This is another thing that I can put in the pile of “I don’t have to have a well thought out, coherent opinion because I’m never going to be a parent”, along with vaccination and circumcision. (I do have opinions on these things, but my opinion doesn’t matter much because I will never have to make these hard…

Yep! We are both lifelong teachers. So you’re a neighbor! Relatively speaking. Expat you?

These are all three of the lovely babies my wife and I rescued from a wonderful organization here in Dubai called Bin Kitty.

It's called a "tesseract". Remember? "A Wrinkle in Time"?

a worm hole might open in the space time fabric if that happened. Let’s pretend this conversation never happened.

Do you live in Dubai like me? Then, maybe.

My kitties got over it pretty quick. They’re more old school R&B fans anyway. At least that’s what I’d like to think. When I’ve been drinking.

I was responding to the commenter who suggested that she doesn’t “give a shit” about fashion and that she should dress in “nicer” clothing in better quality fabric. If she didn’t care about fashion she wouldn’t be wearing a nearly $500 tee-shirt from one of the trendiest fashion labels around and instead would have…

I think you could argue that are teenagers are more slender than adults but a lot of people are talking like typical teenagers are super duper skinny (like an 18 bmi is normal for teenagers) and I had a full blown eating disorder and the lowest I’ve weighed was 126 (granted bulimics tend weigh more than anorexics) and…

I grew up the same way. We didn’t get food from soup kitchens, but we were on a very limited budget and I learned from my parents how to stretch that money till it squeaked. Even though I’m better off now, I still use those same habits. Our pantry has a lot of staples in it and I have to keep from going overboard and…

We buy rice, flour, sugar, and stuff like that in bulk (as well as proteins for the freezer), because it makes sense. Thank goodness we have a Costco membership, that helps a lot for staples. We make a LOT of soup and stew in our household too, because you can throw all kinds of random stuff in there to use it up!

Agreed. If a person budgets their SNAP benefits for steak once a week and noodles and canned sauce the other six days, that’s no different for their benefits than if they bought a mega-pack of chicken thighs and ate the same meal every day. Hell, if a person doesn’t use their entire allotment in a month, that can roll…

Aww, thank you. That’s really sweet of you. :)

I’m not sure. The “tee-hee, fly over states!” thing seems like something Jezebel writers do a lot, but this actually seems like real curiosity. So I’m going to take it as that and not get offended. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Because it’s not about helping people, it’s about punishing people for being poor. If we let people make choices about what they spend their assistance money on, it’s much harder to humiliate them for it.

...do you happen to drive “a BMW :)“ paid for by your “lawyer husband :)“

This is my concern.

You are by far my favorite troll.

I don’t know how I feel about this. If all models below a certain BMI were that way because they had eating disorders or some such, I guess this would be okay? (Although it wouldn’t really be addressing the problem even then, it would just be putting a band-aid on it.)
But there are some models who are naturally that…

I hate these kinds of accusations. I mean, god firbid some poor might treat themself to something better than Lean Cuisine.