Science only matters on this website when we are not trying to feed fears for clicks.

Probably better advice to just tell people to stop being germophobes. You’ll be fine.

No but I touch public surfaces with my hands all the time and I’m not losing my goddamn mind about that.

These articles are so irritating (and yet I clicked another one!).  We all touch millions of germs every day!  There is fecal matter ALL AROUND US!  It’s fine.  Everything’s fine.  

Aren’t we supposed to be exposed to germs in some fashion or another? This is why the human race is full of weak little sissy folk who wander around with hand sanitizers, baby wipes and sprays and that bullshit. It’s really fucking pathetic. So what that you shared a blanket with a stranger... big fucking deal. Tired…

Also (Might be BC specific), any primary residence sold within two years of acquisition. My spouse and I got wind of that one as our apartment appreciated by about 80% the year after we bought, and we thought about selling it and moving in to a bigger apartment, but when the capital gains tax was factored in, we’d…

With no mortgage payment, 10K a year in taxes means the new owner can live there for about $850 a month. 

Not even remotely how that works. Capital gains kicks in when you sell an asset, not when you buy or receive it. And Canada has an exemption on cap gains for your primary residence anyways. So as long as whoever wins it decides to actually live there most of the year, they’re in the clear.

“And if you’re wondering, yes, they will refund entry fees if the contest fails to meet its minimum letter number.”

Take a star for having Tom Swift books as well :).  I only have partial of the late 70's run and the early 90's but they are part of my collection of books I will never get rid of.  That and my Issac Asimov Robot series, Robotech, Telepath series and Pern series by Anne McCaffery and a bunch of others.

I was a maniac collecting books for a while but accumulating and accumulating is impractical. There are things that I treasure more than others. I have a separate copy of my favourite book for reading in the bath (because I wouldn’t do it with my signed copy). But lots of books I just read because I was bored, or they…

I mean cheese is rarely in the dairy section anymore here. The cheese section is just giant blocks of commodity cheese.  The real cheese is usually by the produce.

Celiac disease isn’t an allergy. It also isn’t an “intolerance” whatever that may mean medically but which I’m not familiar with. It is an autoimmune disease that can cause a constellation of symptoms, not all of them related to gastrointestinal discomfort, and some of which only present later in life, i.e. why I was…

In Canada, all National Parks and National Historic Sites are free all year long to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. You can get a (required) free pass here: 

Suure you don’t.

Few actually understand that good tape measures have MANY features designed into them, and a reason for most ‘strange’ nuances that most don’t use properly. For example, the two rivets that allow the chrome tip to ‘float’ actually allow for inside and outside measurements. If you hook the tip on a board, then take the…

Ah! I love this area of product development! Allow me to get a little more nerdy for you!

Yeah, no men are ever self conscious, ever.

Oh this it definitely not just a women thing.

It's possible that I've heard worse pieces of career advice, but nothing stands out.