I had a woman give me a death glare when her kid ran out in front of me while I was carrying a large tray of food and barely managed to skid to a stop before a collision. I once had to dump all of our empty balloons into a bag and lock them in a cabinet because a group of kids wouldn’t stop stealing them because we…

I had the baby back rib and cheeseburger chips last time I was in Vancouver and they were amazing. It seems like Britain and all of the other former colonies do really good meat flavored chips (I had some very good roasted chicken chips in New Zealand) but America doesn’t and I don’t know why.

Maybe it was The Box from Redshirts?

I was in a BSL3 lab when I heard this and literally started dancing in my tyvek.

We do acknowledge that vaccines may cause injury. That’s why in the mid 80s the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was set up. The funds for it are paid by a surcharge on every vaccine administered and the burden of proof is one of the lowest anywhere in the legal system. It’s designed to err on the side of…

That’s reprehensible.

Wait, you’ve quit smoking completely and he’s trying to get you start vaping? How does that even make sense? It’s like trying to get a recovering alcoholic to drink wine coolers because they’ve got a lower alcohol content. The only benefits I’ve heard touted about vaping is that they help you quit (and the evidence…

Good for you. Quitting is one of the worst things ever, not that I have personal experience, but I watched both of my parents smoke themselves to death even after they got their diagnoses.

And god forbid I ever mention the nicotine content of said odiferous cloud.

Thank you for this analogy. I plan to use it on an acquaintance who insists his intensely flavored vaping crap isn’t offensive to anyone because it isn’t cigarette smoke. He once had what was supposed to be something flavored like a blueberry muffin but it just smelled like the sewage effluent from Willy Wonka’s candy…

Sadly, there’s no federal law mandating paid vacation. Some states and cities have them, but they usually have exceptions for certain industries and small businesses.

This isn’t going to be a fun one for me. It’s been just over five years since my mom passed away, almost 20 for my father, and my roommate whom I’m not getting along with for bullshit high school reasons just had a baby. I’m thinking a long hike in a semi-secluded park followed re-watching Orphan Black.

I know some of those people. They get confused when they find out every cuisine has its own version of spring rolls and try to order “goy-za” no matter where they go.

I can’t take credit for thinking it up, but I will happily use it whenever possible.

That reaction has a name, oral allergy syndrome, but not every protein is denatured so easily by heat. Gluten isn’t one of them, or people with wheat allergies would be able to eat bread.

Food allergies and food intolerances are two very different things. Like you said, people with lactose intolerance can eat some dairy products that have the lactose pre-digested by bacteria. But someone with a milk allergy will still react to dairy products because they’re not allergic to the sugars in milk, but the…

The restaurant I worked at had an entire procedure for dealing with someone who had a good allergy. We had special menus that detailed how to order items to avoid allergens, thr kitchen paused to clean off a small area where their food would be prepared, it was served on special dishware and a manager always took it…

A friend just told me about this, although she used it as an addendum to the golden rule, and we both agreed it should be shouted from the rooftops or whatever the modern social media equivalent is.

I’ve been dealing with a female department head who blatantly favors male employees (my inept supervisor in particular) while saying that she’s tougher on women because she’s trying to make us stronger. But her method of trying to make us stronger involves inducing panic attacks and physical illness. We’ve turned over…

Not mine, but a friend had a big wardrobe malfunction on her wedding day. She'd found her dress about a year before the ceremony and absolutely loved it, but in the time between she gained several sizes. The dress was a strapless with a corset, so she had it altered to include an extra back panel but couldn't do…