First of all, yes, I’ve “heard of vegetarianism” and have been one for 12 years. I’m not sure where anyone said being vegetarian is unusual in all parts of the world. But guess what? More than 6 billion people aren’t.

Yes, living in reality, I’m of course aware that leather, skins, and hides is a byproduct of beef production. Since millions of cows are slaughtered for meat consumption each year, it’s actually a positive thing to use as much of the animal as possible instead of just discarding the entire skin as waste.

Hi U.K based Jessie here, my one experience of thanksgiving was awful, the guy that eventually ghosted me, left me to figure out your different from UK ovens, decided 15 mins before the food was ready that he wanted devilled eggs, at this stage I grabbed the margueritas and drank a lot.

That sounds like knife catching

Your spouse and you are wonderful parents for listening to your daughter’s wishes in regards to her grandparents. She’s 13 and that’s old enough to make up her mind about what relatives she wants to have contact with.

I imagine Darren would respond to a breakup the same way here responded to the critics who hated Mother.

I really appreciate the apology of [this powerful man] who has done a lot for [my political party/prevailing ideology/hobby/entertainment of choice]. He really fucked up, but he seems sincere, and I think he deserves a chance to make it right. Let’s take him at his word and stop this witch hunt. What he did was wrong.…

The sad part about this is that the man doesn’t need to be powerful, he just needs to have a position of power over you.

God that calling any form of UK police in foreign shows as “Scotland Yard” is so teeth-grinding.

The Scotland Yard

I like neither Reese’s Pieces nor Dave Matthews.

Your godmother is a hero and that story is my nightmare. For some reason I can handle all kinds of pest removal when I’m clothed, but if I’m in the shower I lose it. Even friendly things like geckos. NOPE, I’M NAKED, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE. I’ve washed my hair out in the kitchen sink more than a few times.

We once had a petting zoo visit the library and they had snakes and spiders to show the kids. One of the handlers was walking along the line of children with an ENORMOUS jumping spider in a box. I turned to my colleague and said “If it’s a jumping spider shouldn’t the box have a lid?” At that moment the spider decides…

In 1989, my godmother was taking a shower, when she looked up and saw a huntsman spider roughly the size of a dinner plate right above her head. She thought, ‘no worries, I will just calmly and quietly finish up this shower before he has a chance to move.’ Right at that moment, the Newcastle earthquake stuck, rattling…

Whoops, I thought it was “don’t touch my *weed*.” And it still made sense to me. In fact, I think I prefer my version.

“ asking an honest yet blunt question about the way many journalists ply their trade”

You don’t need to know the context or the entirety of the conversation to know that ‘Did you fuck all your sources?” is inappropriate question. Fuck’s sake. If someone is ignorant, it’s still harassment.

One fun context clue to figure out if this question wasn’t appropriate is that the woman who was asked the question is saying that it wasn’t appropriate.

Yes it was phrased poorly, and that is because of insensitivity. It shouldn’t be phrased that way. If you need to gauge someone’s trust there are other ways to do it. If something requires secrecy then asking in so many words “can we trust you” won’t provide a fool proof assessment anyway. Why would you ask the person…

“I’m not sure why chicks...”
Aaaand I’ve read enough.