How does the tub help with that? My problem is that I drop the dishes while I’m washing or rinsing them (at which point they are not in the tub...unless I’m doing it wrong).

A comforter is essentially a duvet without a replaceable cover. A duvet is essentially a plain comforter (sometimes made with somewhat lighter fabric).

I use a duvet cover on my comforter, because I love the idea of a duvet cover but I already had a comforter. It’s a little heavier (because the fabric on the comforter…

The fan on the air conditioner switching on and off wakes me up, so I always have it set to “low” instead of “auto” when I sleep.

A tablet, on the other hand, is at least as effective as paper. If you speak in public frequently, it’s worth learning how to do. There are even apps designed like teleprompters!

I’ve probably saved a small forest since switching from paper to my Kindle Fire. I certainly have cut down on the amount of random paper…

Ah, but then they couldn’t add it to their U.S. lists. Or their Pennsylvania lists. Or there whatever-county-it-was lists.

All of these are things that (some) birders keep track of. It’s weird, but is it any weirder than fantasy football?

Have you been to South Africa? It’s not that white. But if you’ve mostly been to areas that cater to European tourists, it would be easy to get the impression that it is.

FYI, there are two main groups of white South Africans: people of British descent, who tend to speak English, and people of Dutch descent, who tend…

From their comments it sounds like it isn’t so much sewed onto the cloth body as part of the cloth body.

I must admit it’s hard to be that concerned about all the terribly upset children who have a whole collection of these dolls. These are still extremely expensive dolls.

...yes, yes, I am absolutely bitter because I never got one. None of my friends even aspired to have more than one.

From the perspective of the caller, this is a terrible idea. How am I supposed to know if you want me to text you or email you instead? How do you know I even have your email address?

All I know if it just keeps ringing is that you’re not answering the phone. You might as well not have a phone at that point.

This works! The big key is to try to fast ~10-12 hours before “breakfast” in the new time zone (because usually you don’t eat overnight). The fast resets your eating schedule. I don’t really sleep on airplanes, so the tips that involve sleeping don’t help me at all, but this made a big difference.

On my last…

I like to tell people “Happy Advent”. It baffles everyone almost equally.

What is especially idiotic is that even if you only acknowledge Christian holidays, there are like 42 gazillion different Christian holidays in December and early January.

Did they change anything else about the source material? Because from where I stand, the argument from the source material only works at all if they are 100% faithful to the source material. No changes, period. (No additions, either.)

If they are allowed to change other things (e.g. racism), then they are allowed to…

If there were any attempt to make any of the rest of it even remotely historically accurate, this argument might have some merit.

My suspicion is that they realize that no one is really paying any attention, so they can do whatever they want.

I would be more inclined to believe that the use of the water cannons was necessary if they hadn’t denied using any water cannons until they saw there was photographic proof.

FWIW, you can probably drop the spoiler alerts. At this point, anyone who hasn’t watched the show is not going to be able to follow the discussion well enough for anything to be spoiled.

Well, technically, if you believe that abortion is a sin, you also probably believe that lying is a sin (and frankly the Bible is a lot more clear about that than about abortion). And all sins are equal, right?

So, if you lie and tell him you had an abortion, that sort of cancels out with the abortion you did not…

It does kind of feel like, “Breaking News: The Pope is Still Catholic!!!!”.

Does anybody else remember that vampire show by this title that came out juuuuuust before vampires became trendy?