Omg pupper. Makes me wanna run home and snuggle mine.

Dude. This young woman was super thrilled to have seen her old dog, she wanted a quick snapshot, not to give a photography lesson to the stranger she’d probably freaked out a little. It’s also possible multiple photos were taken and she posted the one without her face in it.

While I applaud her charitable efforts, I wish she wouldn’t donate to the Red Cross, which is mostly Not Very Good at handling or distributing money and focuses primarily on immediate relief rather than any long-term rebuilding or sheltering.

It was Aegon, but I like Roger better.

Yeah, the Groundhog’s Day blizzard of 2011 was really something, but it was predicted well in advance and even the folks on Lakeshore Drive got rescued without much incident. It was bad, but it could have been so much worse.

Glad things are going well!

You CAN collapse the threads if you use the kinjamprove plugin.

Last weekend I bought a bottle of prosecco to enjoy on Saturday. I couldn’t get the damned cork out (and my husband was away so he couldn’t help). Eventually the cork broke. I said screw it and drank a beer. And THEN I internetted and figured out a way to open - wood screw, screwdriver, hammer to pry that out. So then…

I’m here, intermittently. At least ungreyed.

Weird. Lemme reply to help :)

Well. This is going to be quiet.

Thanks for still posting, and I’m sorry to hear about you and Mrs Launcher, but I hope it is ultimately for the best. Please take care of yourself :)

It is super sad that there are only ~14 comments on this. I’m glad you’re still writing, Will, your RRs are the best ones.

There’s an old wives’ tale that the chemicals from hair dye will somehow get into your bloodstream and be passed to the baby via the breastmilk. I think it’s pretty unlikely, but pregnant and breastfeeding women get all sorts of weird advice on what to avoid.

(I grew up in Indiana and live in Illinois now.) I was always so unhappy when my grandma would ruin perfectly good orange jello by putting shredded carrots in it. Blech.

What the hell? Of course BLM members don’t hate all white people. They just want white people to get our collective heads out of our asses. White supremacists, on the other hand, DO hate all black people.

You do know the Babylon Bee is a parody site, a la The Onion, right?

Nope. Never went wild, though I am not much of a churchgoer anymore.

Yeah, it’s not at the top of the list or anything, but we live in the Chicago burbs and every so often I’m grateful that we are seemingly spared from the worst effects of climate change - our winters have been milder, and we’ve had some moderate droughts and occasional regional flooding, but no hurricanes, no severe…

In the Chicago area, the Des Plaines river (as well as some others) floods with some regularity; I had a coworker whose basement flooded 3 times in about 2 years - but it’s not the same, it’s never going to be quite the same as 13 feet of water where there shouldn’t be any. I’ve stepped outside to a clogged sewer…