I collect tea towels, Kelly. I wish you had brought me one.

Came here for this, was not disappointed.

I once walked past a high-end couture resale boutique and saw, in the window, the most beautiful jacket in the world. It was made of long pieces of patterned silk sewn together, like vertical patchwork, with a notched collar, long sleeves, a nipped-in waist and a bit of a peplum. Beautiful and perfect for a…

I hit menopause and boom, my hair fell out. You bet your sweet bippy I got a wig on my sad thinning head asap. I wore it for two years before my actual hair started coming back. WIGS CAN BE YOUR FRIENDS. Furthermore I still have it; it’s in a special case on the top shelf of my closet, in case I ever need it…

It happens, on occasion. We’re not as accomplished at it as our neighbours to the south. And when it happens it is taken very seriously.

Yes. Yes he could. He was close to graduating from Seneca. Not even out of school and a whole life ahead of him as a clean-cut white guy.

“HARMLESS PSYCHOLOGICAL FUN”

OMG Vulcans I can not go there right now. This week has been too much already.

I just read the linked post. Jesus wept.

Does the incel community exist to “support”, or to undermine its sad adherents? We don’t know a lot about Alek Minassian. We know he was socially awkward; that he was good with computers; that he enlisted with the Canadian Forces but withdrew, having found the rigours of basic training too much for him; we know he…

.......................No

I doubt they’ll name the kid after the founder of a penal colony.

I concur with your assessment.

Rex quondam rexque futuris

Well, then, how about Arthur Philip James? Or what if we threw in a two-syllable name? Arthur Philip Edward? Arthur Philip Edmund? Arthur Philip Richard?

I too vote for Arthur, even if he’ll never be King Arthur.

I abhor eggplant and everyone is determined to make me love it. No, I say. Iwill eat so many foods in this world with pleasure: allow me the occasional reject. And that reject is eggplant. My BFF loves it and forgets, or refuses to believe, that I do not love it too and is constantly ordering it at restaurants or…

You have opened a new window into my world with this suggestion. I am doing this the very next time I get a cupcake.

I too loathe melon. I can’t even eat any fruit that has been adjacent to melon on a plate or in a fruit cup. It bears the taint of melon and makes me ill.