Exactly. A judge’s ruling means nothing in this context. The ladies are vastly underpaid. They should, as a group say in a press conference: We are not boarding a plane to the Olympics until we receive equal or better (better; they are world class players; the men? Not so much) pay than our fellow male soccer players.…

Yeah, I see the team still having leverage. What are you going to do, sue them for all the money you aren’t paying them? Put them in jail where they still won’t be playing?

So. Strike anyway.

I’m an adult and my mom still threatens to make me walk the rest of the way to wherever if I’m being bitchy in the car with her. But she never actually did.

Parent of a 7 y/o boy here. Still snickered at this.

Cutting the cheese is part of the bathroom experience.

... why would you bring a knife into the bathroom just because? Was he planning to, perhaps, julienne some carrots while he was in there? Mince some onions? Cut some tile he was planning to lay?

This makes absolute sense and my heart aches for this man. Having said that, that's a fucking amazing picture.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this before. It speaks volumes.

The Hobbit is an easy reader, and written for children. Perfect intro to fantasy for kiddos! And a little scary which many littles love.

I’ve always wondered if it would help kids learn to read better if we scrapped the “one size fits all” reading curriculum and just encouraged kids to read difficult books about subjects they loved. A kid’s into fantasy? Give him/her The Lord of the Rings or The Dark Elf trilogy. Mystery? Start ‘em early with The Woman…

I so loved Frog and Toad. My favorites too.

When I was doing literacy tutoring with a 3rd grader we read all the Frog & Toad books. Most easy readers are just awful, but Frog & Toad books are lovely.

I was so sad after reading that story. Then so happy after reading your comment.

here come dat boi!!!

Eww, same thing happened with this girl on my soccer team in middle school. She got pregnant at 12, her parents sent her to her village in Mexico, where she married the guy that got her pregnant. I think he was 27 and she never came back.

When I was in 10th grade, one of my classmates dropped out to get married. I ran into her more than 20 years later. She was divorced, with a few kids of her own. She said she wished someone could’ve talked her out of that nonsense. Her mother had to sign for her to marry that idiot.

If every detail of this story makes you sick to your stomach, let’s pool our resources and build a spaceship to another planet. Downside: we might all die a horrible freezing death in the void of space or blow up on the launching pad. Upside: no more of this shit.

When I was in high school, a girl in my freshman gym class was married. Apparently her mother had found out that she was sleeping with some 20something dude the summer before high school started and insisted that they get married or she’d have him arrested. The girl seemed cool with it at the time, and we were all in…

Or a meteor. I’m not super-picky.