I was at the store a few months ago and saw they had single serves of canned wine. I thought hey, this is a good way to try something n...holy shit they’re $4-8 PER CAN yeah no how about a nice six pack of cider for a few bucks more.

I re-upped a week ago (after three years) specifically to get all that out of the way before the xpac hit. I’m still missing a bunch of content - namely flying - but I hit 110 and made it through the events before the launch.

I stopped in Monaco between Nice and Ventimiglia, just to say I was there. I popped out of the train station, walked around a mile or two... and got back on the train to Italy. Too hot, too many steep hills, nothing to see that wasn’t in a place that was easier to get around!

TJs is also the only place that does frozen (or otherwise not-fresh-at-the-restaurant) paneer well. It even squeaks a little bit, like good paneer should.

Fuck that. They look absurd to start with (unless you are among a very tiny subset of the population with the right facial structure to rock it), and I can only be arsed to keep my Italian caterpillars from encroaching on my eyelids; I might wax off the scragglies on top a couple times a year at most.

Piffle. “Zee” precedes the USA; it’s mentioned as a legit pronunciation in the UK in the 17th century.

RIGHT? If it were just a matter of it being plural - aka mathematicS - (which I could buy as a matter of logic) then why do they call it “sport” instead of “sports”???

There are an assortment of fun names in my family’s feline history:

I do pack a nylon tote that can be wadded up about the size of a wallet, but sometimes I get a little out of hand with the souvenirs a little early in the trip, and my travel MO is to bounce off somewhere new every 3-4 days, and I really don’t want to lug all of it around on foot, on the bus, on the train/plane, etc.…

I had flea PTSD when I adopted a new cat and saw black flecks on her paws a couple days after she came home. (They were fur-freckles.)

Alas, the cocoa & honey isn’t part of the deal. That stuff is really good, and it doesn’t taste nearly as sweet as you’d think.

Alas, the cocoa & honey isn’t part of the deal. That stuff is really good, and it doesn’t taste nearly as sweet as…

Chains do allow a lot of abuse of employees, but that is -really- fucking egregious. I work for a company that lives in abject fear of bad surveys, and there’s no question that this would have called for a “get the fuck out of my store, don’t come back, and you go right ahead and call the corporate office” because…

Last time I played, tokens were about 22-25k, and I could rustle that up in a couple of weeks as a non-raider. I didn’t pay real money for six months before I quit for a couple years. I knew the relative cost (as well as general in-game inflation) had gone up, but wow.

I am about 98% NOT a beer person at ALL... except for Belgian cherry lambics (yum) and some sours (still exploring this category though).

I spent 18 hours in Riga after discovering a 22 hour layover there between Frankfurt and Helsinki. Copenhagen and Oslo were also options, but a. I’m a fan of the road less traveled, and b. it was half the cost to stay/eat/buy in Riga. And they had just gotten about 3-5" of snow that afternoon, so I got to spend a…

Because some jabroni with a pistol under his blazer is totally prepared to defend himself against a crazy motherfuckin yahoo who starts shooting at people through a glass door. By the time he gets his gun out, figures out who’s doing the shooting, it’s already too fucking late, and now he runs the risk of the ATF…

There’s a reason why there are *shelves* in many German, Dutch, Hungarian, etc. toilets above the waterline! (in German, it’s called a Flachspuler. I call it, cleverly, the POOP SHELF.)

I wish I could find the Kerisac cidre doux that I had in Paris. (That brand does have a brut, iirc, but I don’t particularly like dry ciders that make my mouth pucker) It was only about 2.5% alcohol, so I could demolish a bottle without wobbling out of the creperie. 

Soooo the next time I go to Budapest, just buy paprika in a bunch of 3-6oz bags instead of one large 1lb bag!

London was my first solo international trip in 2000 - before the internet was accessible on short notice - and I ended up missing my 9am flight home because I was at the Tube at zero stupid thirty on a Sunday morning (guarding my bags against the hordes of stumbling drunks), only to find out it didn’t start rolling…