People have been worrying pretty hard about the $15/hr wage that Alberta will be implementing in a couple of years. Right now, it’s $10.20 ($9.20 for those who serve liquor). It’s going up $1 in October (liquor servers will be brought into the regular fold to make a flat wage), and then increasing until it’s $15 by…

I was in barracks over a summer. Nope. I didn’t get over it. Nor did I get over it when I was in camps. Or camping. Or any of it. Or when I was post-surgery and the nurse was in the bathroom with me asking why I wasn’t peeing when I hadn’t in most of a day.

I just can’t. It physically does not work.

Try being a celiac and having accidentally eaten some salad that had KFC crumbs on it. Now imagine the normal sounds your body makes when that happens. Now imagine the protest signs my intestines made. And then imagine the office loudmouth being in the bathroom putting on makeup.

My brother’s mastiff didn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to spoon on the sofa or in bed. So he did anyway. My brother’s GF would come home and find the two of them asleep on the sofa together spooning...frequently. That dog was an aggressive cuddler. Poor thing only lived to be 5 :(

My shoulders were one giant crust that would ooze and break if I moved. I had to wear a satin camisole underneath my clothes because I couldn’t even handle cotton.

I got at least 2nd degree burns for sure as a teenager. I had one burn that took 3 weeks to heal enough to wear a bra. I have permanent damage to that part of my shoulders and neck (after 5 minutes in the sun, you can clearly see where my burn previously was).

I never went to a doctor; my mother didn’t believe in…

(eek! Had to edit my post. Made a big typo lol)

I can’t believe your post even needs to be said, but clearly it does...

Thanks. I’ll give it a try. I also might try with a chickpea mix I make because I really like chickpea flour because I’ve lost all of my taste buds and have no joy in my life now ;)

Short answer: She went there.

Oh that sounds great if you have the recipe to share!

It’s $20 a bag here; I’ve never picked it up because I was afraid it wasn’t any good. So it’s OK for things like pita and flatbread?

and your popcorn always smells like that microwaved fish...and the popcorn smell.

As he once famously said, it’s hard kissing a woman who smells of vomit all of the time.

My doctor does a theme year. One year, everyone got free tetanus shots. The next, pneumonia shots. One year, she made everyone get tested for STDs who came into her office (doesn’t cost anything). It’s just kinda funny thinking about it. How does she decide what her theme will be each year? Is it like at Christmas…

I’m from Newfoundland. Shoot the goddamn moose if you want to. But we all eat the moose meat. We shoot them mostly because a) there is a huge poor population in Newfoundland that relies on the meat during the winter months and b) there are so many moose that it is so fucking dangerous on the roads. A moose isn’t a…

You didn’t know, though. And it sounds like he kept it from his patients. Why didn’t he have photos of him and his kills all over the office? Shouldn’t he be proud to show what he did?

I haven’t have the pita chips (and GF pita tastes like sawdust), so I have the lentil chips or these puffed quinoa chips instead.

It was a phase. A very dark phase...

I did a stint as a rape apologist, MRA troll on a vegetarian website in the early 2000s. It was a dark dark time...I wish I could go back. and I wasn’t even a teenager. Just an idiot.