The hospital where I work had a pregnant woman (and fetus) die from H1N1 complications. We take flu precautions seriously - and yes, unless there are definite medical considerations (and pregnant women are encouraged to get the vaccine, so that doesn't count!), employees must get the shot. Those who can't have to be…

Coworker of my husband did that a few years back. Bought a crazy-expensive truck for his wife. Wife flipped out because of cost. He decided his best solution was to re-up in the military so he could get more money than what he was making at his current job, and so he went and did that, then surprised her with that…

Similarly, I had a college roommate who would try every generic/store/off-label brand of mac-n-cheese possible in order to save money over the Kraft brand, but none of them met his standards. (Me, I was OK with Golden Grain brand, but it definitely wasn't Kraft.)

The New Year's celebration is only a week later, and that's true every year. So "Happy Holidays" is still quite useful unless it's December 24 or 25 and you're acknowledging the currently-going celebration of Christmas.

Just means they're too lazy to document that and their process. Of course, having ignored it forever makes it harder to turn that around unless you do a huge ass-covering paper trail of "hey, heads-up we're doing X, Y, Z, and oh, we're also going to be serious about clock-in times, really..." first with plenty of…

Really? You're actually trying to argue that no one complains about female degradation in porn? Really?!

Another suggested song for the tempo is "Another One Bites the Dust" but that's not quite so upbeat as the usual "Staying Alive" suggestion.

Heard a similar story years ago but not so flaw-oriented, necessarily. It was someone whose job it was to (IIRC) create commercials, and he referred to it as 'taking out the helicopter' - they'd do a promo for their work which would include an expensive helicopter fly-over camera shot as well, and the client would…

Doesn't aspirin tend towards potential for more stomach upset/irritation after its expiration date? I thought it started breaking down into plain ol' salicylic acid (instead of acetylsalicylic acid) and that's why you get the vinegary smell in a bottle of closed-up or old aspirin.

And I'm not even someone who's paranoid about cops just being out to get people, but it does happen, plus there are innocent people who confess to crimes just because they're scared/ignorant/mentally deficient in some way/believe it when they hear something that seems to indicate that if they confess to something they…

Yes, it's an actual class lecture so it's long. It's also quite good and worth watching, seriously, even/especially for a law-abiding citizen.

Yup. Poor dude is wearing some overpriced garbage that looks like grandma's quilting bag.

Oh, I agree. It's just that for Americans, the conversion charts I already have on the fridge have "US-centric" (imperial?) conversions plus metric conversions, and tsp/tbsp to fractions-of-cups is a pretty common inclusion, especially for when you start scaling up recipes to serve more people.

The subtitle on the image is "for the UK" so I assume they don't care about such things. I wonder if they have a US-centric version?

Store them in the fridge.

I went to a cooking class at a Michelin-starred restaurant around Chicago, and they recommended rice bran oil as their standard high-heat, good-for-frying too oil. Didn't know TJ's was carrying it now - they said to check Asian supermarkets.

Substitute in place of vegetable/canola/olive (when used in high-heat cooking). Voila.

I have that problem even if I tell them that I'm Mrs. HisName (I'm a hyphenate) because my name isn't on the account, period. They don't care about the surname. Whatever.

There's the Guide 10 Plus made by Goal Zero, was that what you were thinking of?

Same thing here - was a G+ user (haven't posted in a long time), etc., and mine was unchecked by default. I must have hit the right "I care about my privacy, dammit" settings before this launched.