Lidl is a common chain in Europe, and when I lived in Prague 10 years ago, I once chose NOT to rent an apartment based on the fact that the only grocery store within walking distance was a Lidl. I’d be interested but surprised to know that their quality is markedly better given the time and the different location.

I understand that Jez were the most brazen breakers of their own rule when they decided it was funny to start the “Who?” campaign against Rita Ora, but I really miss when people were warned that it’s never the artists who look out-of-touch when commenters decide “I don’t know who that is” is an insightful and biting…

I don’t even know that they need to use the word “accused,” multiple former border patrol agents have stated that this is next-thing to SOP, along with destroying food caches. You can listen to this This American Life episode (the relevant part is Act One: Line in the Sand) to hear one discuss this practice as a…

While they’re no longer involved with the co-op that was responsible for providing the “free gift” with their art delivery, the post card is of the District of C logo in gold on a black background. D of C is, regardless of what you’re “really” buying, a great way to support Deaf/HoH artists here!

Weed is still illegal on a federal level. When that changes, your experience of being drug tested at work may change.

Hey now, with the quotation marks around “art!” My favorite postcard, which is framed and in my bathroom, comes from one of these exchanges (with one of the Deaf/HOH artists who run these trades around Gallaudet).

When your parents name you Lindy Lou, apparently you have to do a bunch of meth about it to prove to the world you’re not like all the other Whos down in Whoville.

There will always, always, always, be more people willing to participate in fashionable messaging than there will be people willing to participate in more concrete action. But the messaging isn’t useless - it allows the message to spread to as many people as possible, including those who will be willing to act on it.

Every revolution has a commodified/fashionable element - that’s how messaging spreads. The French Revolution, in particular, ran on sartorial signaling, with Marie Antoinette’s favorite stylist making extravagantly expensive silk rosettes in revolutionary colors for the rich to accessorize with, and several people…

It makes me sad about all the other people who were struggling and/or failing to get through their days feeling Okay before the miracle of modern drugs. Like, I’m fine now, but there was a time when my anxiety made it impossible for me to move from my bed before I took my antidepressant and antianxiety pill and was…

You’re closer than you think. In Norway, they eat a brown “cheese” (in quotes because it’s actually caramelized whey, so not a cheese at all) sliced very thin, on a lot of things, including waffles for breakfast. My Norwegian cousins aren’t actually that into it, but I think it’s delicious.

If journalists still have to put quotation marks around the word “poison” in headlines about the war criminal who drank something in the courtroom and died because of it the other day, because even though he definitely died it’s not yet determined to be definitely poison, surely we can throw a few sneer quotes around…

I’ve never once been interested in anything she’s done. She doesn’t have a lot of character in herself from what I can see, and always seems to struggle with meaty characters because of it. Who’s so captivated by Margot Robbie that they’re going against sense and wisdom to keep casting her?

Absolutely. I know people who are awful to their parents, but I never considered it in that light until those people were also adults. Then, they’re awful. Before then, they’re kids being fucking kids, who are by definition dumb and mostly out of their own control. I 100% believe OP’s parents but also acknowledge that…

I think it’s worth noting that John Waters sees poor white people as his people, which is why he can portray them in ways that are both truthful and kind. No one who ever for a second looked down on a population and judged them could ever manage to do that.

Because he didn’t follow through with the agreement. Using fraud to obtain commercial sex is trafficking.

Luckily, the law doesn’t care if you “buy it,” and despite the claims of others in the comments, this case isn’t “legally murky.” The law is clear - using force, fraud, or coercion to obtain labor (in this case, the labor in question is a commercial sex act) is human trafficking. A person can consent to an act of…

The fact that this piece was written by a Beckie, spelled like that, suggests that someone’s being trolled. Or maybe it’s everyone, readers, Beckie-with-an-ie, Beckie’s parents who gave that name to an innocent baby, the Splinter folks, everyone.

Thank you! It means everything to me and it’s going SO WELL!

When is a UK colleague of yours going to do exactly this article but about Walker’s Prawn Cocktail crisps? Because I will be all over the comments section for that one. Every time I fly through the UK, my duty-free shop purchases are: three bags of Prawn Cocktail crisps (plus one of Roast Chicken and one of…