I love running, but would loathe the idea of running with my spouse, even for fun. Running is my alone time, dammit.

Samsies. No matter what of shape I’m in, I turn the color of corned beef and am drenched in sweat after a mile or two.

Jenna Sauers used to write good stuff on this topic. I miss her around here.

Oh man, a couple months ago I chafed so badly on my inner thighs that it looked I was having my period. Of course I didn’t realize it until I got home.

I’m convinced he unleashed her on the world as a final fuck you to the Republican party, for not getting behind him in 2000, when he actually had a chance to win.

I can read Mandarin and the meaning is pretty literal. I also speak and read a little Cantonese, and I don’t know how the meaning could be otherwise construed (it has none of the written markers of Cantonese, which is mostly written similar to Mandarin). I’m just a lapsed Chinese major, but it’s not like the NYT…

Awesome, thank you!

This looks awesome. Do you have a recipe?

Right? My Chinese isn’t that great anymore, but I can read some of it. I find the owners trying to hide behind “mistraslation” to be more than a bit dodgy.

You’re right, I wasn’t clear, but I still don’t really buy it.

I studied Chinese in college and can’t read so fluently anymore, but even I can understand it’s not an ad for services. The idea that the NYT wounldn’t have someone on staff who could fact-check in Chinese seems pretty laughable to me.

A while back, when the NYRB published the rebuttal. Nir tweeted out some images of ads from here research, and they did indeed say what she claimed. I don’t know why people keep brining this up. The Times certainly have people on staff who can read Chinese, and if this was something Nir couldn’t verify, her career…

I have a cousin (who I’m not particularly close to) who went down the anti-vaxx rabbit hole when she found out her toddler was autistic. She quit her job to care for him full time, goes to all kinds of conferences and meetups where they discuss homeopathic “cures.” She spreads a lot of literature around her family,…

Wine tourism is socially acceptible binge drinking for fancy (white) people. Having POC present spoils the illusion.

Wine tourism is bascially white people having an excuse to binge drink during the day under the guise of “culture”.

IDK, most people in my experience do have opinions, tho. Case in point, years ago, when the first Hobbit movie was in theaters over th e holidays, my mom wanted to go as a family outing. The times or something didn’t work, and we went to see Hunger Games 2. Whatever. Another fun big-budget movie! Nice family outing.…

My cousin who had a fancy, boozy wedding, had little gift bags at the end with Vitamin water, asprin, and snacks. Cute and useful!

It’s a crime to waste scallops. You are doing the Lord’s work.

Here you go:

I lived for several years in Guangdong province, and went there for a trip. Guangdong cooking can be great— but the many of the locals can’t tolerate spicy food at all, to the point of carefully removing scallions （葱）from their cafeteria food. I actually posted this pic on wechat and one of my students commented in…