On the contrary, this is the #funniest thing I’ve seen all week.

It’s actually not universal. In Iranian culture, for example, it’s not desirable to be thin. I have a friend who immigrated to Canada from Iran as a kid, and she said her Iranian relatives would say approvingly, “you’ve gotten fatter!”. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in her book Women Who Run With the Wolves, says she spent…

Is it possible that not everyone in the world experiences fat shaming the way people do in North America? I’m not saying I know anything about Uzbekistani culture, but this article seems to leap to some conclusions.

Eh, the world is full of idiot children who love putting tiny swallowable parts and other inedible things in their mouths; the US is just the most litigious about it. In Canada we apparently care less about our kids. I think I’m going to go to the 7-11 right now and get a Kinder egg. Mmmm.

I’m just going to continue believing that alcohol has medicinal effects, even though the “consensus” now among “scientists” (whatever, what do they know that the rest of us don’t?) is that it doesn’t and you’re better off without it.

I’m currently in NYC for the first time. If you hate New York you are a stupid person. That is all.

Thanks!

OOoh! I’m flying to NYC today, as it happens. Never been there before. I was actually planning to stand in the middle of the street as cosmic revenge for all the tourists in my city obliviously wandering into traffic to take selfies, because they think it’s Disneyland and not a regular street full or regular people…

Oh man, that’s terrible about the dog. That makes me sad. Any decent person would stop if they felt or heard the car hit something. (I’m pretty sure hitting an animal doesn’t sound the same as hitting a bump in the road, although it’s never happened to me.)

Yup. ‘79 here. I was allowed to go around the block when I was 6, and more or less had the run of the neighborhood when I was 8. Now my friend, who lives in a very safe, very dull suburb, is afraid of being reported for child neglect because she lets her 7-year-old son walk alone to his reading group at the library…

The only difference being that Trump’s ass is probably tight enough to cut off the oxygen to his brain. (Well, that, and he’s not as cute of course.)

Heh. I thought the maple leaf was a clue. I’m hoping for a nationwide snark fest. (Really more like a “don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out” fest.)

Yes, thank you.

I also have to point out that it irks me when people treat raising animals as practice for raising children. Pets are not children, despite many people’s delusions to the contrary. First, your pet is going to be an adult for most of their time with you (or all of it if you adopted an adult animal). You…

Personally, I’m born and bred Canadian and I’m full of snark.

I always tell people that those are the things I will miss when our civilization collapses.

Yesssssssss.

Did you know that Chad Kroeger is 40 years old? I just looked it up.

No. No, we don’t. Unless it’s a Roman colosseum sort of thing with lions.

Oh man, there goes my teenage go-to excuse for getting out of things.

I think cats provide another example of concentration changing the quality of a smell. Cats tend to have a pleasant, sort of hay-like smell, if they groom themselves properly. But a fistful of wet cat hair, all on its own, smells strongly of cat pee. (Do not ask me how I know this.) I think the hay smell is just the…