I’m a tiny bit mad at your friend but I love how you handled this.

Roughly around the start of Grade 7, my prior group of girlfriends formed a hive mind and baby me was no longer welcome. Making the best of it, I made some new friends, including the boy who’d just moved to my town. New group and I have an okay time, lots of laughs, and new boy Taylor is funny. Great. Spring rolls…

Between my biochem knowledge and a good friend’s encyclopedic knowledge of skincare stuff.....we’ve kind of converged on The Ordinary as the best of both worlds. She uses it/loves it, and I’ll get there eventually. (I am a Bad Grownup - despite all my trashtalk online I’ve been happily using a drugstore body lotion on…

Bless you for this. I also get twitchy and go full ‘I-took-Organic-III’ every time I encounter beauty writing that goes into the ingredient list. Truthfully, I don’t remember most stuff offhand (I didn’t stay in chemistry) but a quick trip to wiki and I’m like ‘well actually’ with the best of them.

I would eat that food item, I just wouldn’t call it pizza. It’s like....a reuben melt? Kind of?

OKAY EASY NOW, I also make my box mac with butter only, but hear me out. I only keep soy milk in the house and I would argue that using that is worse.

I get you. White cheddar mac with broccoli and some kind of protein is an approximately monthly quick dinner in my household but I understand the emotional value of the original thing.

Follow-up from one Kraft Dinner eater to another - do you still eat Kraft Dinner? Or have you let the President’s Choice white cheddar mac into your life and heart? 

I have never bought this product (it’s not stocked in the Canadian stores I shop at) but fuuuuck I hear you about the siren song of white bread. I’m usually munching on a CSA share’s worth of local veggies and whole grains but White Wonder Bread + Kraft Singles + a pan and a little butter = a miracle of food…

Fuuuuuuuck, Nino sucked. I read the whole series a couple of months ago and that!! fucking!! guy!! is!! the!! worst!!!

He said he’d never lead with them, IIRC.

What I know about him is based primarily off of his interview on Marc Maron’s podcast (which I generally found endearing). My understanding is that he got the reputation of ‘wunderkind’ not because he’s particularly incredible on SNL, but because he got ONTO the show at an unusually young age after doing stand-up as a…

Do like they do in every bakery I’ve ever worked in and cut 1/2" off the sides as soon as you take it out of the pan. BLAM, it’s all middle, and you have a pile of edge pieces that you can either give away or make into sundaes etc.

This brownie recipe here achieves the textures you describe as your goal in the article, and it’s my favourite homemade recipe (I’ve never made the frosting that’s supposed to go on top, it’s unnecessary).

We are flight twins - this is exactly how I do it. Sleeveless dress in summer, knit sweater dress in winter, low heeled booties year round. I usually also have a lightweight wool cardigan in my carry on if the AC is cold, and always always always a big shawl/scarf that doubles as a blanket. I do my eyeliner extra…

Idk why (misandry probably) but I have a hard time really loving the K-pop boy groups as much as the girl groups.

The book does go more into her teenage years, but mostly through asides/allusions. I read it a few weeks ago.....do you actually want these answers or would you prefer to read it at this point? 

I never knew this could be a problem because my hair is so soft/slippery that no pony can be tight on this head. It was always frustrating as fuck playing sports (it me, the girl with 40 clips and bobby pins) but I suddenly feel grateful.

Gonna be that jerk, but botanists aren’t experts on fungi. Plants and fungi are legitimately separate biological kingdoms. I’m arguably a botanist and I like to forage....but one’s professional and the other is fun. Just stepping on the mycologists’ turf on my free time, haha.

I read I Love Dick earlier this year and don’t know anyone else IRL who has so guess I’m going to use this space........idk about lumping it in with ‘me too’ but I do think it’s pretty reasonable for someone to call that whole biz harassment.