I could pretty much follow along with the train of events and see some warped logic there until I got to that bit about the dad's pseudonym. Then I just gave up. Lunacy.

This gif is kinda mesmerizing and I just stared at it for like two minutes.

Because in that case it would be fine. Of course.

Kids are sometimes completely cowed by strangers. I have used this to my benefit before.

THEY ARE TERRIFYING

People are so nonchalant about mountain lions. I am terrified of them. It’s a lion that’s been to the barber. A lion.

You can also get a plate supporting the Great Smoky Mountains Nat’l Park with a bear on it!

The way she reacts as if she's been struck by an electric cattle prod is hilarious, then horrifying.

It's easier to move your "adult" marker during wartime. My grandfather used to love to tell stories about his first job at a grocery store during wwii. There were practically no other adult men in his small town. His manager used to come get him out of school when deliveries arrived so he could do the stocking.

Both. The whole thing just seems set up.

The way no one mentions the perfection of this timing for fx stuns me.

You can't become addicted to marijuana. Not chemically, the way you can with alcohol.

I am suspicious of any species that shares a family tree with geese.

I would probably be so confused I wouldn't be able to speak..

He denied that he rubbed her hands with his hands. He recalled that he did this once to “maybe calm her down”. This is not only contradictory, it’s how you can maybe calm down an excitable dog. Not a person.

I would consider it more a blindspot? They are talented people who are mostly laser-focused on one particular concern. Issues outside of that focus just bounce off.

Ginny ginny ginny/cant you see/sometimes your motions just/hypnotize me.

I am a big fan of Rushdie's writing. But I've never kidded myself that he cares very much about women.

Had to look up who Andy Capp was. Then realized that the first post did kinda make me sound like I thought I was British. I am not British.

How can you steal two taxidermied giraffes on a lark? You can't exactly tuck them under your arm as you stroll out whistling.