Mostly a movie trope now. Casinos are full of video cameras, and are owned by large corporations; they’re not going to want to pay a large legal settlement because you got beat up by a security guard. And, BTW, most large chain stores with security usually tell their loss prevention officers to not get physical with shoplifters for the same reason.

You’ll usually just get thrown out and banned for life from any of their properties.

When casinos were largely owned by organized crime? Probably pretty accurate, if you were lucky.

Yeah, that sucks. I’ve had the same thing happen with one of my (former) gay friends; he just wouldn’t drop it. It was really uncomfortable, and I eventually dropped him as a friend because he refused to respect my boundaries.

I mean, yeah, I get it; you don’t really have a choice over how you feel. Some people experience limerance, and it’s not a choice, but how they act is. I’ve had the displeasure of experiencing limerance a number of times, and each time I’ve found that it was more productive to cease contact with the person than to, well, do exactly what your online friend is doing.

100%? No. When you put people in situations where they’re entirely segregated by the sex they were assigned at birth, people tend to take same-sex partners even though they would not consider themselves to be gay or bisexual. On the other hand, my guess is that most people probably round up; e.g., if it’s very, very rare for them to be interested in someone that’s the same gender, they probably think of themselves as being straight.

Arkansas black is one of my favorites, because it dries/dehydrates so very, very well. It tastes like apple-flavored candy when you’re done with it.

I haven’t been able to find it aside from once, three years ago. :(

Chili over rice—esp. something with more flavor, like Jasmine rice–is pretty good, TBH. I always put beans in my chili, because I know that every time I do it, a Texan dies.

And yeah, that’s pretty much the way cats are now, so, no change.