What's also amazing is what people did to them to finally make them edible.
Wow, that is pretty messed up, E. But at least you are putting on the guard rails for her with what constitutes proper social etiquette.
Avoiding psycho gutterballs should always be the aim of your game.
And the occasional Bogan?
No, srsly, it's been too many years since I've been down to Straya and I miss it. Need to connect with my Tuz homies there... and not just for some goon tailgate party for Melbourne Victory.
Does it count if it involved a wallaby?
Checking my privilege here.

Yeah, I could see that making me 10x angrier than I was where I was at the time!
Well, at least until you sometime recognize (but not sympathize) that many operate from a place of pain, shall we say.

+1 on Dostoevsky. (Well, the writer, not just you.) It's one of my few Russian indulgences.
No, anchovies rule the earth. I can't believe that in South America they relegate them to animal feed. Buy more and make sure that they continue to produce the good stuff. Cetara, Italy says "hi".
True story: a year ago my neighbor thought Beyonce was performing in my house.
OK, it's kind of a long story. Jay-Z and Beyonce were performing at AT&T Park in SF, but there was an inversion layer in the clouds that caused sound waves to bounce from a shallow cloud ceiling all over the city. Apparently it bounced in the 1cm gap between the walls of my house and my neighbors. My neighbor came over to complain about all the noise coming from my house as her infant daughter was trying to sleep, but when we opened the door she was shocked to see that there wasn't a massive house party all up in here ... just me and the Mrs. watching a little TV downstairs.
So for a man without pants, is there like a UoM here? The Dru sagging ballz scale? It's gonna be a 5-incher versus the usual two-incher in summer?
As long as you aren't still drinking Purple Hooters and Buttery Nipples, you're ok.