I’m another wife who is The Worst, although I’ve gotten better over the past few years. I do the vacuuming now, and every time I think “why do we have to do this every week it’s not even dirty I DO THIS CAUSE I LOVE YOU.” No really. We only have two cats. I don’t see why it needs to be vacuumed every week, but I’m…

Many, many industries. It’s basically the American way. Protestant work ethic and all that shit.

There was an article a while that made the rounds about a woman on stamps talking about her Mercedes. She’d had the car for years before falling on truly hard times. It made zero sense to sell a reliable but heavily depreciated car and get a jalopy instead. And once she got off food stamps, she kept driving the same…

“Buzzfeed gets it right” - there’s a phrase I never thought I’d see.

Yeah, I heard that, and tried that, and the cops always show up. Since then, I’ve met actual cops, and it’s part of their job to show up to these court dates.

I recommended that book on io9 a while back and everyone jumped all over me about how terrible it is and how the right brain thing has been discredited even though I mentioned that in the first place. Oy. And yet, it taught me to draw for sure. It hardly made me a pro, but it totally cracked open the whole thing.

I feel that way about aspartame, but find the aftertaste of sucralose to be a worthy tradeoff for having my flavored water be zero calories. But good lord diet coke makes me feel like I’m licking tin for the next two hours.

I discovered sucralose recently and I’m basically in love with it. It doesn’t taste like a tin can! I do also like stevia though. But I only consume these as parts of processed drinks, never from packets, so that might be the difference.

I get so defensive about Oakland but then I remember that my husband was mugged and had his motorcycle stolen. In separate incidents. And someone got murdered in a friend’s apartment complex near the Whole Foods. My Oakland defensiveness gets reduced to “But Lake Merritt! And restaurants! And did you know there is…

So, who in your opinion are the worst fans in the Bay? Genuinely asking. I lived in the Bay Area for 5 years and hated them all. Ok, except Sharks fans but living in Oakland I never really interacted with them.

Oakland weather is way more pleasant than NY weather in November. They can be excited about that?

I just moved from Oakland to a, uh, third or fourth tier Midwestern city and I miss it constantly. But the comments about Raiders fans are spot on. The one benefit of moving here is getting away from Raiders and 49ers fans. Into the insanity of the fans of the local FCS school.

After all the making fun of Rachel Dolezal, when are we going to seriously get into the weird “transracialness” of Jeb?

Wasn’t there some weird smear campaign against his opponent at the last minute about hiring a prostitute once and the collective pearl clutching catapulted Sam Brownback to incomprehensible victory?

Facebook has actually made me more empathetic. I have a number of friends who share articles about the struggles of parenting, and I sometimes click on them, and I’ve gotten so much more relaxed and understanding toward that person with that kid with the tantrum. I used to click on articles about understanding what…

I don’t think I’m physically capable of eating 20 nuggets without vomiting. And what the hell happened to the 6 piece nuggets? Is that the kids meal now?

Eh, if I find myself at a fast food restaurant for whatever reason, I’m going all out. 10 piece chicken nuggets or GTFO.

This is a thing that has been bugging me for a while and I didn’t know there was a word for it! Although I thought “pinkwashing” referred specifically to breast cancer things, but I see the definition has been expanded.

There was a person who theoretically filled this role, and dealt with some of it, but people wanted to run to the big boss anyway. Also that person didn’t have authority to fire, take people off shifts, and was not particularly fearsome when telling people to behave. And a lot of people just cannot let go of worrying…

Same here! I have the shortest torso in the world and rather long legs to go with it. Makes me look cute in a dress at least. I really can’t do a wide stance though because my knees cave in enough as it is already. I should try the low bar, but jeez, even when I do just air squats I have to lean forward a lot.