From the time I was in middle school, I’ve held the belief that male friendships are more easily formed when guys are trying to build something together. In my case, it was building ramps, boxes, and rails to skate with my friends. For others, it was working on cars in high school. Having a shared goal said a lot…

No love for strawberry? One of my favorite ice cream orders is a double-scoop with strawberry on top and vanilla on the bottom.

This is what an infection control person I work with told me as well. The main difference between this and the flu is that we’re used to the flu. This is new so it’s scary, but that fear gets played up in a lot of the coverage of it.

I’m full-on opposite of Aimee here. For years, my burger order was “no tomato, extra ketchup.”

I think “too smart” really means they communicate well, but don’t quite break things down enough to help those of us who don’t think like them understand why their ideas are good. We just have to trust them, which is hard when the other side starts breaking things down for us from their perspective. 

This is great, but I’m even more concerned with what will happen to homestarrunner.com

I came to find some half-clever way to say I don’t like Pizza Hut’s pizza, but then I read about Scout and I feel a bit less like shouting some random distaste into the void. Thanks for that!

These app companies seem to be more concerned with making consumers feel like they have a personal assistance service working for them than they are with the economy they’re imposing themselves upon. Houses build on sand, IMO.

You are so right!

Thanks for spelling this out succinctly. I needed someone to do that.

Thank you for connecting those dots for me! I feel dumb for not having put that together for myself. I’m from the US, which as far as I can tell is the individualism capital of the world, so even though I admire collectivist elements of other cultures, I often fail to recognize how they play out IRL.

BK was usually good when I lived in California, but not as good in Texas after I moved. Since my fast food breakfast standard is a sausage biscuit, theirs is 80-90 % as good as one from McDonalds.

If anyone truly wants to take on Chick-fil-A’s breakfast chicken, they need to defeat the mighty Chick-n-Minis. They are the true fast food breakfast chicken MVP.

I feel like there’s a lot to learn even as a layman watching something like this play out in real time. Thanks for sharing!

I assume the school’s legal counsel, school board, and insurance company are thinking the student and his family will spare no expense if it’s not on their dime, so they’re trying to pressure them into a settlement to control costs. Saying they don’t owe because it’s not life-threatening is a weak argument at best,…

I like to poke fun at Paleo-eating friend by asking them if they’ve traced their ancestors back far enough to know what they specifically would have ate. I tell them it’s because whoever thrived on that food survived and procreated and eventually led to the existence of my friends today, so it’s probably more likely…

Vulfstar for you

I always figured they favored open floor plans on HGTV because they’re a lot easier to shoot a TV show in.

The restaurant industry is a interesting place to watch this take effect, because it probably has more minimum-wage-earners than most industries and because its supply chain probably has most of the rest of them.

I’m reminded again of how dumb most band names are.