Yeah, the main reason I exercise on a completely empty stomach is I’ll cramp otherwise.

Someone I knew was once the passenger in an old van that he and a fellow grad student were using to transport an extremely heavy piece of scientific equipment over the mountains to their lab.

The problem with the movie was mainly that the [spoiler] had no internally consistent rules to make you believe that’s actually what they were living in, and to a lesser degree, that the script/acting choices ran toward melodrama at the end.

I’m curious what skills Hank thinks the royals themselves have that require their spouses to be so impressively well-qualified.

This is a great, good-ol’-days-style Lifehacker article that actually provides useful hacks.

Nice to see Madonna’s original-recipe face again.

So do people who don’t use/eat animal products also avoid silk? I’ve not heard of that one, but it’d be consistent with the choice.

With condominiums, there’s also assessments, which are really just “unexpected repairs” for the building as a whole. And if your building votes in favour of getting that repair done, then you don’t get any wiggle room regarding paying the assessment on someone else’s schedule.

Regarding the fruit fly trap — yes, put fruit in the cup, but also put a few drops of wine or sherry in for extra luring power.

The twist in Signs was just bad, but that movie’s theme was very affecting for me and the film also made jump half out of my skin a week later when I glimpsed a faceless store mannequin out of the corner of my eye.

Lady in the Water over The Village is very, very wrong also.

The Village should not be ranked worse than Lady in the Water, because Lady in the Water was so, so bad, and The Village — as you said — did a lot of things very well.

Mary J Blige giving Lady Dimitrescu vibes there, in the very best way.

He’s surprisingly good at playing characters who are halfway through a quiet mental breakdown. He’s does ‘haunted’ well.

I almost never have nightmares and very, very often eat cheese, including right before bed. I’ve never heard of the idea that it could give you nightmares. Based on my own anecdata, sounds like nonsense.

Why do conservative white straight men forget that they are still alive because of government regulations.

Co-signing this; Spam from the can is a horror.

The correct reply is, “Are you a pervert? Because I am literally a 16-year-old child. SECURITY!!”

No generation is doomed. The Olds have been saying some variation of, “Kids these days!” for thousands of years, and they’re always wrong.

it’s not advisable to put high-fat drop cookies straight into a fryer, because they’ll break apart and soak up too much oil as they cook. You’ll have to batter them.