Me too! I don’t watch those kinds of things in public, for that reason. However, if this condition of yours gets worse, google “pseudobulbar affect”! Otherwise, welcome to the sniffles&blinking club!

It’s just really really hot where she lives and she spends most of her time holding her hair up off her face and neck because it’s so hot and that’s why she never developed creases under her arms.

I’ve been tuned into animal welfare issues since before the internet was a thing, and once the internet became a vehicle for cat videos around the world, I hoped that some of the world’s most horrifying animal abuses (like this, and the bear bile trade, and ffs why are people still paying to watch bullfighting?!)…

Dope, I just now re-read what I wrote and it sounds like an insult to you and others who follow cooking blogs. Which is not what I meant! To be perfectly honest, my husband does all the cooking and baking, so I can spend all of my free time on more important things like reading Jezebel.

Thirty thousand pounds of bananas:

True! There is actually a banana crisis looming, since we all want just the one strain because it tastes good and ships well, but that strain doesn’t produce seeds and has to be cloned and demand for it has nearly wiped out other banana varieties and all it takes is one virus or fungus to wipe out all bananas…

I was shaken when I got to that sentence. It was like Ellie was standing next to my laptop, narrating while I scrolled. Closest thing I’ve ever had to a supernatural experience.

I agree. These people would be arguing in exactly the same way if they were vlogging about paint colors. It’s “reality show” drama clickbait junk and I hope they’re not making a living from it.

I thought the BRAT thing was just about eating bland foods that won’t irritate your GI tract any further while it’s dealing with whatever made you sick. I didn’t think that those foods were specifically about diarrhea.

Except rice. Like Mitch Hedberg once said, a bowl of rice is perfect for when you just want to eat a thousand of something!

Save money on TV: just get rid of the false eyelashes.

And astrology and cosmetology? That would be a great semester’s course load.

“Vaginal sand”? Is that something like penile smegma?

She really doesn’t want to have to take it off and walk all the way to the bathroom in her wig cap to put it back on.

No no no no no....

Elizabeth Gaskell was a close friend of Charlotte Bronte, and she wrote a biography of Bronte. I learned some disturbing things about Emily Bronte in that biography. (Previous to reading it, I remember being uneasy about the sadism in Wuthering Heights, and I’ve never re-read it.)

This guy’s car did float pretty high for several seconds — I would have been tempted to get in the water and push it towards land! (as long as there was no current) Sometimes I do overestimate my own strength...

You guys are merciless. I hope this poor guy doesn’t read all of your comments. The reporter said that another car had just done the same thing from the other side, so at least one other driver made the same mistake. There may have been some sort of illusion of pavement or shallow water from a driver’s perspective.…

But, see, if the pack of dogs tears you apart, you’ll be able to give a pretty good guess why they did it. If a cat is ignoring you, the reason is still a mystery!

Yes, she may have been saving the toddler... she was definitely hanging out nearby and keeping an eye on him beforehand. But I can’t be sure whether she ran at the dog to protect her baby or her territory or because she’s hungry for dog-flesh or whether they’ve had a long-running feud through the fence. I guess that’s…