Well, that’s not totally fair. Zinc/titanium oxide sunscreens are often better at preventing burns than avobenzone/oxybenzone sunscreens.

The white means it’s working, dummies! I’m a swimmer, and I use a physical sunblock with titanium dioxide/zinc oxide on my face and shoulders because it’s the only thing that prevents me from burning when I’m swimming for an hour+. With those sunscreens, you don’t want to use so little or rub it in so much that you…

My biggest issue with this is the lady that started her tweet with “no offense”. Like, first of all, you are condemning this product so you do definitely mean some offense. And I also hate people who use “no offense” as a way to say super offensive things and be indemnified against the super offensive things they’re…

Normally I don’t really get pulled into the whole celeb coupling thing. For reasons yet unbeknownst to me I really want this to happen. Seriously I’m responding on an intuitive level and I have no conceptual justification for my backing of the potential love between Drake and Serena. It just feels right.

It’s great when you’re able to dish out justice against those people. Came across an F150 while driving my BMW, so I guess it was the opposite of the situation in the article. He was none too pleased when he came out to his truck. My car was fully in the lines too!

Let me preface that I am 6’8” and about 280lbs, so airplane seating is already terrible for me. The best option for me is either bulk head or exit row and it seems those are always occupied with diminutive people who really don’t think about others much. So, my philosophy is this for a crowded flight: Embrace the…

In that case, I’ll just chalk it up as a reward for showering regularly and continuing to dress like a respectable human being even when flying.

Deployed this technique yesterday on my 2nd leg from midway to Ontario. Saw a giant guy sitting in the aisle seat, asked for the window. There were literally 3 open seats on the plane and our center seat was one of them. I also try to look as pissed off as possible while people are walking by.

You were still drunk when you wrote this, you were. Reading it anyway.

I have never before been rendered apoplectic with rage by a “straw”. The proverbial back breaker, I guess.

Eh, I think it brings up the concept of where someone’s rights as parents cross over to someone else’s rights. It is a private event, but it also a space we all agree to share (as one does when you choose to fly on a commercial airline). One of the concepts of Burning Man is radical self-reliance. If you bring your…

I was once in the back row middle seat and my flight had been delayed. I was at the time a grunt at my job and had to work since I’d missed a bunch of time with the delayed flight. So, I had my laptop out. The woman in front of my not only put her seat back WHILE WE WERE STILL TAKING OFF, but proceeded to bounce…

I don’t even think “babies in arms” should be a thing thats allowed. You bring your car seat and buy another ticket. I have yet to see a baby or toddler actually sit on a parent’s lap without them kicking, grabbing, or otherwise bothering the poor person next to them. If the kid had their own seat, the parent could at…

We get compliments from other passengers about our kid, so no, this isn’t the case. We take the kid to visit his elderly grandparents and to Disney World, so I’m quite positive that he’s fine sitting in a seat watching a movie for 2 hours in order to see Mickey Mouse and his grandparents.

Nobody should fly with their fucking children because, duh, children should not be fucking at all.

I don’t know, my vacations aren’t frivolous. I NEED them.

My Mom used to drug us all the time. I swear it’s why I can’t remember half of my childhood.

When my teenaged boys were babies, back in the early days of Internet Complaining (1997—2003), things were different. What changed between now and then was not an increase in germs or a bend in the physical boundaries of airplanes, but a rise in the paranoia around flying and the increasingly infuriating experience…

Crying children irritate me just as much as the next person, but the last time I checked, this is goddamn America, and I recognize your right to be on that plane, same as me. Having a child doesn’t mean you have to stop living your life and limiting where you go because your child might, I dunno, ACT LIKE WE ALL DID…

I took our 2 and 3 year old on a flight from Vancouver to Hawaii. It was OK going there with the expected amount of boredom and a bit of loudness, but they were generally polite and did puzzles on the iPad. On the way back, though, I knew we were in trouble when the plane started down the runway and my 2 year old…