As the incident took place on the Dutch side of the island, Sint Maarten is correct.

Yeah, it’s that part, and the part where the dog gains speech and spends a page and a half yelling “Tube meat! Tube meat!” at a hot dog that get stuck in my head. The second one is less thought-provoking but has eternally changed the way my pets’ voices sound in my head.

I read JDatE shortly after it was published online (around 2004), and I still to this day think about the scene where one character says that video games where the whole point is to shoot something that looks human didn’t exist a month ago, but now they’re here and people talk like they’ve been around for ages and are…

It should look fine - sew first, cut second, so that you’ve got lining fabric to line up the pocket properly.

And, judging by that cast photo, my Other Fave Daniela Sea as well. She’s a shitty actor (or was pretty painfully bad way back when, maybe she’s improved) but I do not care at all at all, for I am shallow and find her devastatingly attractive.

I was going to say exactly this. I kind of don’t know why anyone bothers with movies anymore (althouth to be fair I’ve never really loved movies).

Right? Every time a reporter mentions a Trump family gaffe of any magnitude and intimates or says that this is evidence of their stupidity/naiveté/inexperience, I have to wonder: how stupid is it to act like you’ll never in your life see a consequence, no matter how nefarious your actions, when everything we’ve seen…

I can also sympathize - I recently (and suddenly) hit that age where I went from being able to eat anything to having to really watch my diet, and it’s a rough transition emotionally. I reckon Noel’s done the same, as I seem to remember him seeming a bit thicker last year on Buzzcocks, while in the GBBO promo he seems…

I doubt it - my grandfather signed up for whole-body donation to the University medical school once he became too old to be a viable organ donor, so it was easy for them to send him back. If you donate via other means, the body is often sectioned off and used in several different places. It’s a great way to get the…

I second the book rec, and also a story Radiolab recently did about parents who donated their newborn’s body to science. I hope I never have to make a similar decision, but having heard the reverence the doctors have for these precious, lifesaving materials would definitely make it an easier decision for me.

Mary Roach’s book Stiff opens with a scene of a bunch of doctors practicing facelifts on a bunch of donated heads in a scenario that sounds a lot like what your company does. She points out that some people might not like the idea of their body being used for this or even more frivolous purposes, but I think that…

FWIW, my grandfather donated his body to the local state university, and we were still able to do the mourning/ritual stuff that we needed to be able to move on. We held a passing-of-life ceremony instead of a funeral/burial. A year later, we got his ashes back from the University with a letter of thanks, and we were…

Right? Under this scheme, we have to wait until this batch of kids grows up and STILL gets shot by the cops before we can acknowledge the already-apparent reality, which is that no further burden for good behavior needs to be placed on the public - it’s the police who need to be taught how to interact like goddamn…

Tomatoes (and strawberries as well) are just so weird - people tend to be allergic to them raw OR cooked, but it’s really rare to be allergic to both. I’m glad it’s not a problem I have, since I can’t imagine trying to explain that true-but-odd distinction to other people.

I applaud you on this, as I think teaching your kids to cook in a very basic way is probably the single most important thing you can do for them having to do with food. It just touches on so many other life skills and good habits, and helps build the family as a community, which I imagine is an important part of…

I’ve never had to go the whole first year, but I have had to go 6 months - assuming this is for your vacation time, not your sick leave or public holidays, and that you’re still accruing the vacation time at the normal rate even if you can’t use it.

One of my friends works at the medieval banquet that operates in the wine cellar of one of the old warehouses at the St. Katharine Docks in London, and David Suchet lives in one of the swanky flats that make up the upper floors of the same building. My friend says he sees him going about his business sometimes. It’s…

As a pre-teen, I could easily polish off a full rack of Outback ribs by myself. I weighed less than a hundred pounds, I could probably figure out what percentage of my own body weight I was consuming at one go, but I honestly think it might be too horrifying to be worth it.

You’d think he’d be there, at least in the background. In the book it’s made clear that there were at one time gods of railroads, I figure the car has to have its own.

Did you notice that they dilated one of her pupils when she was Bowie? It was just an insane level of detail that I adored.