Although our family has been known to use terms for things that other people have never heard of.  When playing hide-and-seek, if you can sneak out of your hiding place and run to the goo and shout “My goo 1-2-3!” before the person who’s it can tag you, you’re safe. I’ve heard it called the “base” or the “goal,” but we’ve always called it the “goo.”  You also have a number of goos in tag, and the poor sport who spends the whole game latched onto them is taunted with cries of “Goo sticker! Goo sticker!”  And the remote control is called the “tuner.” Mainers often call this a “clicker,” but I’ve always known it as the tuner, which caused a bit of confusion at a friend’s house once. We were both native Mainers, but she’d never heard the term before, and I couldn’t believe anyone called it anything else.  Maybe it’s because we’re French Canadian? Although both these terms are entirely English ones. (It certainly explains why we call the cat “minou,” though.)

“Supper” is the meal eaten in the evening. “Dinner” can refer to the same thing, but it usually refers to a fancier meal eaten on a special occasion.  And I always pronounced it “car-ml” even though, living in Maine, I’m apparently deep in the heart of “carra-mel” territory. Who knew?

Yeah, I’m not sure what’s up with this. Sneakers are the only kind of shoes anyone wears these days, unless you’re in business attire or you’re female and you’re wearing flats or whatever. Right? I mean, it’s not the 50’s, no one wears loafers in their everyday life, they wear sneakers. Do people really call the shoes they wear everywhere in their everyday life “tennis shoes”?

If you let the public have access to eagle feathers, you’d inevitably see the birds being hunted for them - but Native Americans are such a small group of people form whom those feathers hold important cultural and religious significance that it’s only right to make an exception to the rules for them. (Especially when considering how brutally America tried to exterminate the lives and cultures of the Native population of this entire continent.)

It is if no one actually bothered to read the rule book!  My parents have been playing this game for over half a century and neither of them ever heard of this rule - and I checked, it’s right there in the copy of the rules in the copy of the game that our family’s been playing with since the 1960’s.  Maybe we’re all just dumb, but our minds were definitely blown by this revelation.

@Legion681 It appears that you might be correct? There’s a lot of contradictory information floating around - and just because it says so on the affidavit doesn’t make it true. Still, whether they were 14 and 17 or 14 and 18, there was no wrongdoing nor sexual assault committed, and there’s not a shred of justification for pressing charges.

“She has broken the law so.”
The law is blatantly unjust and idiotic.  “she deserves the punishment.”
She deserves punishment for doing something that isn’t even remotely wrong? “I don’t care if it is a boy or a girl.”
Neither do I. No one should even consider pressing charges regardless of genders involved. “It is wrong!”
How, exactly, is it wrong? Was anyone hurt? Was anyone taken advantage of? Was the relationship dangerous or harmful? These sort of articles bring out a lot of mindless shitstains who feel the need to share their atrociously ignorant opinions with us.

How is it so hard to understand that this has everything to do with homophobia? The only reason the other girl’s parents filed charges is because they objected to their daughter being in a lesbian relationship. “She deserves to go to jail!” For having a perfectly healthy, consensual sexual relationship? No, she doesn’t, you deranged shack of shit.

The law is blatantly wrong. This wasn’t an adult in a sexual relationship with a youth, these were two teenagers in a consensual relationship with each other.

“The girl broke the law, it’s as simple as that.” That’s completely irrelevant. She did absolutely nothing wrong and is being treated like a rapist, which she is not.  And her sexual orientation is relevant, because it was homophobia which caused the parents of the other girl to press charges.

The relationship started when she was 17 and the other girl was 14.

This is absolutely obscene. The raging homophobia aside, treating a consensual sexual relationship as sexual assault - and threatening to destroy an innocent person’s life in the process - is simply deranged.  For every 100 rapes, only 12 arrests are made, only 9 cases are prosecuted, and only 3 rapists ever spend a day in prison. Meanwhile, a teenager who committed no wrongdoing whatsoever is facing twenty years in prison.

“a armed government bureaucracy employing it’s police and taxing authority to stifle political dissent” That’s not at all what happened. “—a first in American history.” You really don’t know jack squat about American history, do you? “This scandal is an order of magnitude bigger than Watergate.” That statement is moronic. Don’t be ridiculous.

#2 Protip: Unless you’re illustrating Homestuck, creating an epic fantasy castle/tower/citadel by just pasting a bunch of pieces from real life architecture together in Photoshop and saturating them into various garish colors isn’t going to cut it. Fun bonus feature: The illustrator added highlights to the left side of the pink tower on the right, but that layer got shifted a few millimeters to the left, so now it looks like the building has a glowing force-field or something around it.  EPIC PHOTOSHOP WIZARDRY!

Your title is inaccurate - the BSA just voted to allow gay Scouts, not gay troops. A troop is a unit of Scouts. In Boy Scouting, “troops” doesn’t refer to the members of the organization like it does for the military.  Either way, a good (if only partial and long-overdue) step in the right direction.

Don’t be ridiculous. Even at his worst, Obama is a vast improvement than Bush in every way. NDAA is atrocious, but it doesn’t come close to the shit the previous administration perpetrated.

There’s no effort to “justify” what happened, just an attempt to point out the outrage is wildly overblown and mostly uncalled-for.  Seriously, people, the IRS subjecting Tea Party groups to extra scrutiny and then approving the tax-exempt status of every single one of them does not constitute a scandal. It just doesn’t.

Apparently they actually were inside the tornado at the beginning of the video around the 0:30 second mark.  There wasn’t much dust caught up in the vortex, so you can’t tell from the video that they’re inside it, I think. I certainly expected “inside a tornado” to look cooler than that.

Some other great YOLO moments from America’s 40th president that you forgot to include: Screwing over the middle class!  Destroying the American Dream!  Setting up the economy for an epic collapse!  Supporting brutal, genocidal fascists around the globe!  Helping rightwing dictators terrorize and murder their citizens!  Publicly slandering blacks, atheists, and poor people! Shuttering mental health facilities and turning thousands of mentally ill people into homeless people living on the street! YOLO!