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Clear-ish liquids I know are poison (e.g. bleach) have always done that to me.

The courts need to judge him in an unbiased way.

Moretz was just 12 years old during filming, but that didn’t stop Hit-Girl from cursing like a sailor while killing a boatload of bad guys.

To be clear, it sounds like the drink WILL have a lot of lactose in it. It’s basically all whey.

Whey is about 5% lactose, and whole milk is about 6%.

It sounds like you could make a version of this using whey and skip the “milk washing”, but there’s a chance it wouldn’t “soften the edges” of the spirits the same way.

Oh, yes; Carrie is the worrrrrrrst.

I liked everything about Iann Dior’s look up until the pants ended.

Is it...normal...to wear a ring around your penis? I mean, just as a day-to-day thing to make yourself feel pretty?

Browning the butter before melting the marshmallows in always elevates rice krispie squares; definitely try that on the next batch!

The stock market is just gambling at this point, and it is ridiculous it is considered a financial indicator of anything serious anymore.

I could never quite get into her fiction, but she was a no-fucks-given, bad-ass of a writer I could always admire.

I read a story about a mom who discovered one of her adult sons had been raiding her (cognac-soaked) fruitcake slices out of the freezer because he was a back-country skier and had learned the booze kept them from freezing solid, plus they tasted better than power bars.

I haven’t seen Ready Player One, but what you’re describing sounds like an accurate recreation of the book.

On a trip to southern India, one of the guys in our tour group found out he was allergic to hot peppers on his first day. In southern India.

I don’t mind spending 4.5 hours appreciating art, but I will need to eat at least one meal before/during/after that time.

I assume the chef goes through a great deal of cocaine every day.

My mom has a theory that the reason fruitcake is popular with the oldest generations in cold climates is they grew when you didn’t get fruit in wintertime. Fruitcake therefore probably satisfied some nutritional deficits, so their brains re-wrote the software to say, “Fruitcake = yummy”.

And if you’re at all leaning toward ADHD, scrupulously record all the locations in a cheat sheet the moment you commit to hiding an item in a particular location.