t want a straw in your drink, either say so when you order or put in on a napkin or throw it away. Again, do not stick it in your mouth, suck on it and leave your spit straw on the counter. Have you no manners?

Don’t yell. Use your manners.

I know it looks like I will never look into your beautiful, drink starved eyes, but I can see you even if I’m not looking at you. Trust me. 

If I am not looking at you, I’m not taking your order. If I look at your eyes, that’s a sign that I’m ready to take your order. Which I am not, so don’t wave your hand in front of my face to make me look at you. I might forget what I’m doing an take even longer. You’re only hurting yourself.

If you are ordering multiple drinks, order them all at once. Not one at a time. You get your drinks faster and everyone around you can get served faster as well. It’s a win-win.

I don’t care what you drink, honestly. Like, drink a long island. Or a lemon drop. It makes my gut hurt because sugar. But I Don’t Care. And neither should you, so don’t make shitty comments the person next to you when they order. 

Unless you’re putting red bull in grey goose. Save yourself some cash and just get well vodka. 

I take it back, there was one time someone ordered a pint glass of half & half and a shot of malibu rum in it and I thought i was going to die.

If I ask you if you want a back/chaser for your shot I’m not questioning your masculinity or giving you a test. I just want to know. It’s easier to do it all at once.

I don’t know that one special drink at another bar, but tell me what you like about it and I’ll try to find you an alternative. 

Please. Please don’t ask me to just pour you whatever. Especially when it’s busy. I have to hold back the urge to pour you a shot of grape pucker and call it a day.

If you ask me for a “girly” or “pussy” drink I will pour you fernet branca because I am both girly, in possession of a vagina and that’s all I drink. You’ll regret it.

If you order something gay I will pour you whiskey because that’s what all my gay male friends drink. They also drink fernet as well. It’s a toss up there. 

In fact. I serve women, gay men/women and straight dudes all about the same when it comes to whiskey. It’s strange how gender and sexuality have nothing to do with the types of alcohol you drink.

The correct terminology you are looking for is “fruity” or “mixed” 

Anyway. Someone once asked for both. After I responded with fernet to his “pussy” shot request, he ordered a “gay” shot.

So I told him I’d make him a gay shot called a dick in his mouth.

I did. 

He told me it was “a little stiff”

I’m a gay trans guy I call myself queer and a faggot. Does that mean that I’m allowed to call my trans friend queer? No because he’s not okay with that. Referring to the LGBT community as the queer community is like referring to the gay community as the faggot/d*ke community or the trans community as the tranny community. Not everyone within the group is okay with slurs. We just want people to respect that.

And I have seen idiots on Tumblr go off on people for calling themselves queer. Which I find really stupid. People in the LGBT should be able to reclaim the main slur that is used against them. But reclaiming a slur is a personal experience that you can’t push on an entire community.

I don’t refer to anyone as queer who doesn’t specifically identify as such, and yet, here come the bumblefuck queercoursers in my inbox every single time. And I’m far from alone.

Its fine not to want to be referenced as a term you consider pejorative but we’re WAAAAAY past that. We’re being told there is no Q, it was made up on tumblr and other lies. And then we’re called ‘Kweer’ by the same fuckin people. Or Cishet, to be honest. Even when neither, like myself

http://equalitymatters.org/factcheck/201207020001 they fund anti-gay rights groups https://thinkprogress.org/chick-fil-a-still-anti-gay-970f079bf85/ and also directly fund conversion therapy organizations