As we used to say when I was a little kid: “Zero the hero, first the worst.”

Yes.

I also just hate glass. I broke a jar the other day and thought I’d cleaned it up properly, but no. I’ve been picking nearly invisible pieces of glass out of my foot with tweezers for days. My feet are scratched to shit. Plastic is bad but glass sucks too.

Two kids. I live in Canada and have a disability so I don’t have to pay for school, which I know is a big advantage. I paid for my first diploma myself, though, without any loans or grants. I worked through high school and of course after and saved the money. I also got married (and had no wedding) and we used the gift money to pay for school. Had our first kid while living with my grandmother and paying her mortgage for her. I was 30 when I finally moved out into my own place. Before that we lived with my grandmother, before that my inlaws, and before that with my dad.

I took the long road but I have a house now and that mortgage is my only debt.

I dropped out of high school at 17 and went to college (which I think is the same as a community college in the US? Not a full four-year degree) when I was 24 for programming. Worked as a programmer for a couple years and then got bored and went into agriculture for a couple years. Now I’m bored again and looking at going back to school for something else. I’m 33 and I’m doing fine. 21 is so young! You have lots of time to figure yourself out. Honestly I think asking 18-year-olds to decide what they want to do forever is ridiculous. Almost nobody knows themselves that well that young. I’m still figuring out what I want in life.

I really disagree with your secondhand comment. Buy more secondhand, less new! Cheaper, better for the environment, and you can find some cool things you wouldn’t otherwise. I get nearly all my small kitchen appliances from thrift stores. Most people get them as like a wedding gift or something and then never use them, so they are practically new. All my clothes except underwear and socks are thrifted, most of my furniture, my dishes, most electronics… I love thrift stores.

I am SO tired of this shit. “Waaah you aren’t condemning Hamas hard enough!!!” My god just shut the fuck up already. I can’t tell anymore which ones of these people are just stupid and which ones are being disingenuous. I swear to god these people will accuse anyone of antisemitism if they aren’t starting every single fucking sentence with an “I condemn Hamas” disclaimer.

As a Canadian, I really enjoy listening to Americans pronounce French words.

Editing to say, my French isn’t great but I don’t think you really say the N in gratin (or maybe that depends on regional accents, I’m not sure). I would say it more like “grah-ten” but without really saying the N. You kind of just hint at its existence. Maybe? We need an actual Francophone here…

I reeeeeally recommend drying off after. Anyone who is prone to UTIs like I am, please dry off each time…

I have been using convection ovens for way longer than I have had an air fryer and it’s honestly different. The smaller size and the basket shape makes it cook faster and it’s just so muxh easier to toss the stuff in the basket than it is to flip everything over halfway through baking. Deep frying does taste better but I hate cleaning it up after. I thought air fryers were stupid for years but then I tried one and I was wrong.

This has never made sense to me. I love the smell of food. When people apologise for the smell of garlic on their clothes, all I can think is “Why?? You smell delicious.”

To go pick it up myself, I have to: get warm clothes on my children, load them into their car seats, brush snow off the car, drive all the way there, get my children out of the car and into the restaurant, carry the food and corral my children back to the car, get them back into their car seats, drive all the way back, remove all the children from their seats, and then get their winter clothes off and put away. I’ll pay $15 to not do that.

In Canada we have a lot of that and I always assumed we import things from America and then just change the labels. The metric usually converts to a more reasonable number in imperial.

Oh I know they’re viscious! I’ve just been lucky and always kept enough distance between myself and them.

I do honestly love hearing the honking and watching them fly by. I always point it out to my kids. I’ve seen lots of Canada geese in my life and they’ve never hissed at me, so I don’t have a problem with them other than the poops that are just everywhere.

I make my own hot dog buns and then put the cheapest, crappiest chicken hot dogs on them. I like the crappy chicken weenies.

When I was 18, I took my little brother trick or treating. I’m short (and a woman), he’s tall. Everyone asked him if he was too old to be out, but nobody questioned me.

I genuinely love Ancient Aliens but it’s definitely a comedy for me. I really don’t understand how anyone can take it seriously. My husband had someone in one of his college classes who believed an Animal Planet mockumentary about mermaids was real, though, so I guess people have fallen for dumber things.

Woah woah woah. Hold on a second. There are actually people who take Ancient Aliens seriously?! I thought we all watched it because it was hilariously stupid.

Etsy has gotten worse since I got engaged, but that’s where my ring is from. We went for sterling silver and it was $150.