As someone with an annoyingly nasal voice myself, I can assure you that this was not the problem. The mom was seated 3-4 rows ahead of her children, and was practically shouting to make sure that her kids could hear the story. The rest of the cabin was hushed and dark, as the flight was delayed and ended up taking off…

Omg, I forgot to add that before this mother "put her kids to bed," she fought with the little boy. She insisted that he take his shoes off to air out the "fungus." He refused. She won. I SHIT YOU NOT.

Haha. I'm 5 months pregnant with my first, and I was wondering the whole time, "Oh no, am I going to turn into a self-absorbed monster in 4 months?" Glad to know that's not a guarantee!

Oh man, I am the worst at figuring out when someone is flirting with me. Can we all use this post to share awkward, oblivious "was he flirting?" stories? I'll start.This one isn't that mortifying, but it caused me a lot of anxiety. My husband and I just moved to a new city for my new job. I was waiting in line at a…

HA! I'm fine with kids flying, but some parents should be banned. On a recent evening flight, a mother was seated several rows ahead of her two children. She wanted to read them a bedtime story to put them to sleep. So she proceeded to VERY LOUDLY read a children's chapter book in that slow, purposeful read-aloud…

That may be true, but I don't see why a flight attendant couldn't have brought over some paper towels for the mom to clean up the mess. The mom wanted to get up to get materials to dry off her daughter, and the flight attendants and pilot threatened to go nuclear rather on her rather than just helping. I don't see how…

From the baby's size and age alone, I bet the mom had gestational diabetes. This would have gone untreated, since she didn't know she was pregnant, and that could explain how the child's weight got so out of control.

For those of you who think it's impossible to not realize you're pregnant, this is a great article. It really made the surprise-pregnancy phenomenon sound scarily possible and terrifyingly realistic: http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to…

Cars have purposes other than killing people, but we still require people to be trained and licensed before they get behind the wheel.

Ugh, stop. You're arguing over terminology. Master's degrees take 1-2 years. Law school takes 3. Med school takes 4. PhDs take 5 years at the very least, but more commonly 7-8.

But do you think we should have tighter gun restrictions? If you support gun control, you should also support licensing to own a pitbull. In both cases, it's not the gun/animal that's responsible for fatalities, but the owner. The vast majority of guns, just like the vast majority of pitbulls, don't kill people. The…

Okay, but I really think you're confusing Budweiser and Bud Light. Bud Light tastes like "carbonated urine." But Budweiser is really not bad for a cheap beer. At least it's got real flavor. I just tasted one yesterday to make sure I'm not crazy, so you should trust me on this.

It's actually a really fascinating and complicated legal and cultural question about the meaning of authenticity. Anheuser-Busch was founded by a German immigrant to the United States, and his Budweiser was inspired by the his visits to breweries in Budweis back in his homeland. So the story is more complicated than…

Actually, I would really, really like you to set up this taste test for an article. Let's stand up for Budweiser, the drink of working class Americans! Bud drinkers are more likely to be Democrats, after all. And Budweiser is sorely under-appreciated by beer snobs. I hope that you, the one who ranks lists of other…

Except Tsingtao isn't a rice beer. It's a pilsner.

"Real" Budweiser ... except that American Budweiser was invented first. :)

Can someone explain this? I understand why beer enthusiasts would look down on Budweiser. It's bland. It has no character. It's watery.

Err, I don't think so. The quote reads: "Don't you understand how horrified I am? I'm a 20-year-old from Upper Arlington. I don't know what you deal with every day, but the kind of sympathy you have is zero."

No, the problem with the Upper Arlington comment is that it makes the victim look like she wanted special treatment because she's rich. As though rape victims from Columbus are completely unfazed.

Like, "OH, you're from Upper Arlington? Why didn't you say that sooner? Let me start over."