The bar for this type of control is very high. So high that it would be quite difficult to hide behind closed doors, especially over 10 years in the public eye. They don’t hand out these restrictions because you’re suicidal, or bi polar. You can have paranoid schizophrenia and live in a world entirely of your own…

Listen to the full #FreeBritney podcast here. It’s a ride.

I think this goes to show you that making something forbidden fruit always backfires. I had parents who were fairly strict about most things but had it beaten in their heads by BIG CEREAL that kids who didn’t eat breakfast would do badly in school. Meanwhile, I hated eating in the morning and happily started every day…

Yes, not having had the kids conversation makes no sense when Amy Santiago is involved, but we got structured debate out of it and Amy/Holt co-nerdery covers a multitude of sins.

The problem for me is that if it was a dealbreaker, it probably would have come up before this, in a much more direct way than the water park miscommunication, especially with how casually she mentions it here. Heck, they were good friends for years before dating; at some point she would have mentioned a major life…

I haven’t been a fan of this season on NBC. Many of the jokes are still funny, but the small foundation of reality this show used to sit on is almost gone, which happens to most sitcoms that last as long as B99 has.

As for this episode specifically, why did Amy and Jake have to agree on kids by the end of the episode,…

Feel free to wear sequins or bows, but there is nothing about that outfit that is “normal”. I defy you to show someone wearing something that outlandish to school or even just in public. 

That’s a strange world you live in, where the only fashion options are “Rainbow Brite” or “25 year old sex kitten”.

I have a couple of friends who are still very engaged and seem quite happy. My experience of it was pretty off-putting so I don’t engage with the culture aside from occasional family gatherings, which I mostly avoid. But I did grow up that way and it’s a part of me. There were good parts, like everything, but not…

Will definitely take a listen.  Mennonites, Amish - just more North American born cults - the sooner people understand this the better for people trapped in these situations. And by people I mean women and children who are always the victims. I could give a shit about the men.

As someone who grew up in what most would consider progressive mennonite communities, I’m not surprised this happened either. The misogyny and sexism gets a little watered down in the ‘modern’ communities, but it’s still there. In the old colony it’s blatant. Sexual abuse is common, and anything remotely to do with…

The obvious solution here is to find someone with a lot of money who will fund a rescue effort, get some of that “animal anesthesia” into the after-dinner pipes of all the grown men in that colony in one night, and then kidnap/rescue all the women and children while they’re sleeping. Take the women and children to…

welcome to the salty waitress where the problems aren’t real and the letter writers need xanax

Just curious, what the heck does the guy want the restaurant to do? Personally make a 20 minute drive to hand-deliver you mashed potatoes? Spend 20 minutes on the phone to refund your credit card the $1.50 or whatever it costs? Personally show up at your house with 3 Russet potatoes, a tablespoon of heavy cream, 2…

Yep, two people and a large party are different experiences. And they’re especially different when you do things like decide to take 8 people at dinner rush hour, the busiest time of the night, on Friday, the busiest day of the week for most restaurants.

A restaurant experienced as a couple or solo diner is worlds away from a restaurant experienced with a large group (anything 6+ is a large group). Most restaurants aren’t great at groups IME. Servers feel overwhelmed by them and they always need to be sat somewhere away because of logistics.

It has always bothered me that in pregnancy and abortion discussions, the pregnant person is referred to as “the mother.” Being pregnant does not make someone a mother. Many pregnant people already have children, and may already be mothers, but the idea that becoming pregnant means you can automatically be referred to…

Like any other kind of food, especially peasant food, it can be done very well or very poorly. If you have a good cook doing it - my maternal grandmother was one - it’s great. If you have a poor cook doing it - my paternal grandmother - it is terrible. There’s not a lot of room for error.

They aren’t Kosher, since they don’t have scales.

“Considered an aphrodisiac” and “scientifically shown to be an aphrodisiac” are not the same thing. I believe they were saying it has the cultural reputation for being one, not that it necessarily is — and considering the context the cultural significance is what would be important.