I love that Jay wore the same white suit he just wore to Solange’s wedding because ain’t nobody need more than one white suit. Almost-billionaire celebrities: they’re just like us!

OMG, thank you for mentioning the deer. That was my, “I’m out!” moment. Well that and the fucking ghost sex Denny storyline.

I have a few in mine. One branch I’m fascinated by, in a weird sort of way, because they were French Creole and there was so much contradictory stuff going on with all of them. The layers of social stratification in their society were so weird as far as who was free (or allowed to become that way), who was not (but…

What’s most insidious is that they included the bit about his mom marching for Civil Rights in 1964 but dropped the whole slave-owner aspect. Oh and a Revolutionary War hero. It’s all a bit too much “The Making of Batman” for my taste.

I’m not a direct descendant, but I have an uncle several generations back who might be labelled a serial killer today. Not a huge body count—5 or 6—but respectable for the late 1800s.

Now when I feel like I’ve fucked up at work, I can remind myself that at least I’ve never fucked up on the level of having sex parties paid for by drug cartels.

This was my EXACT experience!!! I was a scholarship kid and it was a complete shock when one day I found out a friend’s family were essentially paying half my school fees!! (Their names were also on the honour boards and on various plagues around the campus, which I did know about!)

I imagine an application that says you’ve been working since you were a toddler and an essay about navigating puberty in the public eye are pretty compelling to an admissions officer.

Yeah, I feel like 1) it’s a bigger problem with legacies as there are way more legacies than child (or adult) actors with money who want to go Ivy leagues and 2) at least the child actors have something that adds to their life experience to put on their resume and make them stand out.

How does anyone find this even a little surprising? I went to a boarding school on the east coast (trust me, there was much scholarship money involved), and I can’t think of a single legacy who *didn’t* get into their parent’s alma mater, including the ones who never would have gotten in otherwise. It was a given, and…

This kind of reporting on the Sony hacks I’m interested in, not a bitchy rundown of Amy Pascal’s grooming products.

I always enjoyed meeting people at my school and casually wondering “hm, I wonder how they got in here”

The Hyde Amendment, in general, states that no federal ‘taxes’ will go to abortion services, either domestically or overseas. This new law provides (or provided) that monies recovered from a convicted sex trafficker (which, by definition, are illegal gains and not ‘taxes’) would go to health support including abortion…

As I understand it, applying the Hyde Amendment to fees and fines would go beyond what it normally covers (tax $$$). The Hyde Amendment also has be to reapproved every year, while the abortion restrictions in this bill would be permanent.

Went to a local avant garde restaurant and one of the 25 courses was “surf and turf”. Sea cucumber and bone marrow.

I think it’s probably regional. I live in CO and it’s always just scooped. Dipped is what they do to cones to get the chocolate shell.

You’re under the wrong assumption that all fast food chains use the same language. Steak & Shake isn’t in the far west, so asking a question like that because whomever is asking literally hasn’t come across that phrasing before is reasonable. For an employee to assume that everyone knows a regional chain even if they…

Since when is “dipping something out” a proper term? “Dipping” alone implies putting something into something just a little and quickly; scooping is taking something out.

This makes no sense and I do not accept your regionalism.

Apparently, today I and a bunch of other people woke up in a parallel universe where “scoop” and “dip” are synonyms...this has to be a regional thing, right?

They consistently say "dipped" here in the Midwest and I hate it. You did not dip the ice cream, you scooped it. It's an awful term.