Yes you did.

His engineering mindset means no impulse buys and less food waste
Ever the engineer, my husband pulled out his phone to show me some of the side-by-side price comparisons he made
but he approaches grocery shopping with his engineering mindset

“My little trad wife pea brain couldn’t grasp the concept of comparing two numbers, so my husband, an engineer, had to put his engineering mindset to work and engineer a way to buy the thing with the smaller number… did I mention my husband is an engineer?”

Jesus fucking deep fried Christ.

Yeah, and combined with how she seems to view her husband doing the shopping as some novel concept, it definitely gives some weird trad wife vibes.

What a depressing number.

Watch videos of the Manson Family. They all speak with the same cadence and weird word choices as Charlie. Emulating the leader is Cultism 101.

There’s racism for sure, but it’s more than that. American government is damn near a religious institution, with the Founding Fathers as the prophets and the Constitution as the Bible. It’s more than ideological. It’s dogmatic. And just like with religion, they pick and choose which parts they believe to justify their goals at any given moment. This is also why they won’t adopt a system that does the best for the most people possible. Their religion/government demands a hierarchy where a few enjoy paradise, and the rest suffer.

I don’t know, but it just doesn’t roll off the tongue the way “cold turkey” does.

“Quitting cold turkey” - I never actually thought about this one, but apparently it’s directly related to addiction (which seems kind of obvious now that I do think about it). When you quit an addiction abruptly, you sometimes get that cold goosebump skin like a cold turkey.

The Wikipedia entry on that one is a fun read. I’ve heard most of these possible origins before, but nobody is actually sure of the true origin of the phrase. It’s kind of frustrating, but also pretty neat that we still use a phrase long after we forgot where it came from.

“Bless your heart” is such a sneaky Southern saying.

Interesting. I always thought it was because the rain was so heavy it drove all the strays to seek shelter, so people noticed a lot more cats and dogs in front of their homes. I think a grade school teacher told me that when I was a kid. I like the dead animal version better.

Albania.

Moving abroad (I’m American). It was something I’d been planning for a few years anyway, and I’m super glad I got the ball rolling when I did. I’ve lived abroad before and loved it, and plan to make it permanent this time, which is a little intimidating, but also exciting.