"The red-headed police officer? They were just here."

"I just wanted to see what would happen, I swear!"

I think you misunderstood me. I am NOT friends with them on facebook, they are friends of my friends. They still show up on my wall, so I recognize their name/profile pic. Still awkward the first time you meet them in real life.

What's annoying is when you know someone because they're friends with your friends on facebook, and when you meet them in real life you have to pretend you've never heard of them in your life.

Hah! Exact same reaction here. I was trying to imagine what the French version of twitter would be ... twitteré? (I have no knowledge of French.)

I hadn't had on "Ooh, pretty!" reaction to a piece of software in too long before this video. Good on Microsoft.

IAMAEconomist, but I think, broadly, and depending on the scope of your economic lens, this is considered a technical loss. They lost potential profits—an opportunity cost, in economist-speak.

@Bea Arthur: The title of the original book is perfectly grammatical. That is how actual people actually talk and have been talking for centuries. The rule about not ending sentences with prepositions was made up by a poet with a Latin complex in the late 17th century. Then, as now, arbitrary "grammar" rules do more…

I either use really crappy jalapenos or have very high pain tolerance because this has happened to me and I ... like it. I do.

@\m/ chaosphere \m/: What if you're also allergic to feathers? I guess I'm screwed :/

@CountChocula: Unfortunately that's not how science works. Some studies say one thing, some studies another, researchers point out flaws in each, researchers try (and sometimes fail) to duplicate interesting findings, studies begin to point more-or-less toward one conclusion, and eventually a consensus emerges.

@GranMastaB614: This is what I generally do when I'm in a hurry but don't want to clog up the comment stream or get one of those dreaded RTFA responses: I ctrl-f/cmd-f one or two relevant words. This narrows down the article substantially so I can just scan whatever's likely to be useful. In your case I would have…

This picture is definitely messing with my sense of scale. It's a hippo! Munching on a ... giant piece of lettuce?

What is it going to take before they make phones that have top-of-the-line specs and fit in my tiny woman hands/pockets? I have an Aria at the mo' (and I love it to death), but all the really drool-worthy androids are far too large for comfortable use.

@ThisMsMoi: But "polygamy" doesn't necessarily imply one man, multiple women relationships. It could be one woman and multiple men, or a group of adults (with any combination of genders) who all agree to get "married," whatever that may mean for the people involved.

@bakana: It gets weirder. Different languages have different numbers of colors , and which colors they have names for (in other words, the divisions of their color space) is predictable.

@01SNKOWNR: You have to remember that for years, Stephanie had a good working relationship with her boss and a hostile one with her coworker. When you've been seeing people one way for years, it takes a little more than some suspicious coincidences to realize your boss is evil. Plus, she doesn't know she's in a TV…

@VicViper: Borat. Yeah ... I know.

@Xagest: ... "Suspicion of having consensual sex, then the condom broke, and continuing without the consent of the other party" or "Suspicion of having sex before breakfast, but couldn't be bothered to put on a condom first, and couldn't be bothered to obtain the consent of the other party, because she was asleep."

#corrections