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Challenge accepted: Picture this. You're in a bagel shop, he orders a bagel with cream cheese. The server slices bagel, toasts, spreads, then puts the two halves together to put in the bag. A grown man, in a toddler voice, whines "Well now you put them togetherrrrrr..." And if you'd care to move on from dates with weird food issues, to dates with all kinds of weird issues.. Well, how long have you got?

'kay, Maharincess, that's truly weird. What food shouldn't have butter on it????

Seriously, DeLurker?? Is that why you divorced him??/ I was once at a pub with a menu that included one or two pizzas. My date ordered the BBQ chicken pizza, and asked the waitress if he could have pineapple on it. She said "It doesn't come with pineapple." He kept going on about it.... Surely you have pineapple in the kitchen, you could just put some on the chicken pizza... The waitress was getting increasingly frustrated with him, explaining that it wasn't an option, he kept acting like a big baby ... Had we not been an hour from home, I would have walked out. I did dump him when we arrived at my house.

potatoradio, A thousand times, yes. Keep your damned kids out of my gym; I didn't sign up for Gymboree. I use the Adult Locker Room, specifically signed "Age 21 and up." Get your kids out of here. The posted signs in the weight and cardio rooms say "Age 14 and up", yet each time I complain about increasingly younger children, I am told they are one of the many "exceptions" to the rule. Can I have an exception to the "You must pay your membership dues" rule?

Godiva used to make a chocolate ice cream that had just the flavour you are describing, and it was the exact same taste as their chocolate liqueur.

Try making people understand this - your spouse's niece or nephew is not (legally) your niece or nephew.

I'm in Canada, we take food when somebody dies. What I find weird is putting cash in the sympathy card, like your grandmother does for your 8th birthday.

Not sure if you are thinking of actually making Ina's recipe - they're awful. The freezing part was fine, the taste was awful.

You mean Jennifer Aniston's boyfriend Tate Donovan?

Your school served real whipped cream on the jello?? Fancy. We were lucky to get no name Cool Whip knockoff. Plain jello - fresh. Jello with no name Cool Whip, at least 2 two days old. Jello with no name Cool Whip, plus canned fruit cocktail? At least 4 days old, don't touch it.

I think the drugs are working more than anything; when I'm feeling relatively well and decrease the dosage, I have an almost immediate flare of excruciating pain that takes days to settle. I'm about 50 % compliant with the diet. The big categories I refuse to eliminate are gluten and dairy. I gave up dairy for a month while we still in the diagnosis stage, and it made no difference, so why would I give up ice cream? I notice no difference on days when I eat a little versus a lot of gluten and I would rather eat shards of glass than give up bread. I do notice an effect from some FODMAP foods, sadly onions, garlic, and turmeric, so I have immediate pain when I eat Indian food. I've eliminated a lot of the raw fruits and vegetables I used to eat, which makes it hard to pack my office snacks. I used to eat a Big Salad for lunch, now it's pretty small with only the vegetables that I am allowed, and I don't enjoy it. I can't eat large meals, so I mostly nibble through the day.

I think I've finally hit a wall. I posted a few months ago about my colitis diagnosis and the stupid low FODMAP diet I was supposed to be following. So many of my favourite foods are prohibited, that I've just given up trying to enjoy eating any more. I've been sitting on my sofa for 90 minutes trying to figure out what to eat, and I've come up with nothing. Can I just eat a hunk of chocolate and go to bed?

I keep forgetting where I am in the story, because I watch it in Canada but also Youtube the British episodes, so I'm about a week ahead of the Canadian timeline. Regardless, I'm hating the Dev and Julie storyline. Julie is being a simpering twit, even worse than she has always been. And Dev is being an ass, even worse than he has always been. And I can't figure out Talisa; she's supposed to be some hot, young thing? She looks 45 +.

Well, it has been several months since the episode aired, so perhaps the answer is "Already"?

I have a friend who takes a bottle of water with her absolutely every where she goes, all the time. She is never without water. She also has to pee at least once an hour. She doesn't see the cause and effect relationship. I have (jokingly) suggested she be tested for diabetes. It makes roadtripping a real pain in the ass. For the record, she acknowledges that having to pee constantly is interfering with her day to day living, but refuses to give up the water bottle.

Dammit, guys, I read this as Duggar missionary style, and nearly spit my lunch on my computer.

What did parents tell kids before water was sold in bottles? It would never have occurred to my generation that water was something that needed to be carried around. God knows we were far more active than today's kids. Were we all dangerously dehydrated?

The photos of Derrick/Jill and Ben/Jessa on stage at ALIVE look like the teenage counsellors closing the Variety Show on the last day of church camp. They all look and act like children playing at 4th grade marriage.

I'm avoiding the work I brought home by baking. Making muffins, I decided to warm up the peanut butter to make it easier to scoop out into the measuring cup. "I'll just put the jar into the microwave for a few seconds." You know how peanut butter has a foil liner on the top of the jar? And sometimes when you remove the foil, you leave a thin strip around the edge of the jar??? Ooops.

I remember these! I hated the Bordeaux.

The very first of our local strawberries are out. Yeah, it's June 20. It's been a lousy spring. I decided to use up the remainder of last year's berries from the freezer and make ice cream. I didn't have quite enough strawberries, so I topped it up with raspberries. It's still churning away, but I keep sticking my spoon in to taste and it is awesome.

Yes, but you realize you are making up a word. Sadly, most people who say "nother" truly believe it to be a word.

JJ seems to take the position that plaintiffs should just have insurance against all of life's woes, and that would solve every problem. While I agree if the plaintiff were insured, her insurer would have paid out, if the kid had been at fault (which he wasn't), her insurer would still go after the mother to reimburse them. The wrongdoer doesn't get off scot free because the plaintiff had the foresight to have insurance.

How about "nother" used as if it's a proper word? The expression is either "another day" or "a whole other day". It's not "a whole nother day". Pet peeve 2: The man hug. Men are so afraid that touching another man might feel good that they have to slap each other on the back while doing it, as some sort of aversion therapy.

In my part of the world, people are often "just fixin' to get a job"