Back when I smoked, I got the chance to go to a fancy conference as an intern. The only other person that smoked at this job was the executive director, and I had to walk by her desk to take a smoke break. She would insist on going out to smoke with me and it was 50/50 she would bum a cigarette off me. As a result, I…

Waiting at the airport for a flight. There’s a line of about 10 people at the counter that were delayed from an earlier flight. Some dude pushes past the line and screams at the desk agent that, “(He) has to be on this flight! And it has to be first class!” Agent tells him that she can help him but he need to wait in…

Dammit, you made me trip and fall into the abyss of the internet again...

Nope.

Who needs that many pickles?! Clearly that was that woman's first visit to planet earth.

It seems like a very odd accident. The way the guard rails are laid out at that spot suggests a counterclockwise lap, but the location of the turn they label the hairpin suggests a clockwise lap. If they lap the cars clockwise, the location of the guard rails is an open invitation to something like this happening.…

Found two better pictures of the scene for those trying to figure out where on the track it happened. It was at what I guess is a safety pull off just below the mouse on the back straightaway.

I’m reading the “On no, the Poors” and can see most of the commenters are looking at this from a US myopic funnel. It is not welfare. It is government rebates from our tax system that go to anyone who uses childcare or who has children. You can be on $100,000 a year and still get tax rebates for having children.…

Just to be clear, the payments that will stop are not normal (needed for survival) welfare payments. They are Childcare rebates and the Family Tax benefit A annual supplement. There are exemptions for strict religious reasons and genuine medical reasons.

BC = bad pedestrians who then get in their cars and become bad drivers (the type who sit in the left lane like HURR HURR I AM GOING THE SPEED LIMIT SO YOU CAN JUST DEAL WITH IT while 50 people line up behind them)

PEDESTRIANS IN BC ARE THE WORST. I am seriously terrified every time I drive downtown. People stroll out into traffic without even a glance in either direction.

I love how Jezebel commenters are like

FUCK. CILANTRO. FUCK THAT SHIT RIGHT TO HELL WHERE IT BELONGS.

This isn’t embarrassing for me, but more for the rest of the school.

Like most people, I was an gangly teen- all pimples and limbs and braces. I had a huge, super nerd-girl crush on someone I’ll call Joe. Joe was a year older than me even though he was in the same grade, and had bit puberty sooner as a consequence, so was more man-than-boy shaped. Ravelston likied.

One look at time on…

Flying on a plane with your period is just irresponsible. You want to attract flying bears? Because that’s how you attract flying bears.

When I was a F/A I heard some stories of Hasidic men asking the flight attendants if they were “dirty” meaning on their periods on flights to Tel Aviv. Apparently the men cannot accept service items from “dirty” women. Most F/A’s would answer that they were absolutely on their period.

That’s... EIGHT LOKOS!!! :-O

A few years ago I was working as an environment reporter at a small newspaper on the Gulf Coast when some of my buddies from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries invited me along to cover the release of a rehabilitated sea turtle. I was like, BEST ASSIGNMENT EVER.

I was in a band and on tour in the early 00’s. As we were leaving the western edge of Pennsylvania on our way to Dayton Ohio we gassed up at a station that had a hybrid Pizza Hut / KFC / and Blimpies food processing closet. Being a vegetarian roughly 5 hours from home I was overjoyed that the Blimpies, 1/3 of this…