My condolences to you. Developing a worldview of scientific skepticism over the past several years has taught me one lesson over and over again - different details, different stories, all variations on the same theme:
I’m not special. My brain isn’t special. It can fuck up in all of the same ways as anyone else’s, by…

I’m not taking this fuckstick out of the greys, but I’m posting this here so that other folks can see what an asshole he is. 

Oh my god. I am so sorry. Thank you for the perspective.

I am so sorry. 

Sure do love all the perfect parents in this comment section who have never, ever fucked up, not even once. Not even when they are tired, or stressed, or sick, or overworked or running on fumes.

Forgotten in this discussion is the idea that at the level of exhaustion or mindlessness to be at risk of forgetting their young child in the car, a parent is already way past the point of being a danger on the road, and far more likely to be involved in an accident that would injure their child than they are to…

I assume that this is written by and for folks who drive a vehicle with automatic transmissions. I tried driving without shoes and never felt comfortable working the clutch in bare or stockinged feet.

*shouldn’t*

Is this supposed to be on the Onion? 

The motorcycle scenes in both Fallout and Rogue Nation both were made so much better by the fact that you spend a ton of the chase looking straight into Tom Cruises face, even as he’s scraping his knees on the street while taking a hard turn at high speed. It’s nuts, and it ratchets the intensity of these movies so…

+1 for the CVS receipt reference!

There's "Shazam" hype?

Dude. Don’t share this story with other people, it’s dangerous. I cannot stop laughing at my desk.

We had this book when I was little but it was written in what I thought was French and I could not read it. No one in my family spoke or read French so I never knew what it was, it just sat on a shelf in my room. My sister took French in high school and so one day I asked her about the French elephant book. She did…

I literally just read this to my 3-year-old son last week and had the same experience. I had no recollection of the dead mom part, hit page three and was like ‘I guess we’re having this conversation now.’ He had a bit of a death primer from watching a bunch terrifying snakes tear apart an iguana on an episode of Planet…

It’s common at bars in the US, not restaurants.

To answer your questions: Yes and it’s pretty much the norm. I wasn’t even aware you can have a tab open without the establishment holding your card.

Kal-El: “Stache.”

Lois: “What does the S stand for?”

“While they’re the best buds of their kind in the world...”