“bud light lime” told me everything I needed to know.

I feel you. My ex in-laws are really awesome people, and I was sad to lose them as family.

My grandfather has a three-bedroom condo to himself, so for the past 10 or 15 years he’s been renting out the rooms to men from his church. The most recent one, whom I’ve met once before, was at dinner tonight.

Yeah, and that on its own is bad enough. But if you look closely you can see the hooks on them like velcro.

I’m guessing, based on several years working at Nordstrom Rack, that half the people who are pissed off wouldn’t have bought them if they didn’t have the $300 or whatever crossed off on the tag. Kate Spade, etc., are aspirational brands—people buy them because everybody thinks they’re expensive, but since so much of…

If they’re basically velcro, then they’re probably very attracted to hair, or vice versa. It wouldn’t take much for them to grab onto one or two strands, and from there it’s just downhill.

Like, chicken eggs?

You said the “men of the Night’s Watch” and my brain immediately went to Terry Pratchett. I was like, “But Nobby Nobs would never rob anyone with a sword. He’d wait until they weren’t looking and then kick ‘em inna fork.”

Yeah, I think one of the reasons my mom wasn’t too bad about this kind of stuff was because her mom could be, and there are a lot of ways that she swore she’d never be like her mother. She’ll comment on my weight occasionally, but usually in ways most people think are compliments—”Have you lost weight? You look so…

What if you get both infections? Average number of babies and your Crohns symptoms disappear?

But it’s not, like, physically impossible to refund. It’s just against company policy. In a case where the customer makes a mistake, fine (still stupid, IMO, but as long as the policy is clear, fine). But there’s no reason why a company can’t suspend policy for extenuating circumstances.

I try to spread joy.

Lol, yes. Wouldn’t that be terrifying if it were real?

Possibly staffed by graduates of Los Feliz Daycare?

Actually, the pendulum thing seems kind of like a good idea for places like Cheesecake Factory where the menu is a damn Russian novel.

I love doing my nails. I’ve had one gel manicure, and it was awesome until I tried to take it off. That took forever, with my fingers all wrapped in foil to hold the acetone-soaked cotton on, and it still took some scraping. Plus I’m a major fidget, so I had already peeled some of it. DO NOT DO THAT. Peeling it took…

Is there a word that means both “unbelievably stupid” and “racist”?

It’s a little antiquated, I think, but still fairly common.

Wasn’t there just recently a big long thread about how we shouldn’t use “ugly” to describe behavior because of its association with looks? Let’s make up our mind, feminists. (Or, you know, recognize that language is important but secondary—you can police every syllable and still be an asshole.)

The town I live in has a very large upper-middle-class population, and some friends of mine with a kid in elementary school (who are not a part of that demographic), complain all the time about what you’re talking about. The teachers just assume that someone (read: mom) is at home all day and has nothing better to do…