Oh I totally agree. I mean, it does weed out the REALLY incapable/incompetent, and the background check supposedly catches the very criminal, but still. The actual class involves proving you can load and shoot the gun, which would not be possible for someone who really knew nothing about guns (I passed with a…

So - I live in Austin, as of recently, and also have a concealed carry permit (I am not a gun person and would be fine if they all went away, but this was a compromise with my husband). While I do think that guns on campuses is a terrible idea, I take the smallest amount of comfort from the fact that to carry…

I have a group of friends that has considered throwing a “vow renewal” party with the three couples as an excuse to have a big party and wear our dresses again. We could probably just start including anyone else we knew who is married - come wear your dress and reaffirm your marriage!!

If I ever had a reason to wear a ballgown to something (a fairly large ballgown) I would see if I could have it dyed and wear it. It’s pretty obviously wedding-y but not SO much that it couldn’t be an elaborate gown if it weren’t white. I sort of don’t want to make it costume-y in case it damaged the dress that I love…

I’ve totally read worse, I just hate the way young people (women) have gotten so obsessed over a pretty crummy love story. Not that that is ... new. But I do wish we had some better examples getting the attention.

Totally good point - it’s not the worst plot, just terribly represented. If the characters had a bit more personality it could be acceptably good.

The only time I’ve lost a toenail from running I had almost completely grown a new one underneath before I realized the top one was janky and dead. Pulling off a nail that moments ago had seemed normal only to find a WHOLE NEW NAIL under was unsettling.

Mystery chafe. Seriously. Sometimes I can run just fine and nothing chafes and then another my thighs are like I rubbed sandpaper on them for 10 miles and one side of my rib cage has a red mark on it from something.

There is an extent to which this is kind of cute - see some funny wedding theater, have some food, drink, dance, etc. No social pressure because it isn’t a REAL wedding.

I read all of them out of some sick feeling of librariany duty. The third one does actually develop a plot and is not the worst thing I have ever read. Not good, just not AS bad.

Yeah I commented about that before I even read the article. She is a terrible author but is really working it up there.

She has apparently found a great stylist/makeup artist though! Looking good, terrible author lady!

I am never one to kink shame but cock and ball torture always scares the crap out of me. Like literally startles me when I see it - please stop hurting your poor lovely dick!

The only appropriate time to talk to a reader in public is if you are commenting on the book. And it should be prefaced with an apology for interrupting. But if I saw someone reading something I loved, or was genuinely interested in, I would comment (also a woman, so a different situation).

I literally told two dudes at a concert last weekend “don’t talk to me.” Right after I said it all I could think was “shit now I’ve done it, what are they going to do next.” Amazingly, it worked! They stopped talking to me! I might have shocked them as much as myself. (I did turn my back on them so they could have…

It’s a fairly common, and valid, liberal argument to point out the hypocrisy of pro-gun pro-life conservatives. The gun + abortion comparison becomes very weird when it’s flipped by conservatives though - they try to make personal freedom arguments or things like this and it just generally does not make sense.

Do you mind talking about your Etsy experience? I buy from Etsy occasionally and have considered opening an Etsy shop, but am too lazy.

Or if you forget you have a bag of it in the fridge for too long and then wonder what died in your kitchen. Not that I do this.

Does it get increasingly bright as you get closer? Because if I could get something that did like, “getting warmer, warmer, there she is!” for when I go with friends to large events and someone goes to pee and then we spend 20 minutes doing the “I am by the freaking BLUE SIGN” texts ... that would be awesome.

It doesn’t sound like she “cursed like a sailor” though. One coworker, who isn’t identified, accused her of cursing at her. She very well might have been having a conversation and said something like “and then I dropped the damn drill on his face!”