...a silent signal acknowledging that the man we’re supposed to be listening to isn’t saying anything worth hearing

Okay this I could get behind. 

This was my reaction. Is this one of them ironicals? Have I gone looking for sarcasm in irony? Was this designed to just get a cynical smirk, while I looked for a giggle? Because I don’t get any of it.

Cursive is great. Learning cursive in elementary school made it easier for me to later in life learn Russian and Persian, which both use cursive for writing 100% of the time. Also, it looks nice and needn’t detract from other, more modern fields of education. Handwriting is a nice break from the other subjects, and a…

I would prefer if we only learned cursive. It’s so much faster to write in cursive and it’s more beautiful. I also don’t remember it taking very much time to learn.

Yeah, no. Goose has so, so much fat. It is goddamned delicious. And roast potatoes, roasted in goose fat, are the food of the gods. And I lived for the first 25 years of my life in North America and I did not understand the dried fruit experience. Fruit cake, mince pies, Christmas cake. None of them are any good…

This is the correct take. We had a 3-bird roast, with all the trimmings. I make the bread sauce (a la Delia Smith) even though it makes no culinary sense but dammit if it doesn’t pull together the perfect boxing day leftover sandwich.

This is a Bad Take.

UK Update:

Funnily, my first thought on reading the headline were “shouldn’t there be enough anchovy in the Caesar without smearing it in paste, Heston?”

...made from similar stuff in human finger nails.

It’s incredible that she’s speaking out. My father sexually abused me. I am sorry to say but in my experience, by having a supportive uncle she has more support than most parental sexual abuse survivors have. I really hope he’s there for her and hopefully the publicity will mean she’ll get more support.

Jesus this is embarrassing. Day 2 of this and you guys are still buying that Serena was the victim here? I’m a big fan of Serena, but she has not been wronged here at all. The first code violation was for coaching - her coach admitted he did it and the cameras caught him doing it. No it’s not called all the time, but…

I did find that part of the story odd. Not a prolific restaurant goer by any means but do the "nice" places usually have their tables that close together?

Use a cafetiere?

Er, isn’t it the emir of Kuwait?

Irishmen: Are we really eating that many? An investigative analysis and response to Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal

I’m actually more annoyed when I get asked by a server how I would like my burger done. It’s not a steak! It’s ground beef. You could get yourself killed eating a pink burger if the internal temp isn’t high enough! Perhaps there is some healthy variation, but ordering it like a steak implies it would be healthy to…

Yes America, you’re the baddies now. And yes I know not all Americans, but just like in another superpower from the last century, enough Americans. So when you’re leaders are planning to put unaccompanied children in a death camp (El Paso, a concentration camp for young children in Hells armpit...that’s a death camp)…