pssst....don’t tell anyone, but I thought it was funny. And I am a woman.

YES. My secret is out.

weird looks and a gift certificate to half-price books. pretty appropriate.

At a previous job, I was given a little get-to-know-you questionnare with questions like “what are your hobbies? what is your favorite food? what do you do for fun?” Unfamiliar with this practice and unable to take it seriously, I answered all the questions with something about bears. I think I put bear-wrestling down…

I like his novels, and I would be sympathetic, but he’s already had two books turned into movies, and another on the way. John Green has made it. Stop pretending otherwise, dude.

THIS IS AMAZING

Her husband is the definition of adorkable.

I desperately wanted to take out a red pen, x through the paragraph, and demand that she produce a topic sentence and three supporting statements, followed by a concluding sentences. Also consider learning about transitions.

Round up the usual suspects!

I guess this will appeal to the kind of people who think Loaded Questions is a fun party game as opposed to a social anxiety nightmare.

DeBeers was founded by notorious imperialist and white supremacist Cecil Rhodes, whose greatest hit was probably almost single-handedly stripping the African population of the Cape of Good Hope of land ownership rights because he needed more menial laborers for the diamond mines and other British-owned industries.

I thought I was the only one in the world who thought that move seemed more like a cry for help than a groundbreaking artistic masterpiece.

Grimes and Lucius both recently put out albums (like within the last six months or so) that I think would make pretty good running music. But I only run if something scary is chasing me, so ymmv.

I also enjoy their mixture of total alien bizarrity and genuine good-naturedness, but many people around these parts just find them obnoxious. To which I say: Haterz!

Also check their cars for any good drugs to confiscate. They clearly don’t deserve them.

Nope. Grew up in the Catholic Church. Giving up meat was somewhat common for Lent, but Fridays were no different than any other non-lent Friday.

that is so very catholic.

My way-more-strictly-Catholic, pre-Vatican II dad told me that as a child he always gave up two things for lent: sugar and pheasant under glass. He didn’t know what pheasant under glass was, but damn, did it sound fancy.

eh? are fish birds? I do not understand.

Nah, you just have to give up something for Lent, not even necessarily food, although it is traditional. But giving up, say, video games, would be considered an equal sacrifice by most modern churches. It’s about refraining from something you do solely for pleasure. And the no meat on Fridays thing went out with…