Lol, one of my favorite stories to tell about how my mother is a bit of a selfish tone-deaf idiot has to do with when she was moving house - one of the places we looked at was a four-story Victorian in York, PA, that had a huge central staircase from the top of the house to the bottom. On the top landing, I mentioned…

As a tall person, the thought of drinking, possibly in heels, near a barrier that is only 4 feet tall before leading to a 20-story drop is nauseating. I could fucking trip over that by accident!

I think he’s doing it on purpose - but to allow whoever wins the Republican primary to be in the strongest-possible position against the Democratic candidate. It’s not going to be him. But if the whole Republican field spends time distancing himself from him, they have conversely less time to backbite each other. It…

Remember, though, that they’re not running against Hilary right now - they’re running against each other. By having such an obvious turd on the floor in Trump, the rest of the field has a relative holiday from the work of tearing each other down that they’d generally be doing right now. They may even get out of it…

Eggs go in the fridge in America, because they're washed in processing, which washes away the natural cuticle and leaves all the little pores in the eggshell wide open to let in bacteria. The reason they aren't refrigerated in other countries is that they aren't washed, so you might get a bit of dirt on your shell but…

I always make sure to tell overseas guests, though, that those portions at least in theory are not meant to be eaten all at once. Americans are very attached to the concept of the doggie bag, and depending on their mentality a lot of people would feel cheated if they paid for a restaurant meal and didn't get to take…

My mother has this mentality, she says because of growing up in Minnesota where they have All the Natural Disasters. Growing up, we had a kitchen with all the accoutrements you would expect, a big chest freezer in the laundry room, AND a second fridge and full set of kitchen cabinets in the garage, all to hold all the…

At my hippie-dippie liberal arts university, the custodial staff would routinely stand by the dumpsters on moving-out day, to pick up the items kids were tossing rather than move home. On the one hand, it was gross for reasons of race and class, and on the other, I was happy enough not to have to move home with 10…

When my friends and I moved into our first apartment in college (in the dorms you don’t need that stuff), we got a kitchen supply box from Ikea for less than $50. We supplemented with dishes and silverware from home, but in terms of actual cooking stuff, the box had everything we needed for the next 2 years. I think…

Oh, and I forgot my favorite, “If the tissue is human, how is it not human?” because they don’t understand the language difference between something being of human origin (like human hair, human spit, human shit) and something being a human. I’d have thought anyone who’d ever read about the debate between “One small…

Look, as several other people have already pointed out, the thought was more for other people who find themselves in the same situation than the author. If you still want to go around sucking your thumb and thinking I’m just a big meanie, I guess that’s your prerogative. Pretending that putting a dog down is the same…

In case anyone was wondering “Just how many anti-abortion Gawker commenters are there,” I can tell you that I commented on the article regarding this posted earlier this week, and while the numbers are still trickling in, I am fairly sure that by the end of my study I will be: a) asked when a fetus becomes a baby, b)…

This is why when I decided to adopt a cat, I went through a local foster system rather than the city’s adoption centers. My cat had been in the foster home for 3 months, and the lady running it knew her well and had a lot of important information and suggestions for me. That definitely played a part (although also I’m…

Exactly. The reality is that it is absolutely possible for an animal to be broken beyond repair - and their dog was absolutely a threat to their friends and family. He bit a friend on the EYE. She could have lost her sight if things had gone just slightly differently. I feel so badly for the poor dog, but it doesn't…

I lived for many years with a vicious dog after my mother first allowed her boyfriend to abuse him, and then basically abandoned him with me so that she could get a new puppy - he only bit at me a few times, and never without provocation, but it meant that I could never have people over to my house, and situations…

I hope you're right, and you probably are (I also think it's most likely that he was put down) but considering the shelter sent him out with nothing more than a "he's shy," I just am not sure that it's a certainty, and the thought of what could happen makes me very nervous.

I agree, I just worry. Some shelters aren't worth anything, and if someone else did wind up with a dangerous dog that's almost a guaranteed awful situation.

No. My response was sympathy and sharing of a similar experience, followed by a thought for other people who find themselves in a similar situation - there's nothing this author can do now, it's already done. I hardly think one carefully-worded paragraph at the end of a multi-paragraph note counts as a lecture.

I’m sorry for your experience with your dog. I have a friend who fosters Great Danes who just recently had a similar experience - he had found his forever home, but she was watching him over a weekend while his new family was out of town, and at the very end of his stay with her he attacked and almost killed another…

It’s enough to make me long for the days where they were repeatedly insinuating that all Asian women look alike.