I mean, the venue was built between the 13th and 16th century, so....

My best friend was getting married. My best friend lives in England and is, like me, a history buff. His fiancee is from Hastings. So they decided to get married at the site of Battle Abbey, which was originally built on the site of the Battle of Hastings, the conflict that began the Norman conquest of England and the…

My mom gave me a gift in one of these! It was for a “Pocket Wok” that plugged into your car’s cigarette lighter, so you could cook on the go. My mom was a. firefighter at the start of her career, and was pathologically afraid of house fires for the rest of her life (like, every time I turned on the stove in her house,…

I love the turn this takes, to “you shouldn’t call this thing I’m in favor of by its proper name because the name has a bad rap and I don’t want to examine my beliefs of it, so just call it something else.” Just a really lovely little twist into delusion.

I’m 5'10 in my bare feet, so I almost wish I worked in an office with a heel requirement. I’d stare all the men straight in their bald spots. I bet the rule would be gone before my probation period was up.

Isn’t that just the magic of this show, though? No character is too lightly-drawn to be taken seriously under the right circumstances, shichh is what makes them so human. 

I wonder if they’re anything like police/firefighters/rescue workers, who ARE unionized but cannot legally strike as part of their bargaining action, since their striking would mean people just fucking died.

Lol, I did, too.

False. Every town WISHES it had a Goatman. The real Goatman is found in Beltsville MD, home of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.

In fact, Japan already has the fastest immigration program in the world - from entry to naturalized citizen in as little as 5 years. It’s hard to get people to take advantage of it when the country is still pretty racist to all outsiders (and especially nonwhite outsiders), has a very difficult-to-learn primary…

This is true, and as a government employee I’m grateful. But please also remember all the contractors and support staff who keep the government running who, because they are technically employees of other companies, may or may not get paid. They get the lowest pay and fewest benefits of anyone affected, and are the…

It absolutely was! I’m actually quite surprised to see it so obviously advertised at such an early date.

A horse’s natural tail has more than zero bones, which is what that horse in the picture has. The flesh-and-bone part of a horse’s tail is about a foot long, so the fact that the horse in the picture has had his docked is obvious. I was trying to insert a picture of a horse skeleton, but apparently Kinja does not want…

Dude, it is SO EASY for the type of people who want to be contestants on Jeopardy to become contestants on Jeopardy. Sign up for their emails so you know when the test is, then take the test, and then do the few steps after that (you really want to be charming in the in-person interview, but that’s true for all…

One of the saddest memories of my childhood is set the summer before I started 7th grade - new school, new me! I was pawing through the Delia’s catalogue circling everything I wanted, hoping that just maybe I’d be allowed to get one or two things that would set me up for social success as the new kids.

I mean, my office has seen an exponential increase in naturalization applications (and literally everything else), and they’ve occurred so rapidly that staffing and funding can’t keep up. We’re all working flat-out, not just on this but on everything, and all types of applications are still taking longer because we…

On three consecutive birthdays, I’ve asked membership-owning friends to get me those huge-ass Kirkland pepper mills. They work better than the cheap wooden pepper mills I’ve had, but they’re bigger than the standard McCormick plastic pepper mills, so you don’t have to stand there for 50 minutes peppering your dish. If…

Thank you. I see people in TV and movies stand directly under shower heads and then turn them on all the time, and every single time I think, they have to be crazy. No human being does this. You could be Orson Welles and I’d still be thrown out of the scene because of how implausible it is.

Even if it didn’t help you personally by stopping you from getting the flu or at least making it less bad (and it does do those things), by not getting it you’re increasing your chances of passing the flu on to those very young and very old people who can’t get vaccinated themselves.

I JUST had a guy who I went on a single Tinder date with a week and a half ago look up my work address (I told him what part of the government I work for, nothing else), and use it to send me flowers for my birthday. To a secure facility. Where we are not allowed to accept personal mail. Which I neglected to mention…