Totally with you on the miso. So stupidly simple, but oddly wonderful. As I don't eat meat, it's my soup of choice when I am sick.

A-men. See also, Dugas, Gaetan

Oooh, making a mistake that way could happen so easily. Again, when I was working at the previously-described B&BW competitor, the holiday season meant we were out of a lot of things and we could never know for sure what was going to show up in storage or shipments to the store. It would be very easy to get confused…

I can't help but think Angela might be exaggerating about Jen's attitude to make her issue sound like a bigger deal than it is. Like, maybe a small part of her knows this candle tantrum is batshit.

Reminds me of the first time I watched this video:

Yeah, me neither. I couldn't even talk at first, so I had to gesture to my mother wildly that I needed to barf because I'd just swallowed all the above-mentioned blood in my mouth. Then when I got home I cried and cried and didn't want anyone to come into my room to check on me.

Exactly. Some lucky people only have to have one or two wisdom teeth pulled out because they've already surfaced. Other people get xrays done that show that even though the teeth haven't surfaced they're likely going to cause a lot of trouble and the dentist decides it's best for a surgeon to get in their and cut them…

I think if you don't actively cultivate it by buying them anything and everything related to said obsession, it will likely cool on its own. My kids have never been this apeshit over one thing. Although my 5 year old is currently addicted to Futurama (yes, I know - it wasn't me who introduced her to it).

I think you're right. Hey, it's not like I enjoy the sound of my kids' disappointment either. But one thing I've learned is that even if they do legitimately cry about something, they won't forever. In fact, most times they're not even upset about it an hour or so later.

My sentiments exactly.

I'm guessing meningicoccal disease. That's the only one off the top of my head that can lead to limb loss for which there is a vaccine. But I'm no expert.

When I was a kid I had a cranky cat that used to paw at the ground like that beside his food if he didn't like it. We figured he was probably just being an asshole.

I remember that discussion. He actually quoted my line about how Brandis seemed to be a star who flourished as a child, but then never seemed to get a foothold as an adult actor.

Uh-huh. That was just lazy; even studying interviews with Celine Dion would have improved it by leaps and bounds.

I hear you. I get that Kevin Smith loves Canada and Degrassi and everything, but I'm just going to cringe for him if this crashes and burns.

That's fair, but they are quite different. And it annoys me when I see actors hired to play French Canadians who just use a Parisian accent - see Rosanna Arquette in The Whole Nine Yards, Julia Ormond in Mad Men. It sounds like an actor using a Southern US accent to play a Canadian or an Englishman to me. Like I…

Friendly reminder, or challenge depending on how you take it: Do not read the comments on the Refinery29 article. Unironic discussion of "fatties" abounds.

I'm feeling cranky this morning so I'm going to speak my mind: I don't even want to know how badly Johnny Depp fucks up playing a French-Canadian (I assume that's what 'Guy Lapointe' is going to be). Everyone else Hollywood hires to do it does (I suppose it's too much to ask them to hire an actual Francophone). I…

So say we all. It's so versatile and so perfect.

It's going to have to be me, isn't it? Oh well. I never tire of it.