To add to #1— even if your dog is NOT aggressive, please don’t subject other people to it. When I’m out running or walking, I don’t want your dog coming up to me off leash, no matter how loving and friendly you say it is.

There are a lot of people I don’t want to be around either (including most other people’s children), but they’re not barred from a restaurant because I want to go there.

The phrase Dog Mom or Pet Parent just bugs the shit out of me.

Oh got 10% with the pretending your dog is a person. The phrase Dog Mom or Pet Parent just bugs the shit out of me. Like if I see that phrase on a dating app it’s a hard no from me lol. Also the health thing, my Aunt and Uncle had a miniature Yorki that was born with 3 legs, which they had forever, by the time they…

If you want a pet that will be happy being left alone most of the time, get a cat rock.

Lol at “dog emotions.” More and more, I feel the distinction between human emotion versus animal emotion is getting blurred. You haven’t experienced true “dog emotion” until you see a dog cast side-eye shade. They cast shade just like people do.

The sin that should be #1 on this list: Stop taking your dog everywhere with you. Don’t take it to the grocery store, don’t take it to restaurant patios, don’t take it to a street festival, don’t take it anywhere that isn’t a park or a vet. And when you do take your dog somewhere, put it on a leash. There’s no valid…

“Pretending your dog is a person” or worse, pretending your dog is a infant human.

This. I feel like the Angel of Death in my family because I’m the one who always seems to initiate the conversations about when it’s time to let a pet go. Everyone else will hang on and hang on well past the point when the pet no longer has any quality of life. Since becoming an adult myself, I’ve become that voice in…

Good list - with one caveat. It’s your dog. Do not let your vet pressure you into treatments that will extend a life, when that life may be miserable. A friend of mine was convinced by a vet to treat their dog’s liver cancer with chemo. It cost a fortune, the dog was miserable, and it extended the dog’s life by maybe a…

America’s Test Kitchen has a solid mushroom bolognese recipe, although I personally wish it were a bit less earthy and a bit more savory. I have been meaning to play around with the combination of mushrooms it calls for to see if I can balance it out a bit more to my liking—maybe king oyster or miatake. Or I might…

I would love to try this! I’m always in the lookout for different vegetarian pasta dishes. I tend to stick to a handful I know well, but it would be nice to add a mushroom forward dish in our rotation.

Number 4 here. Roommate is almost 38 but eats like a 10 year old. I have to hide the good jam because otherwise he puts 1/4 a jar on every PBJ he makes, and I just can’t buy real syrup anymore. Now he gets the cheap buckets of disgusting ‘jam’ to use while I hide my precious real fruit jam.

Easier said than done, when you live in a small town (pop. 3000) and Walmart has put the other grocery stores out of business.

I feel as though this movie could have been a lot more interesting if they had a very graphic scene of Grindewald and Dumbledore making the Fantastic Beast with Two Backs.

If you actually wanted to do a young Dumbledore movie, it makes much more sense to set it between his childhood split with Grindelwald and the war with Grindelwald. Like, maybe tell us how Dumbledore actually became Dumbledore. Who mentored him? How did he learn the lessons he imparts on others?

I wanted this movie series to be like.. Pokémon or something, I guess?
More about adventuring to where these fantastic beasts are and explore different corners of the wizarding world. Help these creatures. Have small emotional stories connected to them.

The best thing Deathly Hallows Part 2 did was skip all the stuff with Dumbledore’s past. “I don’t care what happened between you and your brother.” You tell ‘em, Harry! If only JK had listened.

PR disasters aside, the story being told here is so incredibly un-interesting. I’ve only read Wikipedia synopses of the 2nd…

I think you’d be surprised just how much of a cultural moment JK Rowling’s attack on transpeople was for younger people, at least in the UK (trans-rights in the last two-three years has basically become the major generation dividing issue in terms of social views in the UK now).

Food cost has to be around 28% for a restaurant to make a profit. About 18% for alcohol. They have to play for rent (or taxes if the owner actually owns the property), electricity, staffing (which includes prep time when nobody is in the restaurant buying anything) and myriad other costs you don’t think about. As a…