Letting a repairman in, not having to give a key to house cleaners/babysitters/dog walkers? Admittedly it’s not frequent but there are people - more than 0.0001% - who would like the convenience.

I think “best” may be generous. ;)

I think the question is whether she actually wrote it, or whether she’s the ‘face’ - for both the movie ‘adaptation’ and the book publicity.

Cosmetologists require more training in the US than police do, in nearly every state. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-cops-trained-cosmetologists-america-article-1.2727221

They were listed in the intro paragraphs, with a highlight on their new clothing service.

I have a sister-in-law who used to work there, and hearing her talk about all the crap they had to take back - lots of “borrow-a-dress” occasions for prom/fancy parties/etc that got returned with stains etc. - I can believe it.

Considering the ignorance expressed in the study in the last paragraph, that really surprises you that white doctors might not necessarily be as on top of a black patient’s specific needs in this specialty?

Still drizzled in beef broth at the plant, at least as of a year ago. Same with the hash browns, IIRC.

And I hate their yogurt parfait. It tastes like vanilla pudding.

Agreed, he probably did think it was a shoulder. Helps explain the double-lane-cross to do it as well, if they had to pull over quickly for some reason (car trouble, massive high interfering with driving, whatever).

Worse yet, at least one of them was IN those show choirs with me in high school and you’d think would know better. WTF?

Ugh, yes, it seems like half the times I share some songs on Facebook, I get a friend who’s all “oo, I loved the version Pentatonix did.” *gag*

Maybe a tablet with a version of it? You could even start the game for her, or simplify the home screen to have only a few things on it.

That makes me nauseated, actually; I get major motion sickness from the changed movement. I think I’ll fire up the original again, instead.

If it helps - I give you permission to not go. I know the world tends to lose its collective shit when people cut their parents or other family members out of their lives, but you don’t necessarily have to put up with it.

Most kids don’t believe “this hurts me more than it hurts you” or “this is for your own good.” Fortunately, I didn’t have to deal with it, but research overwhelmingly shows that it doesn’t work the way all the “spare the rod, spoil the child” types think it does. A meta-analysis of 75 studies spanning 5 decades of…

And the lesson they learned from corporal punishment was that if people aren’t doing what you want, you get to use violence on them.

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I have bad news about turmeric, at least for IV infusions... http://www.10news.com/news/team-10/encinitas-woman-dead-after-i-v-infusion-of-turmeric

It’s actually “Reliabitaly.”