I’ve been commenting on various burners for a long, long time. 8 years?? Crazy. This is my very first one out of the grays. And I got followed on here, splinter, and lifehacker all in the same week, all by people who are not regular contributors.

It was only ended 12 years ago and the state still recognizes marriages from before that.

When I see her name I always, always picture her in that yellow wonderment. Beautiful.

There is so very, very much wrong with this statement. “Nice” guys cross boundaries and violate women’s bodies regularly. “Normal” guys do this because they feel entitled. It’s that simple.

This is my mother. It started with an genuine mushroom allergy. It expanded to include any sort of fungus or mold, this includes fruit juice because the fruit skin carries some kind of benign fungus (whut?) and fucking YEAST. So no bread, except for like, Irish soda bread. Which is yuck. Then she came for cheese. And…

Usually when I disagree with most of the comments, I take a step back and re-evaluate how I am perceiving the issue.

Is this the sink? Am I shrinking!?!?

I live in a relatively small city with some excellent secondhand stores. Some of the nicest I’ve seen anywhere I have lived. So, with very few exceptions (emergency jacket and leggings on my wedding day when it was 40 and raining instead of 70 and cloudless for instance) I haven’t purchased new new clothes in about…

Lol. My exact thought!

He’s also a Christian of the Handmaid’s Tale variety I do believe. So no, don’t eat the pizza.

I woke up this morning. It was the headline on my lock screen. I turned to my husband and said “mass shooting in a church in San Antonio” and he said yeah. I think the last time I had actual strong emotions was probably Newtown. It’s been the majority of my life now that this happens all the time. Columbine and the…

THIS IS AMAZING. I have apparently been in the middle of angry dueling bible junkies both of whom were wrong. And this gives me ammunition to use with my in laws. Ha! Excellent Sunday morning!

But the Sherlock Holmes quote isn’t changing the meaning of the phrase, and while it wasn’t in the books it was in the movies. For instance, the phrase “it’s a blessing and a curse” is twisted in an episode of 30 Rock by Tracy Jordon (the character) to “it’s a blessing and a purse.” The character is using the…

No this makes absolutely zero sense. The language shift is coming about because of people who think that “literally” is just a word that adds emphasis like “very”or “seriously”or “severely.”

I would say that “blood is thicker than water” is a misquote not a language evolution. The Bible passage is “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” It is often used to mean the opposite (by people who tend to very vocal about how well they know the Bible of course) and I can see where it…

In that spirit, how is Hot Fuzz not there?

When they were still ramping up in the mid 90s one opened directly across the street from the small, locally owned coffee shop where I worked. 6 months later we closed. It was fucking brutal. I ended up working at one almost ten years later and while they did have excellent employee benefits, their coffee is still…

Dude that was dumb analogy. Let it go.

It must be regional. My husband just told me they didn’t get square pizza in Nevada until the late 90s.

Yes. It was the greatest thing ever the first time I had one and it taught me that square pizza was not only possible, but delicious. And once my little sister got her finger crushed in the door of the LC we went to.