It was the prison labour manufacturing for me, but I enjoy reading things like this to remember that there are so many reasons to overlook VS for other, better brands.

What I would love to see is cheerleading moving to its own blockbuster competitive venue. Enough people love to see it and if they have their own audience I would predict we would see them get more respect. Right now the NFL and NBA are the pinnacle of a cheer career AFAIK, but why not replace that with something…

I’m so sorry. That’s...absolutely horrifying

Instead of laughing at you, your OBGYN should have pointed you to the modern iteration of the diaphram - the Femcap! I had the exact same issues as you with hormonal birth control, so I used the Femcap for five years of regular sexing with nary a pregnancy scare. (I’m now returning to it after a break from it due to in…

Don’t forget: people with kids are gonna love that shit! I would *never* bring my baby to a theater out of consideration for others, but in our own car it’s no problem. And if kids of any age fall asleep during the movie they’re already packed up in the car for the ride home. Plus I think you pay by car not by person?…

It’s not about protecting oneself though — it’s “my mask protects you, your mask protects me.” That’s why the research is so all over the place with the effectiveness of homemade masks, because besides the variation in type of construction the measure of what is effective varies. Public health advice has been to just…

I have come full circle in that I used to see her play at pay-what-you-can loft shows in Montreal way back in the day and everyone knew she would blow up, then personally I thought *some* of her stuff was not quite as good for a bit but now I really like new tracks like Violence and think she’s doing a good job of…

I think that in order for fathers to take more parental leave, you’ve got to be working with more than 12 weeks total. Many moms will want to breastfeed for the first three months given the opportunity, or need that time to recover from post-partum depression (to cite just two examples of things that can specifically…

It’s not that deep; as a pescatarian I just want to avoid the actual tangible negative impacts that eating meat has (and yes I eat certified sustainable seafood and not that much of it). I also like things that have been marketed as new protein-inclusive dishes i.e. dragon bowls, but trading on popular meat-based…

I liked the middle part of the book where they’re in Las Vegas and he has that weird friend, but I hated both the beginning and the end. The whole thing should have just been dismembered by a good editor and it would have been fine. A lot of people in my book club liked the first 2/3 of it, but for me the barrage of…

I’ve gotten good at backing into parking spots because the way my own parking spot is positioned at home makes it necessary, and now I do it in public as kind of a flex. It makes me feel better about my terrible parallel parking skills

Outstanding headline! 👨‍🍳👌 Compliments to the word-chef. 

That just means you’re fancy -- Mossimo is a Target brand

I just feel like we should have moved on from fireworks for public celebrations; now that we have holographic technology and all that jazz, fireworks seem sooo 7th century :P 

I briefly panicked when I saw this, because of all the times I invited colleagues for a 5 à 7 while living in Montreal. Thank bébé Jésus that the term kept its wholesome connotations in Quebec French

Ah — We are thinking of different kinds of books then. I thought the Harlequin brand was synonymous with the kind of “romance novels” I used to read on occasion that were definitely a crude sort of erotic fiction (i.e. lots of graphic descriptions of “pulsating members” and such)

Eh, you could do a similarly unflattering read of what modern porn presents about gender roles - smut has got to be taken with a grain of salt in terms of representing society.

True, they’re just the least sympathetic of cases because they can afford to live anywhere and yet they are choosing the most volatile spots. Less wealthy residents of such areas often live there due to a combo of two factors: the most dangerous lands are also the cheapest and they can’t afford anywhere else, and…

not to defend his rudeness, but he’d need a wood-fired oven - something that even the famed Fairmount and St. Viateur bagel places in Montreal are increasingly getting flack for (neighbours complain about the emissions from it). If they ever succeed in shutting those down I will cry. Montreal bagels > NYC bagels >…

Eh, Suzanne Somers looks happy and all, but John Oliver did a pretty good takedown of how these luxury beach houses suck up multiple times their already high commercial value in federally-backed flood insurance claims. I guess it depends on where the beach is located, but if it’s literally sitting overtop of the water…