Hey, thank you! I appreciate the encouragement!

“other horrors which dwell in large pools of Scottish liquid”

My dad has had a bee in his bonnet for YEARS that I should be a stand up comic. Because that’s a career you can just start, right? I keep telling him that I’m too old and tired and married to haul myself around to clubs and put up with all the harassment and death/rape threats.

My grandma is having some health issues and was worried about money for doctor stuff and I’m really proud that I was able to just wire her some money to get it done. She was so appreciative and relieved and said some nice things and I’m just so happy that I could have helped!

Tangentially related, a local excursion railway has Thomas and Percy locomotives pulling cars in Strasburg PA.

Hey poodles! I haven’t had bariatric surgery, but my bestest best friend has. She’s 5' 10" and was somewhere above 300 when she got her lap band. She lives in the middle of Missouri, where there’s a lot of obese folks, very few hospitals, and fewer people able to afford the surgery, but she managed it after 6 months,…

They could have been attacked by a Bairn

Yes!! Honestly, the idea of a job one is Passionate about and also keeps you in the black is a fucking Pipedream. Thats olayw and the faster people realize this, the better. I make good solid money, work regular hours and have a sweet benefits/ RRSP situation. Sure, I hate the job 40% of the time, but I also get 3…

Dayum. I’m in my forties and I still can’t stand up to my dad’s bullshit*. Good for you!

That’s AMAZING! Standing up to loved ones is so so hard, even when you know you’re completely in the right. I don’t really have a super proud moment to share but wanted to say congrats to you!

Making it home safely would have been far from a loch. In fact, it would have been quite whisky to do so.

Haggis it was the best they could do.

Someone who looks like Steven Seagal or Harvey Weinstien could easily be a really sweet human being, just as someone who looks like Ryan Gosling could easily be a monster. Appearance means nothing.

They would have been covered in dirk.

Some peeps give off the vibe and he has a whole schtick and deluded lifestyle to support it. I mean going on looks alone I’d say Stephen King looks like the classic pedo mugshot but does nothing to support that as a person.

Exactly! I am not at all satisfied that Hollywood will be able to dust their hands off and say the problem is solved by ostracizing Harvey Weinstein. We all know there are far more predators in the film business because they’re in every business. Studio executives will have to actually take harassment allegations…

Oh, for peat’s sake. Would it have kilt them to walk?

I’d go with like Daniel Dae Kim or another Asian actor, preferably wearing a fat suit and whiteface, in order to pay him back all the cultural appropriation debt Segal has accrued over the years.

There are a few Hollywood celebs that I would be really surprised to find out are sexual predators. Steven Seagal is not among them.

The people in the Black Hills are the worst- unapologetic openly racist white trash with nearby Natives living in the poorest counties in America. It will shock you how blatant the anti-native sentiment is in towns like Rapid City, Sturgis, Deadwood, or Custer.