And you need to be considerate of designated drivers. If you sell alcohol and you gouge designated drivers with the price of non-alcoholic drinks you are a menace to society and should be put out of business. That one-in-six non-drinker may well be enabling the alcohol consumption of the other five.  And they may be…

If you’re hosting food pop-ups, you’re acting like a restaurant (without the full responsibility of being a restaurant) and you can’t expect customers to not treat you like a restaurant. That includes ordering water with their food.

I got stuck without any aloe and a nasty sunburn once, but I was using witch hazel as a toner and I remembered reading that it was a traditional remedy for minor burns. The next morning the burn I was expecting to peel wasn’t even red.

Try witch hazel. (Not the mostly alcohol kind though!) I imagine it has a similar effect. Thayer’s rose petal witch hazel is my go-to. It’s also got aloe, but I started with plain witch hazel and it takes the color right down in burns that would have peeled.

In cases of abortion and reproductive rights, uterus and pussy imagery are trans-inclusive because this is oppression and control specifically of people with uteri, including trans men.

No. He spent more on the modifications than the car cost him.

He’s definitely a dingus. But, I have no idea how much he actually spent because Jalopnik is converting to US Dollars from Pounds Sterling when the eejit would have been paying in Euro, so the quoted figures have been through exchange calculations twice. And the exchange rates with Sterling have been all over the place…

I bet you the cost of modifying that car it was his complaint that was called “frivolous and vexatious”. That’s standard legal phrasing used in Ireland to dismiss ridiculous complaints. Usually repetitive complaints.

He’s a right eejit.

The experience from Northern Ireland is the other way around (the paramilitary groups are basically drug gangs), but wouldn’t be surprising.

That’s a better association than could be. The first associated thought could easily be “trashy men’s magazine”.

A “Merc” is still a Mercury to me.

Other way around. She’s English and fucked up Americanisms massively.

At least some of the Twilight fans have taken this path. I was teaching Children’s Literature to first year university students when it was at peak popularity. 1/3 of the students in my introductory discussion class answered “what’s your favorite book” with “Twilight” . . . some of them already acknowledging the…

Random tidbit: Charles Trevelyan’s genocidal role in shutting down relief efforts and blocking aid to the Irish during the famine, calling the famine an “effective mechanism for reducing surplus population” and saying things like “The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but…

It’s way below standard for a lot of YA, much of which is excellent.

I get you. Some of my Californian “normal for people with not-much-money” comes off as “serious notions!” in Ireland, which shares a lot of food tradition with the UK. (On the other hand, my MiL turned her nose up at my lentil soup as “poor people food” and kale as “fodder for cattle, not something you’d put on…

Worchestershire sauce of the UK is the worchestershire sauce of the USA.  It’s a fish sauce. Brown sauce is closer to a steak sauce or a vinegary barbecue sauce and doesn’t have anchovies in it.

It’s British too-poor-for-protein / drunk food. Mostly, drunk food nowadays, but that probably comes from the comfort-food aspect of too-poor-for-protein food.

Your state of confusion doesn’t make the corpus of centuries of both common and literary usage (including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Thackeray, Austen, Shaw, and Woolf) suddenly not exist.