I understand “they” as a singular. It’s common, noncontroversial English usage to use “they” when referring to someone of unknown gender. Eg “When we hire the nw lawyer make sure they have a good record.” Or “I don’t know who robbed me, I didn’t see their face”. This is normal.

Since it won’t be safe to have super bowl parties this year, will anyone even watch the game?

Also montreal bagels (better than NY bagels), pouding chomeur (like sticky toffee pudding but maple syrup). tourtiere (meat pies). Other, not as good canadian foods are butter tarts (handheld pecan pie without pecans, sometimes with raisins or chocolate), nanaimo bars, ketchup, dill pickle and all dressed chips,…

That’s true for convenience stores in other cities too. Not always open as late (but a few are 24 hrs) but they’ll have Asian candy or drinks, or beef patties or incense or whatever based on the local market. 

Bold talk from a Red Sox fan (I assume).

And if the post hadn’t been “Only true NYers will get this!” that’s what we’d all be doing. Or we’d dive deeper, into one of the few places where even though they’re expensive, they’re one of the few places where you can still be an independent small business owner,  that hasn’t been taken over by huge corporate…

Yeah, but New Yorkers aren’t the only ones who have a unique name for convenience/corner/variety/liquor stores. In Montreal they call them depanneurs, or deps, but Montrealers don’t act like that makes them special. Philly/South Jersey has Wawa and they obsess over those, but they don’t think that makes them special…

I kind of love that this guy is fully, consciously, leaning into the Florida Man stereotype just to get on TV for a few minutes. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the turkey in the pool story is, at best, exaggerated. 

How original is original? Everything I bake comes from the internet with a few minor additions. 

https://www.avclub.com/dustin-diamond-s-behind-the-bell-1798226153

I’m the opposite. Just a bit of milk and a ton of chocolate so it’s basically liquid chocolate. Sweetened with whisked marshmallows. 

I liked how Schitt’s Creek existed in a world with no homophobia. Not every show can do that though. 

“Uncle Frank” takes me back to “Home Alone”. 

But those tropes you listed weren’t actually Screech.

The socially non-functional misogynists of “The Big Bang Theory” was a “positive” portrayal???

Because celebrations get bigger and bigger, and we add more people and over the years dishes get added but don’t usually get taken away, because every member of the extended family has their own favourite, so no one eats much actual turkey, but it would be rude to run out or not have enough.

Make the stock and freeze. Use all winter. 

Curries. Or tinga. Or any kind of stew/braise where you normally have chicken. Shred the meat, add it to the liquid. You need the strong flavours to hide the taste of the meat.

Yeah that’s what I think. Shalit exaggerated because we all love privilege porn, but that’s been the stereotype for awhile. The obscure sport, the starting your own business or charity, the robotics or hackathon or whatever. They know all the angles. 

Huh? It’s the opposite. These kids spend their whole lives fighting each other for the change to break from the pack and get into a top school, and then a top Wall Street or hospital or grad program or law firm or the NBC page program or clerkship.