You know, the best way to truly stick it to her is to find out what school her kid attends, and then volunteer to be a guest speaker where you share your experiences being bullied in 8th grade, and how you were able to overcome them to have this glamorous life. Give specific examples without naming names, imagining…

NAILED IT.

My thoughts exactly.

Yuh-huh. Almost as believable as the "don't run, we are your friends" scene from Mars Attacks.

The points that you raise are valid, but I'd argue that (1) the U.S. has a very different system of legal precedents and jurisprudence than do the constitutional monarchies that have recently limited legal names, so those instances don't strike me as justification for doing that here, and (2) this kind of…

"the religious name was earned by one person and "that one person is Jesus Christ."

So we're back in a U.S. where the names of people of color can be arbitrarily changed by white folk in power. Let's party like it's 1799!

No, they do use whole potatoes. I've had them in Peru and brought them back from trips (they don't count as fresh produce by that point), and they're perfect little spheres. I'm not quite sure how the shape is preserved nowadays, but traditionally the water is pressed out by people gently walking on them.

I don't think that calling someone fat as a shaming device is cool, but seriously. This corpulent chunk of ass-cheese is talking shit about someone else's weight in a non-commiserative context?

Is that ignorant fuck calling me fat? <sigh> Ain't. Nobody. Got. Time. For. This.

Actually, that can work like a dream as long as you follow it up with a few more steps (I just posted a link to steps for making Peruvian chunos, which are freeze-dried potatoes and last for freaking ever).

You can actually "freeze-dry" potatoes by letting them freeze and then thaw, and then pressing the water out of them. I've never done it myself, but Peruvians and Bolivians have been doing it for millenia, and once all the moisture is gone, they'll pretty much last forever.

Yep, that's exactly it.

It's referred to among Atlanta Braves fans as the Tomahawk Chop, and it's done at pretty much every home game they have, set to this music that sounds like it's straight out of an old John Wayne "Injun" style movie. There are probably clips on you tube that you can watch, it's a back-and-forth motion and it's…

I've only ever heard it referred to as the Tomahawk Chop among Braves fans; it's such a douchey thing to see in person, and then you get chided for being the only Debbie Downer in the stadium who steadfastly refuses to do it.

Ahhh, memories! (I haven't lived there for a while.)

Psssh, we like to think of it as Successfully Asserting* Our Right-of-Way.

Plus, it depends on whether the use of "yankee" as a pejorative refers to a northerner or to the House of A-Roid. If it's the latter, you're probably hearing it from a Bostonian, and it has nothing to do with carpet-bagging or hatred of the northeast.

Soooo, while we're at it... can we talk about this shit?

Jesus Fucking Christ, how is it that the concept of Redface-Is-Bad so difficult to comprehend???