If it’s straight theft. Because—having known a couple people with PA’s and a couple people who are PA’s—that job trips into “paid friend/nebulous levels of responsibility” relatively quickly. Assuming the given timeline’s correct and Donaldson worked for Rowling for years, it would be very easy for a couple lattes a…

As the comments here attest, this kind of behavior isn’t unusual. I don’t know what happens to some people when they have kids, but their common decency just fails.

I was a server years ago and I witnessed a toddler shit on the floor once. Upscale place! The parents just left, didn’t even try to talk to anyone. Some parents are vile.

She’s a pro chef and has money, so it may be that this is a refrigerated pantry. It’s not that hard to install/convert a closed space like a pantry or closet into a climate-controlled room. People do it all the time for built-in wine cellars.

Yeah, he’s not one of YOU, in the parlance of the email.

I’m subscribed to Trump’s email campaign to better keep track of the nonsense coming out of the Whitehouse and occasionally take surveys that are meant solely for Republicans. I just got an email (they’re all made to look like they’re from Trump himself) which says...

Oh no. :( I’m sorry. I know they’re based in India and I thought they shipped to most of Europe.

Yes, definitely recommend. I think I have around 6 things from them, maybe more if I’m forgetting something. I’ve ordered dresses, skirts, pants, and a shirt, so the whole gamut. The shirt, in particular, is probably the best professional type blouse I’ve ever owned in terms of fit (I am plus sized and very busty, so…

Get thee to Eshakti, where *all* dresses can be made knee and/or tea length, and you can customize the sleeves and bust of most. Their whole schtick is almost custom. And as a bonus, they have an enormous size range.

I just... noped out of a Wiki synopsis.

There are circumstances where families get used to screams of terror. My little brother used to have night terrors as a kid, which involved sitting up, eyes wide open, shrieking in terror. He had no other trauma in his life; which I mention because there wasn’t a controllable outside catalyst to change or remove. We…

I don’t think it’s especially unusual for breastfeeding babies to go for strange boob... I’ve had it happen. I’ve never had it happen with a toddler, but I’ve also never known a breastfed toddler, personally... I can imagine that if a parent didn’t socialize their older toddler and breastfed them, that toddler might…

My mom did that shit way back in the 80's, but with Barbie dolls. Barbie (especially 1980's Barbie) can be problematic — she had a point.

I mean... if you’re a person who believes the supernatural is complete fiction, that there are no such things as ghosts, spirits, whatever, then this is definitively a fiction contest with the exception of the creepy roommate and true life trauma stories.

I hear wind chimes.

I have gotten some *killer* mid-century modern furniture from thrift stores and Craigslist, including couches, and the trick is: be down to reupholster. Yes, it costs money on par with a new (but cheap) couch, but it eliminates any residual yuckiness and instantly fixes most perceived problems. Most thrift stores…

I have gotten some *killer* mid-century modern furniture from thrift stores and Craigslist, including couches, and…

Upgrade is SUPER fun but (and I was genuinely pretty sad about this) not even a quarter as clever as it thinks it is. 

I am going to let you in on a secret, a secret about women: we are people, and people are multi-faceted. A person can even be important and—dare I say—grown up and still like silly and shallow* things. I’ll use myself as an example:

I have never seen this dude in motion before but now that I see it, and hear it, yeah... I get it. Plus, besides the big dick energy, there’s something about how he moves his mouth that seems vaguely indicative of, well, mouth-related talent.