In short, I had other friends and spent time with them. She didn’t. Gee, I wonder why.

Long Island ain’t what it used to be.

I can’t find it on Netflix! I guess another reason to consider an Acorn subscription. Will this fill the hole in my heart left by ‘Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries’? On the plus side, looking this up taught me that she was Ron Swanson’s love interest/3rd wife on Parks and Rec, making that show even more amazing. 

I worked for a smallish organization where the CEO insisted on reviewing everything that went out and prided herself on her editing skills. She had a number of these bizarre “rules” and one of them was that the word “towards” was a “sloppy bastardization of toward. When I told her it actually had its roots in Old…

I have a relative who tells the same awful joke over and over to (or, really, at) servers in restaurants or catered events. It doesn’t matter that people don’t even pity laugh, he thinks it is hysterical and therefore must inflict it on everyone whenever possible. Any time he is missing a piece of cutlery, he will get…

I worked for a bakery that delivered to restaurants run by fancy French chefs and can verify it is true. I speak French so I promise none of the histrionics are just cultural misunderstandings.

All the “problems” he says reading ahead of time cause are problems I’ve literally never had or even considered. He sounds like an awful person to dine with.

Insurance companies use that definitions of infertility because is the medical definition of infertility (ie No viable pregnancies after 12 months of unprotected intercourse or after 6 months if the would-be mother is 35 or older.) Infertility is a diagnosis. Treatment for infertility can include a number of things in…

This assumes they are unsure of their fears and would look it up to verify.

Same, except my kid’s wisps were black. 

Eh, some people just won’t eat animals that can never be kosher and that’s how they do it. For me, there’s a lot of room within Judaism for variation both from one person to the next as well as the same person over time. I think that if we had “the one and only way to do things” Judaism would have disappeared…

Imitation meats are pretty popular in many Orthodox circles, not least because you can slap cheese on them and they’re easier to deal with in a kosher kitchen than meat. Also, kosher meat is expensive. You can also get “meaty” fake bacons made from turkey, beef, or duck.

It isn’t so they can go outside, it is so they can carry stuff with them outside on shabbat. 

There are 39 categories of work that are forbidden (https://www.ou.org/holidays/shabbat/the_thirty_nine_categories_of_sabbath_work_prohibited_by_law/). The thing is how those categories are translated both linguistically (originally discussed in Aramaic) and temporally (most of the rules relate to life in an agrarian…

This joke deserves more stars. 

The white woman felt plenty supported. That’s the way she behaved the way she did. 

Some people would genuinely not care or find it funny. It is really a know your situation question. I would have loved having one of my guests wearing a trex costume in our wedding. There are also many women who don’t want to be the center of attention.

There are also different ways of caring about a party. We cared about our reception because we wanted our guests to have fun after going to some dull “events” in the past. Especially because many guests had to travel a bit to get there because I have friends and family all over the place.

You know this woman would claim that she “doesn’t have a racist bone in her body” and in the same breath would talk about how “those people should show more gratitude and learn to fit in.” Yes, this is despite what I understand to be a huge BBQ/grilling culture in Australia. 

Why do I get the feeling that all of their writers are [mis]classified as contractors? You can’t just declare someone a contractor because it is more convenient for the company.