I can’t get past the fact that, based on your picture, they are asking 8 dollars for what looks like 75 cents worth of food. Having traveled with toddlers (and now traveling with teenagers), I ALWAYS bring a pile of my own food to disperse as needed. Skittles and Combos ftw!

*sigh, I’m old

Actually, you’d be surprised.

There was a dentist in our neighborhood who gave out toothbrushes for Halloween. Fucking toothbrushes! Our moms would make us all waste PERFECTLY GOOD TRICK OR TREATING TIME standing in line to receive free toothbrushes. Jesus.

This reminds me of my fucking brother and his terrible, terrible family. He has three adopted kids, and the eldest came to him at age 4 with severe personality disorders. Despite that, he adopted 2 more children, and allowed the oldest to brutalize them emotionally and physically. When his sister was 10, it came…

goddamit, somebody just started chopping, like, a million onions in my house

Absolutely agree. I’m a professional documentary film maker, and I would bet my house that her “interview” was completely scripted. The other people interviewed seen genuine, but hers was too well-thought-out. She didn’t even stammer or lose her train of thought once. And it was all on-camera, so it couldn’t have been…

Literally nobody said that. There’s enough actual things here to get upset about, don’t start making things up. It clouds the issue and lets people focus on the bullshit you’re spewing instead of the salient facts. The OP was making the point that white men consistently get a pass on crimes like this. This officer…

When I lived in Toronto in the late ‘80's/early ‘90's, then-PM Brian Mulroney rammed through a Federal Goods and Services Tax, but only on “non-necessities.”

Thank you JujyMonkey! You’re one of my favorite commentators! I feel like such a fangirl!

who’s the girl standing in front of you?

I’m always surprised at the attitude towards porn from a lot of the commentators on Jez. Like, we get super upset about mistreatment and objectification of women, but then when it comes to porn, which is the ULTIMATE in objectification of women, we’re like, “ok, that’s totes fine.” What? Why are we OK with porn?

Porn is the same as alcohol. Many people can have a beer or two after work once or twice a week and it doesn’t turn into anything. Others can be triggered into binge drinking by one glass of wine. It’s not the substance it’s the person consuming it.

This is so great! Mr. Dipper and I met when he was super hungover and selling toy ducks out of the trunk of his car. I, too, was hungover, and so obv we had a lot in common. I never bought a duck, but 28 years later, we’re still a thing.

Oh Jesus, I just read that. I am now in a rage-spiral that will carry me through the rest of my day.

My high school was right by a lake, and there were two football fields — the regular one where the team would practice and the secondary one where the band would practice. The secondary one was directly next to the lake and occupied by dozens, if not occasionally hundreds, of Canadian geese. So if we weren’t getting…

Alto sax, but truth told, I was only there because it was required if you wanted to be in jazz band.

Many years ago I lived on the northwest side of Chicago. An avid runner, I would go on long runs outside of my relatively safe neighborhood of Logan Square, and when I did, I would bring my Rottweiler with me. He loved running with me, and I loved the safety his presence brought me. I always brought plastic bags with…

It was a dangerous day when I discovered that, if I drank a bottle of Guinness before breastfeeding my daughter, that she was way more likely to sleep through the night. I tried not to abuse that power.

You sound fun