It also depends on the tea. There are several herbal and a few black teas (Marks & Spencers Luxury Gold and Dilmah Blackcurrant, provided I use milk and sugar) where I can just leave the bag in and still get a drinkable cup. Most, however, get unpleasantly bitter or sometimes even fishy after too long a steep. In…

No no no no, alcohol is good for America. Because reasons. Reasons that have nothing to do with white people being the ones who have historically gotten rich off it.

Until this very moment I had no idea there were people who brush their teeth in the shower. Someone please explain. If you brush your teeth for two minutes do you leave the water running? Where do you store your toothbrush? Where do you floss? How do you spit without getting it on you?

Until this very moment I had no idea there were people who brush their teeth in the shower. Someone please explain.…

yeah I got a few seconds in and was like “hey! no fat jokes! Maybe this’ll be oka...oh”

I would buy that eyeshadow palette.

Eucerin, definitely. There’s an anti-redness version (it’s labeled differently in the US than it is where I live, but it should say soothing or anti-redness on it). I’ve had too much experience with loved ones with cancer and this has been a go-to. Also, it’s cheap and non-girly, if that’s important to your dad. Good…

Clover, could you do me —and the rest of the folks who live in the developing world— a solid and come up with something other than “first world problem” to describe a minimal inconvenience (I’ve heard the phrase “champagne problem” used ftr)? We have Netflix and lowkey-problems too. I know you’re cool so you probably…

I love you.

Dye. If you notice, Trump’s hair is getting lighter/whiter too. It’s a classic move to appear more like a trustworthy elder statesman. Bill Clinton went with the slightly more natural looking progression before he went fully gray naturally. Rick Perry is still working those gray temples (and his Smart Person Reading…

Posh Spice.

There’s an established history of footballers being knighted, and honestly after all the work he did campaigning to get London the Olympics -and then didn’t even get a courtesy place on Team Britain though he hadn’t yet retired which was cold af- and all his charity work, not to mention his career achievements…

Meanwhile Texas is like “Hold my beer.”

It’s the opposite for me. Cost Plus sounds so ungainly. It’s always been World Market to me. World Market: Your #1 stateside destination for discount marzipan pigs.

As for finding a stylist, I’ve had great luck by calling the best hotel in town and asking their concierge, telling them that I’ve heard they know where to find the best of everything (because they do) and then asking for a rec. If you want to embellish instead of flatter “I’m going to be coming in for a wedding in…

Baker here, basically any drop cookie (e.g., standard chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookie) you’d be fine just plopping them in there because they have enough liquid to spread. For formed cookies (e.g., standard peanut butter cookies), rolled cookies (e.g., sugar cookies) or refrigerated doughs you’d want to…

Oops, my reading comprehension isn’t great. If the catalog launched in 1962 then 61 is out of the question, so either this is 62 or pre-assassination 63.

If it’s a Christmas catalog it’s pretty much gotta be from 61 or 1962 right? Or maaaybe 63 if it was sent out in early November. One of the ads says it has all of the presidents from Washington to Kennedy, but Kennedy only had two Christmases as POTUS.

I already have straight jackets for my legs. They’re called pants and at no time are they welcome on my person during leisure hours.

Finally! Because they were so tired of being subtle about it. (laughsob)

speaking of South of the Border, Mexico has had a woman (Frida, of course) *and* her work on the 500 peso note—the largest denomination commonly in circulation— since 2010.