Require reading bible text in schools? Gross. Are they going to be graded on how "correct" their interpretations are?

Actually reading the bible is a surefire way to make more atheists though, which Texas could use more of.

Plus, the more you make something mandatory, the more kids will hate it.

House isn't autistic. He's brilliant, but in constant pain and taking it out on anyone and everyone around him.

You might have been doing something work-related on your phone. There's no plausible deniability of that if you're crocheting.

I have the same problem. I can't read a book or knit in the office, even if there's downtime. Because the higher-ups can't know there's downtime. It's our disgusting corporate culture that's stopping me.

#bringbackbuttons

They want the poors to suffer.

There, I explained it.

I'm interested in the alternate endings.

*hanged

Pictures are hung; people are hanged. English, man. It's weird.

I can't bring myself to mock something that someone probably made out of genuine love. It makes me too sad. No matter how much of a piece of shit Charlie might have been.

Mocking it feels like the opposite of empathy. I know how much he didn't believe in empathy, but as usual, he was wrong. So I'm displaying some. Not for him. But for whoever made this for him.

I've always heard "Poor people are crazy, but rich people are eccentric." Same kind of vibe.

Same. If I can't eat what I want, what's even the point of being an adult? Eating things I like is basically the only thing I have left in life to look forward to.

Stone is a common British weight measuring unit, and this is a bbc article, so... That's why that happened.

The article doesn't say "bomb jolt" it says "bump, jolt." In case no one actually reads the article.

That's not how you spell lettuce.

I would have said god is a fascist. There's a real "do what I've decided is best for you, or there will be hell to pay" (pun intended) vibe throughout his interactions with humanity.

But he does always seem to need money, so maybe you have a point.

couldn't HAVE*

You can fight the authoritarian power of the HOA! All you need is:

• The ability to afford a home. (I'm down at the first hurdle.)

• $60,000 in legal fees to end up settling with the HOA.

This country sucks so bad.

It's, uh, boll. Boll weevil. So you learned two things!

While we're on animals, every time I hear the word mongoose I picture some kind of platypus-like creature. Like, a half goose, half weasel or something. And that's not what it is at all.

"All living spaces near office buildings are getting more and more unaffordable"

FTFY

I use "Huzzah" on the regs. It starts ironically, and then before you know it, it's in your lexicon.

The number of people who are "knitting" in a movie or on TV...maybe 40% of them are actually doing it, and that's a high estimate (shout out to Miss Marple!). The rest appear to be wrapping yarn around one of the needles and then moving it vigorously, lol.