One of the downsides to “smart” homes is the devices often don’t have any redundancy built into them (i.e. like the Texas power grid; it can handle normal use, but it catastrophically fails for anything greater than normal use).

That would have been the moment I slammed the dish on the table (well away from me) and started bellowing like a bull that I was not fucking paying for this meal.

Well of course it’s soft plastic, but “American cheese” is what that particular kind of soft plastic is called.

Devil’s Advocate: People don’t need a second opinion about whether someone is making them uncomfortable. You didn’t.

It happens to non-drinkers pretty commonly, whether you see it or not.

You know there’s American cheese on that Big Mac, don’t you? Mmm, salt and cheese... **waggles eyebrows**

**touches your brie with a Ritz cracker on purpose**

I Believe in Father Christmas by Honeymoon Suite was definitely written by someone who wasn’t feeling very happy about it all.

I know it is cheese, and therefore worthy of passion, but you should not take such statements so seriously, my friend. ☺

For the rest of us, the moon is new (i.e., not visible) so tides will be higher all over the world.

Cheese with sugar instead of salt is an abomination.

Some people also report having a negative reaction to blue LED lights, so going all blue for your display might not be a great idea.

Heat begins to destroy vitamin C at relatively low temperatures, but it takes time to do so, so don’t simmer it for too long if you care about your cocktail mixer having some healthful properties.

Ditto.

Some people do avoid meat just out of empathy for the animals, not health reasons, and they might still like the taste of meat. These options are great for them.

Letting a serial rapist live his life mostly repercussion-free was the thing that was dangerous.

Two people I have a potent, knee-jerk negative reaction to.

Good, because alcohol is a poison and it would have been hell on the local environment.

The only way I’m going to make this is if I buy the meats expressly to make this.

Two slices of each type of a wide variety of meats is, I think, what the writer was trying to convey. I needed to read it twice myself.