There have been two or three of those Dream Home/Urban Oasis homes that I might have considered taking. Though I wouldn’t decide on anything until I found out the tax assessment and possible HOA fees, and also whether the place can be sub-leased until I could move there. These would only be in locations where I would…

I don’t know how much Pennington himself is to blame. Like most reality programming, it was probably driven almost entirely by producers wanting shit that looked good on camera. People forget but the original Extreme Makeover was not a home edition but a show about plastic surgery. It came from a dark place where no…

I’d probably move in if I could afford the taxes because some of those houses would sell for well over a million if you put them on the market after two years (to avoid capital gains tax). But overall, yeah, don’t need all that maintenance. 

I’ve entered those Dream Home giveaways BECAUSE there’s a cash payout option. I don’t want someone else’s house. Yes, they’re designed to the nth degree. They’re pretty and have cool stuff. But I can take the nearly $1,000,000.00 payout, get myself a really nice place, in my area, for $200k cash. AND buy some rental…

Guy Fieri is a national treasure! He officiated a mass same-sex wedding in Florida in celebration of his sister who was a lesbian (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/02/24/guy-fieri-gay-weddings-miami/23959839/) and is known for feeding wildland firefighters and first responders (https://www.eater.com/…

You were not responsible for your parent’s marriage. You were not responsible for your dad’s affair. You were not appointed, nor expected to be, your parent’s marriage counselor. You are their CHILD, not an unbiased professional. You are not responsible for your father failing to reach to your mother because that was…

Yeah, completely not your fault. And just because your mother now knowing what happened says that she wishes he reached out doesn’t mean that she would have reacted positively or that things would have turned out well. If you had told him to contact your mother, there is just as much chance that it would have turned…

I say this as someone who battles lifelong major depression and has attempted suicide. This is not your fault. It’s easy to fall into that thinking in your grief. People always want an explanation of why it happened. The why exists in the mind of the suicidal person. You have no way of knowing that, had your father…

Someone start the timer on the Trump GIF. 

‘Mrs Peel, we’re needed!’

If my quick research is correct, this means that now eight of the drivers who raced today have won at least one race.

We need more races where Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull all screw up. On a related note, why couldn’t Bottas pass anyone today? If his overheating and oversteer was mechanical, why wasn’t Hamilton affected?

....so every company should be required to complete rigorous trials to select only the best of the best of the best of a particular skill to complete a fun marketing event? Personally, I think it’s fine that they used someone with world class skills AND an interesting backstory. Call that crass marketing on VW’s part…

I’ll be interested to see where she goes. Everyone in the comments whining about “nobody really wanted to beat this world record” and “I bet I could’ve done this” sure sound a lot like that one kid on the playground who always threatened to beat you up with his karate moves... only he “didn’t feel like it today”.

“any feat not accomplished by a white male is barf-level tokenism” is certainly a viewpoint...

Jesus Christ let her have her moment. 

If someone telling you that you could kill someone by making a choice not to wear a mask to protect those around you makes you NOT want to wear one???  You should probably go see a therapist.  Because that’s not rational behavior.

Plus, there’s shit like New Mutants. In which Sunspot, a character who is supposed to be Afro-Brazillian in the comics, is played by a white guy in the movie because the Director/co-writer didn’t care much about colorism and wanted someone who “looked rich”.

Another good one is “Are you rude to wait staff or other people in customer-facing jobs?”  Cuz people that scream at waiters or counter clerks are definitely assholes.