I generally agree with this, but today while in the airport a fully-grown woman wandered by wearing pajamas and clutching a teddy bear.

Ha, no. This actually isn't possible. There is no way in a million years that this book will ever ever ever make it to screen.

The chained guy in the kitchen eventually bores the kitchen staff as a plaything and gets passed down to the seriously sadistic stableboys, if I recall correctly (and I deeply wish I didn't). So maybe that's where you got carrots.

Note: do not make the duvet marking with a yellow highlighter, which is what I used the first time I did this in college. Over time the highlighter will bleed and fade, and in a few years it looks like the edge of your duvet somehow encountered piss.

In the next edition of "What The Sheet?!": explaining to Americans that you don't need a flat sheet when there's a covered duvet, and to Brits that uncovered duvets are often called "comforters" and are okay because of the inclusion of a flat sheet.

Works for me.

Ironically, the only thing that WOULD have been helpful about that Gwyneth bed-making tutorial is the part she glossed over: putting on the duvet cover.

GLOSS-teh-shur. That's my bet and I'm sticking to it.

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I dislike vegans because you make it very difficult to get everyone together for dinner. I like vegans because that Korean vegan place we finally ended up at was awesome.

Like this, but shorter, like a second long:

"Annnh" is the noise I usually use, actually - that or "OI!", and if she's being noisy "shhhht!". And I don't ever physically pull my dog, I call her to me and if she doesn't come I walk over next to her and fold my arms and she usually slinks over and sits down at my feet and gets a time-out.

Actually, if my dog barks when she's not meant to, I instantly tell her to stop. And then if she doesn't I pull her aside from the thing she's enjoying and stare her into submission, in a "are you fucking kidding me" way.

I think it's because Dougal and Colum are two sides of the same leadership role - Colum couldn't lead without Dougal's full (and physical) support, and maybe Dougal has a weakness that Colum's skills cover. So what we're seeing is less a ceremony between a laird and his subject, more an affirmation of their combined…

Agreed, this is boring. Left as is.

But I'm not a poc, and we're not talking about slavery in the US. We're talking about Scotland 200 years ago. The history we're talking about is genuinely mine. So why is US slavery relevant here?

No, I'm not comparing footbinding and spanking, those were two different pieces of the same thought - I'm saying that there's a recent example of behavior change in spanking: in the US, there is a very vocal contingent that insist that any physical punishment against a child, even if it doesn't leave marks, is…

How does that work, though? How does my white privilege impact my view of gender relations in 18th century Scotland?

The empathy element is as good a place as any to differ, I suppose.

That feels like a bit of a trap, honestly. You're the one who posed the slavery question, and I answered that I could still defend an individual as a contextually good person