All the comments / pictures that people are (maybe half) jokingly associating with the onset of puberty kind of make me wonder whether there’s something to that idea.

When I was 14 I worked for a McDonald’s. An elderly lady in her Sunday best came to the counter to complain about a mess of ketchup near the soda fountain, so I went over with a damp rag to clean it up.

It’s the best of the hot pot meats.

When an English cricketer sees this and decides to try adding actual petrol because his team needs a spark, it won’t be half as funny. Will probably be a bit brighter, though.

It’s not a major coincidence that the people most likely to criticize Emma and Anon above are often huge fans of Ayn Rand and cannot begin to imagine why a person might sacrifice their own comfort in service of unnamed others.

The liberal knee-jerk reaction that says “Sure! It’s all okay!” is just as dumb as the conservative knee-jerk reaction that says “No! Never okay! Missionary only!”

Agreed completely. I watched it for the first time in about a decade this Christmas with my whole family and actually laughed out loud. I was pretty damn drunk by the time the movie started, but still...It’s a great movie.

A Muppet Christmas Carol is my favorite childhood movie.

I’m somewhat surprised the military hasn’t attempted to weaponize this in some manner or another. If someone figured out how to dilute it such that the smell dissipated within a reasonable amount of time, this would be a pretty damn effective crowd control device, or a great way to flush people out of a building…

My mom signed up for one of these and she’s super excited about running it with a few of her coworkers while my aunt, dad and me cheer her on. She’s never been big on running but has done a fairly impressive job getting herself in better shape as she enters her 60s, though she suffered a fairly significant setback…

Pretty much. It was just a disappointing response, is all. This seems like a pretty perfect time for a bit of introspection; if you frequented one of these locations, you unknowingly contributed to a horrifically unjust system. Full stop.

I had to avoid the comments section when the story broke on Jezebel. Didn’t want to get myself banned. The fact that this wasn’t common knowledge already for the Jez community was extremely upsetting. So was the initial response, which appeared to be a mix of: “Well, I guess we should all be tipping more!” and, “How…

Yeah, I think my main quibble with the story was that it sure sounded to me like the archaeologists were taking great pains to explain away the fraudulent mummies as anything but fraudulent. I just don’t think it’s fair to make that assumption out of hand; it sure seems like the simpler explanation, lacking any…

No, but fake trees are advertised as such. And I don’t think most people would argue that contemporary Christians put as much spiritual stock into fake Christmas trees as Egyptian polytheists placed in their various rites and religious practices. Hell, it’s not even a Christian tradition; most Christians don’t even…

Another theory: People have always been very lazy and/or under pressure to get their work done as quickly as possible.

There’s “getting buzzed during a show and hammered afterwards,” and then there’s, “being hammered 24/7 because rock and roll.”

I had one of the 10.7% varieties before a boar roast at a friend’s Chicago bachelor party. First drink of the night, on an empty stomach because...boar roast. Did not know it was 10%, but I figured it out pretty goddam quickly.

The Times article referenced testimony from Stephon Marbury, who testified that he had banged an intern after a group outing to a strip club, as evidence of a hostile and dysfunctional environment.

Fun fact: This dude’s idiot fundie predecessors added this line in 1954s to teach the Godless commies a lesson, or some such nonsense.

I want to parse this out because this is somehow even crazier to me now than it was yesterday.