I interpreted that part as being about the fiance, rather than his dad. Like, he overcame the conditioning from his dad enough to be okay about everyday expenditures, but not large purchases, even if it’s a once-in-a-lifetime type of thing.

That sounds like a disgusting and horrible sight that I am nonetheless really interested in seeing at least once.

Stranger things have happened. Maybe she married him because he’s straitlaced and disciplined and she felt like he added structure to her life?

The term “chinito/a” is definitely also used to describe Asians (pretty much all East/Southeast Asians), and that sense does definitely come from China, the country. So I guess it’s kind of like how, in English, the word “ginger”, as in the spice, is etymologically unrelated to the “ginger” in “gingerly” even though…

The thought of labs-as-wendigos is as horrifying as it is hilarious...

Depends: sequentially, or at the same time?

My dad has a yellow lab who once ate a fairly large portion of the wood paneling on the walls of his apartment (but fortunately for my dad, the property was bought by a developer, who was going to tear the place down anyway, so he didn’t have to pay for the damages). The dog mostly did it because he was bored, rather…

I would’ve said, “Well, technically yes, but don’t worry: milk only comes from female cows, so they’re actually just lesbians.”

I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels ten years younger when they stumble upon a website with, like, frames and legit HTML imagemaps and stuff :-P

I mean, to be fair, those Hungarian cops didn’t seem like they were trying too hard. Like, “oh, dear, you’re escaping to Germany, goodness me, I have to catch you, oh look, you got away. Darn.”

The fact that this doesn’t have more stars has to be some form of sacrilege in and of itself...

I’m pretty sure that the Book of Mormon explicitly forbids anything that comes close to resembling anything that could be described as “badass”. Although I did see a Mormon missionary do a wheelie on his bike once, which I thought was hilarious.

A dirty punchline to a joke that I suddenly desperately need to hear.

Nonwhite Christians only count as 3/5ths of a regular Christian, which rounds down to Muslim. (It’s true! Just ask Obama!)

Seconded. Jesus. You’re gonna wake up one morning with her at the foot of your bed, holding a kitchen knife and muttering, “I know that’s him, and he loves me, not her. She’s the fake one. She’s the impostor...”

Apparently there were two guys who were supplying like 75% of the world’s LSD, and one of them got busted and the other died, at around the same time about seven or eight years ago.

A laptop without parental controls and No Longer Quivering set as the browser homepage.

If any adult in those kids’ lives ever did God’s work, it was you.

My mom watched their show for a long time, and she says that Michelle has occasionally made allusions to having learned some more, ahem, creative bedroom activities in order to keep Jim Bob happy for as long as she has. So yeah, I suspect you’re right.

Barf.