That can backfire and then you get a retarTed Talk about how their viewpoint is the right one.

I just say “Bless your heart.” and walk away. Works best when talking to northerners because they don’t know what that means.

Why does the story have to have race as a point?

Does a character have to be white or Latino or Asian, etc?

If the race or sex of the character adds nothing to the story, why include it in the first place?

Is the story less if the reader to knows the character is a Hispanic female?

If race or sex isn’t relevant to the story, then it is unnecessary to include and robs the reader of imagining the character based on their own biases and divinations your writing imparts. If you can write a truely great piece of work without saying what gender or race any character is, that would be remarkable.

Halal is more than just the content of the food, you can have beef that isn’t halal.

The animal has to be fed and given water before killing, has to have a prayer given, and has to be killed by cutting through the neck outside of the view of other animals.

PMCs didn’t instigate the war in Ukraine, Russia did.

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I think anything would drive me insaneer over an infinite time span, but the shop music from MegaMan Legends 2 would probably be the least psychologically damaging.

I had a customer that mentioned something about her daughter and the cookies, I interrupted her to ask for 10 boxes of Samoas.

They did not last as long as one would hope.

Green, don’t really care about specifics and I have tried dozens of boutique varieties. There is a variety called “gunpowder” that is fairly robust, I like it. My daily driver is Bigelow with pomegranate. Usually straight but sometimes I use local honey.

The problem with patches is you don’t satisfy the oral aspect of the habit so you may need to chew gum or sunflower seeds to replace the act of smoking.

Nicotine gum or pouches may seem like a simpler option, but you can up your dose frequency too much to be able to ween off effectively if you do not have the willpower to keep to a plan.

Gum and patch also means you can not use a patch after a while and mindfuck your reptile brain into thinking the gum is what it wanted and not the nicotine patch.

That seems counterproductive.

Guillotine demand goes up, guillotine production company stocks go up, guillotine production owners become rich, guillotine production millionaires felled by their own designs.

I am absolutely turgid with rage when someone calls me that.

Make life so expensive that having a kid is financially inviable and then carelessly release chemicals into the environment that causes low fertility or sterility.

The only right answer.

I guess “joust her right then and there” also would be acceptable.

Necco wafers.

In this situation I would imagine him tapping OP on the shoulder or worse.

Humanity is already dead. Allowing him the chance to get to HR first to complain means you are going to be on the wrong side of things.

We don’t know his mental state or what he may do if rejected.

Without knowing more about the situation, the best response is impossible to determine.

Are they fixated on you because they think you have social needs?

Has everybody else told them off because he is annoying and by not telling him off you are granting some degree of (passive) acceptance that he is needing?

Is he romantically interested in you?

“Look man, I just have no interest in having work friends. I am here to do my job and go home. You are distracting me from doing my job and I don’t appreciate that.” Or whatever.

Going to HR may be the smart move to avoid him going to HR about you not being friendly or a team player or whatever nonsense if you professionally tell him off. I wouldn’t tell HR you are being harassed, just tell them that he is distracting you from work and don’t appreciate it. If he continues after HR talks with him, then tell HR you feel harassed.

You going to HR can also take place of talking to him yourself. You talk to HR and ask them to tell him to let you work, they talk to him so you don’t have to try and navigate his bullshit and you get the issue noted to support your side of things.

Verily. Commence the merriment aſ if we were foolſ!

Candles.

Class up the working environment with a room-warming candelabra.

What they don’t want is for you to not have to touch the blade to open the knife. So if there is a stud or protrusion that you apply leverage to on the blade, seems good.

What is nonsense about this law is the centrifugal deployment. If your pin that the blade rotates on is not tight and you can flick the blade out, illegal. What would be tight enough? You would have to make it hard to open with two hands because that officer deciding if you are legal can flick that knife as hard as they want. So you may not have the grip strength and/or skill to flick the knife out, but that officer can.

They want you to carry a Swiss Army knife or folding buck knife. Actually they don’t want you to ever carry a knife, unless you need one for work, which make sense because anyone working is magically unable to harm someone with a razor blade, linoleum knife, or duct knife.