Sigh. I know you’re a troll. But as someone who knows people in the transcription and captioning fields, and who is myself studying to be a captioner, this is just wrong. Transcriptionists and captioners have a duty to capture the spoken record as accurately as possible, and we take that seriously. To imply we would…

Speaking as someone with ADD, please don’t compare my disorder to this administration. I’m way more functional than they are.

I’m late to the party, it was a busy day at work. But I’m a life-long Methodist who is a delegate at Annual Conference (the main governing unit of the United Methodist Church) every year and am planning on running for General Conference (the global legislative body of the UMC that meets every four years) in 2020 - if…

There’s a bit of conflation in this article of different UMC terms regarding how things are organized - a district and a jurisdiction are not the same thing.

A single church is the smallest unit.
Then you have districts, which are all the churches in a local area - like, I’m in the Kansas City District.
Then, you have…

It’s been going on for as long as United Methodism has existed. The UMC was formed in 1968 from the merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Evangelical United Brethren, and homosexuality has been a topic of debate at every General Conference since.

John Wesley (the founder of Methodism) had a saying: “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity.” 

That philosophy is the reason why Methodism can encapsulate such a broad range of views - from George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton. Basically, what’s happening now is that the liberal side…

If your dog isn’t a service animal, PLEASE don’t pretend that it is. That’s a shit thing to do, and makes things harder for people with actual disabilities who need their working animals.

The system doesn’t need to be tightened up - that way leads to random customer service personnel trying to police people’s disabilities. But people like the dude above need to stop lying and pretending their dog is a service animal when it’s not.

It’s a loan word. It’s an English word now, which means it get treated like all the other English words do, which means it gets a determiner stuck in front of it.

Um. Yes they were. Maybe they weren’t admitting it at the time because it hadn’t caught on to the point where it was socially acceptable, but there are TONS of 40+ people in the HP fandom who were reading the books from the beginning.

New York Times article today said that North Korea has been having lots of problems with failed missile tests lately, and it seems like everyone is pretty sure it’s us.

The women who would use it are already at a disadvantage, though. Either they’re already skipping work by using sick leave, or they’re coming to work when they’re in pain and probably not doing their best work.

The real reason they would be at a disadvantage, I think, is that the employer would know that they’re…

In my experience the cash was meant for college and associated expenses - that’s certainly what I used all of mine for.

I do a similar thing as a high school graduation gift. A “College Survival Kit” with all the shit that you don’t realize you need until 2am. Duct tape, wall hooks, Febreeze, batteries, etc.

PREACH

I tried to do my thank you cards. I really did. I wrote, like, half of them during the honeymoon. And then they never made it into my luggage and stayed in Hawaii. The thought of redoing all the effort was just so demoralizing, I never got them done. And it’s not like my husband ever volunteered to help out.

There…

Going to a wedding is expensive. By asking someone to come and witness your individual prom day, you’re also asking them to spend money to look nice, to travel, to stay in a hotel, and probably to take time off from work.

There are parts of this that, were it any other administration, sounds like it could produce good results. Like, this in particular -

I’ve lived in KC my entire life, and somehow I never figured out, until reading this comment, that Jason Kander is related to John Kander. I am now deeply ashamed of myself.

Oh, she gets told no all the time. When she want to eat a box of chocolates. When she wants to play with her ball until she has heat exhaustion and throws up. When she wants to eat my super expensive lip balm. When she thinks she should go neighborhood exploring - on her own - and introduce herself to all the kids at…

Well, she would also follow me into the bathroom to, I guess, make sure I didn’t fall over and not get up or something. So, perhaps not exactly “decent.” :P