My grandparents, for the last 10-ish years of their lives, would eat at least one meal a day at the Bob Evans 5 minutes from their home. They were such known regulars there that they brought occasional gifts when a server was having a baby, or graduating, etc. When they each died within a year of each other, some of…

My grandfather used to do this, according to my dad. From everything I’ve heard about him, he was generally an egotistical asshole, though.

His understanding of a “good” trade deal seems to be “they give us something for nothing.” Which fits with his tendency to not pay contractors.

Well, the first one hit ‘lazy husbands’ and ‘sexist workplace double standards’ pretty hard (even if it did the second point with a needless nod towards millenials tropes) and generally the ridiculous standards that get applied to women when it comes to parenthood.

On the other hand, our government is casually letting Russia assassinate people on British soil. Buzzfeed’s in-depth study of it has been enlightening, and ultimately not the least bit surprising, especially as the police are given smaller and smaller budgets.

Now I’m just imagining David Mitchel and Victoria Coren-Mitchell hosting GBBO. Lovely way to spend my last few minutes in work.

I think the fact that Mel and Sue had been such close friends and comedy partners for a while already made a huge difference. As much as I love Noel Fielding and Sandy Toksvig, there’s no manufacturing that.

There are some breeders trying to return pugs to what they were before selective breeding went way overboard! They’re called retromops and they’re essentially pugs with some Parson Jack Russell bred in. They’re really, really friggin’ cute and much healthier than standard pugs.

I have a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that we’re pretty sure was the runt of her litter. She’s really small for the breed (10-12lbs), she has a few teeth missing in the front of her mouth, and she has either an allergy or psychosemantic need to chew her fur off - unfortunately, the meds we had her on for most of a…

I went from Columbus to Florida to the UK, and now my local MP looks like Ricky Gervais cosplaying as Boris Johnson. It’s been a wild ride.

Susie Dent is Channel 4, FYI. ;)

I know the director for the historical Jamestown village, and for the 400th anniversary, they actually had Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles attend. She had this speech prepared for welcoming the queen, but when it came to it, the first words out of her mouth were, “I love your hat!”

With England hot as shit at the moment and air conditioning being a thing that only businesses tend to have, I’ve basically been living on mint green tea lemonade. If I’m feeling fancy and some of my fruit is going to go off soon, I’ll make a quick syrup of fruit, such as peach, with a bit of honey and toss that in…

Oh look, it’s the source of my username!

I feel like it’s only in the past few years that Barr swung to the right. She came across like a decent person for years, hell, she even tweeted that she’d go and arrest Zimmerman herself back in 2012 and participated in Occupy Wall Street. But she’s been drifting to the right since the 2012 election. Part of me…

Cable Girls is soapy goodness. The dub is decent past the first episode, and generally it’s just fun.

All of this nonsense nowadays is actually making me grateful for Kasich. But then, I had Michael Coleman as a lovely, mayoral buffer when I lived in Columbus.

Well, just look at it! There’s hardly any gold anywhere! How can people tell that they’re impossibly rich if they aren’t constantly surrounded by gold?? And the public can just tramp through the place???

She’s repeatedly tried to brand herself as the “sensible” one of the family, the only one her father supposedly listens to, and that she doesn’t always “agree” with her father. She’s made multiple statements attempting to appear softer on her politics, especially where women are concerned, while not actually…

Have you seen Cable Girls on Netflix yet? The dub takes a bit to get used to, if your bug doesn’t let you focus on subs.