Does anyone have a good rec for a place I can order eyeglasses from? I need new ones so desperately, and everything looks ugly.

Does anyone have a good rec for a place I can order eyeglasses from?

I like Zennioptical.com.

I'm watching National Geographic TV, and there's a show called Amish: Out of Order, and there's a 16 year old girl who wants to become Amish because there's no peer pressure about how you dress.

Isn't there kind of all the peer pressure about how you dress? You're going to leave your family at age 16, learn Pennsylvania Dutch and move in with strangers and adopt a new religion so you don't have to worry about what you wear to the prom? My first reaction is that it seems kind of weird that no one is telling her that she's looking at a drastic change yet it's still only a bandaid on the issue. Especially since she's in low cut camisoles and skinny jeans and makeup the whole time.

On the flip side is a young kid who left the Amish, and has decided he will have two million liquid by age 25. They show him applying for a house loan and not getting it because even after he joined the English he stuck to his cash-paying ways, and has no credit report. And again it feels kind of sad that there's no one who's giving him perspective and big picture advice here.

I am an mean old dream deflater, but still. I do kinda want to yell at them both.

The difference between science advocates and scientists: [link]

Makes perfect sense.

My poor mom. Her eldest sister is, I think without meaning to, but I am unclear, wanting to send a note with a card for my cousin's shower that will only end in blood and tears and my mom is trying to head it off at the pass since she's probably closest to the sister it will upset. Mom's asking me for advice

tl;dr backstory deleted, bottom line: my mom is less pushy than me. I'm trying to get her to be very, very blunt with Mary, cause that's all that will work. Don't know if she will, which is sorta funny, because while my mom is quiet, she's usually a pretty hard wall to push over. But throw in sibling dynamics....

Makes perfect sense.

My mother would be surprised by that delineation.

Also: they are so goddamned Midwestern! Can't just spit it out.

Am I the last person in the world to know about this Princess Bride commemorative wine set from the Alamo Drafthouse? Insanely expensive, and I'm sure the wine is just okay and not better, but, still, WANT.

Yup, JZ.

Sorry?

So you know how you were all "Hey, ita ! Hi!"

I bet you take it back now. That is, BTW, highly NSFW, but in a way that people might not be able to tell at first.

But, at second? Totally the most NSFW thing I've seen in a couple weeks.