Same - I read all the Xanth books as a kid and loved them, and then I re-read a bunch of them (plus the Incarnations of Immortality and the Apprentice Adept ones) as an adult and I was suuuuuuuper grossed out by his depictions of literally anything related to gender and sex, and now I’m concerned about how much that…

Allow me to share my favorite ladybug horror story with you: because they’re so great at controlling less desirable bugs, you can buy ladybugs in mass quantities. One year when I was younger, a town up the coast from us bought and released a bajillion ladybugs. Unfortunately, you can’t control where they’ll end up,…

My familiarity with Aldi comes from when I used to live in Ireland, so I always think of them as a place where I should be able to find Irish things, and then I’m always disappointed when I can’t get Battenberg there.

Is there any way to salvage a camera with sub-par manual focus capabilities? I just got a Fujifilm Finepix S1 and I’m finding the manual focus really.....bad. Like, you’re supposed to turn a wheel to manually focus the camera (and you can only use manual focus in certain modes), and sometimes I’ll find myself turning…

Mathan volunteers to help out with turkey scaring.

I don’t know how true it is, but there’s a story where I grew up that down in CT, they started to have a turkey problem (in the story, it’s because their hunting laws are too strict), so they introduced fishercats to control the turkeys, but then the fishercats just started eating everyone’s pet cats because they were…

Same - the chorus is giving me a Meghan Trainor vibe, but I don’t mind the rest of it.

Yeah, I was like, ‘who’s giving peace signs with the back of their hand facing out?’

Exactly what I was thinking: those are definitely wine charms.

Dibs on playing the miscellaneous rhythm instruments and shouting ‘oi!’ in the background!

I like your style. I have a toy poodle, and sometimes when I’m talking to someone I think, You self-important twat. If only you knew that if the building were on fire and I had to choose between saving you and saving my dog, I wouldn’t even have to think about it...and he’s 15 years old.

Thank you for this (even though you made me cry at work - then again, I probably should be working?). I’m 32, and it’s only been in the last year or so that I’ve started to suspect that I have body dysmorphia, and pretty much every sentence in this article could have been about me.

One time I saw a woman sitting outside at a cafe with one of those mini huskies. I went ‘awww, he’s adorable!’ and she said, in a completely flat, dead voice ‘you want him?’ I just thought to myself, no, I don’t want him, because I did a lot of breed research before I decided on my own dog and I know that a mini husky…

Ah! I have a story about this! I did a falconry session once and they had all kinds of different birds there, and the instructor was telling me that owls are actually really bad at it - because they’re stealth hunters, so if they think they’ve been spotted, they just won’t bother. He said one time this rich guy came…

This should help!

*Irish

I don’t know about all 24 cases, but I remember reading about one case where a girl fell asleep with the phone in her jeans pocket and it cracked and left a big red mark on her leg, so heat could definitely be part of it.

I’ll have you know that my snowglobe case has kept me awake and entertained through dozens of long, boring meetings.

Hands-down my favorite fish in the world. If this site turned into a full-time mola news network, I would sit here every day mashing F5 until there were more stories about these guys.

Biggest disappointment of my day :(