The page turner is just :chef’s kiss:

I was like five or six when they got married, so of course I thought her wedding ensemble was perfect.

I hate them all, but it would be delicious if he never got to be king.

I’d ask if he rather his special needs children died rather than be special needs, but I’d be afraid of the answer. Ableism is a hell of a drug.

I agree with most of what you said, but the Gates Foundation isn’t perfect. Just because they’re big doesn’t mean they’re infallible. They’re big because they’re rich AF, not because they’re particularly effective. They’ve done a lot of good work in the health sphere, but their work in public education in this…

1. While this shouldn’t matter, she looks f’ng gorgeous in that video still from the new Disney+ movie. It’s nice to see old women being allowed to look their age and smokin’ at the same time. For such a long time, it seemed like they only let Helen Mirren do that. She’s conventionally pretty to begin with, but it’s…

On one hand, yes. Back when I was teaching full time, I dated a bartender for a bit who worked three nights a week downtown and took home more than me, most of it no tax. We both had to deal with a lot of messy humanity, and although his job didn’t require a masters degree, I didn’t have to deal with as much vomit.

Just came back from grocery shopping in my city which has been back in the red for months and there are still EMPLOYEES doing this. I feel so bad for grocery workers during this thing, but it also bothers the hell out of me so many of the employees at my supermarket don’t mask properly, ignore their own one-way…

How do you know that “spend it all on her kids” didn’t also include things like dental care and savings accounts for them? With a windfall like that, you can have a bigger Christmas splurge while also being “responsible.” A splurge for them might mean that her kids could get a game console and a couple of games which…

I thought of this, too! But I only know of it because it was a challenge one season on GBBO.

I love this and I love your appreciation for Dinty Moore Beef Stew. My mom made a meat pie using this as the filling some nights for an easy dinner, so it holds a soft spot in my heart. (Oddly, she makes the pie crust from scratch, but she grew up in the 40's and 50's in a household that always had pie for dessert,…

#BINGATE! It’s still the most scandalous thing to happen on the GBBO, in my opinion. There was one other instance, I think?, in a different series, of a similar ambiguous sabotage/mix-up, but #Bingate taught contestants to never throw your final bake away because the judges will still taste it and you might be saved.

Box wine is great for this, and if you’re a single like me, Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice makes it very easy to do a lazy-mulled-one-for-one. Throw a slice of citrus in a mug with the wine and a tea bag, and nuke at 30 sec. intervals (or whatever makes sense for your microwave). You want to warm up the wine and…

I think the schools have names as well as numbers. At the least the high schools do. I get hanging out on the stoop (not everyone’s as anti-social as I am), but what *I* don’t get is there are places that have hyphenated addresses (like 11-42 Whatever Street, with the next building being 11-44 Whatever St, etc.)—I saw…

Ha, there was a fake bodega thread as well that was way more amusing. (Although again, this is a phenomenon that exists outside of NYC as well.)

Ugh, the conversational H-bomb is what I’ve heard that called.

It’s Twitter, so of course there was a huge nonsense kerfuffle about it all, but I read the question as more of a regional linguistic one than a “only in NYC” type thing, sorta like the pop/soda/coke thing.

It’s well known that the rich in SF will throw tons of cash at pets, but couldn’t give a shit about their fellow humans.

Can confirm; a good friend of mine worked for a major city branch for nearly 10 years. It was a shitshow organizationally speaking with the usual non-profit shenanigans (unlivable wages for everyone except the C-suite or fundraising, guilting employees into working unpaid overtime or volunteering off-hours, shitty…

People give Laura guff for her messy bakes, but at least they (nearly) always tasted good. I felt like Dave also lucked out a ton throughout the series, but based on his presentation rather than flavor. (I also shook my head at their praise for his dumb sunset jelly cake. Really?! Hermine’s poppy and Laura’s koi pond…