I’m an American living in Canada & I wish that the voting for the Prime Minister was completely separate from the voting for my local MP. Sometimes there are good local candidates who belong to parties whose leader I don't want to have running the country.  Also, sometimes there are really shitty local candidates who…

Turtles are okay.  

You should never let your cereal get too soggy. 

I’m not 100% certain about December 25th, but you’ll usually discover that the dates on which most Christian holidays are celebrated have little to do with when things actually happened. If you search the history of the Roman Catholic church you’ll find that the holiday dates were usually assigned to overlap with…

Peanut butter makes almost everything better! It is truly one of humanity’s greatest achievements. 

I understand completely. Look, there’s PLENTY of things in my own past that I will never admit to online (even on largely anonymous Jezebel). Maybe I’d tell you some of them face to face (over a few beers), that is as long as you’re not employed by any government agency.

The bonfire in your story sounds familiar to me. Did this happen in the area of Princeton, New Jersey? 

This also happened to me once. My ex was having a graduation party on one of the hottest days of the year and I was running around like crazy beginning the first thing in the morning. Tables, chairs, prepping & cooking for a whole bunch of people whom I barely knew. I don’t know what time I had started drinking, but…

Your small town sounds somewhat similar to mine. There was a time when it wasn’t all that unusual for certain people to wake up only to discover that they’d been locked in at our local bar. Sometimes the cleaning staff would wake them up the next morning. One of our friends once woke up there on Christmas morning. 

It looks as if no one has asked how & why he had industrial grade explosives in the first place? My friend Adam once bought an old U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dynamite plunger off of some guy selling junk in NYC. That caused some interesting conversations whenever we'd get pulled over by the cops (which was pretty…

We don't want anyone from the U.S. right now because covid-19 is running crazy down there. We're trying to control it up here. We're not even doing that great of a job of it, but it's a 100x better than what most of the U.S. is doing. 

I transferred to Canada (via my employer) just over 12 years ago and it’s probably the greatest thing that I’ve done in my life. It’s not a simple thing to do though. Do you have any specialized skill set or graduate degree? (a pediatric cancer nurse will have an easier time immigrating than a McDonald's fry cook…

I’m now thinking that your commenter here might just be a new troll account that I’ve never seen before. There’s no acceptable defense of Cheese Wife’s husband.  He behaved like an entitled self-righteous douchebag and he will reap what he's sown. 

Look, I’m sorry if this exact same thing has happened to you, but Melissa’s husband & you (assuming that you're not one & the same person) should always try to follow this simple rule: "If you don't want people to treat you like a douchebag, then don't behave like a douchebag." Social media & the internet are far too…

I've never had any unusual fetishes before, but if your feet taste like Swiss cheese.....

I think that you’re lucky to be “more anonymous” instead of “less anonymous”. This will only hurt you if someone that you barely knew from 20+ years ago is trying to see what you’ve been up to (and you actually want them to find you). I know there’s been a few times in my life when I’ve done exactly that for people…

I don't think that I know anyone with a July birthday.  What sign does that make you? (I know that it seems like I could just go & Google that, but it causes all kinds of headaches on my phone if leave Jezebel & then try to return, so I try not to leave once I'm here)..

1) Your little human is adorable.

Every country has a lot of bad shit in their history and Canada is no exception to that rule (especially with whole residential schools thing). Having said that, modern-day Canada actually is something of a multicultural wonderland. There’s a reason why several European countries have sent members of their government…

SO fucking powerful.  Tears to my eyes.