As I have asked numerous times in threads where it comes up, what is the rationale for allowing a squirming unpredictable small human to sit on your lap during takeoff/landing, but I can’t have my purse on my lap? I just don’t get it. Not the purse thing, sure, it could conceivably fly around and hit someone. I…

Those “my child is vaccine free and healthy” commercials make me RAGE.

People in SD hated Ryan Leaf so much, they tried to hit what was rumored to be his house (on a golf course) with tee shots. There was a talk radio campaign to get people to knock it off, he didn’t even live there, etc. This prompted WAY MORE PEOPLE aiming their balls at random houses adjacent to golf courses. So to…

That’s a really fair statement of division, I think. I guess for me, the issue is — is it actually a big deal? I did not think so, but this thread has given me something to think about. Never too old to learn when you’re wrong.

I’m an itemizer, and reading through all the arguments against it here, I see the point of view. IMO splitting is perfectly fine when you’re within a few dollars of each other — just today I had the taquitos and my friend had taco with beans and rice, and we split without looking at the menu price because it’s a…

I worked for a law firm that defended a jewelry store, Olympic Jewelers, that was sued by the IOC. The IOC apparently believed they own all uses of word “olympic”. They’re still in business so they must have prevailed — I can’t remember. Incidentally, the jewelry store was named after the Olympic mountain range.

I choose...ice cream!

I’ve been here years, like back in the star days. I never got one of those either.

A friend’s cat Louise died. She had two little boys at the time. She and her husband explained that when animals died, they went into the ground where they eventually turned into earth, and helped the trees and flowers grow. No kitty heaven for these kids! Anyway, a few months later they were out digging in the yard,…

It really bothers me that almost everyone here in southern California writes “basura” on junk they leave around the garbage cans in offices, indicating it’s trash and should be tossed. First, it assumes that everyone cleaning offices is a Spanish speaker. Second, that the word “garbage” is somehow incomprehensible to…

Well, Michael Musto. But otherwise nope.

Since we seem to be in a soda discussion here, I have a question which puzzles me greatly. Why do grocery stores carry Black Cherry Cream Soda, but not plain Black Cherry? I just got back from Ralphs (Kroger) and they had Virgil’s, IBC and Henry Weinhard Black Cherry Cream Soda, but plain Black Cherry for none of…

Much like a “regular coffee” or “coffee regular” isn’t the opposite of decaf, it’s with milk. Apparently. In Connecticut where I went once and was very surprised at Dunkin Donuts. But still have this to show for it.

What’s wrong with Swedish week?

Oh man, Dwight is on already? I was a big fan of the original — have it on DVD, and have been saving this one on the DVR for a long weekend. But the early parts with Francis and Elizabeth and Verity have always bored me. I like the later Warleggan eps, with Dwight and Caroline, and even more Demelza’s brothers. Maybe…

Or some iced horchata.

Ricardo Montalbán and Hervé Villechaize of Fantasy Island congratulate humanity but announce that everyone gets three lives in this game, and that the aliens currently lead 2 to 1. They send the dog from Duck Hunt to earth as a trophy.

A friend of mine had her purse stolen at a home game by a guy sitting behind them in the stands. One of my friend’s group (another woman) chased the guy through the stadium until finally he was stopped by Security. He then proceeded to tell them that my friend, whom he’d never met before, was his girlfriend and she’d…

good god lemon