My experience is that it is often old people who are both more likely to be hard of hearing and also oblivious about how rude it is. It’s why old people never turn their phone ringers off, either.

The worst time for this was when my finger had been broken and out of alignment for 3 days and I was sitting in the ER…

I have absolutely seen it, and it’s not that rare. Most common with parents who have young kids. I used to complain about them before I had a kid of my own. Then I had a kid, taught him from a very young age that you had to be totally quiet on a train/bus/airplane and how to wear headphones, and now I complain about…

LOL children, you missed flying before internet.

LOL children,  you missed flying before internet. 

So, she reveals that she supports trans people and that she’s learning and trying to better herself on a topic and human condition that she wasn’t familiar with for most of her life. And the takeaway here is that that’s “not pretty”? The purity tests are unreal.

Bingo.  Its an odd tendency for many to try to box out allies on these issues and more.

I agree. I think it's a lot better to say "I'm still learning" than to just spout off at the mouth.

I don’t see what the issue is here. This is a new subject for many people, something they’ve never been exposed to before or thought much about. And frankly, it is an uncomfortable topic for many, especially older folks. I say it’s a good thing for those who are confused or don’t feel fully confident in their ideas…

I’m still so mad about this. I had a nurse who kept putting her hand on my perineum to “stretch” it during contractions. I kept asking her to stop. She said she “had” to do it, but it was hurting and causing me to recoil away from her, which was really not helpful for pushing. I’m still so mad that I didn’t make a…

Before I start this story is going to be weird. I was incarcerated for a brief period of time in my youth. My mother is a lapsed Catholic and never took us to church so I know nothing about Catholicism. I was waiting to meet with my public defender on a Wednesday and a fellow inmate sat next to me. She had a black X…

Hm, so it seems like I did understand the line and I’m confused as to how “college doesn’t matter” is an included statement. Oh well.

College doesn’t really matter? Do you mean which college you go to doesn’t necessarily matter? Because having a degree definitely matters in a lot of careers.

“We knew people had died there, but it was the ‘80s” is the best synopsis of that decade I can think of.

The Defunctland episode is real good:

“His justification reminds me of Thomas Middleditch, who recently outed himself as someone who coerced his wife into an open marriage.”

Far from apologizing, I think complicity is a perfectly acceptable word to use. Because every system of oppression survives because it turns some of the oppressed into collaborators, by doling out privileges and rewards, to create a hierarchy among the oppressed that prevents real unity of purpose, because those who…

This! In the acknowledgments section of The Testaments, she even thanks Hulu for making sure that anything they added to the show still made reference to an actual historical event - she refers to this as a rule for the books’ universe.

What’s interesting to me about the prophetic angle, is that Atwood is first and foremost a historian. She has long-stated that the content of The Handmaid’s Tale was not some horror fantasy she dreamt up - she pulled each piece of it from history. It still falls well within the dystopian category, but I am sometimes…

I have a friend who regularly saves drunk weekend tubers after they’ve floated downstream and into the Arizona desert. One girl told him she thought the river just circled around and you’d float back to your original spot. You can’t make this stuff up.

I think the idea is you aim the air nozzle carefully and use its jet propulsive properties.