There was also the Tuck family of Tuck Everlasting. I realize the book is set in some unspecified down-home area, but I assumed that with their gift of added years, the gentle, hillbilly Tuck family would gain some perspective or set out to enrich mankind in some way.

Nope. They just travel around moping because they…

Thanks! And good on studying Linguistics, it sounds fascinating!

What I find about all these posts is that as soon as you let go of the idea that 'everyone is further ahead' than me, your life opens up in ways you never thought.

I felt the same way in my early 20s. My friend went straight from the sorority house to…

*Boots on the Ground' is a term used to convey the belief that military success can only be achieved through the direct physical presence of troops in a conflict area.

When I heard about this, I thought, nah, I´m not going to put myself through this today ... today, I finally watched it. I cannot believe this shit.…

You´re talking like the 20s is when everything good happens to you and you´re supposed to spend your 30s basking in enjoyment for the things you accomplished or set up in your 20s. I know you may feel like you´re 'behind' because you´re a little older than those around you, but ...

WAT. This is not true. You´re being absurd, right? Because no one would actually — Google, google — HOLY SHIT.

YES. Thank you. What is up with this? She treated her employees badly in ways that went so far beyond 'one' incident of using That Word.

I would ask if the media was on the verge of forgiving her, and that´s why they are highlighting a single, relatively small transgression amid a host of illegal and/or racist…

SHE STILL HAS DEAD EYES. DEAD EYES, PEOPLE. Can you not see she has no soul?

LOOK AT THE PICTURES.

I thank you most humbly for bringing the word 'haboob' to this conversation. I snorted my tea laughing.

THANK you. I agree. I enjoyed the idea of the show as well - like many of the women, I had other things on my mind and no idea how to dress my body shape. If something happened to look really good on me, I´d just try to go back to the store and buy 3 different colors, because I had no idea how to articulate what might…

Someone should have watched the movies before asking this crucial logistical question.

I was really excited. I though it was gonna be a real silent film-type creation, with minimal but cheery music and dialogue cards inserted at various points.

I know I´m late to the party, but I just saw this and I´m so mad, but I don´t have anywhere to put my feelings! SO MAD.

I´m very on the NO side, but I do have pangs sometimes. My friends are of baby-having age right now, and I do feel strange to be skipping what is definitely a fundamental experience of life.

As someone beautifully said in another thread, I love my husband and there´s no one I would rather have a child with, and I…

THERE IS A FUCKING MIRROR? WHY?! WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?!

Oooh, that´s what this is from! I´ve never watched 30 Rock, so I was confused. I might start watching it based on this gif alone, though.

Oh, god. OH GOD. Oh, godgodgod. I can´t ... this is ...

I don´t really get Iggy Azalea. Her personality seems obnoxious. Did they really need to bring her on the track to say 'Big, big bootie, what you got a big bootie' over and over? Ugh.

The song is still bad, but it would have been a lot better without her grating voice in the background.

Excellent addition to the list - how could I forget Julia Sugarbaker? God, what happened to all the good TV shows?

(Several minutes later) WHY ARE THERE NO GIFs OF THIS WOMAN?

In Iceland, it´s 'skó,' 'nabla' or 'herða´ ... the worst was when I first moved here, I would hear these all the time. And then I would try to ask people what these words meant, because I was trying to learn the language.

Why have I never even heard of these ideas before? Lying down, butterfly needles, what? You are an amazing source of knowledge and wonderful for even offering these suggestions.