I’m from South Jersey, and that’s how most people pronounce those words there.

I haven’t lived there in a while and I don’t pronounce it that way anymore, but where I grew up, water is universally pronounced “wooder”.

What region? I’m pretty sure that’s standard.

Shaving one’s arms is weirdly common among women in Japan.

But fuck them for suggesting a 23% tip. No.

Also, if you have the right soil and light requirements for it, they will absolutely take over wherever you put them.

The bees love my foxglove (native to the area, but which I planted). I spent maybe a minute watching them and saw half a dozen bees of different species.

Fucking bindweed. Don’t pull it out–that just makes it regrow faster. You want to snip it.

I’m definitely old since, to me, “vintage” automatically means cartridge games.

Jan T. Gross

Fair enough. I appreciate you managing it, even if I end up not attending.

They are also nice if you make them spicy.

It’s really shocking to me that anyone in the US who isn’t a native-born citizen would risk leaving the country (with the intent to return) right now.

That is not how it works.

That’s my standard smile, unless I’m really smiling big.

Anyone interested in this should read the book Neighbors.

Wish I had seen this before the movie was over!

At this point, there would typically only be a few others in the race. But the job is far from guaranteed.

It is actually generally better to not make your bed, particularly if you have asthma or allergies. Making the bed creates a warm, humid environment in which dust mites and bacteria better thrive.

And those people have been trained to hate California(ns).