I was thinking the same thing! (That, and how appropriate / funny it is that the Queen is wearing a corgi sweater). I was leaning towards real just because they’re so lifelike compared to the statues, and apparently they are real.

My thoughts exactly. Time’s Person of the Year isn’t necessarily “good person of the year”, after all. They’ve not only named Hitler as POTY, but also Nixon (twice!), Putin, and Ken freaking Starr. Hardly august company, IMHO.

I was thinking about doing this for my brother and my aunt, actually. (I got them both small gifts but am really stumped otherwise.) I’m 95% sure that my brother will love it, as he’s gone that route before with an ex of his. My aunt, though...she might just smile and lie about liking it. Although, if I make a…

I’m a lamb as well - or at least lamb-ish - and I couldn’t finish the ep. I watched about 40 minutes and then my eyes started to glaze over and I started to slump sideways (I sort of ended up sitting the way she was, albeit much less fabulously and not in a chaise lounge).

Hahahaha, yeah, some of us Quebeckers take our maple syrup seriously. That said, I personally cannot tell the difference between Quebec syrup and the stuff from Vermont / Maine. It all tastes amazing, and I will gladly stash away cans and cans of the stuff.

I love this thread, I’m probably going to spend way too long coming up with examples to use myself. (EG I make really good scrambled eggs so I should be Secretary of Agriculture.)

I was debating not going to our office party this year - it’s on a Friday, at least - because in the ten years I’ve been with my company I’ve only missed one, and that was due to my mom having had freaking brain surgery two weeks prior. I figured I’d be okay to skip this one.

ITA with you, and it’s kind of sad when you realize how common it is. I myself had a friend from high school who I considered my quasi-sister; we went on vacations together, had birthdays and Christmas celebrations together, and so on. It was only recently - after looking back at the way she treated me - that I…

My brother is quite conservative and I’m so not (we’re Canadian but it’d basically be the equivalent of him being Republican and me Democrat) and even he knows Breitbart to be a complete shit-pile. We agree to disagree on a lot of things - though thankfully he’s not a rabid pro-lifer or I’d have serious issues buying…

Though I’m Canadian, my grandmother was born in Ohio and would have been 103 this year (sadly, she died young so I never knew her, but my 71 year old mom has told me some nice stories).

It is so sad I am actually sitting here crying for this poor girl. I was (sort of) in a similar situation when I was young...curly hair, bad teeth, etc. I can still remember the horrible things some kids used to say to me in school - one of which was a little poem written by a boy that read “Don’t be sad, don’t be…

I’m definitely curious to read Mr. Splitfoot now, I think I’ll add it to my “books to buy” list tonight.

Even if I wasn’t too lazy (which I totally am), all I can think about is the overall potential for disaster. How does it even stay in place? Like if I got hit by a rogue wave, would labia pop out?

I’ve seen their posts on a few other threads this afternoon and I flag them. Hopefully the account will be banned before long.

I do it too, and I get 2 out of 10 right if I’m having a good day. I am very bad at this whole thing...I need to work on my shade game, I suppose.

I recently finished Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, which I really enjoyed, and this weekend I hope to start Jonas Jonasson’s The girl who saved the king of Sweden.

I’ve lived my whole life in and around Montreal and yes, the drivers are insane. I walk almost everywhere I need to go, and I cannot even count how many times I’ve come within a few inches of being smeared across the pavement. One driver even ran a red light in order to make a left-hand turn; he was so close I could…

Holy crap (no pun intended), I would freak the hell out if that happened to me. I’ve had people come up and talk to me when I was wearing earbuds - apparently they’re not really a deterrent where I live now, because it’s happened twice in two months - but if someone actually touched them / touched me I would lose it.

Yep, I’m right there with you. I can’t remember the last time I posted a thing on Twitter but it sometimes can be helpful. I saw a pic yesterday on the news of a Tweet that summed things up brilliantly:

What really has me shaking my head is they even say “victory and medals are not the only goal...” but then proceed to trash these two for proving that exact point. I guess if they didn’t win they were supposed to burst into tears and throw a fit, or something?