This is kind of off the topic, but Holy Crap I am so glad we have so far been very lucky with vets. Our dog was a rescue and about 6 weeks after coming home it became apparent she had some health issues; first they thought it was kidney failure, and then it turned out to be Addisons (the same disease JFK had!). Both…

TBH, most people who use the phrase “furbaby” as it applies to their own pet are doing with their tongue very firmly planted in their cheek. I’ve met a few people who are sincere about it and they usually come across as being fairly intense, somewhat unbalanced people anyway, so the pet bond isn’t the real problem…

Agreed. My roommate in graduate school had a little rescue terrier who went to daycare 3 days a week or so when neither of us would be at home for long periods. It was fantastic for both of them- terriers are high-energy dogs and she was much better behaved in the evenings of the days she’d been to daycare by virtue…

I don’t know what it is about Dog Daycare that people find so worthy of scorn. Like it’s some ridiculous bougie luxury. People work longer hours now, and dogs are pack animals and it’s not good for them to be alone for 8hrs+ a day. It’s certainly not good for them to have to hold their pee for 8hrs a day, especially…

I really don’t think it’s that simple.

Awwww. My husband was reluctant to get a dog at all, and when he agreed to get one he specifically wanted a larger breed, preferably male, that he could jog with. Of course, we ended up with the terrier-mix bitch that was practically levitating in her urge to get at as over the top of her pen. But he ended up adoring…

Yeah, my parent’s dog is a greyhound/we think rotweiller/??? mix, and she goes through “tough” toys like a hot knife through pudding. She’s shredded KONGS.

1. Oh God, what if I get pregnant? What if we can’t get an abortion in time? What if Mr. CrawledoutoftheSea has a religious awakening and wants to keep the baby? What if I get the abortion and people find out and I’m shunned?

I do this every morning after I leave the house for work. One of our cats shows no inclination to leave the house, but the other will tentatively sneak up to it and I’m terrified she’ll bolt one day, and it’ll be dark and I won’t see, and we haven’t had her long enough for her to know her way home, and it’s so cold…

I was so flippin’ happy when I saw this pop up on my recommended feed. This time of year I get really homesick for the UK and snuggling on the sofa, wincing whenever anyone said something like “I think I’ll turn the heat up a bit. What do you think?” is as close as I can get to a warm hug from my mam. It’s brill. I…

I mean, it’s still damn cute whichever way you hear it.

“It is the AMERICAN way. Hmm? Oh, It is the BRITISH way.”

Me too. That’s the bit that’s truest to how Christmas should feel to me.

I thought it was “No cheeses for us Meeses?” I could be laboring under an illusion.

Muppets Christmas Carol is literally the only version of A Christmas Carol I can watch without wanting to smother Tiny Tim with his own sense of self-righteousness and the damn turkey.

It’ll come. People round here keep saying how mild it is, and I want to smack them because for the last four years in a row it’s been super mild before Christmas and then horrible from mid January until late April. They’re just making the inevitable worse!

They’re not hard to find either. The thrift stores around me always have at least two or three London Fog trenches from the 70s and 80s, and usually some solid wool coats from the 60s.

I think this reflects changing fashions more than anything. Sweet wine was very popular in the 70s, then it got replaced by Chardonnay, which made way for Pinot Grigio, etc. etc. I will say that when a certain varietal gets very popular you tend to see a lot of poor quality examples on the market, which makes the…

That’s good to know! I remember reading an article at the time of the whole Hershey’s/LBB blow-up that said it would probably be fine to do so but that technically Hershey’s could sue you for trademark violations or something. I remember thinking at the time that seemed ludicrous.

This is going to sound very condescending, but people mostly just don’t know any better. Hershey’s is ubiquitous here, it’s what they ate as a kid, that’s what they think chocolate should taste like. I know a fair few Americans who have tried British and Swiss chocolate, and only one of them still prefers Hershey’s,…