That rabbit comment had me wanting to hang out with Rosie so badly. 

Going from 1 kid to 2 kids means you’ll constantly feel like you’re shortchanging both of them. 

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. 

My pug has had reactions to vaccines like you’ve described so the vet gives her a shot of benedryl first and everything is fine. That said, one of the diseases in the multi shot is really common in my area and treatment is far worse than a benedryl shot.

We had pet insurance for a year and they did all sorts of gymnastics to get out of paying anything at all. Then wanted to raise our rates 30% for the second year because “vet costs in your area have gone up”. Since we’d had to pay everything out of pocket anyways, we knew that was untrue. It turned out we’d be miles…

I’m part of a pug lovers group and there are a few (very vocal) people who are anti-vaxxers. They’re certain that vets just give vaccines to make a profit off them. That there’s some HUGE markup on dog vaccines going on. One likes to constantly complain that a vet charged her money for providing care (!) and another…