I felt a moment of sadness for the Namibian rugby team (71-3 vs New Zealand) and then I remembered they look like this:

My sister sent me this photographic portrait of a family of slugs and it's... beautiful? Both aesthetically, as a natural reflection of the yin-yang, and emotionally as two adults huddle around their larvae/children.

Why are after-service so ubiquitous these days? They can't possibly provide a statistically reliable feedback. And yet, call the cellphone company to add a phone: "can you hold for a survey?" Get home from the airport and check email "Tell us about your flight!!" I was overseas recently and a hotel booking I'd made hadn't been conveyed to the hotel, who were full, so I paid 50c/minute (international roaming) to sit on hold for 30 mins for the website's helpdesk, after which "would you mind staying on the line to take a quick survey?" Yes, actually, I would mind. I'm not paying extra 50 cents to provide you my feedback

Today I had to pay an ungodly amount of money for my daughter's college room & board; but before I could exit the payment website, this:

You know it's gonna be an amazing vacation when...

Me twiddling my mustache in the background while proclaims his innocence.

My advice to my daughter as she heads off to Europe for her first trip without parental accompaniment. FWIW.

An' then oi sez to him, aye, Charlie, it's no Himalayas but at least it's not feckin' Skegness.

Either the world is even worse than I thought, or MSN really needs to fix the algorithm on their "Good News" page.

msn.com/en-us/news/good-news

Prompt: "write a song about econometrics in the style of Fiddler on the Roof."
@buddyyakov

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