Or a country with a mandated minimum living wage. Which point seems to have been largely left out of the conversation about this case. Maybe instead of subsidizing child care (not a bad idea), we could require corporations to pay people enough to meet all of their basic needs?

Yup. GROSS (am in process of desqualloring while he is away this week on vaca), and Ugh, that sounds frustrating.

a) b/c StaticMan lives in squallor, I have yet to bathe there. [He did clean the tub for us last Summer, but when I went to draw a bath, I discovered a thick ring of Commet residue where my back would have gone. I wanted to clean it, but it was late & we were exhausted from the constant fucking that was happening (ah,…

I can't really do it under running water regardless... I do have the most luck when I'm in a shower with a tub with LOTS of surfaces (ledges, soap dishes, etc) on which to elevate my leg, but in general it's a nightmare. Both my last apt. & Staticman's current place are in houses so old that it's a claw-foot tub that…

I can't do it in the shower; I find that the water runs down my arm while I'm rinsing the razor, all the way down my body, & rinses away whatever shaving cream I'm using.

Oh, mang! I saw an ad for that razor & I was like, "Someone saw that ep. of HIMYM and instead of thinking- 'what a foolish situation this woman has gotten herself into'., they thought: 'goldmine'!" Who is going to shave their legs "On the go"?!? It takes me like 20 minutes, minimum, all the space in the bathroom, all…

It was pretty crazy. I finally had to tell a group of grown-ass adults that I would "not be peer pressured into something that made me anxious when you were doing it. This is ridiculous."

I used to work at a movie theater, where for a while we had a subscription to EW. I was so pleasantly surprised by its content. I was def. expecting trash.

A few summers ago I was at a party at which I was (unsuccessfully) peer pressured to blow fire. I am in my 30's. :/

My interesting Lion King story involves that song (which I wasn't sure was the song Lindy was referring to, because, as you correctly pointed out: goose-stepping hyenas= not boring). When I was in my early 20's, I took some Ecstasy with my bf at the time. While we were waiting for it to kick in, we put on the Lion…

No one told you to click through! ;D

Oh, you mean like these?!? (I laughed at this post for so long when I first saw it. And then I remembered it years later and did an awkward-ass google search to find it, so that others could share in the comic gold.) http://theworstthingsforsale.com/2012/12/21/mes…

I heard that story. It was a good story, but IIRC, they mentioned "artisanal toast" being a trend, & I was like, "WAT?". There is a bakery that sells bread at the farmers market that I go to. It's *really good*, which is why I'm not even mad that it's like 5 bucks a loaf. But I can make my own fucking toast, thank you…

Did you click the link? Hi-larious! Even before the pineapple makes an appearance. I rarely ever click the links, but this one, oh man!

Ha!

I'm sorry. Perhaps you missed the first sentence of my second paragraph.

Ah. I probably ought to be taking life lessons from Vendetta. I'm a bit of a Charlotte & people take advantage.

(love your avatar)

In a lot of ways, "thigh gap" is more about the way your skeleton is structured, (ie, how wide is your pelvis? The wider the pelvis, the farther apart the leg bones, the less likely thighs will touch when you put the rest of the structure of the leg onto said bones) than with weight.

I followed that link the other day to the weird-ass People's Beautiful People photoshopped to stand next to themselves thing, & was really upset by how much Meg Ryan does NOT look like Meg Ryan. Then I forgot. Then this installment of Dirt Bag brought it all rushing right back. It really is jarring. :(