The best podcast I’ve ever listened to is My Dad Wrote a Porno. It is laugh out loud funny - I look like a crazy person when I listen to it in public. The host’s father wrote an erotic novel and now the host and two friends read a chapter each episode and make fun of it. (One friend is a woman, which is important for…

I’m halfway through The Paper Menagerie and State Change just really blew me away. I’ve found the collection a little hit and miss, personally, but the ones that work hit so hard. I was a little wary coming into the book because I didn’t like The Grace of Kings, but enough people recommended it that I tried anyway and…

Add to this he probably refuses to practise. Because you know, Trump is really a very smart guy and he doesn’t need to practise. Practising is cheating, you don’t know how smart someone actually is if they practise because maybe at first they were bad at it and then they just did it a lot and got good at it so you…

The one that worked for me was DietBet - you bet on yourself to lose a % bodyweight in a specific timeframe. The amounts you win are pretty small (e.g. I bet $100 and got back $115) but the motivation of potentially losing that money is pretty effective.

Mmmmm.... I’ve got a wish he can make.

It’s definitely weird, but at least as an adult I don’t encounter toys on a day to day.

I have a legitimate phobia of stuffed animals. I’m gonna go ahead and vote “no” to ventriloquists making a pop culture comeback.

It might depend on the company. Lots of the male mid-level managers at my company have full sleeves and one has hand tattoos. He works with construction managers so maybe it works because it’s a bit less corporate? He and his team are very successful (top billers etc.). That said, he got the hand tattoo after he’d…

I starred this before reading it all and then scrolled up to try and star again. Many stars for you.

My mum said this to me when I got my first. “What about when you’re old?!?”

I’ve waited at least a year between idea and getting the tattoo for each of mine, and in both cases they percolated for a long time before that as well. That would probably be my main advice to people who want tattoos. Take your time. It will be there forever so who cares if you wait another six months to get it?

Yeah, I have a few tattoos and one of my hesitations on committing to a full sleeve is knowledge of the healing process and the care required to maintain them. I love the tattoos I have, and I love a well-executed sleeve, but I’m not sure it’s right for me. I think everyone would be well advised to a) see a four day…

Right? My boyfriend has twice been giving food with drugs in it without being told and I do not think it’s funny. Once it was his ex-girlfriend’s parents who thought it would be hilarious :| Another time he was hungry during a road trip (he wasn’t driving) and his friend said “Oh have a couple brownies” not mentioning…

Haha, Linjerry took me a minute. And it’s been ages since I had a good massidge.

Ugh. No. Do you pay a mortgazh? Put a sausazh in the garbazh? Then stop trying to make garazh happen. You can put the sausage in the garbage (although, actually, we would say rubbish) in the garage then go pay your mortgage. I’ve lived in Canada for 6 years and I have adapted a lot but I will never NEVER change how I…

I imagine there’s a big difference between urban/suburban/rural on this. I grew up in the city and didn’t get my license until I was 22 (I’m 31 now). I took the bus a lot, and I was walking distance to my high school (and then university), job, and most of my friends. A couple friends had their license and a car…

I really wanted La Llorona vs Baba Yaga, but then I don’t know who I’d vote for so Sirens winning this round is a point for Baba Yaga next time.

I first read this as Jon Lovitz and was... confused. (I didn’t know about them but it makes me happy. I just want all the Farrows to be happy and healthy and loved.)

Love these ideas. My #1 go to is a voucher for food delivery. Every location has a pizza place that delivers, and some food delivery services do gift cards. In Canada I often do Swiss Chalet. Not just for new parents - if someone is stressed, sick, or grieving, giving them the gift of “Just have someone show up at…

This book has been written. It’s called Beauty Queens, by Libba Bray and it’s hilarious. YMMV - it’s very unsubtle satire a la early Ben Elton, which I really enjoyed, but it’s not to everyone’s comedy taste.