That’s like my four year old nephew, who didn’t believe that ‘exaggeration’ was a word. “You’re just making that up!” When he was given a definition he just looked annoyed “but isn’t that what the word hyperbole is for?”

Oh, there are other people who discover BCO late and are going back through and obsessively reading everything, I guarantee it! And I’ve written and then deleted about 10 comments because I’ve got something that really needs to be said, but it’s not an active thread any more.

Don’t you understand? Joan Cheever is obviously trying to do good deeds to get into heaven. But as the Bible says, it’s easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than to get a rich person into heaven. So the city of San Antonio is making her $2000 less rich, thereby making it that much easier to get her into…

Definitely. I was corrected by my daughter when she was four that “It’s not a kitten. It’s a baby cat!” Which I still use to this day. But then she gave me this look when I asked about baby dogs and she goes “That’s just silly”

This is the first time I've ever heard of a lychee. I'm 30. Do I get some leeway?

I’m pushing 40 and if I saw one at my local store, I’d probably say “what the hell is that?” I honestly would have no clue. But then I was just surprised the other day by them putting qumquats in the bin with the blueberries and strawberries. I was tempted to put them over with the tomatoes, imagining someone might…

He definitely gets some leeway for that. Not so much the Safeway employee who when my mother asked if they had any lychees in stock, he told her to go check in the cheese section.

I had a boyfriend in HS (validictorian of his class, btw) who, upon walking around my family’s garden exclaimed “ Peas!” when he saw the grape arbor.

STOP MAKING EXCUSES!!!

That’s exactly what I’m thinking. Maaan, when my BF and her husband had their son two years ago — he was the first grandchild on either side of the family, and a boy to boot, so I mean, there was nothing in this galaxy that wasn’t bought for him even before he was born. By the time his first Christmas rolled around…

I buy this, and I think I can see the roots of it here:

If you woke up as your 15 year old self, what do you think your 15 year old self would think of your current life?

He's probably too busy enjoying his disgustingly cheap fiber internet connection, cheap healthcare and (mostly) gun violence free society to move to the digital equivalent of the countryside.

He's probably too busy enjoying his disgustingly cheap fiber internet connection, cheap healthcare and (mostly) gun…

No. The US doesn’t do border pre clearance at any UK airport. Most likely, this guy is just talking about the check-in desk where you give them your bags, and the airline agent checks your password for identity.

Security in Europe and the UK is different from the States. When departing, they will ask you very direct question about who you are, where you went, what you did, if you maintained positive control of your luggage, etc... they monitor speech and body language to determine if you’re telling the truth. Much more…

No he wasn’t. US CBP does not have preclearance in the UK. They have it in Canada, Ireland, Abu Dhabi and a few airports in the Caribbean. But not the UK.

The article explains it very well but I will try to briefly summarize: women perfectly capable of making breast milk for their infants were told that it was better/easier/healthier/more "civilized" to feed their babies formula. The women didn't NEED the formula, that's where you misunderstand. They had a…

First of all, just say "broth." The body in all broths comes from the collagen in the bones, so adding "bone" is just superfluous. Second, that's the main problem: it's not something new. That's what he means by "snake oil." It would be like someone selling water as "oxygenated hydrogen juice" or something,…

I support same condiment marriages!

My grandmother had Polio as a child, and it is assumed that it severely stunted her growth, but she was nonetheless one of the lucky kids who went on to lead a normal life.