You’ve actually hit on why I’m totally okay with the pain management regimen I’m on now. I’m on something fairly high-octane and it’s stopped making my pain go away for a while now—but look, I’m 45. If I escalate now, what’s going to happen when I’m 65? So I deal. I’ve got to think about the future.

I used to work in call centers. Most of the stuff people think is urban legends, we actually saw.

Thanks, that was most kind!

Kinda! I used to be a Pentecostal of the same denomination she is apparently a member of. I literally didn’t know anybody in that church who did not have some major depression or anger issues. Sometimes both. I ended up diagnosed with a weapons-grade case of PTSD and panic attacks after leaving that repulsive group.…

For many years, Christians of her persuasion have been convinced that if they feel they are being loving toward others, or respectful, or whatever else, then nobody is allowed to tell them they really aren’t. It’s not up to her to decide if someone else feels disrespected by her, or loved or hated by her. She doesn’t…

Want to hear something funny? That sounds eerily like an urban legend I heard like 25 years ago as a young Pentecostal lass. The only difference was the claim that you asked your Mom that question. It was not only a TALE FROM THE PULPIT but also the topic of a particularly imaginative tract. It was told from the point…

It’s pretty clear why she got involved in the particular flavor of religion that she did. People like her gravitate to that banner.

And as always, what is “manly” is what is “not-womanly.”

I still don’t get it. I wasn’t trying to sneak anything past them. In the gameworld’s source material, it showed priests wearing cassocks. I can’t say they were cooler, but I don’t think they were quite as up on history as they liked to think they were. And in the SCA, a historical re-enactment group, quite a few men…

Oh my god this. I’m fine with social justice, but I’m a longtime gamer and I’m fucking sick and tired of pompous man-babies that whack off with one hand while shaking fingers in people’s faces with the other while bleating about how rape and other forms of victimization are “just how history goes.” Yeah, I notice that…

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I can only star that original comment once, so I’ll settle for starring yours too.

Seriously. Dude may be rolling in money, but he still looks and acts like every mouth-breathing Creepy Old Neighbor Guy ever imagined rolled into one and his series isn’t anywhere near as good as his fans like to think it is. His big innovation was creating a setting where pretty much everyone in power is an asshole…

I am so fucking glad I don’t watch GoT. I read the books for a while but it just wore me down emotionally.

It seems to me that if their best defense is “um um um the OTHER KIDS are doing it,” that’s not really that awesome.

I got into medieval re-enactment cooking some years back. It’s easy to make almond milk and it was street-legal for Lent and fast days (not to mention probably way safer than whatever passed for milk in medieval city markets), so they used it in almost everything that called for cream or milk—including a truly…

German Potatoes and Green Bean Soup

When I want to spoil the shit out of my sweetie, I make this gorgeous, smooth-as-silk cream of mushroom soup. Anyone who’s had a decent mushroom soup knows that once you’ve tried one, there is no going back to canned. I can’t even use that shit in cooking anymore. (Do not do what the recipe suggests in the link and…

Wish I knew. I saw it several times with my own two eyes. If I’d realized what I was seeing, I’d have reported it. As it stands, all I can do is marvel that nobody else did either.

THE PERSECUTION IS REAL y’all