Thank you for getting it despite your fears. *squeeze* Needle phobias can be incredibly hard, and I appreciate that you got it, later or not!

That’s a good looking troublesome bunny!

Still a ten percent better chance that a) you won’t get the flu and b) every very young, very old, or immunocompromised person you interact with won’t get the flu! :)

Also useful to differentiate the many varieties of colds that roll around from the flu.

Yup! Even the immunosuppressed (especially us, actually!) should be getting their flu shots and other non-live vaccines.

My exact thought process. Can’t rush to conclusions....wait, what the hell is he doing with those reins???

Weird question: did you ever write a comment in this wonderful style about the future of humankind evolving into softly lit squares and being collected in massive nets for the evening (except for very old white men, for there will never be a future in which there are no very old white men)? It was on...I think an…

As I said to the other guy, an explanation lets a person use the word “groat,” which is pretty well useless anywhere else! Who passes that opportunity up? Oat groat!

But by not explaining, you lose the chance to use the word “groat”, which is always great! The groat of the oat!

I don’t post on Deadspin much, but it’s my happy funtime reading place and you’re all lovely, so I figured here (and on a shampoo thread!) would be a good place to ask.

A one-gallon metal can of soy sauce.

A beautiful mane indeed!

I had to explain this to some (racist motherfucker) extended family members re: transgender people recently. They were all a-twitter about “but I don’t understand what I should call them, this is so difficult!”

Mute Boxes: <silence>

Yeah. I live west of this area on the coast, and it’s like...a half-hour drive between HIPPIE PARADISE WEED FUNTIMES YOU DO YOU and horrifying billboards about Jesus and how terrible abortions are.

It hit me pretty hard as well. “Northern California” generally means Sacramento or San Francisco to larger news outlets (not actually a complaint, it happens and it’s amusing) so I don’t normally expect to see things from what I really consider my area in headlines. My husband grew up in Red Bluff. It’s weird seeing…

Not necessarily (ie, “Jules” for Julia/Julie, Jimmy or Sammy for James or Samuel, Anya for Anna, or a few Slavic-based names where there’s an “-ushka” added to the end so that it might well end up being longer). I’d say it’s a way of being closer or more friendly (or more friendly-seeming, in the case of show hosts…

I had the same question and clicked the link to read the article. ;)

*squeeze* I’m so sorry to hear that. It doesn’t really make it better, but I try to remind myself that people are often just scared and confused—especially with the more invisible illnesses—and need to offer up something because that’s the only way they think they can be helpful. Sigh. Sometimes it makes it easier,…

I honestly read that as “endless suffering” and did a spittake before I realized my mistake. It would have been more factual!