“I never saw substantive raises or promotions unless I changed jobs.”

I don’t believe in the death penalty for anyone because I don’t believe there is a possible standard of review that is high enough for the government to be able to take a citizen’s life via execution. However, regardless of how terrible this woman’s life was prior to the murder she committed, if she understood what…

She’s like a T-rex, but with giant boobs instead of a giant head. I admire a lot of his other artwork, but this looks like something a teenager drew, complete with iffy fabric physics, scritchy-scratchy lines, and a too-short forearm. The emperor, in this case, has no clothes.

Our master bath came with a single occupant tub with jets, and I long to rip it out and just have a shower. All it does (no matter how many awful chemicals I run through it to clean it) is grow and then spit out rust-colored stuff and other mysterious crap from the jets. I would never consider taking a bath in the…

Our house technically has four “bedrooms,” three on the first floor and one in the basement, although the third one upstairs is barely large enough to theoretically accommodate a single bed and a dresser and definitely wants to be an office. The fourth “bedroom” is in the very back of the finished basement (why the…

If nothing else, I wish we had the opportunity to go back in and make at least cosmetic changes (hair cut/color, tattoos, piercings, add some scars, etc.) over the course of the game. If they could do it for freaking Skyrim, they can do it a decade later for this. Also, what do you mean I can’t even get a new tattoo…

“...answered email inquiries in person...”

Our house was built about 17 years ago and our mudroom is trash. It connects to the garage, the basement stairs, and the kitchen hallway, so there’s only room for a tiny bench for shoes, a teeny closet that holds about three pairs of winter boots and maybe four coats (it is seriously small, squashed in between the…

Finding out that video games are made and calibrated for a situation where the screen is the only light source in the room suddenly makes impossibly dark games make a lot more sense. Me, I get a headache if I game like that. There’s always going to be at least one other light on somewhere in the room, and if I have to…

Any crime or ordinance violation punishable only by a fine is constructively legal for the rich.

If my ‘90's era mother was an NPC, her only line would be, “Don’t let anybody take you!” She said this to me literally thousands of times over the course of my childhood and even into my young adulthood. It was an obsession. Anytime I went anywhere, even out into the yard in our (very safe) neighborhood. “Don’t let…

Speaking for myself, it’s winter here in Wisconsin in November most of the time. Last year we had our first significant snow in October and it was firmly below freezing every day and snowing at least weekly by Thanksgiving.

You bought a bunch of plants that are poisonous to cats. FYI.

The styling is pure Far Side comic, though.

Anyone looking for a Lucky replacement at a similar price point with nice quality should check out Kut from the Kloth. Despite the staggeringly stupid name, they’re nice jeans. I own a fair number of Luckys and like them, but my absolute favorite pair of jeans are Kuts (their Catherine boyfriend jean).

Your comment has caused pandemonium in our household. Well played.

Black Lagoon: for when you want a military-style anime that has no idea how any of the equipment actually works.

Most of these are sad stories, but a few of these posters are really telling on themselves...

There is a slight but crucial difference between going to your local grocery store to buy food, a necessary activity during a global pandemic, and deciding to get on a cruise ship and go float on the ocean in a giant petri dish with a bunch of high risk older people for funsies.