Poor Kevin Spacey!! :(

Agreed! One of my brothers was a ten-pounder. Suspiciously, my mother opted to name him after our father (they're divorced now, so you can imagine how fond of him she was/is).

Oh my god. For a second I thought you were suggesting Farmer Hogget, aka James Cromwell was Col. Fitts, aka Chris Cooper and my mind was blown. Now I'm confused—is there another Kevin Spacey movies where he gets stabbed by James Cromwell in a shocking twist that no one saw coming??

"I doubt she could hide for wrong"

Thank you! I've always wondered about this. Could you suggest any links/books/articles for further reading?

I've always thought of ear piercings as decorations/ornaments—I wear rings, earrings, necklaces (not bracelets though, haha). I agree with you that a tattoo is permanently customizing yourself, but a piercing in the earlobe is something you can change as often as your outfit :)

I've heard wild hemlock can look like carrots—let's just include that while we're at it. Or raw rhubarb?

I would've been one of the 20/65—brunette with a high resistance to pain meds, hates the dentist with a passion in part because of horrible, painful experiences in the past. I'm half English, so if there's something to the gene being from the Uk...

Aha! Thank you for that!

Fact: If you try to do the tv-over-the-fireplace thing on the Sims, your tv WILL catch on fire.

Maybe smile sweetly and then compliment whoever made what you're eating? Like ZOMG THIS PUMPKIN PIE! I am enjoying it SO MUCH" and get some conversational momentum moving about being happy.

I was taught that it's roughly 100 calories per mile when you're running. Also be careful running uphill for 3 hours!!

I just wanted to second your The Unicorn Queen's advice because it was great! I'm lactose intolerant and my roommate was the first person I met who handled it well. She knows that not everything is going to affect me the same way, that there's a difference between a spoonful of sour cream in my chili and a pint of ice…

I just want the Jez-Universe to know...

I just wanted to say, I'm 5'9" and I still don't get kitten heels. This is partly because I have large feet, so kitten heels are aesthetically unattractive on me from a purely geometric point of view (obtuse triangles are obvs the uglies of the triangle angle family; everyone loves right triangles).

I did too! I was really confused by the picture.

Omg I do want to hang with you. Please find me next time we're both at a bar—any bar—together. I will also be awkward, eyes on the floor, never dancing and doing calculations in my head. Also I might be drinking water.

My mom runs a bed and breakfast and she had to deal with this once, except the evidence was on the towel they laid down, not the sheets. When she told me about it, I was really surprised that she was so disgusted, especially because they at least put a towel down. It turns out that the couple had chosen a white towel…

I really wanted to say 5/5 mothers because that's been my experience—EVERYONE cries at that scene! but I knew if I did that, I'd get the lone dissenter with a heart of stone on my back. And aww at your mother, that's sweet!

Baking soda! Sugar! Coffee! Oatmeal! NOT KITTY LITTER.