You hit the nail on the head with the “lifestyle childhood” bullshit that goes on. I really had to swim against the tide in order not to get caught up in it when my kids were little. Obviously when the kids are tiny and constantly trying to kill themselves, it’s hard to relax and have free time because you do have to…

A. Crappy child/disabled/elder care

May I offer my “head up my ass” opinion as to why?

I’m happy for you but I don’t get how it works, because I’ve been a regular commenter for 4 freaking years and yet nada.

Let me rephrase: adults should do whatever they want to their hair to please themselves. But subjecting children to regular hair processing to change what they naturally have is stupid.

True story - my mom and grandma have curly hair. My grandma had always gotten shit at jobs for her hair. When she finally got a union job, she wore a straight wig for her entire probationary period (a few months?) ad then the day after her probation was up, she wore her real hair to work and they couldn't say a damn…

I’m so jealous. Both my parents have curly hair an mine is flat-as-a-board.

How times have changed. When I was 11 in the 80’s I remember sitting for hours with noxious chemicals on my head to turn my straight hair curly. Stupid then and stupid now.

I’m so tired of my curly hair not being “nice” or “professional” enough. It’s so ridiculous that curly hair has some kind of weird value attached to it.

Argh, The Little Matchgirl is THE worst fairy tale ever told! I had an audiobook with Christmas stories and for some reason that story was on there too, and it is so so so NOT Christmassy and haunted me forever as a child. :(

Actually, she is saved by a spirit of the wind and does go to Heaven eventually (after years of being a spirit herself and helping people) because she is such a pure person and refused to kill the prince and his bride.

Oh my god I think we’re related ?

I always liked Andersen, for his, to say the least, unsentimental approach. Shit happens. Sometimes that’s just the way it is, and sometimes the heroines bring it mostly on themselves (the heroine of “The Girl Who Trod On a Loaf” was a spoiled snob who tortured insects). The punishment doesn’t usually fit the crime,…

Blech. I do not find her charming at all.

Was this before or after J Law slipped and fell down on the way up the stairs? Did she fart? Pretend to yell at David O Russel?

Apparently lots of the signs that were put up after his death have been vandalized, and people have been cutting the blue ribbons people tied around everything.

Look I don’t want to be shitty about this but I’ve observed graffiti and vandalization of campus group flyers supporting #blacklivesmatter all year at this point.

I demand an apology from this woman and everyone else who exploited his “hero” funeral to undermine Black Lives Matter.

Maybe if Celine and the villain from Dragnet had a baby?