I know you’re prone to making dumb comments on the internet and then writing endless screeds on the internet defending them. From a real brief glance at your latest comment, you also are so comfortable with your ignorance that you can’t even keep straight the names of the people involved (Dylan IS the sister - the…

Yes, I’m sure the only thing standing between you and graduating from Yale Law at 21 was your lack of one acting parent who’s been out of the limelight for decades and another, estranged parent who’s a sexual predator with a sideline in directing.

The most disgusting thing I’ve ever witnessed IN MY LIFE involved a house centipede. My grandpa’s house had them. At one point, we thought we had a mouse living in the kitchen cabinets (turned out those “droppings” were a burst teabag) and he put a glue trap down. I come down in the morning to find a centipede had…

I knew a lady who used to get ladybug infestations every spring - one time I counted more than 3o on a single 3x5 pane of her window. ANY insect in sufficient quantity is gross and creepy - the only difference is in the numbers.

She should definitely try - alcoholism is a scourge that ruins lives. The incredible effort it takes to achieve long-term sobriety is endlessly worth it.

I feel you. I don’t come from a family that really supports games or gaming, so vanilla WOW in 2006 was the first video game I’d EVER played, and you can just imagine the “Whole New World” song playing over the whole experience. AND it was junior year of college, which was just a magical time of irresponsibility and…

I’m down to power through all the other inconveniences, but if they get so faithful to the original that they take away the dungeon finder, I won’t be able to hack it. I did read all the Sherlock Holmes stories while waiting for my character to travel from place to place back then, though.

90% of alcoholics relapse within four years of their first attempt at sobriety. It doesn’t feel great to hear, but those are the statistics. The trip to sobriety isn’t a straight line, it’s a cycle, and damn near everyone is going to have to try and fail a few times before they make it through.

It’s awful, the power imbalance, but in a lot of cases it does even out or become lopsided the other way eventually. My mother was always and forever threatening to cut me off/kick me out/disown me, the whole gamut and for any number of offenses - being bisexual, not being a great student, having friends she didn’t…

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…