Yep. It actually functions really well as a workout space. We put the TV on a pivoting wall mount and it can be moved depending on whether you’re doing the treadmill, the bike, or yoga.

To me, this all sort of starts with the question: What do you want to use your unfinished basement for? And ask yourself honestly if you’re going to actually use a hangout space with furniture in a half-finished basement if you make it.

Yeah, if your ex is benign and you generally parted amicably, then given some thought to if/how you respond and the stuff above might be helpful. But with toxic people noooooooope. Toxic people are like grease fires. The only way to stop them is to starve them of oxygen. This means no response. Ever. Block them and…

Oh that’s so weird. I’ve never heard of anyone doing that before. That would definitely bug me, too. 

Ditto on food wastage. My brother-in-law “didn’t like” leftovers. Until the pandemic hit and suddenly he had to prepare 7 dinners per week. Then he saw the light and got over himself. Now he preps 3 meals, eats leftovers three times, and gets takeout once.

All I see when I look at pictures of Trump’s color scheme is the childish plane that I drew a million times as a kid. His AF1 definitely looks like it was designed by a seven year old with a box of crayons.

What is fork biting? Like, he chomped away on his fork? This is now a thing I have to know about ASAP pls n thanx.

Same here. A childhood of conditioning that quiet eating was good manners means that I’m hyper aware of loud/open-mouth chewers now. It can’t be helped, and I do find loud chewing/lip smacking to be an upsetting sound. Someone in another thread described it as nails on a chalkboard for them. For me it induces more of…

To me, talking with your mouth full, chewing loudly, and open-mouth chewing all sort of fall under the same umbrella of “not chewing quietly.” They’re sort of one in the same, all the result of not chewing with your mouth closed. I applaud people who can let this stuff slide, because I cannot. Hearing people chewing…

Yeah, I thought pretty much everybody understood that Box Tops for Education was a marketing ploy and not an actual, substantive fundraiser for schools. I’m at least glad that the writer contextualized the Big Number to emphasize that most schools really don’t see a huge financial benefit from the program (and that…

“Every barbecue that I have ever been on, the Duke of Edinburgh has been there cooking,” Prince William told the BBC.

This was my initial reaction. I like brisket. It’s good. It doesn’t scream “burrito” to me, for whatever reason. 

God help me, I’ve bought so much athleisure wear for my toddler niece and nephew. I cannot help myself. Give me a tiny baby tracksuit and I lose my mind. Those kids have better wardrobes than I do, by miles. 

My grade school didn’t have a cafeteria and my high school served bad food, so most days we bag lunched it. The one thing our cafeteria did decently was chocolate chip cookies. They were like diabetes on a plate, and you could get two for 25 cents. They would start baking them in the morning, so if you got to school…

I had the same reaction. But then again, I’m fascinated by maps. Globes are just 3D maps. I geek out over that stuff. If a guy can talk about what makes a particular map or globe unique or artistic, I’m interested.

Homeland would have been much better if they’d let Brody explode the suicide vest in Season 1 and just let the character die. But the executives saw the show becoming a hit and got scared of killing off a “main.” It would have been a gutsier, better show without Brody (and his horrible daughter Dana) hanging over it…

About two years ago, I saw this same actor in a very serious play in NY. And the whole very serious time, all I could think of was, “It is horse dancing, madam.”

Go see your professor. As a prof myself, I would want to know if a student felt this kind of ass-hattery was going on in my classes. But I’m a woman so I suspect (hope) my radar for these things is pretty fine-tuned. Speaking from experience, though, my male colleagues can be terribly blind to these things. Go and…

If a teacher cut a white student’s hair when the student did not want it cut, you can guarantee that people would be screaming bloody fucking murder in my neck of the woods. There would be news articles, protests, angry parents at board meetings. Heck, right now in a white, affluent community about 20 miles away from…

Whoever writes Logan’s dialogue when he flies off the handle should win all the awards. They absolutely nail “unhinged white man throwing a temper tantrum who thinks he’s looking super Alpha while he does it.” I mean, it’s great. “We’ll fucking beast him. We’ll go FULL. FUCKING. BEAST.” I can 100% believe that that is…