Yeah, that guy from Thailand just walked right across the border to get here...we need to build a wall on our border with Thailand!

Does anyone ever believe the response “nu-uh, we didn’t cheat because we’re not smart enough to do that?”

You want grade A Dark or possibly grade B. Anything lighter has very little discernible flavor as a syrup and is not really meant for breakfast. Anything darker is also not really meant for breakfast and may (will) have off flavors. Usually that’s later season stuff, but not always. The lighter grades generally get…

I’m a Bonne Maman girl myself but jam on pancakes? Oh, hell yeah. Is Auntie Crae’s even still in business?

Wow. You are clearly going to breakfast with the wrong people. Why don’t they have something else to talk about?

So don’t buy Canadian. They make maple syrup wherever they have sugar maples. I can get maple syrup made locally and I’m in freaking Iowa.

You can always do honey instead. Of course, since this is the US, you do have to check the ingredients on that too.

Not being able to see the pictures (fuck you very much, Univision) I would have assumed that we were talking about someone’s pets. These are seriously three human beings? Named Stormi, Lucky and Gravity? Please someone tell me that Lucky, at least, is just a nickname?

One of the best ways to get people to listen to you about car insurance though, is to sell it as actually being for the driver/owner of the vehicle. Even a relatively minor accident can cause an injury that needs long-term treatment, and most people don’t have the money to pay the ongoing medical and therapy bills for…

It was actually the tumor voting, so in McCain’s case, you go, cancer!

I think I saw that. It’s one of the two episodes where the taste testing made me really, really angry. (The other one was where Smucker’s Corn Syrup Jam beat out Bonne Maman Apricot Preserves.)

*nods* Okay, I’ll keep an eye out for it.

Yes, I have both of the books in the er...I suppose you would still call it a series, wouldn’t you? And I had heard that it diverged, but that’s the nature of adapting for television decades after something was written, I would assume. Particularly when it comes to characters like the Technical Boy and Media.

You need a flask.

PLEASE at least try some real maple syrup? You don’t even have to pay a lot for it, they always have bottles in the food sections at TJ Maxx and Marshalls. The darker the better, the higher grades/paler syrups have very little flavor and aren’t intended for things like breakfast.

You can put most of the lack of other black people down to cutting and casting. There’s a lot of combo characters and plotlines done that mean entire swathes of the world just kind of got left out. Remember the black pirate captain we saw like... maybe twice, three times? Whole lot of other people that look like him…

I don’t have the right channel. Would it be worth a DVD purchase, then?

I’m glad so many others don’t like/don’t watch Insecure. I’m glad Issa Rae’s got her show out there and is making money but...I just don’t know how to relate to ANY of the characters. It’s like...did I just completely miss my 20s? Or are these women just as alien to me as the white girls on Girls for some reason? And…

AT this point, I think a lot of us are just sticking with GOT because there’s so little of it left. It’s like...I sat through everything up to the Bolton slog, I held my nose and/or drank during that, now it’s two shortened seasons left and they’re actually killing off goodly numbers of characters (though this turned…

Given that manatees are still considered a threatened species (I think) I’m fully behind this. Make them a symbol, get them some attention, get people to be more responsible when encountering them in the wild, it’s all for the good of the animals. I hope they do go ahead with this as the actual, state-endorsed plan.