More my son’s story than my own, but:

We spent many summers in Ontario to visit relatives, but the best story is my sister in Montreal.

This is not news. There has been a vomit inducing caterpillar living in Washington for the past four years. 

See my reply to FastAssGolf.

Where did your grandmother grow up? AFAIK, it’s mostly a New England/New York state thing, but not unheard of in Wisconsin/Minnesota either.

I didn’t know other people did this. My grandma always served sharp white cheddar with apple pie so I thought it was normal, but anytime visitors would come over or I’d visit somewhere else everyone was all “wtf are you talking about cheese with pie?”

In France, a slice of apple pie is a perfectly cromulent breakfast

I have been able to forgive the people around me for their failures here. My ex’s bad behavior was very subtle and hard to see as problematic from the outside. Oh this guy is sending you flowers and cupcakes and comes to my house and is super polite and pleasant in my presence? Oh wow, what an asshole! It took me a…

I had a relationship that ended in stalking behavior a few years back. I see so much of our dynamic in this couple - I was never as enthusiastic as he was, and he pursued me unrelentingly despite my ambivalence. The worst part of the experience was my friends and family framing his behavior as flattering and…

How is no one talking about the fact that Gen Z put Hershey’s on this list? That is some nasty-ass “chocolate”.

I knew someone who would adjust potluck food. The first time, someone told them it wasn’t cool as they had made the dish specifically tailored for someone else’s food allergy and the adjustment meant they couldn’t eat it.

I live in PA and spend a good chunk of time in Delaware, and I disagree with the choices for both states. It’s “PA Dutch” and “Amish,” and let me tell you: NO TO BOTH.

Lol!

That looks amazing.

From the way this story is told, I don’t see that MAGA-Karen used racist slurs, raised her voice, or otherwise created a disturbance.

Baumkuchen (baa mu kuu hen) is very popular in Japan. The story is pretty cool—it was introduced by a single person, a German immigrant named Karl Joseph Wilhelm Juchheim in the early 20th century.

This is a very good take.  To add a bit more: Bella said in an earlier episode that her whole life had been reactive.  She reacted rather than created, which in terms of her art really held her down.  As she tried to “solve” the conclusion of her book, she wrestled with this very issue: am I passively watching and…

I also noticed how when she confronts him in the bathroom stall he goes through all possible reactions - justification, minimising it, anger, threats, seduction, breakdown - while Bella basically passively watches. It made much more sense once I realised she was running possibilities in her head to see which one would…

Once I realised that those were just fantasies I also realised it was Bella trying to find the perfect ending for her book. The resolution Zain was talking about. The way she fiddles with her notes and post-its after each one before we reset. We were watching her creative process.

“After several paragraphs describing the studio in which they tracked the album, there’s one page outlining the album’s recording process, followed by a brief digression about the gear used to record it.”