NielsBohron

"Backpacking" can also mean couch surfing and staying in hostels or on park benches. In the early 2000's, it was a really popular way to travel across Europe (at least among rich white college kids)

I wouldn't have characterized The Princess and the Frog that way. In that movie, the protagonists learn to be happy despite being frogs, not because they are frogs. Being frogs throws them together and forces them to get to know one another, but their happy ending comes once they become human again (and the point of the movie is about working tirelessly to achieve their dreams, not removing themselves from society)

Edit: why yes, I do have small children and spend far too much time analyzing the themes of animated movies; why do you ask?

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

And when you're on the edge of addiction, you get "anxiety about whether I'm addicted" as a new unlockable!

Aladdin is right up there, too

Agreed. There is still strategy, but it comes in picking the suit and the bidding.

It helped that I learned it with my wife from our two best friends that had no one else to play with in our city, and we mostly just hung out and cooked and drank and played cards our whole way through grad school

Oh, come on, euchre isn't that bad. At the very least, you're playing with a partner that has a vested interest in helping you. Plus, if you're playing turn-up, it takes at least three hands to win if you're playing to 11 (and that's with the other team going alone and making it all three times).

Unless you're playing bid euchre, in which case you can score...I don't know... up to 12 points per hand if you go alone? I'm a bit fuzzy on the scoring for bid euchre as it's been years since I played and I didn't grow up with it, but IIRC you usually play to a much higher point value, so it still takes a couple rounds to get to a win. But if you're just learning, you probably shouldn't be playing bid euchre, anyway.

Of course, if the other team gets lucky you can wind up with each if those hands bring decided in one trick each, so it can feel like the posted comic, but at least the rules aren't as complicated as M:tG.

You know, rereading what I just wrote, maybe it is nearly as bad as Magic.

So long good times, bad times are ready to rock and roll. These black dogs spin so much BS it left OP dazed and confused

I'll tell you what; when I see the term used by an elected official or GOP voter to mean something besides a dog-whistle, I'll be on your side here.

Until then, when someone uses "fiscal conservatism" to tell me they're voting Republican, I'm going to continue to believe that they're ok with the rest of the GOP's racist, homophobic, misogynistic platform, too.

When people tell you who they are, believe them. And don't let them off the hook when they claim they're "fiscally conservative"

That's the one, thank you.

Me too. And then Bill Clinton gave them balanced budgets and they still hated him and his economic policies, and I never really understood why until I realized it was because he wasn't "hurting the right people"