Um. Vinegar and baking soda mix to create water (and salts). Your magic degreaser is just diluted soap.

What about something that IS helping other people? A piece of art supporting a local creator. Some locally made interesting food, straight from the farm (or baker, or butcher). A piece of clothing or an accessory that’s hand crafted.

It’s easy to grow, really tasty, and if you don’t harvest it you get amazing purple flowers.
Makes me fart like a horse though.

I can’t answer the ultimate question (though I lean towards Wakanda being actually significant even though it’s “just pop culture”), but would it be more valuable in this case to demonstrate to the classmate that your son listens and respects others?

TIL other countries don’t have jacket potatoes. Mind blown!

Thank you for not doing it. It creeps me out, and alerts me to the fact that whoever I’m talking to is doing some sort of technique or has had training on how to manipulate people...

Jezza Kyle.

Biosecurity is a Thing. Because of the field (literally) I and many friends work in, we have no worries about banishing certain footwear or clothing, or demanding disinfection as appropriate. You’re all adults. Just say “None of us want bedbugs, what is your disinfection procedure after work?”
He should be doing that…

This terrifies me as much as the folk in Oregon are terrified of pumping their own gas.

Seems to have worked, if the local rag screaming about KILLER AUSSIE FLU is anything to go on?

*wipes drool from screen*

Yeah. What about all the people suffering and in pain who manage NOT to abuse strangers on the internet? Where is their help?

But why not support inclusive businesses with your money?

The key thing that nobody ever told me about a power strip is that the total limit is cumulative. Sounds obvious, huh? But if yours is rated 13 amp, that doesn’t mean each socket can handle a 13 amp appliance... you’d think they’d point that out somewhere. This is why daisy-chaining is also a Bad Idea!

PS - I love your dogs. I kinda want to see where they would assign a tortoise...

At least we have a few hand and face transplants to reflect on? As in, I know some recipients of hand transplants asked for their removal, and I presume (and hope) that recipients of face transplants are very well cared for, psychologically.

Cold is okay. WET is the dangerous bit. Focus on that :)

Isn’t there a thing where people show affection in different ways? As in, someone might give gifts; someone takes care of little practical things, someone is verbal.... So we have to make sure we see what people are offering but also how they are offering it?

I loved it, but it did not match its marketing. I can see why people would be baffled and disappointed.

“What did they expect a 100lb body to do to the car they landed on?”