harmless jingo-ism is the best kind of jingoism

Hello fellow couch sister. I have some half-cold half-flu that has put me down. I’ve been weepy all day for no reason, which pisses me off, and which the Olympics exacerbates. So feel better, life will improve. My internet hugs are not snotty, contagious, nor do they require actual human contact. Hugs!

Local girl on the sailing team. My son has met her and he is psyched to watch her!

The mood has changed, I would agree. One thing that stays the same is that even the most benign and cross-posted Jalopnik post will have some commenter saying how the headline would be reworded if it were on Jezebel. I read some cool car article, start the comments, realize where I’m at and just shake my damn head.

Reduce the possibility of breakouts after waxing with three things: baby oil to remove any remaining wax, witch hazel as a non-alcohol cleanser, toner (this step stings), and an ice pack. Even if you have to drive home sitting on it, don’t skip the ice.

I’m so so sorry. We lost our perfect pooch on May 20th and still have bouts of tears over him. Sending you virtual hugs.

You and I should never meet. Joan Crawford’s eyebrows reincarnated themselves on my face. No amount of sculpting can reasonably flatten the arch, and plucking them just makes them higher.

Contract work is the correct answer. Yes, I’m working 16-hour days, yes, you’re paying me for 16 hours. Don’t want to pay me? Then I knock off after 8 hours. You’re late delivering? Tough.

I did seven months straight of 75-80 hour weeks, no weekends, no holidays. At the end, I quit, with no job offer in hand, because it was killing me, and more importantly, destroying my family. I have no patience for these types and ESPECIALLY this one who had a nursery built next to her office for her babies. I will…

I agree that we have taken the idea of political correctness to the extreme in some cases, to, as you say, become comical. Safe spaces, necessary things, are now invoked when anyone doesn’t want to hear something uncomfortable. Trigger warnings...ohmygod you said “Thursday” and you should have known that something…

I’m gen X and apparently I have you covered, honey.

Thank you for your sane response. My kid went through this (hello, Florida, pools) and hated every freaking second, but he passed. I thought it might sour him to pools but no, he’s on swim team now. They don’t just throw them in at first (like my uncle used to), they do a very measured teaching method. The babies in…

There were a bunch of us at a cabin for a long weekend. It started raining so the adults were going to play cards, and I put in the DVD of Rocketeer for the kids to watch. We played half of one hand of cards, because the adults wanted to watch the movie, too. It’s one of my favorites.

Acquitted!

Yes, they do. I’m loving watching them bend themselves into pretzels to justify Trump since they have apparently made a blood sacrifice to never, ever, ever ever vote for a Democrat. It’s schadenfreud-alicious.

Whadayakidding me? My dad was the only other Democratic-leaning person in my whole. damn. family. There are other reasons, but I miss the shit out of him.

I’m trying not to be snarky here, but did you think the first lady to make it this far would get there on merit alone? As a veteran of the corporate wars, a woman engineer in a mostly male industry, I’m totally impressed by her steel, her take-no-bullshit, take-no-prisoners approach to everything. MOST of the women in…

To be fair, we’re talking print media here. They clearly know their demographic.

But they will focus on the lack of unity and the shenanigans. You know they will. We, the democrats in this country, had a chance to show that we were bigger than our divisions and we whiffed it.

Your son might not see Mickey. Okay, I’m old, but there was a time when the characters roamed around during particular times and you could get “autographs”, etc. Now, those times are heavily scheduled and there. will. be. a. line. My kid did not make it through the last line we got in — he was four and his ability to…