You have to hide the pill inside a piece of steak. Works every time*.

My area of Cubeville has some sort of trailing plant that I think is a philodendron. (I can’t take pictures at work and “darn it Jim we’re engineers not botanists” so that makes identification a bit more complicated.) But that thing will not die. It’s been left in the dark for weeks at a time, over watered, under water…

My kids are all grown now.  This is the best parenting hack I ever pulled off.  When kids first start taking meds, they usually can’t get a pill down easily.  I went to the store and bought a tube of mini M&Ms and a bag of M&Ms for each kid.  Then I gave them a handful of mini’s and told them to eat them.  Then I gave…

The city that the Vimes books are set in (Ankh Morpork) is a very ‘New York in the 80s, except with Dwarves and Trolls and the like’ .

You’ll likely be paying back more than the 100 dollars the cheap boots would have cost you. And if you can’t pay it back after paying the Thieves Guild to not steal the cash you just paid them then the lender will come by and save you money in the future by ensuring that you no longer need to buy boots anymore. Or sock…

The part about banks and credit cards reminds be of another fact.

I have thought about the Vimes Boots Theory a lot - since even before it became a meme. It really is true, and if you look, you see it everywhere.

Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that a lot of kids are going to see their parents cry for the first time watching this?

“I believe in Meowpheus!”

The post-credits scene perfectly encapsulates the sense of disappointment that you’ll get from watching this movie. The post-credits scene was meant to poke fun at the self-referential nature of the movie; it succeeds, but in absolutely the wrong way. It just further solidifies the feeling that this movie actively…

I don’t even see the code. All I see is Siamese, calico, tabby...

“Watch out, Meo! It’s Agent Whiskers!”

Lube can be a safety issue, 100%. And I don’t think most teenagers take into account how their parents feel about them having sex before they choose to have sex--it was certainly irrelevant to my decision. 

I mean for older teens there are parents who are genuinely OK with their kid having sex rather than “I’d rather you not, but be safe if you must”. So that’s one consideration. Also, lube can decrease the chances of condom breakage, so there’s that. Can also be used solo, which any reasonable parent should be OK with…

LOL this I worked at a gas station and had a young kid probably late teens come in and buy some condoms, I was like anything else he kind of freaked out and was said kind of loudly their condoms and quickly snatched them off the counter and jammed them in his pocket. I laughed so hard when he left. Like dude why be…

I don’t have a pic, but my costume strikes terror into the hearts of neighbors. I grab a clipboard and a measuring tape. I ring doorbells and tell whoever answers that I’m the tax assessor.

Sexy pumpkin head. It was really, really dark, and I had a headlamp sticking out of the mouth of the pumpkin shining on a huge bowl of candy and I sat really still, and when people came up I sat up and offered them the bowl and quite a few people got super freaked out. I didn’t do it to little kids, but at least one…

Kudos for not making this a slideshow. I was totally expecting it to be and opened the link in a new window for resizing. You got me, and I’m happy for it.

Man, this is a tough one. I totally agree with you; sadly, I’ve started doing more of this since the pandemic started. It’s entirely my fault and my problem to fix, not making excuses, it’s just so exciting talking to people in person when we do see them that I find myself stepping on other people’s sentences and it’s…

Seriously, this is horseshit. It’s SOP for banks to explain to a customer why they can’t release money, or what steps the customer needs to follow, like an ID or filling out a disclosure form. If the teller was uncomfortable because she thought there was a red flag, the proper thing to do would have been to alert a…