My parrot, who is valiantly trying to learn to whistle this tune, heartily approves.

I have a deep and abiding hatred of this sentiment. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with articulating your own interests or with stating your own needs/preferences/wishes. Sure, there’s a problem if you’re over 3 years old and you have a meltdown when you don’t get your own way. Adults who spout this philosophy are,…

It’s a great way to shut down people who disagree with your vision of what’s best for <insert personal endeavor here>. It’s also a great way of maintaining control over people who have had enough of your organization’s BS and would like to leave, not to mention a convenient method of shutting down kids who object to…

But see, this is the same way of thinking that a lot of people have about this and it’s not okay. You assume that you have more knowledge about chamomile tea than the average pregnant woman, and therefore would take it upon yourself to tell one not to drink the tea. However, a quick googlyoogling tells me that you’re…

Oh god, I remember the one episode where they made someone lay in a coffin in a grave in radio silence for an undetermined amount of time, and then another contestant’s mission was to go to that coffin and shovel a thin layer of dirt over it.

“Fear” worked because the challenges were more psychological than anything. It was the haunted house movie come to life: You had a bunch of people wandering around a “real” scary location being forced to listen to ghost stories about the place and psyche themselves out and then do scary dares based on real fears, like…

American Smarties are amazing and those chocolate Canadian ones are garbage. COME AT ME INTERNET

This is very near me. Before people jump to say, “Oh my god, MORE religious liberty nonsense?” this is actually quite a different situation. This area is almost always a mess; DC traffic is already a nightmare, but we have a lovely convention center into which tens of thousands of people pour into weekly on top of it.

“The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers people from Africa to the southern United States to work as slaves on agricultural plantations.”

“Slaves” is the correct word. The caption - if it wants to be accurate - should read, “The Atlantic Slave Trade captured tens of thousands of Africans and brought them here by force and in chains to serve as unpaid workers in the United States.”

This one. One of the few SF novels that I had to read several times just to get. Mostly because I was 9 at the time and thought it was like the (what I believed was awesome but actually really crappy) mini series that my parents wouldn’t let me watch as it was on past my bedtime.

It’s not the style (I mean, honestly, they aren’t that great looking), it’s the quality. They are seriously well made boots and if they ever fall apart you can always return them and get your money back or exchange them for brand new ones. Not that you’ll need to. They’ll last you 20 winters, easy. They have a bunch…

It depends a lot on the denomination (and even within denominations, on the synagogue, rabbi, et cetera). Orthodox synagogues are generally much more socially conservative than either are for or Conservative shuls.

I like to imagine Michael Hogan held all of us in his arms when we babies.

Granted your story is more factual than my long-shot desire.

He was one of the many reasons I didn’t finish season 1. I hated him and almost everyone else.

Then I came back a year later to catch up with the series in time for Season 4.5’s start, and he’s easily one of my favorite characters in anything.

I regularly play as him in the board game as thoroughly in character as…

Vincent and the Doctor by a mile. Probably my single favorite hour of television,period. Everyone is at the top of their game in this one. Matt Smith plays the Doctor at his most compassionate, most kind, yet fearing the consequences of intervention in the wake of Rory's erasure from existence. Karen Gillan is…