Right up there with “Hit him until candy comes out”.

I’m about at the point where my aesthetic dislike of having this bug appliance sitting on my sink or counter is going to be overcome by my physical needs, yes. The washer and dryer used to be on a tall platform I built, but we moved last November, and the house we moved to does not have a space that allowed those tall…

They could have had a couple of them in the family as part of the regular payroll, if they hadn’t run them off. Seriously, on top of the callous way they treated Meghan and Harry and their kids, the Royals had a golden opportunity here to show they were ready to move into the 21st century, and they fucking blew it,…

We used to have a housekeeper earlier in my marriage, and my wife was always flabbergasted that I would clean before the housekeeper came once a week. “But that’s what we pay her for!” she’d say to me. I was just cleaning the house to the point I wouldn’t have to feel embarrassed that the housekeeper was seeing it in…

Spouses are the worst roommates.

Me, too, literally in my bones. I’m a middle-aged man, with fused lumbar vertebrae, who experiences excruciating pain when I bend down (for example to load or unload the dishwasher or washing machine/dryer at a counter height that’s thigh-level for me) and yet here I am doing the dishes and laundry because my wife is…

I don’t know that we have the capacity for middle ground or shades of grey any more. But yes.

But it’s the guys with the ridiculously over-manicured beards who really like looking at themselves in a mirror for as long as it takes to trim it that way. Guys with scruffy beards just like having a beard, they’re fairly evidently not self-obsessed.

Okay, fair point, kind of agree.

Why would that do any damage at all? Historically, executive leadership in Texas has had no answers to questions like these. The major difference here is that you’ll have people who hate the idea of a celebrity in politics (a large proportion of these unironically loving Reagan), and people who hate the idea of career…

I was really hoping this story was an obituary. Alas.

But not all the grandkids would have become princes and princesses regardless of their tan. If, and once, Charles ascends to the throne, then only his firstborn’s (William’s) kids become princes and princesses. That’s the rule. In 1917 it was only the firstborn’s firstborn, but the the Queen expanded it in 2012 to all…

I hear you, and I’ve got nothing against Target, we also shop there occasionally. Based on my personal experiences with Kirkland brand diapers, I am a huge fan. We used them until my son was fully potty-trained, and in the early days I did a cost-analysis spreadsheet because I am a huge nerd and analyzing data is my…

But even with that marker, it’s more expensive to be poor.

This is pure gold.

A 1970 Ford F-100. I wasn’t embarrassed of the truck, I was embarrassed by my lack of funds to maintenance it like it deserved. I bought the thing for $500 cash in hand in 1998, that classic Mill Valley Green still showing through the rust and lichen. That $500 and the cleaning supplies to make it habitable broke my…

I haven’t even visited NYC in decades, but I thought this sort of thing was reasonably common? As people renovate spaces within century-old buildings and apartments change hands, some spaces get forgotten and fall through the cracks. I had a college friend who got an extra bathroom like this. She framed out a full…

I’m too old to appreciate CodeMiko the character or the Twitch channel, but what I do applaud is the Technician’s skillset and determination to break into the industry. She’s smart, she studied hard to get the skills she has, she works hard, and she invested in the hardware and software up front. She’s a true…

what she described as a “scary” late-night car ride during which Cawthorn drove her to the “middle of nowhere,”