We do that in my family thanks to my Texan great-grandmother. In fact, the peas are cooking right now!

In Nepal they run around stinging each other with nettles on New Year's. The belief is that if you get the pain over at the beginning of the year you won't have any more for the rest of it.

Oooh. I wish I could say that to some of the customers at the burger place where I work, but then the last year and a half that I've been stuck there would be even more pointless.

I really should catch up on Roosterteeth's stuff.

Yeah, I couldn't handle it. I want a puppy.

Yeah, whenever people declare that they will never again come to my restaurant I only can think, thank you!

Yeah, have you ever seen the bull market statue in New York. His balls are very shiny. It's mysterious.

No, they were all specifically stated to be black. If you want other people who aren't white, there's also the Patil twins and Cho Chang.

Came here to say just this. Usually my dough is far too sticky to roll before I chill it.

...I think we're both making the exact same argument and not realizing. You just said exactly the point that I was trying to make.

Yeah, but why would he have bought that house in that town? He seems more likely to favor something like a tower in the middle of the woods. Anyway, it's been a while, but I'm pretty sure both descriptions involved smoke stacks or something.

I don't know that the fact that the Vow was made in the house where Snape grew up is much of a revelation, either. I mean, I assumed as much. Why else would he have a house like that?

And for your next level, my roommate is currently watching a scene in Peaky Blinders with Tom Hardy.

Yes. This.

My aunt who is sitting next to me right now lead a discussion over dinner about the Sacramento school system and used the African-american population of various schools as a measure of how bad they are. At least ebola hasn't been mentioned.

I make my cranberry sauce with gobs and gobs of fresh ginger. It is delicious.

It's not just that religious people in the US are often narrow-minded and proud of their willful ignorance. Part of it for me is just the fundamental difference in thinking between religious people and atheists. The assumptions and expectations of a religious person are just so different from mine that it is…

Great article. I don't have anything to add except to say that the top image is perfect and hilarious.

Is she named after Charles Tucker III?

Yeah, I grew up in Humboldt, and can confirm all of this. There's a tiny bit of primaeval peat bog up in the hills, and it's under serious threat because the industry is mining it for use as fertilizer.