Yeah, the transition out of elite athletics is absolutely brutal. The sad thing is that it’s basically inevitable that an athlete will have to give up “their” sport at some point because they can no longer compete with younger, less injured players. I’ve sadly seen a lot of young men and women develop depression, anxie…

I’m sorry for the loss of your friend. That’s heartbreaking.

Olympic athletes peak very, very young in most cases. Much of their focus and attention is on that goal, and other issues get pushed to the side in order to get that medal. The letdown after- even if you gold medal, viewing what you accomplished as a teenager or early 20's as the highpoint of your life, with…

The people watching at a luxury hotel/resort can be just as good as a Motel 6.

Was just coming to post this. Yes it’s a mall with a lot of stores, but that’s...it? I don’t understand why people fly in to go shopping here, it’s not like the Mall of America has wildly different stores or options from any other mall in the US, they just have a ton of stores, sometimes multiple locations for the…

I like the Highline but only a week day morning when no one is there. Then there’s actually room to breathe to appreciate it. But yeah, it’s not great when it’s crowded.

The Mall of America is... a mall. Yes, it’s a big mall, but it. is. a. mall. Do you enjoy going to the mall where you live? If not, you won’t enjoy going to the mall-ier mall we have here.

I grew up in a family where sports, specifically running, was THE most important thing. My dad coached kids for 50 years...racked up 30 state championships between his boys and girls, including numerous individual state champions, state record holders, and nationally ranked athletes. Growing up in that family, being a…

The most infuriating thing is when your phone locks in the middle of step three, and you are forced to unlock it with wet garlic-covered hands only to find you have to scroll down to the instructions all over again. 

Does this not work on mobile?  Cuz, that’s where i’m always looking up recipes....and scrolling....and scrolling...

THANK YOU!

I hate looking for recipe ideas and having to read through an entry from the J. Peterman catalog only to find the writer has no idea what they’re actually doing...

POTATO BACON CHEDDAR SOUP

They’re trying to build a brand/following. They’re after people who read the blog regularly, not ones who click over from a google search just looking for a recipe. I think the aspirational endgame is to get enough readership not only to sell adds but to go full Pioneer Woman and land a show and endorsement deals.

Glorious. Now if only it could help me on those Kitchn posts where I scroll up and down for several minutes only to find that the recipe is hosted on another blog and the link is hiding at the end of a paragraph.

Can confirm. This extension works like a dream. Just clicking off the pop up box also makes it go away if you really want to read about how the author went to Thailand 20 years ago and has since been inventing crock pot recipes to recapture the magic of that adventure.

Just make sure you tell your kid the train can’t go in the tunnel...

I find that different stores that use different software tend to get very different results. In terms of reliability and ease-of-use, I’d go:

It’s the same with the Lowes that I go to. It has been that bad for a solid 5 years and shows no sign of getting any better.

I am absolutely saying hes an idiot.

There are fewer better poster children for shitty automation than self-checkout. I have literally never, as in not one single time, successfully completed a checkout at a self-service station in a grocery store without having to call a human employee over. And it’s not because I’m an idiot. Or not entirely, anyway.…

Self checkout is the greatest invention in retail. I don’t have to deal with people, I can bag my groceries in ways that make sense to me, and it is way faster. You can take my self checkout when you pry it from my cold dead hands.