This has also been my experience.
Irving, TX, has an exploding South Asian Muslim population, and there are a seemingly endless number of hole-in-the-wall places that will sell you, like, two pounds of delicious biryani for like five bucks. I never had a bad meal in any of those places. The places that came close to…

Or broccoli…Oh, man, my appetite's gone.

This right here is a massive YouTube channel of instructional vids for making Indian dishes.
I get the impression that it's intended for expatriate Indian housewives; but whatever its purpose, it is a gold mine.
https://www.youtube.com/use…
I find the visuals are quite important, because, for example, many/most recipes…

Nope, wrong, it's Hebrew Nationals.
If they tested with the HN "fat free" version, they were doing it wrong.

I just wept at my desk. People thought I'd lost a family member.

He was probably a better satirist than Swift. An incredibly incisive mind, a polymath of a reader, wedded to genuine writing and storytelling talent.
No other author has ever made me literally laugh out loud more often or more loudly.

YES THANK YOU. We are all so busy reminiscing we failed to provide a practical guide, of which there are actually many, and LSpace is probably among the very best.

Small Gods is one of the best novels this lifelong reader has ever read.

I'd say the first couple novels are a little too influenced by Douglas Adams and Monty Python. They're mildly entertaining but not very cohesive.
IMO Sir Terry got into his stride beginning with Mort and just kept getting better.

Near the end of Night Watch I literally had to put the book down on the table and cry for a while.
But, while generally you can pick up any Discworld novel cold and enjoy it, you really should read the other Watch books before Night Watch, because the better you know the characters the more impact everything will have.

"Better"? Do you mean more entertaining? I'd say that neither character would really be complete without the other.

Everyone alive should read Good Omens.

"C'mon, Sarge, you know it's not a proper tattoo unless no one can remember how it got there."

It read, to me, like a first or second draft. The stiffness of the dialogue and the—I don't know—"primary" sort of behavior and speech from well-established (and -loved) characters really got me down.
I read it through as soon as it was published, but unlike all of pTerry's other books, I haven't re-read it. I'm sure…

That last X-Files revivification was so utterly wrong, so poorly thought out, so cheaply undermining of the original show and of my fond memories, that I was literally insulted by it. Partway into Ep 2 my spouse actually got up and walked away from the screen because he couldn't stand it any more. I do not believe…

Where do I send my check?

The lead? Which current prospect looks best in over-the-top crypto-bondage scenarios?

I was never a med student; but it's my understanding that your anesthesiologist is required to keep you just sedated enough so that your body doesn't react reflexively to being cut open, but not so sedated that s/he drugs you to death.
It's also my understanding that this state is within a very, very narrow margin,…

My first experiences with Thai and Pak/Indian foods were as a grown-ass adult.
The first time I had satay I nearly wept for the years of my life that I had wasted not eating satay.
I don't even want to get into my reaction to Pak/Indian. Probably the ugliest-looking cuisine in the world, and so, so good.
These days we…

Goblin jizz!