This post and the follow-up comments are giving me a stress-attack. I am currently a PhD student. I haven’t been able to find adjunct work in the last two years so I am nannying now. Nannying is fine, it’s a skill I have because I was raised by a mom who thought all girls needed to learn to take care of kids and…

He is 65 now and has a pacemaker, so it’s very likely that he did have circulation issues at the time! But I was like 8 and google did not exist, so he just lived with his weird purple-hued feet.

My dad is a marathon runner and used to pay me $1 to rub his feet when I was a kid. I remember being sort of fascinated with how weird and gross his feet were. He was missing his baby-toe-nails, and frequently others would be purple. He also had no hair on his feet.

I like pedicures and sandals, I will never run.

My brother-in-law hates snakes so much that if there is one on TV, even doing something totally normal and in a far-away place, he leaves the room and claims to have nightmares. This annoys me to no end, but I have to stop myself from yelling “FFS IT’S NOT IN THE FRICKIN ROOM AND ITS JUST AN ANIMAL” because I am…

My very good friend is a vegetarian, and has been since she was about 16 (we are 30 now), and about 8 years ago, the day after Christmas, we got hammered sloppy drunk with some friends we went to high school with. One of them called his brother to give him a ride home and when his brother arrived offered to take us to…

I think sending a card is a really good thing - it allows you to write something thoughtful if you’re the kind of person who rambles or says weird stuff when you’re uncomfortable. There is a card store near me that sells really simple ones that just say “with sympathy” or “sorry” on the front in a nice font and blank…

Thanks - and one other fun fact about being among other moms-to-be - there are are total of 12 in the class and 4 of us have cried at least once. It’s one of the few places you can burst into tears and everyone is like “awww, yeah, been there, girl” (whereas when you cry at the grocery store, for example, people look…

I had some of those fears but now that I am pregnant they are dissipating a bit. I signed up for a prenatal yoga class and it’s really diverse. The diversity is so comforting to me (it’s a sliding scale class so we actually have ethnic, socio-economic and age differences) - there is a super fit lady having the easiest…

That was my first thought at well.

I have submitted my cat like 3 times (he looks like Stephen Merchant) and I used to get so outraged when they selected pets that looked NOTHING like celebrities over my gangly baby. But this week was like “oh yeah, that wins, that is definitely the right choice”.

Wholly agree. I feel similarly about Hue being on this list though. Every Hue product I’ve every owned has not held up and fit weird to begin with!

Wholly agree. I feel similarly about Hue being on this list though. Every Hue product I’ve every owned has not held…

Oh thank you so much for your respectful tone! I really could use a slap in the face and someone to tell me I am being hysterical!!!

In the tech world there is a website where people describe their jobs, their location, the type of company they work for and they post their salaries to help people who are applying for jobs know what their work should be worth. Sometimes people will post without trying to conceal their identities or the companies…

This is so surprising to me because I’ve seen a few of their other commercials and actually assumed they had the actresses in wigs dyed with the product - I figured no actress would want to temporarily dye her hair some dramatic new shade just for one commercial.

My aunt posted some thing on facebook that was like ‘what if we treated getting a gun the same way we treat abortion’ - ie make men travel out of state to find the one gun store in their region, take time off work, have a 72-hour waiting period, march through a picket line on their way into the gun store with images…

It’s amazing how much the public school curriculum emphasises the horrific things that occurred in concentration camps during WWII - with lot’s of survivors accounts that are so graphic I almost felt like my students started to go numb to it after a while! But when it comes to slavery, child labor in the US,…

As soon as I saw the headline I though “well shit, Taylor Swift will be involved and now I can’t muster any enthusiasm”.

I just had a disagreement with a 13-year-old that I babysit for about Taylor Swift and I figured out what it is that really makes me feel so apathetic about her. My young pal says, “but she’s a good…

When we moved to the US cats were not allowed on any of the airlines going out of Ireland so we had to use a pet-moving company. This is significantly more expensive (I think it was around $500). I researched the various companies that transport pets and went with the one that was used by the Dublin Zoo, because I…

It’s really stressful to move with a pet - she was likely so overwhelmed she didn’t think of what the official etiquette of moving seats would be. After getting a cat settled it can be overwhelming to imagine moving around - so it was actually a really nice gesture you handled the situation yourself.

Right, but you fish in lakes and rivers that are communal - you birth babies from a body that is (in theory) your own. It sucks that some people are shitty parents, but you either believe in bodily autonomy or you don’t.