Holy shit, ColecoVision was AWESOME. There was that one carnival shooting game where you had to shoot the ducks ... even though I was 9 and my brother was 6, in our family, we were allowed to swear when we talked about playing "the fucked up ducks" game!

I was under the impression that IUDs WERE now recommended for teens.

I'm a bit confused about this. My understanding is that the nature of the muscles that control focus in the eyes is such that there are no exercises that can strengthen them (unlike our skeletal muscles which are affected by exercise).

Was coming to say a similar thing about 'harmless'. I'm a lot more likely to pick up female hitchhikers than male ones b/c _I'm_ female and would consider that lower-risk myself.

This post makes me so happy, not least because I was going through exactly the same analysis in my head! To quote Sara Benincasa: "The dork in me bows to the dork in you."

Hm. I deduce 'Canadian' and either from a smaller town or from the prairies. I'm from SK & have lived in Vancouver for ages, now. If you're here (as opposed to That Other City) I'd be happy to get together for coffee to bemoan what that kind of going home is like.

I thought the point of burning a bridge is to raise your commitment level - isn't it a war metaphor? If you burn your bridges, your troops know that they can't retreat over it and will be more committed to winning.

I guess the reason no one has mentioned "dialing zero" is because no one else here is old enough to remember a rotary phone? I'm sure I've read that euphemism before...

I think I'll be printing this one out on business cards to hand out to people when they do it. Brilliantly, perfectly stated:

'Culture fit' is actually a very bad way to assess potential employees and contributes to non-diverse, subtle discrimination. It's increasingly being called out as ineffective and harmful. Not to mention, borderline illegal.

I was just about to bring that comment, but to be fair to Lifehacker, it's not their graphic. Would be worth calling it out though.

Proud Canuck here. The things that some people call poutine (butter chicken? chili? salsa? fuck off!) are abominations and must be eschewed.

looks like cole slaw to me.

Also, no fucking way our border guards would have reacted that way. No. Fucking. Way.

It's supposedly a Europe/Canada thing, but may have bled over into a variety of states. It's universal in Europe and near-so in Canada.

"Just clean up any spilled food you left on the table, and anything else you might be willing to do."

"Imagine you had a real bank account filled with $86,400 each day with the same rules applied. You'd want to spend every dollar you could before it was wiped away, right?

If the eggs are particularly fresh, the membrane really wants to hang onto both the shell and the white. Boiling older eggs makes it easier.

Wait - what "old stereotypes about fat girls and head"?

I love that so many of the people who can take people out of the grey spell it 'grey'. That's a Canadian thing, no? Don't 'murricans spell it 'gray'?