I had the opposite problem. I grew up in NY state, and my allergies were always moderately bad, especially during hayfever season. Then I moved to North Carolina. Now my allergies are horrendous. They are virtually unbearable during hayfever and ragweed season. I’ve tried every allergy med available and nothing works.

Thanks for the feature - again. :)

Related, but if you run into a problem and you know your payment is going to be late just this one time, most credit card companies will be happy to give you an extension if you just give them a call. This happened to me one month when I experienced a flurry of stressful life events, misplaced my cc bill, and then…

I’m kind of addicted to changing my wallpaper often so I have a small tumblr blog dedicated to curating the best wallpapers I find, if anyone’s interested: http://fivewallpapers.tumblr.com/ (yeah yeah self link, but I have zero ads on my blog so I’m not gaining anything by people visiting besides the peace of mind of…

If I was a juror, I’d refuse too. I mean why would you even bother? If he decides he likes the defendant (because they’re rich, white, and/or a student athlete), and he doesn’t have the legal grounds to vacate the jury’s decision, he’ll just do it anyways by giving the convicted criminal a joke sentence. That’s pretty…

I live in the south as well, so I’m familar with Ingles’ store brand’s poor quality, which is surprising, because around here at least they bill themselves as a “premium” grocery store. I’ve actually found that Food Lion’s store brand is very good quality. Most of the stuff is completely indistinguishable from name…

I’m extremely uncomfortable with the tone and wording of this piece. Do you guys actually care about this victim at all, or just making clickbaity pronouncements like “...Turner wasn’t coddled at all. Persky wasn’t lenient.” Pronouncements that aren’t even true. Yes, we all understand that the majority of rapists…

Tumblr forced a password reset on all users who’ve had accounts since 2013, so everyone should be good. In fact, some are now permanently locked out of their accounts because they lost access to the email they signed up with. Which, I sympathize, but if people can’t be bothered to update their accounts with new email…

Yes there is a need to compare. A man can get over being humiliated. A woman can’t get over being murdered.

They really need to. I’m dying to throw my money at them if they ever do.

Wow. I have to say I’m kind of shocked that my many encounters with my mother, a heated sewing needle, and tweezers, were actually the medically recommended procedure for removing a splinter. As a kid I kind of looked at it as torture.

I always assumed it was confirmation bias or something because it only happens to me when I already sort of have to pee. Like running water will make the urgency...more urgent, but I’ve never heard running water when I didn’t already feel a little bit like I needed to go and suddenly have to.

We never heat the butter or the milk when we make mashed potatoes. I can’t see how that’d be necessary if your potatoes are hot when you mash them. We just add the cold butter, mix with our hand mixer a bit to loosen them up and then start adding milk until desired consistency. The mash is always still plenty hot when…

I stream almost everything. Rarely, I come across a song/album I really really really really like, and I’ll buy it, usually from Amazon MP3. But it is rare. But to be honest, before streaming services, I never bought music at all. I just went without or pirated it. So streaming has been a big win for the music…

Do you understand how averages work? Because “most” teachers in your district are not making 72k either. Like all averages, that number is skewed by the outliers both high and low. Maybe the teachers where you are need to be paid more.

It may be creepy to you, but something tells me you haven’t lost a child. My sister had a baby in 2014 and he was unfortunately born with a congenital condition that limited his life to one month. A lovely photographer from one of these “creepy” charities came and took pictures of him for her to keep. They were done…

Interesting idea. I always use milk that’s just about to go off in cooking. You can’t tell the difference if it’s been put in a baked good or cooked in a casserole.

It’s in July. You’ve still got time. :)

I truly love my Windows 10, and I recommend updating for anyone who doesn’t have a specific reason not to, but forcing this update on users was just a horrendous decision on Microsoft’s part. I know so many people who were forced to upgrade, and as a result they are quite bitter about Windows 10, and hate everything…

Why does the state need to make a law against letting men use a bathroom that’s “less gross”? What public good does that serve? Now if a man pretends to be a woman to enter a bathroom and assault women, that’s already illegal. No additional laws are needed. This is a made up issue though. The people making these laws…