Wonderful!! I sympathize with your plight as a pigeon fan, because I happen to have a fondness for starlings. When people find that out, you’d think I’d said I like eating poo or kicking babies... Starlings can learn to talk and mimic better than parrots-- but no one seems to know.

I don’t understand how anyone can live in such expensive cities! I live in a tiny rural town where there’s little to do and a lot of Trump supporters, but you can rent an apartment for $350-$700 per month — and a very swanky apartment for under $1000. Yeah, I’d love to live in an area where I’d fit in a little better,…

Many thanks! You saved me the trouble of what I was about to have to type out.

Ooooh, crap... So I sort of wore tiny glasses all through the 90s and on into the 2000s. I swear to you it was extremely cool. Seriously.

It IS weird, but it’s not just Chicago. I live in Southern IL. I just checked the demographic info for my immediate area— 0.16% black. There are around 150 employees at my workplace, and NONE of them are black. If I didn’t spend half my life on the internet, I’d almost never interact with anyone who isn’t white.

I always have to get the dilated exam too, because I have a high cup-to-disk ratio. They never numb my eyes for that one, but I hate it anyway because it makes it impossible for me to read for the rest of the day.

That sounds more like the ones I get. My doctor doesn’t use the puff of air thingy anymore. They put drops in my eyes that numb them, and then place some sort of little gauge against the eyeball itself. I’d rather have the puff of air, I think... numb eyeballs feel crazy!

huh-RASS vs. HAIR-us

Our local public grade school STILL has the 5th grade students write persuasive letters arguing against abortion. They do it every year, and then publish them all in the paper. The old people just eat that shit up, unfortunately.

OHHHHH. I always thought it was just a muggle corruption of avada kedavra.

THIS. Hero is the first movie that comes to my mind if we’re talking about use of color. It was absolutely brilliant in that regard.

As soon as we’re both off work tomorrow afternoon, we’re grabbing our packs and heading into the woods. We do plan to come back for work on Monday morning, but if the shit were to hit the fan while we’re out there...

This is basically what I came to say. I was taught to make these by my grandparents when I was just a toddler. It’s kind of amazing that no one ever thought til now to use something similar for practical purposes!

Super sweet!! I snagged a few bottles of my favorite body lotion (Winter Candy Apple) for three bucks a pop. :)

Super sweet!! I snagged a few bottles of my favorite body lotion (Winter Candy Apple) for three bucks a pop. :)

I’m so sorry for your loss.

Never forget-- the ONLY reason Illinois is blue is the existence of Chicago. The rest of Illinois is about as rednecky as it gets. Chicago just has enough population to cancel out the entire rest of the state.

You are awesome and I like you. :)

The bugler plays a reveille, nor a reverie. They do rhyme, and they are related, but they’re two very different words.

I can still smell those Weekly Readers if I ‘member real hard.

Yep, I agree. When that happened, I shouted out loud to my husband, “They’re tag teamin her!!”