It's not that the accident won't happen, it just seems sort of a condescending way to say it. Maybe I'm just being sensitive, but it seems sort of like setting a person up for failure?

I already know that teenagers have lots of accidents. It's not the old car was condescending, it's telling someone that they're doomed to fail. I would be personally offended if my parents had directly told me I would "probably" wreck a car, even if they did think that.

That's pretty condescending to assume that you'll "probably" total a car.

So apparently I won't die immediately, but I'll wish that I had, and I will very soon.

So apparently I won't die immediately, but I'll wish that I had, and I will very soon.

Sometimes I'm convinced that the designers who make what these models wear are just sitting around coming up with the most ridiculous things they can think of. Most of these things bear no resemblance to things people wear in real life.

I was at Nordstrom's flagship store and saw a pair of boots that I liked but they didn't have in my size, and those salespeople really made fucking sure that I got a hold of those boots. Leaves a good impression.

Do you live somewhere other than America? It works differently in different countries.

And when she grows up, she'll know how to clean her bathroom properly.

Wouldn't he just beat the witch to death in a cage match?

I once used anecdotal evidence, and it turned out I was right.

This is what's getting me through college.

I was somewhat worried how my young, recently acquired, and very agoraphobic cat would react to a tree, but he actually loved it. He'd use it to hide when stalking birds outside the window/staring unblinkingly at me. I think he liked the way it smelled. He'd hide his toys in the tree skirt and pounce on it.

The virus is called Herpes Zoster.

That's messed up, and it's going to increase shingles risk. I got shingles sometime after I had pox when I was pretty young. I am extremely lucky that it wasn't painful, but I still have the scars.

Nope, her daughter Irène won a Nobel Prize for chemistry, making the Curies the family with the most Nobel prizes ever. Irène's children became successful scientists too. Awesome family!

On a lighter note, "carnal knowledge" is an awesome euphemism.

Mine does that too, but he gets between the back of the couch and the cushions and slowly sinks down between them.

I get irritated when people tell me I have blue eyes. They are green, not blue. I'm the only person I've ever seen in America with the same grey-green eye color I got from the Lebanese part of the family, but I see people in Lebanon with it.

There are very few things about cats not to be jealous of.