I love Irish coffees. I’m not picky about the whiskey or the coffee, but the cream MUST be the real deal, not squirty from an aerosol can. 

I had such a stupid Tinder date once trying to explain that umami isn’t just a hipster word for salty. 

*record needle scratch* hang on do you guys in America still have free plastic grocery bags? 

This. The only times I’ve done it by hand was because I wanted to show off, and I’m over that phase of my life now (at least in the kitchen). Store bought is fine.

There are definitely some A list celebs I can visualise sitting down and eating a plateful of standard Thanksgiving food (turkey, potatoes, all the sides, cranberry and gravy) but for some reason she’s not one of them. Like, for some reason I can only see her picking, or doing the thing where she pleads having been so…

The glazed roast quail with rose petal sauce from Like Water For Chocolate. The one that was so good it makes everyone at the table weep but also kind of orgasm, because she clutched the bouquet of roses against her chest in the kitchen and scratched herself a little, and the blood got into the sauce as she cooked and…

Yeah, I am Very Old so to me the food in Harry Potter was just a redux of the food in the Enid Blyton books. 

Redwall confused the fuck out of me. In the first book it seemed like they coexisted in a world with humans but the series seemed to go full fantasy animal land after that. And I never quite got how they were an abbey and lived by all the trappings and hierarchy of a religious cloister but didn’t seem to follow an…

I’m not American so I don’t know anything about the pilot who emergency landed his plane on the Hudson River and saved everyone except that it happened. I didn’t know until someone told me the Clint Eastwood movie starring Tom Hanks as the captain TOTALLY made up the National Transportation Safety Board being…

I don’t think it’s the first adaptation tatio

I’ve only ever done roast goose once and it was fine but not great enough I’d ever repeat the experience. (1) OH GOD THE CONSTANT DECANTING OF FAT WHILE IT ROASTS and (2) it doesn’t serve as many people as you’d think and is an absolute bitch to carve nicely.

Like seriously, I’ve encountered it more times than I’m comfortable with. Rage tantrum followed by tears when rage failed to work is what toddlers do. Except toddlers don’t have the physical strength to potentially kill you with their hands. 

Unfortunately since the brutal and unjustified summary executions of Splinter and Deadspin I think Jezebel will get a certain amount of traffic from people twho visited those sites but rarely or never Jez, and are maybe mistakenly thinking they can tell the Jez editors shit about how to do their jobs. 

First gambit: physical aggression and violence.

Here in Australia convicted violent serial rapist Adrian Bayley was free to roam the streets and upgrade his crimes to an actual murder, of a “respectable” photogenic middle class woman, because his previous victims were sex workers so he got a pathetically short sentence and parole term.

I have a theory that Shaggy was just like “I am not dressing up as a fucking crab”. 

Oh, that’s disappointing. I thought it was going to be a live performance of the stage musical where they all go around on roller skates to look like they’re moving through the water. XD

IMHO the necessary shift is for the shame and vilification to be refocused from the woman who sent nudes to the shitweasel who shared them beyond the audience she intended them for. But yeah, that doesn’t feel likely any time soon. 

I’m pretty sure a company that did it here in Australia used one too. The prologue scene is fucking brutal (it portrays the crime, for anyone reading who hasn’t seen it) and in the production I saw, the actors playing the teenage girl and boy who are assaulted and murdered were both also entirely naked for the whole…

The woman going out of her house to kiss creepy sign holding Andrew Lincoln when she had Chiwetel Ejiofer inside on her sofa was the most bullshit nonsense in “Love Actually”, a movie full of bullshit and nonsense.