When I was living in Czech Republic, I had no visa (and thus no access to affordable healthcare) and I also saw a resurgence of a heart problem I’d had when I was a teenager that I thought had been taken care of. My boss offered to take me to her doctor, who would process the visit as though my boss was the one he was…

I was 31 when I made cranberry sauce from scratch for the first time, and I’m still goddamned furious that no one ever told me it was easy.

Absolutely. I love Groupon.

Related, if you have a coupon or groupon or something, tip based on the full price of whatever service you got, not on the reduced price.

Exactly. Your first post wasn’t a dig at people’s tastes, it was a suggestion that perhaps adding some knowledge to the situation would get them what they really want at a lower price. Unfortunately, there’s a certain type of person who doesn’t like being reminded that they don’t know something, and I’m not surprised…

My mother is Not A Cook, so I’d only ever “prepared” canned cranberry sauce in my own home, and only ever had “real” cranberry sauce at restaurants or other people’s homes. In an effort to improve my own cooking, I signed up for Blue Apron, and last November they sent me the ingredients to make orangey cranberry sauce…

Make it all about health and safety or something.

Also, it’s not like Kentucky is just going to grow more coal. One of the reasons coal is expensive compared to other fuels is that a lot of the longrunning coal fields are tapped out, and that’s a problem you just can’t fix.

One of my best friends’ sisters was just able to get here on the lottery with her fiance. My friend hasn’t seen anybody in her family for 5 years - her Sudanese passport didn’t have the RFID chip that makes them, you know, function as a passport, and the only RFID-chipped-passport making machine owned by the Sudanese…

Untrue but a pretty good shot at an explanation. In history, only Asia (China/Korea/Japan) had the knowledge to make porcelain (from kaolin clay, and its name is only related to pigs through a much more convoluted etymology that’s already been clarified in other comments.) The Europeans wanted to get in on the act and…

I have no idea how I could have made it clearer that I’m not even hypothetically going to take the stance of arguing that what he did was even a little okay, nor am I going to give any more details to fulfil your prurient interest in a situation I don’t know very much about. The point was - I’m aware that unfair but…

I’m not even clear on how much wiggle room he had to refuse to do the spinoff. For a franchise that huge, I’d imagine they’d have locked in first-in-line rights and whatever else they had to to make sure they could do whatever they wanted with the Rock’s time and the time of any other members of their central cast.

This is the thing about The Rock that explains why you’re never going to win against The Rock - he’s not just big and lucky and dumb. He’s dedicated and works his ass off and he’s smart. He’ll put in more work, he’ll stick with it longer, and he’s overall cleverer than almost anyone else going, and the fact that he’s…

“People either like you enough to hang out with you or they don’t” is an all-or-nothing idea, no matter how you qualify it. What’s more, it’s just not true. I’m not attending my best friend’s costume party even if she paid for the drinks and the Uber, because I hate costumes, but I’ll walk to drinks at a bar with…

Should I have put the “Don’t @ me, bro, I don’t know the actual numbers” part in bold, or do people just love seeing themselves type?

This kind of all-or-nothing thinking is so weird to me. People don’t just fall into “I’d take a bullet for them” or “I don’t care if they die in a fire” categories. I can care for someone but not as much as I care about having a night in after a shitty day. I can care for someone but not enough to put together a…

She should have gobbled it as fast as possible only to lean over and vomit it into his lap.

I wish this had been posted a few days earlier! I’m having a new job/moving party at a cheap restaurant tomorrow, and a big fear of mine is how many people are going to show up. On the one hand, I already have a 5-6 person strong group that meets up for drinks twice a month at this same restaurant, and if only they…

I would kill any family member with a “hang up” about sweet potato by talking them to death. Sweet potatoes are SO good, AND they’re good for you, AND they’re easy to grow almost anywhere, so they’re an amazing food source for people in marginal areas (which is probably not your family but is an important point in how…

Victoria was only five feet tall as an adult! Eventually, she was significantly wider than she was tall, but as a young woman she was also fairly slim.