I didn’t even know I was cool. People act like I’m really strange when I order rose. But I’m old.

Nay. It melts and dilutes it. I do like my rose very cold, though.

No, you shouldn’t be worried at all. Northern Virginia is very safe. I mean no place is crime free, but it’s nice here and safe and a great place to raise a family.

Link?

Yeah. I live nearby and it sounds like gang-related violence to me. This kind of random attack on a pedestrian seems like a gang initiation, and it’s happened more than a few times in this area.

Huh. I live nearby and I figured it was gang related - not that she was a gang member but that the assailant was. There’s a fair amount of gang violence in the area, particularly MS-13, and there have been some seemingly random attacks on bystanders by gang members, as an initiation or whatever. It sounded like that…

There’s a global entry office in the Reagan building in downtown DC. Might have better luck there than at the airport.

I hope you’re right!

1. That baby is adorable.

Came here to say roughly this. First responders are trained in how to move unresponsive people. It may have been necessary to ‘drag’ her if a stretcher couldn’t fit on the plane or if there wasn’t time (it’s unclear to me when they got her on a stretcher), but it would have been done in a proper way that would not…

OMG if you have your baby in an IKEA does the baby get free furniture for life?

That ringing up thing is so stupid. The IKEA near me lets you pay for everything in a single place. 

It’s totally fine if it’s not your thing! the only thing that bothers me about non-IKEA people is that many of them (not you) seem to think that IKEA is synonymous with cheap and shoddy.

I do like their stuff, so if you don’t, you’d probably be meh on the whole experience. But I love going to IKEA (when it’s not crowded). If you like design and decorating it’s super fun.

Ballou is not a charter school. It’s a public high school in one of the rougher neighborhoods in DC and is generally considered low-performing and a ‘bad’ school. The class of 2017, as juniors last year, set the goal of having every single member of their class apply to college. It’s a remarkable achievement that…

I cannot play video right now but please tell me that’s a parody please please please.

According to coverage of this story in the local news, she’d actually brought gift baskets and invitations to the party to all of her neighbors in advance.

I realize you’re just trying to be an asshole and act cool because you don’t use social media often, but if they were in chronological order, you could go back to the last time you checked instagram and see everything that’s been posted since then. Instead, you see whatever instagram decided to show you, and…

This explains why there’s so much old stuff in my instagram feed, at least. I thought it was not refreshing, but no, it’s showing me old posts on purpose while I miss the new ones because there’s nothing better than clicking love and writing a witty comment on a week-old post. Sigh.

I wish somebody would make a movie about an interracial couple in which there is no angst about their being from different cultures, no jokes about their being from different cultures, and people rarely even mention that they’re from different cultures because it is 2017 and it’s completely fucking normal to be in an…