I often dream of retiring one day to Australia to a house with plenty of eucalyptus trees in the back yard so that a koala might come to visit when its hungry and I can watch it take naps in my backyard. Even that seems a bit much since the koala would only be in my backyard because my retirement home were a part of…

People, please don't feed the trolls, especially if they have a name that screams "I'm a troll with a burner account named from mashing the keyboard." Even more so if the demonstrate obvious ignorance of the facts.

Isn't there a law in some states that gives companies a way to donate unused food without liability concerns (though there's an expectation of a good faith effort to make the food safe).

There used to be a grocery store that would let gardeners take home any discarded produce to compost but they got bought out by a bigger chain (they started out as Wild Oats, became a Sunflower — while all the other Wild Oats became Whole Foods — and then became Sprouts) and that stopped. I'm not sure who was behind…

I used to work at a pizza chain. At closing, we had to throw out the leftover dough but since the oven had a cool down cycle, I'd throw all the unused dough through the oven and put the cooked dough discs in their own bag. All the toppings could go in the fridge and be used the next day (unless they were from the…

I don't feel badly about throwing out produce any more now that I've got a compost pile, if I can't eat it while it's good it'll feed the plants. (Provided I don't salt it.)

As a former SF'er I've been trying to wrap my head around the current gentrification fight. I'm saddened to hear it's just two camps digging their heels in, I thought during the dot com boom some progress had been made (thanks@#$%ing Mayor Brown) but its sounding like all the wrong lessons have been learned. Can't we…

My friend told me the making butter part got them focused and then you could have a talk with them about why what they did was wrong. With the ADHD kids it was often safety-related so the talking was important because they could get into on how things could go wrong and how the rule was meant to prevent that.

Probably when a doctor says you really need to stop because of the increasing danger of each pregnancy and you're like "Don't care, God's will!" the same way it's common to mock anyone who puts themselves in dangerous situations, ignores warnings and uses religion as a justification.

Huh. That reminds me of a college friend who worked at a camp where a punishment was to "make butter" it was a time out where they were given a jar with cream and their time out was over once they had spent enough time shaking the cream that it turned into butter. It was a punishment for kids with ADHD and she said it…

I've seen a bunch of clips of her talk show back in the day, even when she was doing some of the kind of silly thing that would be super annoying on a lot of shows, Church was totally charming.

There's just so many great representatives out there.

Takei. The Gay Hall of Justice needs George Takei.

He's railed against the lack of body diversity in fashion before, though he usually positions it less as a moral issue than a business issue, complaining about how this makes fashion inaccessible to most women (as well as complaining about how the industry self-polices to make sure anyone who tries to change anything…

Let's not forget the jokes that call boys who have been molested by attractive teachers whiners and sissies.

That would be amazing.

As an aside, re-reading my comment that "Yeah" sounds really sarcastic to me. I wish I could edit that part out since it seems really rude.

For the most part "Bromeated vegetable oil" rings a bell because of King Arthur Flour's claims of "Never bromeated" made me look up what that means.

I'm mystified that it's a hit, I would have thought the promise of blurred-for-TV and Discovery having already done a bunch of shows like it (without the nudity) would have stopped people from tuning in.

FWIW, ABC Family did make three sequels to The Cutting Edge (each with a different cast, so its like an ice skating romance anthology) tho the last one was four years ago. Considering how ABC Family has been so gay, they should make another sequel that's an ice skating romance/coming out drama.