I only watched True Detective under massive amounts of pressure from friends but this seems like something I would actually enjoy and not make as many sad faces while watching.

I would totally lose these contests. My ankles look like tree stumps.

Oh my god I’m right there with you my drivers license photo is a thing of beauty. My first license picture I decided to wear a blue shirt that was the EXACT same color as the background so I just looked like a floating head!

Ha, thanks! If you look up The Lord’s Prayer in Latin it’s in the first line “Pater noter qui es en Coelis, sanctificater noum tuum...” (Our father who art in heaven, blah blah...). So the um laut is incorrect but for the correct way is even more fun “Cælis”, but the um laut stays cuz, shit, it’s as part of my name as…

Some people do pick their names though for a multitude of reasons - witness protection, being transgender, changing it to keep harassers away, or overall not feeling it that isn’t related to the aforementioned - and they deserve zero hate either. Power to peoples’ names, regardless of if they’re assigned or chosen.…

I totally get where Raven’s coming from. Coincidentally, last week my son(13 y.o. Black & Puerto Rican), and I had a similar conversation regarding how I decided on his a name. My name is Lashauna Shanté. I’m a Black female, and when I was born, it was during a time when giving your child unique names had just become…

When that movie was released I read a review that something like; “Grammer probably looked like this during his drinking days and he woke up in the Tidy Bowl.”

I’m a fan of the passing comment (that isn’t about my body) like this, the “oh hey fellow human doing something I’ve done/would like to do/seeing the same funny thing I’m seeing at this moment when we’re crossing paths” joke or comment that doesn’t require or seek a response. If I am amused by your comment, feel a…

They actually named him that because that’s what Gail called her toe, which she thought was weird looking, and she thought that Dweezil looked like her weird looking toe when he came out. So Frank said “fuck it, let’s name him that!” I love it. And Dweezil, Moon Unit, Ahmet and Diva are all really neat, seemingly…

They called them asinine. In Frank Zappa’s autobiography, the nurse who helped deliver Dweezil gave him and Gail serious shit for naming Dweezil “Dweezil”. I like Dweezil, I like Moon Unit. My best friend growing up was a black girl, and her name was Lamartrice. Dad’s middle name was Lamar, mom’s was Trice, so they…

If I ever

Hey now, I fuck one of those names several times a week. I'M the one with the "weird" name in this marriage.

Oh I don’t know what the original post was. But I’ve seen lots of posts in which POCs are asked to explain, almost incredulously, how POCs could possibly be featured without it seeming anachronistic or dishonest or inauthentic. It’s an extremely dissapointing question to be asked to respond to, beacuse it shows just…

My partner once worked in a kitchen where three of the five cooks were named David. And there were more Daves on the waitstaff. That’s the sort of shit that actually has negative repercussions in a workplace, when no one knows what the hell to call anyone because every single person currently working has the same…

My husband and I almost got divorced over naming our children. He likes plain names and I found myself for the first time being overwhelmed with whimsy (it must have been the hormones). I wanted Hazel and Georgina and Buttercup and Poppy, and he was like, “Can you imagine someone named Buttercup becoming an…

Yeah but then I’m the assholes not the person with the difficult to pronounce name. Like I’m mad at myself for mispronouncing someone’s name because I’m a nice person and not a total dick like Raven.

People aren’t having knee jerk reactions. It’s just very frustrating that white people are asking us to “prove” minorities could be included without it seeming forced or “inauthentic” when they could try thinking for themselves for two seconds. It is dissapointing that it is that difficult for them to imagine how POCs…

I’ve fucked a Kevin, you ain’t missing much.