How to solve the gun problem:

You almost tricked me into watching a Justin Timberlake video. Well played. Take your spot in the rickroll hall of fame

It’s hard work being that sexy, I assume.

Because he’s nervous AF? I found it endearing

This isn’t an excuse, just a possible explanation: that the reporter had someone higher up the food chain telling her to do this.

Three armed veterans...with PTSD and bad healthcare...

I went to school during that golden era after nuclear bomb drills ended, but before mass shooting drills became a thing. All we had to worry about were tornados.

‘I was busy with projects and homework. I’m a student, not a president.’

Really amazed at Aidan’s self-awareness and composure for a 14 year old, considering he nearly died this morning and now his life is under intense media pressure and exposure.

Sadly, I think they already are commonplace in most schools.

Do not know if this is true, but I read yesterday, that kids from Marjory Stoneman High were tweeting as the shooting and lock down was going on. And kids from other high schools with past shootings were replying to them telling them what to do - telling them places they had hid to survive, how they got out of their…

he was BORING?! because he wanted to snuggle carrie and go to his cabin and build furniture?! he never cheated on her or treated her badly. UGH I HATE THE “AIDAN WAS BORING” THING

That’s why a friend puts a combination lock on let’s say the handle of a teapot and only tells the person the combination after the other person has sent a picture that proves that the item arrived intact.

True story - I had a pair of Bean boots from probably 2007. They lasted FOR-EV-ER! But, ultimately, the metal on the zipper disintegrated leaving them unusable. I brought them back to LL Bean last year - that’s right, a decade after I bought them - and they replaced them with a brand new, equivalent pair. No questions…

Yeah, until the policy changes, it’s not worth the hassle and stress for a retail employee to push back on these idiots.

Every August my parents would take me to the flagship store in Freeport so I could turn in last year’s backpack for a new one. Every single year from grades 3-12, I turned in a perfectly fine LL Bean backpack for a new one.

I was part of the problem.

I remember a couple of years back on This American Life a producer did a segment on the return policy. While she was there there was an elderly man that came in with a shirt he bought 20 years ago that had holes in the arm pits. He brought the shirt in simply so that he could get as close a match as possible to the…

“interpreting the guarantee as a lifetime product replacement program, and that was never its intent”

My Uncle did the boot thing at a different store, buying one pair and returning it every few years. In his version of the story, he was the hero, the store the villain, and he was pissed “This is the 4th time I’ve returned these boots and this pair barely lasted 2 years!”