We taught our first baby sign language and it worked really well.

Parents: in your quest to protect your child from every possible source of harm on the planet, you have, and are continuing to raise generations of delicate flowers with no idea of how to operate in the real world, where other people and diversity are a thing.

I’ve got a kid in 1st grade and one who is working on 2 years old. I’ve yet to read a “parenting” book. I’m not sure my wife has, either. Unless you count the handful of verses in the Bible referring to child rearing. Such as “Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from…

If you’re that worried about anus-scratching hands you should never eat out.

I would not want a reusable straw that has only gone through a commercial dishwasher. Those things are awesome for exterior dirt. But the gunk that can build up inside? Nope, barely touches it. I am fine with being handed a disposable straw if I ask for one (which I won’t) but I would rather it be made from paper or…

Thanks for the article. I use a metal straw every day. It is like having cutlery that I take for lunch. Every little bit helps and it does add up.

It’s really annoying when somebody brings you an unrequested refill and an unnecessary new straw when you already had a perfectly good one.

California’s law seems pretty reasonable. You just have to ask. And outright ban would definitely lead to problems. You just have to hope people can be nuanced about things.

Laws like this always sound fine and good until you think about how it would impact disabled folks. My grandpa had Parkinson’s. So he had zero grip strength and struggled with bringing a cup to his mouth, so he needed straws if he wanted to drink anything and not embarrass himself. An outright ban, especially in…

Not just kicked out but nationally banned so that she cannot join any chapter ever!

They don’t, they’re just mad she did so publicly while mentioning the sorority explicitly.

They don’t think she’s too racist, they think she’s too blatant. It’s low class to say these things on camera in a medium that’s easily traceable.

And if an ALABAMA SORORITY thinks you’re too racist...

I agree with your wife... buy the whirlpool or the GE even. Buy Samsung’s phones and TVs not their fridges. Their not quite as good at non-computer things.

biggest regret... buying a damn samsung fridge... should of listen to wife and get another whirlpool.

I think the regret is more tied to your current situation than the actual purchase (which accounts for the difference in views by age). But in general its a bloody mistake to look back at something you did with the eyes having done it, and blame yourself unless it was an obvious stupid move.

my major purchase regrets are almost always buying something cheap to save money and getting garbage when I should have spent more money on quality.

Can we talk about how in Reign, which is supposed to be set in France by the way, there is exactly one bish with a French accent and she’s the “seductress” enemy caricature?

Scar doesn’t speak with an English accent—in fact he doesn’t speak English at all. He communicates in “animal” which gets through to you in English (or another language depending on locale) because you wouldn’t understand it otherwise. Think of it as a form of dubbing.

use a vegetable, or a bed of rice, or potato, or or or or