Good to know.

Yeah, I wish I’d had a little sister like that growing up. She’s SO vicariously happy just anticipating how happy her sister is going to be that she can’t even contain herself. That’s just so lovely.

I do find it funny how many people will simultaneously complain about Trump being crazy and unhinged and Kaine being boring. VP Goldilocks 2020? Just. People are going to complain. That’s what the internet is for now.

You don’t even need to boil them, just soak/rinse them off well. I’ve found this is actually the key for “oven fries” that are almost as crispy and tasty as deep-fried. Cut the potatoes, rinse them a few times and then continue to soak them in water while the oven preheats, then drain, dry on a towel, toss with salt…

I sent back fries once. They were literally charred black. I NEVER send back food. I never did before that, and haven’t since, but I have no idea what the fuck was going on with the kitchen and wait staff that they piled what looked like the remnants of a campfire on a plate, and thought, “yup. A human being will eat…

In my years working a bunch of different jobs, I have actually noticed one particular breed of business person who prefers to hire people with no, or very little experience, for two very specific reasons, mostly relating to them being raging narcissists. First, they think they know better than anyone else how to run a…

That’s an interesting take. I’m from a working class background and that sort of thing really rubs me the wrong way. Since moving away from my hometown and attending graduate school I have made friends who grew up far more privileged than I did and don’t realize my background and in particular I’ve grown very annoyed…

I watched a few episodes last night and so far I both can and cannot see the appeal. It’s funny, but I totally see what you’re saying. Perhaps it’s just realism in showing how flawed people are, but so far every character seems like a weird caricature who is either an asshole, pathologically hapless, or both. Only…

Obviously Mulan shouldn’t be played by a white woman. That shit is stupid.

I’ll definitely watch dumb and crappy TV, it just has to be a certain sort of crappy. So much stuff now is, or quickly becomes, cringeworthy awful. I get particularly annoyed when I dedicate the time to watch a season or three of something that starts out fine and it degrades into a pile of steaming dog shit/regularly…

As a non-American who wasn’t alive during the JFK era I gotta say I keep seeing shit about that family and I just want to scream at the US - GET OVER IT! Seriously - JRK was assassinated over 50 years ago now. Can we give it a rest and make movies about something else?

I wasn’t looking for permission - I just hate wasting the time watching things that turn out to be shite, and there are so many shows teenagers enjoy that are just eye rollingly horrendous when viewed as an adult. And some that aren’t. Just curious whether this was the prior or latter, and it looks like plenty of…

Thank you for your honesty!

I’m not a mom, but I suspect I will have a similar reaction to you. I do thank Tina Fey/Mean Girls for making us collectively question the “cool mom” thing a bit.

That is super interesting.

Every single component of his signature look (makeup, hair, clothes, facial expressions) is an illustration of how poor his judgment is and how he’s one of those leaders who has no one in his inner circle who will speak-truth-to-power and point it out when he’s making bad decisions.

Question: If I missed it the first time around, is this a show that is still worth watching for an intelligent adult woman, or do people still talk about it mostly for nostalgia’s sake? I’m in my mid-30s and never watched Gilmore Girls when it was on because my sister was a big fan and her being a fan tended to be a…

Somehow, more than anything I’ve ever heard about him, the fact that he thinks he’s LESS likely to get food poisoning from fast food than other sources is the best illustration of just how fully and completely he misunderstands the world we live in.

I only ever won one game against my sister growing up, and that was accidental. Every single time we played a board game, once it became clear that I was going to win, she flipped the board and threw a tantrum. The only time I ever beat her at anything was badminton, on a fluke. She flew into a rage and gave me a…

I can’t help but wonder if Pence has possibly adopted an approach of actually avoiding and ignoring his running mate in order to be able to convincingly play his surrogate role - plausible deniability and all. Most of the things Trump says are completely unbelievable, and his supporters aren’t much for fact-checking,…