I think this is it - maybe someone opened the dishwasher when it was still mid-cycle, and everything was coated with a thin layer of gel cleaner that wasn't immediately obvious. She puts the brownies in a soapy bowl, measures with soapy measures, mixed with a soapy spoon, and voila: dishwasher brownies.

One time I was hideously embarrassed by a friend in a restaurant, and it's because she stated that she couldn't eat tomatoes, that swiftly became "I am allergic to tomatoes" and then spiraled into "I HAVE FOUND A TOMATO IN MY MEAL, YOU TRIED TO KILL ME".

Crowe, you flaming idiot - that woman asking to have the number of children reduced was probably doing so because when considering the character's backstory, it would have been literally impossible.

I'm hoping the dog was a program washout of some kind - you know, the one who makes it almost all the way through the training but consistently fails the squirrel test, so gets routed out from service training but is placed with a family where some of the training can still apply. There are quite a few of those dogs.

Okay, am I the only one who finds it hilarious that they might create a gendered seating area that's extremely attractive to all the most restrictive religious sects, but accidentally end up with all-male rows that go Conservative Christian/Sunni/Orthodox Jew/Monk/Shia?

Same rules as they have for obese people: if you find it impossible to fit in your seat, whether that's a physical or spiritual boundary, then you have to buy an extra seat.

That absolutely blows, I'm sorry. That's another false equivalency thing that pops up when people talk about the NHS: my friend with the brain tumor got whisked into surgery, but my cousin with a hip that needed replacing got put on a list that had her surgery 9 months out and she decided to private for it instead.

The only people impacted by harassment are the harassers and their targets, and the only things coming out of that contact are fear on the targets' side and smug sadism from the harassers. There is absolutely no progression reached on either side, just a lot of venting of some pretty gross feelings.

You don't have to have sympathy - as a total stranger to the situation, you don't have to communicate with the family at all. Though empathy is never out of place, no matter what the situation, since it's quite literally the least you can do to try to understand the other person's position. Not like, not agree with,…

Really the only excuse for sending that family flowers with "Leelah" on the tag is if you'd met Leelah personally and had no prior knowledge that her family wasn't supportive. That sector of humanity is so vanishingly small that I can't imagine anyone fits into it.

While intention is nice, reception is just as important in communication. So while there may be a lot of people out there who think sending a nice floral arrangement for Leelah to her mom is a subtle way to get their message across, the fact is that it's harassment. Just like a man who keeps complimenting a girl who's…

Harassment is not the same as threats.

Thank you for getting exactly to the point, which is: empathy is not an exchange, this is not an eye-for-an-eye thing. It doesn't matter what the parents displayed - in fact, they've already shown that they weren't capable of putting themselves in their child's shoes and understand the situation from that perspective.

Oh, I'd be DELIGHTED:

Given Kinja had a bunch of people calling for the mother to be "harassed", you can hardly claim that it was just a bunch of anti-trans bigots looking to make a scene.

What an awful, terrible thing to hope. On what planet is it okay to torment a woman whose child has killed herself?

I miss it, I miss it so much - have a cold, walk into a clinic, they hand over your prescription and you're done! They're nice! It's clean! Goddamnit! When I moved back to the US I pinched a nerve in my back and stupidly went to the ER. Four hours waiting, ten minutes actually booked in, three minutes with the doc and…

Yep. Though a fan had knocked out CPB with a projectile.

To keep your kid disinterested in your phone, YOU have to be disinterested in your phone when they're with you. Considering kids are with you most of the time, that gets a little complicated.

The knee-high socks are blinding you to the shoes, which are the most English thing about this outfit.