Third wave coffee shops? Son, this is Pittsburgh.

I don't even drink coffee (the cream was for my tea) but yes, I normally do stick to Starbucks because, while their product may be inferior, the barristas don't treat me like they're deigning to do me a huge favor by waiting on me. I'm way over ABD English grad students serving me cups filled with their own…

I think I found the corollary to asshole coffee guy: I found myself recently in an independent coffee shop so up its own ass that they did not put cream or milk out anywhere for customers to use and only grudgingly handed me a carton of half-and-half when I asked. I think the idea is that true coffee lovers either…

It's regional. It's called a Pittsburgh salad and also comes topped with cheese and often with grilled chicken or some such. We also put fries and slaw inside the sandwich. It's basically poutine but with more lettuce and less gravy.

You shut your mouth, Pittsburgh salads are the bomb, do not knock that shit until you try it!

Bubonic plague absolutely still exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_plag…

Gawker network is the only place I've ever heard of this game.

UGHHHH one of my son's footie PJs when he was a wee tiny baby who wore only footie PJs 24/7 (don't judge) said "Brave like Daddy!" on it and I wanted to set it on fire (didn't because I needed the clothes, but I never dressed him in that if I was taking him out anywhere). Brave like Daddy, huh? Because last I looked,…

Okay, real talk:

Oh gurl, thrush D: Never again.

Breastfeeding isn't confined to newly post-partum mothers, though. Plenty of women breastfeed for 1, 2, or 3 years, or more.

Yeah, I was also still nursing after a year. If I had a job that required me to dress in a way that necessitated more structured/nicer underpinnings, this would have been great.

All I know is that my husband's Southern Italian grandmother apparently called risotto "rizzortt" and she was only one generation removed from the folks who came on the boat/ So I think it's just dialect, not lack of knowledge.

That pronunciation of Italian words is actually due to regional Italian dialects. Calabrian and Sicilian, I think (which is where most of the Italian immigrants to NY/NJ/PA originated).

I take my son to our neighborhood park all the time and there are all kinds of neighborhood kids there unaccompanied. Usually they're in packs, but sometimes there's a loner too. I wouldn't think a single thing of it unless the child looked distressed or was truly inappropriately young.

I'm not sure "it worked in the past" is really that obvious of an answer. I'm sure on some level a cost/benefit analysis does come into it, but I'm thinking it's the "cost" side of that equation that needs the scrutiny. If the cost is "she'll probably laugh it off and I won't suffer any lasting social stigma" then…

Do they not realize that 99.9% of dicks are weird-looking and the main reason ladies like dicks is that they are attached to men we like? The dick itself is just... I mean, here, he's a picture of the inside of my vagina. Same thing.

Being a kid in the late 70s and 80s was fucking terrifying! We were all 10000% sure the world was going to end in a nuclear holocaust, probably tomorrow. The Cold War was legitimately scary and didn't end until the late 80s.

I don't see much if any appreciable difference between sitting in a restaurant with a book and mom busy working elsewhere and walking a couple blocks away to go to the park with a cell-phone and plans to check in at regular intervals in person. Let the kid go to the park, ffs. It's not any more irresponsible than…

What leads you to believe a class about how to speak to children and use positive discipline and suchlike would be of any benefit to this woman at all? The facts of the story are only that her ability to supervise her daughter was impeded by the necessity of holding down a job—a job that does not pay enough to be able…