How can so many people be in doubt that Lyme disease is a thing? Are we just imagining the bacteria that can be detected in a medical lab? Is it a conspiracy to let deer ticks kill off the populace or leave us shriveled crones? Seriously, people, this is 8th grade science shit. Do you have to catch it and convince…

I am the deer tick genocider, I live in fear of Lyme during the warm months. My pets stay dosed up with Frontline Plus, I do an entire body check before bed every night (including scalp), and any ticks I see die a fiery or alcohol-drowning death. I can’t believe so many people don’t believe it’s real. Like, do these…

Some people can be out of bed in a month, but really, most people feel effects for about six. If you catch it earlier obviously it’s less severe. It’s really, really debilitating, and it’s making me angry to read all the commenters claiming Lyme is made up.

Ummmm....you know Lyme disease is real, right? There’s this really cool place you can go called a medical clinic (it’s super fun! they have needles!) and they can test for *gasp* BACTERIA and prove the existence of a well known disease! Come to my town for a week. Watch the people limping down the sidewalk because…

No? What? Are you a person?

Absolutely not, it’s an epidemic and can compromise anyone’s immune system for the rest of their lives if it’s not treated soon enough. I live in one of the worst places in the US to get Lyme, it’s really horrible to see people limping 20 years after being treated :/

In Finland a lot of hostels use motion sensors to turn the lights off and on, so if she goes there she might think it works. Makes it that much better.

Mix mashed potatoes, black beans, and vanilla flavoring and bake like cookies. Bring them to your beloved. It's the new engagement chicken, I swear!

I have two schmoozy cats and a gigantic dog, so when the time comes that a date and I are going to spend our first night together, I really try to make it at their place. I'm pretty honest about it, these are not pets that will quietly leave us alone to watch a movie. The dog wants to get in on cuddling, cats try to…

Memories Pizza just SOUNDS depressing. They probably use super white dough, sugar in the tomato sauce and a mix of yellow-n-white cheese.

Exactly. I do want to see if he's any good on the DS, because I'm unfamiliar with him overall. But this is a rocky start. Personal example: years ago I was convinced that people who identified as genderqueer were trying to be special snowflakes and that GQ wasn't really a thing, which was going against that stupid…

I hate that I find bras as uncomfortable as I do, even now that I'm properly sized. At least now I'm not being needled with underwire as often, but it feels so confining. Sports bras are okay, but feel kinda gross after awhile. I worry that I forego the bra so often since I work from home right now that I'm setting…

Regular corsets are extremely painful for me after about an hour, but there's this in-between thing I found that I love. It's called a Squeem, which sounds gross but it's like spanx meets a waist cincher. It may not be sexy, but it gives a more corseted look without the same rigidity or lacing issues.

If only most copy editors were as vigilant as Jez commenters ;)

That made me think of that bit in the Princess Diaries books where she talks about her grandmother getting insane eyeliner tattooed on, so when she woke up in the morning she was all smokey eye and it terrified everyone.

Highly possible, especially when dehydrated. Here's hoping they got to her before a lot of the damage was done.

I was more offended by his non-apology than by most of the jokes they dug up. He should be smart enough to have deleted jokes that didn't land; I agree about the weird aggressive vibe to it. At the same time, I'm not a big fan of the "saint or GTFO" mentality. Everyone, especially comedians, have had problematic views…

Proofreading is your friend.

I cringe when I hear/read that. Some people you can say something like, "hey, that's really not cool, either use the complete word or not at all," but others use that as fuel for trans hate. It feels unwinnable sometimes. Bringing it up reminds the people who use the t-word that they're being pejorative for a reason,…

Yeah, Jez doesn't seem like the target audience for this brand of garbage. Something weird is up with dirtbag today though.