There were tons of Dutch folk who settled in S Ontario after WW II, so I am sure their speech patterns and pronunciation bled into the general population a bit. Kids absorb so much. When I was little it would only take me two weeks to pick up a Scots accent when visiting my gran and granda- both of whom had incredibly…

My partner and I have this conversation a lot, because he is competitive with games and how he’s doing impacts his enjoyment of the game (he’s not a sore loser though, I must say). Whereas I always point out that if my enjoyment of a game depended on my belief I could win, we would literally never play games together…

For me, I found myself at 40 with 4 children, 2 failed marriages to abusers, and no support from my family. I was still desperately trying to be “the good daughter” to my father, and was exhausted at never feeling like I measured up. I felt terrible, but could not define why. Looking back and properly categorized…

Did she also explain why Daddy would not congratulate the winning quarterback?

People like this don’t target people who are already successful. They target people who are struggling, the people who want to do better but can’t ever seem to get there, and the people who are struggling to pay off bills. Those are people most likely to want increased financial freedom but who lack the…

You have to let someone else win sometimes. Sometimes you have to let other people win.

Recently I’d began taking inventory of my #metoo stories (which I have not shared as I am not on social media platforms). I hadn’t considered a relationship I had as an underage teen with a man who was 35 at the time. I believed it a friendship, until now at 38 I am disgusted, as I realize I was being groomed, and…

This was a good, fun and succinct review. I really hope Rich Juzwiak does one of his 7k word ones for Jez. 😂😂😂

Lol, be low key and honest if they ask.

First thought: Oh, it’s Girl Scout cookie season?! Guess I’m going to have to start swinging by the local Walmart to get my fix. Do-si-dos and Trefoils are my weakness.

“Bury me where my ancestors jumped from ships because death was better than bondage.”

I heard that! I was like, ayyyye Lizzo!!

My guess is that at the very least Trump will personally be getting some kickbacks from whoever is contracted to do the work, if not outright profiting from it.

Yep, to some extent that movie endorsed/normalized those type of sexual experiences.

. . . how normalized these teen girl/grown man relationships were in the 80s. I’m thinking of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”

I’m fairly certain they contort their bodies in a comical fashion to hide behind cacti, dress up as exotic attractive women, and mirror the movements of border agents exactly and within inches of them to cross the border. I saw it in a cartoon, which I’m guessing is where Trump gets his information.

God to Michelle Bachmann:

This thread is really amazing. I would add that when you are young, and you know that on some level, what you are experiencing is, if not wrong exactly, definitely not sanctioned by the powers that be. You end up (okay, I ended up) doing a kind of mental math: I let it happen to me so it wouldn’t happen to my sister;…

Redefining my first sexual relationship as not only abusive, but also as traumatic was really useful for me because it let me accept that bad things were done to me and it wasn’t (just) that I was crazy. Before I acknowledged any of that, I was becoming ever more self destructive because I couldn’t figure out why I…