Sorry to tell you, but...a lot of fast food meat is prepared this way. When I worked at Disney World, we used boiling vats that two people could have comfortably stood inside for this purpose. You get to wear these massive rubber gloves that go up to your shoulder so you can stick your hand in and dig around for the…

This. a 92 year old pulled this exact same stunt back in December in my town, except he killed someone. https://www.gainesville.com/news/20181228/woman-77-dies-after-deli-crash

I wasn’t super familiar with him, he was one of a gaggle of boys who were in my German class mostly for the purpose of hanging out with each other and goofing off. I would honestly bet he’s doing better than some of my “model” classmates, who famously broke into a house in my neighborhood and had a drug-fueled orgy in…

I had a very similar upbringing to you, and, yeah, the pressure to attend college was very real in my community, which was only upper middle class as opposed to filthy rich. The ONLY kid in my entire school who went to community college was the one who had also been tazed on a bet. In the case of my community, 100% of…

Grew up in the DC area, live in Florida now. Florida is more humid, but by literally any other standard, the DC area is VERY hot and humid in the summer. It also rains less in the summer up there.

Ooh, you just jumped this game to the top of my to-play list. I REALLY enjoy these sorts of micro narratives in games—I’ve spent way too much time in the Mass Effect and Bioshock games finding all of the little stories tucked away.

This is always an aspect that needs to be talked about more—how being embroiled in a community with this kind of belief can perpetuate these beliefs. Tangentially related, but it puts me in mind of when Jezebel reported on that free birth community, and how they contributed to the death of a child. Especially the part…

This is...relevant information for me. I suffered a concussion recently and my mental health has been especially difficult since then.

Glad to see this write-up! Blair Braverman’s Twitter threads are genuinely great pieces of writing--she has a compelling way of making the Alaskan wilderness and the total athletic insanity of competitive dogsledding sound compelling and meaningful.

My time spent reading the replies on this yesterday led to me rewatching Speed last night. God I fucking love Speed. Sandra at her most winning, a consistently tight and incredibly tense script, great action sequences. I had so many dreams last night about sexy, earnest Keanu.

YES that’s right! I didn’t remember all the details off the top of my head. That’s the extra spice Tumblr adds—people deciding to fake ailments/disabilities so they can create this righteousness armor they can use to battle others over who’s the most liberal and sad and adjective’d--and therefore, most right.

These scandals are infecting every industry, to the point where it gets...weird, in some cases. There was a scandal in the fanfiction world recently where an author was pretending to be two multiracial, HIV positive, lesbian, people living in Asian countries in order to avoid criticism about their fanfiction where the…

I visited London from the US and the biggest culture shock was watching TV in the hotel and then BAM! Embarrassing Bodies, infected dicks and all. You’re right, it is not a good snacktime show.

It was 2017. It’s the last story on this page, called A Little Hole in the Wall: https://jezebel.com/10-scary-stories-to-fuck-you-up-at-night-1819882791 

There were two “first time”s.

My scout leader was nutty as well, but at least not this nutty—she just decided she hated my twin sister and actively edged her out of scouts, and then a few years later she specifically asked us not to have a paint war in her front room and another girl and I locked eyes and before we knew it, paint war. Anyway it’s…

I was a Girl Scout and when my troop folded, I flew solo for a few years exclusively so that I could keep going to Girl Scout camp. Camp Crossroads had a Harry Potter theme each year and if you think there was a better place to be in the summer of 2007, you are incorrect.

The Dollop has a really good podcast on the history of another island that has ended up like this—episode 349, “Nauru.”

There’s a very similar discussion and struggle being waged among people who “dress vintage”—which is a catchall term for people who want to dress in certain 20th century styles. (There’s a few terms for this out there, but most of them describe specific vintage styles, like pinup or Disneybounding. A lot of the…

It is nude fabric—she’s got at least two pairs of leggings on as well.