As a Canadian, I’ve gotta say... I agree with you. This is gross.

Gahhh I can sympathize! This sounds so much like my parents... They always blamed our messy house on us kids when we were growing up, but we’ve all been out for a while now and the house just gets worse and worse. Every time I visit, I try to do some cleaning/organizing, but they both get super insulted and it just…

I once had a long layover in a crowded airport and was lucky to at least have a place to sit. Unfortunately, that seat was next to a group of people sharing some kind of hot meal from a crockpot. A crockpot! Like with a cord and everything. How do you even get past security with a mothereffing crockpot full of food?!

I have this problem on my MacBook, but not on my phone (which is not an iPhone)... so maybe it’s an Apple thing? I know someone suggested refreshing, but that doesn’t work for me. :(

I don’t think the cops are doggedly pursuing this just because it makes the city look bad. No one would ever deny that Rio is a crime-ridden city (although things have been improving drastically) or that it has problems – as is the case throughout most of Brazil. But it’s not really fair to basically comment, “Don’t…

Just as an update on this... apparently they were in possession of their “stolen” wallets (there’s video of them going through x-ray machines) after the supposed robbery happened: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…

Exactly. And the cell phone thing really got me. The FIRST thing to go would have been their cell phones.

Thank you! I’ve been commenting on the Lochte story because it just doesn’t make any sense. Something is missing. Unfortunately the narrative from outside Brazil has really put it in people’s heads that Brazil is a crazy, lawless jungle where anything will happen. I live a very normal, boring life down here. So do…

THIS. I commented on the earlier story about this whole situation... Maybe Lochte did get robbed somehow (it would not be unheard of in the least), but there’s more to his story than he’s saying. The cops down here really are trying to get to the bottom of it. It doesn’t make any sense that the robbers didn’t take…

To be honest, his story is a bit sketchy... I am guessing there’s more to it than what he has said and has been reported so far (maybe he went somewhere he shouldn’t have, and was doing things he shouldn’t have been doing). I live in Brazil. It would not be unheard of at all for an armed robbery to happen (especially…

I think the only time I ever felt attracted to Leo was when I first saw R&J. To be fair, I was maybe 13 at the time? Plus, yeah, the Luhrmann factor. After that came his steady decline into bloat/vaping/bad brows/model-chasing/bro-itude.

Also NBC has joined Snapchat on my shit list because not only can you not livestream their stuff outside of the US (which I do understand) you can’t even watch their GODDAMN HIGHLIGHT CLIPS (which is utter bullshit). Fucking narcs.

Agreed! Obviously there are problems down here in Brazil (Zika among them), but the English-language media narrative about it gets pretty tiresome. I was happy to see this in the Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/interna…

I agree with all of this! And I’m glad you mentioned Lainey and linked to her TED Talk. She really does take the time to look at gossip analytically, and to question what is going on behind the scenes. I think that most people have the idea that gossip = bad, without stopping to ponder why we engage in it, why we…

Nothing describes my total agreement with this piece better than your gif. But still, I must also say: BEND AND SNAP SUX AND MAKES NO SENSE WHO THE EFF WROTE THIS SH*T WAS IT SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY AAAARGHHHGBNBNXZ

Jeebusssss - He must have dementia or something, right? Something’s wrong with that man.

I read somewhere that he was born in Boston, and got hopeful that maybe we could just say he’s not really Canadian. Buuuut everything else does indeed say he’s from Ottawa-Gatineau. Uggggggh.

That too, for sure. For me though, that was just one example of an overall sense from all the books that what Brianna’s able to do with her qualifications is a wee bit exaggerated. Doesn’t detract from how much I enjoy them though! Love me some Outlander.

As far as that stuff goes, you’re right! But for example, in one of the later books, she’s applying for a job to be a manager at a power plant... the guy interviewing her is questioning her qualifications, and something is written to the effect of, “She had the qualifications to BUILD a plant, let alone run one.” I…

That’s one thing that bugs me a liiiittle bit about the books (**SORRY, SORT OF SPOILERS FOR NON-READERS**)... They act like she’s a super-amazing engineering expert, when clearly she only had time to just-barely complete an undergraduate degree in Engineering (given her age, and the fact that she started out studying…