Good find! I’m debating buying Mr. Werner this for Christmas.

OMG the perfume. I wish there was a way to opt-out of fragrance, completely. As a teen and 20-something I was able to get my mag subscriptions without perfume samples, and that was about six hundred years ago. It shouldn’t be hard to code a “no scents” option into the samplers interface.

Does anyone have any experience with the Economic Research Institute? Can you tell me anything about it?

Thanks to Flash, I have been placing Sephora orders as I need them, instead of hoarding up to free shipping. Two of my last four shipments had no samples. I understand that they run out and have to substitute, but to get none at all? I was very disappointed, because I want to try the Drunk Elephant C-Firma sample…

why are we not best friends

A family-owned ice cream shop near my college had a flavor with All The Things in it. Sprinkles, fruit, nuts, crunchies, all the candy. It was called “Garbage Dump”. Nobody wanted it. Learn from them, Starbucks.

BRB, cross-posting to The Slot.

A 60-year-old is quitting his job because his wife had a miscarriage? Sounds legit, one way or another.

If there is a Russian-mafia-adjacent impeachment, I demand a Sharks/Jets-style finger-snapping dance number. Otherwise it doesn’t count.

By Lost World, my husband was like “We should get an estimate from their insurance company, they’re obviously stupid as hell”.

Yup. Even the trailer made me well up, I won’t be able to watch this. I can’t stand to see even fake animals suffer.

My parents made me read the directions for assembling toys/rules for board games/etc. On the plus side, I learned in a damned hurry because I didn’t get to do anything fun if I couldn’t. On the minus side, I’m now the annoying person who judges you for ignoring the instruction manual for everything you buy.

It’s specifically bad for people with braces, apparently because it’s harsh on the surface of the enamel, and could therefore cause a difference in the color and texture of the visible enamel compared to the enamel under the brackets. He says it’s okay to use again once the braces are off.

Ten grand doesn’t sounds crazy to me. I keep a large cushion because my spending varies wildly from month to month, but not from year to year. I pay as many bills as possible on a yearly basis rather than on a monthly basis in order to get the biggest discount. For example, in March all the car insurance and the house…

Cows used to be the biggest producer of pollution, so really we can blame vegetarians for ruining car culture.*

You’re not kidding about the toothpaste. My orthodontist told me to avoid tartar formulas and whitening formulas, which apparently leaves six availables tubes within a fifty-mile radius.

Reason #596 everyone thinks I’m a pedantic asshole: my first reaction to this was “No it’s not, UV is outside the visible spectrum”.

That was a really long-winded way of saying “Depp’s contract has no morality clause”.

I am short, sick of MINI’s bullshit, and have an IUD. Give me my damned 2 door hatch, any company other than BMW.

I have all these questions as well. I really enjoy the psychology and story-telling aspects of body art.