This would be less funny if it didn’t come immediately after a commenter having exactly this breakdown, but in earnest.

But how can you see to pack your kid’s lunch when your vision isn’t even good enough to identify whole-wheat bread and the same cucumbers you decry as “watery” in one place and then brag about putting in your kids lunch in another?

There is basically no realm of advice where somebody won’t try to derail the conversation by talking about what an ostentatious luxury it is. You can talk about eating healthy and 80% of the replies will be about how out-of-touch you obviously are, and that’s regardless about whether you’re writing like Gwyneth or…

That’s why I have a daily flight alert through Kayak that tells me every morning what the general flight cost is to go from my nearest airports (I’m in DC, so lots of choices) to 8 or 9 European capitals. Because of this, I was made aware when a budget Icelandic airline started going to BWI, with some truly insane…

Mesmerism may be bullshit (it came with a lot of hocus-pocus occult baggage, because it was marketable that way) but to call hypnotism bullshit is to be asking for a bunch of links to peer-reviewed studies which show its many potential beneficial effects.

Two down, seventeen thousand eight-hundred and thirty seven to go, and they’ll start giving Florida a run for their money.

Unfriended looked absolutely horrible in the trailers and I would love to hate-read a review of it if you would write one.

I was an English teacher at a small primary school there. I had been 98% finished with my M.A. for ages, but had been struggling and fighting with my thesis for about a year straight (a few compounding issues - for one, I had the first draft of my thesis on a laptop that was stolen, and of course it wasn’t backed up…

I’ve had a few good wedding favors (a pretty paper fan from my cousin which was a lifesaver when I moved to Sudan and/or when I get stuck on an a/c-less metro car in DC, and a wildflower seed bomb from a friend’s wedding) but even with those experiences under my belt, I will 100% back anyone who wants to upgrade their…

It is truly hideous and dumb, and not in that hideous and dumb way that some shabby-chic things that you can kind of see being nice if you squint are, but just a straight double shot of “ugly as possible” and “pointless as shit.”

I agree with all this. I moved to Prague right after college (my first time traveling abroad except for a 2-month study abroad experience in London) and spent the first week a bit uncomfortable and unsure - part of it was that there’s graffiti everywhere in Prague, whereas in DC and Baltimore that’s a bit more of an…

Good. You’re the 1 billionth person on this article alone to try to get salty about someone else’s perception with a single facile statement, while yourself lacking the perception to do a simple thing like proofread one sentence, so me and my 999,999,999 friends are doing god’s work. You people can’t be slapped down…

Which is annoying, because I am going TO Orkney in a few months and expect to hire a car. Which I don’t anticipate traffic being busy enough that just being careful and paying attention won’t be sufficient, it would be nice to have tips for new-to-the-UK drivers.

Since early April, and every day I ask her what the hell I could have done to deserve such a good thing in my life. I try to be low-key and not crazy about it, but she is just the best, best girl.

No, the home visit was standard procedure for the agency because it was my first-ever cat. She was, I’m sure, mildly traumatized by being abandoned (she was obviously someone’s pet) but she settled into my home with no problems and is essentially the most precious, gentle thing to inhabit this cruel earth.

ALSO can I just point out that when I adopted my cat earlier this year, I had to have a home visit from someone vetted by the agency, who also gave me a talk about things I needed to have and do and be prepared for before I brought the cat home, AND I had to pay a fee, AND the fosterer talked to me a lot about what to…

Also if his actual shoulders project even 50% as far as the built-up shoulders of his suit, I will eat ALL his shoulder pads.

On a certain level, it just does not matter, and on the other, I don’t understand how every one of the adults involved isn’t in jail forever.

This right here is.... not a good look. Did she try to apply it half-blind from the dumb red light in her bedroom?

I like that very much, too, but the red light in her bedroom is tacky and obvious, and also would have me tripping over shit in the dark literally all the time.