This is absolutely sickening.

I think one of the most insane things about these types of coats is that often people are wearing them to work/school. Where they’re going to be inside, carting around a giant coat all day. It’s one thing if you’re in a job that keeps you outdoors and exposed to the elements for long periods of time, or if you’re…

I did Great Lakes winters for two decades so no-snow coastal Scotland was practically balmy as far as I was concerned, haha. I’m not saying winter isn’t, you know, cold, but it’s not Northern Canada cold by any stretch. Like, you can definitely be just fine in regular coats rather than full on $1200 parkas made for…

You’re spot on with this. Tons of rich kids wore them beginning in November at university in Scotland, where we were lucky to see snow once a year (costal climates for the win). Having grown up in the midwest, I could not fathom why they felt parkas were necessary in a tiny town where at most you were walking 15…

Deeply biased take from someone who went to uni where these were ubiquitous: nowhere in Northern England is cold enough to actually necessitate one of these parkas. Especially if you’re only walking about town and not just standing out in a field from dawn to dusk.

Be there, or be strung up in the square!

Hahahahahha just wait until you’ve been driving through corn for 4 hours on the interstate and hit a bunch of “god is real” “you’ll burn in hell” billboards, those have a certain sort of ‘what kind of gothic Midwest curse did I just cross into’ charm.

Counterpoint: she’s a Coastal Elite and Hollywood A-lister, they hate those.

My friend and I look forward to Oprah’s list every year because it’s so fun to ridicule but doesn’t throw itself over the ‘eat the rich’ line. This isn’t even fun to make fun of, it just makes me want to go out and burn things.

I literally left the room at family Easter when I found out about this, and that was 7 years ago. It’s not a coincidence that I’ve gone to an average of 1 family event/year for that side of the family since then.

People in rural communities also tend to have more kids, and kids tend to hold the same views as their parents. My parents were both from a rural county, and I have aunts/uncles/cousins who still live there. My mom was one of 7, my dad one of 8. I have something like 35 first cousins between the two of them. So you…

As an Ohio native, I’ve been really surprised by how much more extreme/religious people seem to have gotten on this issue. Maybe that’s in part due to me growing up/moving and then returning, but it’s honestly starting to feel like indoctrination in rural communities. All the rural (public) schools my cousins went to…

Michelangelo was the most extra bitch of the Renaissance and we love him for it.

True. My reaction is usually in the vein of saying “you dumb fucking idiots!” though so he’s definitely doing better than me.

I still think all the time about that episode last year where none of the contestants, including a Naval officer who served in the Gulf, got the Iran geography question right. How he doesn’t completely lose it when the contestants all fuck up in a spectacular way is beyond my comprehension.

SAME! Obviously not for class year, but I lived up on A floor there my first year. You were there at an interesting time, I’m a bit jealous. 

That’s so cool that there are modern practical applications for chain mail! I had no idea!

I wonder why this is. (Genuinely!) Nut allergies seem to be pretty common, and severe, as well as allergies to bee stings and shellfish. But those seem to be the only ones regularly thrown around as causing near-imminent death.

I watched the trailer when it came out and just...couldn’t with the accent. I lived in Scotland for four years and wow, I can now really see why the Scots get irate about such things, it sounds so fundamentally Wrong to the ear.

lolol our (Scottish) university had a tradition of running into the North Sea every May as a pre-exam ritual (clothing optional). Cannot fucking imagine doing multiple shots of this in a loch, he must have been fucking freezing.