The "no toast cut in half" strikes me as something you might get from a very young child, who often go through a phase of not just picky, but weird picky. But an adult? It suggests something deeper is going on (pr maybe just someone so pampered they have no clue of reality).

I don't get why people can't learn it. I, like millions of teenagers before me, mastered it fairly quickly in an empty parking lot ages ago. Well, if it stops a few car thieves, that's something I suppose.

Well, I'd say that's kind of a red flag, no? Glad to see the "ex" in "ex-girlfriend" there.

I remember "Can't spell asshole without SAE."

Yes, it's always useless to argue with the "Israel never did anything wrong" crowd.

You brutalize a people for a few decades, don't expect them to all grow up and become Gandhi.

And if there's a flat, she dang well fix it herself.

Indeed - people who are rude to service personnel need to be given a very wide berth. Short of stomping on puppies or somesuch, that's about the clearest sign you are dealing with a Grade A asshole.

There have been tearless or nearly tearless onions for ages. And it's not just some personal non-reaction on my part - if I buy onions from a big chain grocery store, they are tearless. If I buy onions from the super cheap, super wonderful ethnic supermarket, they make my eyes water. It's a matter of how much of…

So, Greece with nukes? This will not end well.

So I tried the Twitter test - "female" pulls up a variety of things, mostly ok. "Females," on the other hand, is a whole other story. I would say another reason not to call women "females" is the company you wind up keeping.

Eh, vodka has actual uses - I ain't mixing white zin with anything.

College Republican weenies - always of high entertainment value.

I bought the house I bought specifically because it had a kitchen ideal for dinner parties - i.e, the biggest kitchen I could afford. Yes, they do happen. I have made many friends from the "+1s." Learning to cook was one of the useful things I ever did.

Dear Lena: All my dinner parties involve way too much food and the option to switch to buffet if too many folks show up to sit at my table. You went to the wrong parties.

I never learned about gifs, but - this needs every "Nope, nope, nope" gif ever made. Gaqueros - get on this, stat!

Well, the point being that there are so many of them, they really are expendable. Just go down to Costco and get another three-month supply.

I had just copied that URL, all ready to paste it up here!

To make George W. look better?

English has many more vowel sounds than Spanish, about twice as many, making it very difficult for many native Spanish speakers to really master English pronunciation. For that matter, I hear a lot of American English speakers speaking Spanish while using the full array of English vowel sounds, replacing the crisp…