I used to be a real hothead while driving. I would brake check people tailgating me all the time. (Fortunately, I also drove with my doors locked—before automatic locks—because at least once, some asshole got out of his car at the next light and pounded on my windows.) Then I ended up moving where I had to drive an…

Oh, and I just remembered that in Oklahoma, when it’s road construction, there is always a sign that says, “Merge now. State law” well before the merge point. Maybe about 3/4 of the way between the original road work ahead sign and the merge point.

I’m fine with letting the semis in where I can, but they need to stop just moving over whether someone has left a hole for them or not (they do this on the turnpike, too. I’ve had more than one instance where my reflexes were all that kept me from being squished between a giant truck and the concrete barrier.) It’s a…

Right. The assholes are the people who won’t let anyone in and think people trying to zipper merge are cheating. The people who get over before the merge point are just trying to avoid frustration created by those assholes.

Taco Bell is Tex Mex, not Mexican. (I live in Oklahoma. We have tons of restaurants that are owned by people who are immigrants from Mexico or 1st generation.) I’m not knocking it—I like Taco Bell and I happen to prefer Tex Mex, anyway. Just, if anyone says it is authentic Mexican food, they have never had real…

People think not authentic = not tasty. I’ll say for sure it isn’t authentic, but it *is* tasty. 

Because they used the word “audience” in their profile along with the phrase “Black Lives Matter.” For instance, “My content is tailored to an audience who participates in the Black Lives Matter movement.” And the algorithm just sees “die Black.”

Yes! I wish Kinja would add a block feature because there are people on here I would prefer to block rather than just flag (which does no good) but also for the spam followers. I have about 5 of them (and that’s a lot for me, because I don’t have a lot of followers.) I would love to block them.

Nevertheless, “aluminum” is the correct spelling. It was the original spelling. Then, it was changed to end more like other elements (like sodium and potassium.) Eventually, it was changed back to the original, but not everyone went back to the orginal. 

Although they do usually have enough warning to get to shelter as long as shelter isn’t more than 20-30 minutes away. (And, in places that get a lot of tornadoes, shelter is usually very close.) Sometimes a tornado can suddenly happen, but we have such good equipment (and storm chasers) these days that we can spot the…

As a lifelong Oklahoman, this is the reason I always knew not to park under an overpass.

There’s a reason I hung out so much at the house of my friend whose parents were still together (they celebrated 50 years before he died.) It was novel and it was nice. I love my parents dearly and it was better that they not stay together (even better for me and my sister) but I sure would have liked to have known…

Wunmi Mosaku is such a great actress. She does so much with her face. And she is so pretty. I’m mesmerized any time she’s on screen.

No, they knew he was there. He specifically said that they pruned him as soon as he started taking steps to go find people again.

That music while they were enchanting the storm monster (I forgot how to spell its real name) was amazing! It gave it a real movie feel.

That second one is...oof. I watched with no sound (because I’m not listening to that shit) and that made it seem like some kind of skit making fun of people like that. But, they weren’t even together most of the time. And it had to be the laziest choreography I’ve ever seen.

The problem is right there in Nowicki’s essay. Now all these people see the relationship she had as something totally different than what it really was. Everyone sees it as this gross thing with this awful person and it just wasn’t that. But, all the people who know her read it and know she is the inspiration (why…

I don’t get the snark (other than the fact that almost every writer on these sites seems to think they need to snark on everything.) It was a show about a haunted house and it’s going to be featured at Halloween Horror Nights, which seems pretty fitting. 

First: If you don’t read the whole article, you shouldn’t comment on it because you just end up making yourself look like an idiot.

That was literally in the article.