One thing to add - whether to donate whole blood, double red cells, platelets, or plasma depends a lot on blood type. I can’t find the chart online, but the need/usefulness of blood products varies by type. It’s based on the frequency of blood type in the population, as well as the ability to use products across blood…

It was the first album I bought. I was in 7th grade, and definitely not old enough to understand any of the songs, but damn I loved that music.

Holy typos Batman... I really need to stop writing comments on my iPad. And maybe start proofreading before I post, but what fun is that?

Because nothing discourages separatist mpvements like beats my the crap out of elderly people participating in the democratic process, right?

She just turned 20. Consistent boob and butt growth over several years is normal for teenage girls.

I just joined a new-to-me gym, and they have an interesting points/rewards system. Everything gets tracked in an app - earn points every time you scan the smartphone barcode to check in, plus bonus points for personal training and group fitness classes. You can set goals, including work outs per week, and earn points…

In some jurisdictions, volunteer means unpaid (except reimbursement for expenses incurred). In other districts, it is used to differentiate part time/on call firefighters from full time firefighters. In these districts, volunteers don’t spend shifts in a house and often use their private vehicles to respond to fires,…

I don’t excuse the women. I’m a short/fat woman, but lift on a semi-regular basis and I can crank out 30ish decent push-ups in a set. These women should be in far better shape than me.

At one point, I lived on the same floor as the varsity basketball team, at a university where basketball was the major sport. The floor was 1/2 freakishly tall, athletic men and 1/2 women who didn’t give a fuck. I don’t know how they picked the women who lived on that floor, but it was the perfect set up. The guys got…

I buy dresses, skirts, and blouses from eShakti, and pay the custom size fee for everything. I also do StitchFix every two months - I was at the top of their size range when I signed up a few years ago, and it was hit or miss then. They expanded their size range last year, and it’s been great since then - on trend,…

Classes started yesterday. This past weekend was the glorious few days of freedom they get before shit gets real. At least, that was my experience as a grad student at a similarly intense university. I can only imagine it’s more insane when you’re 19.

Back when I was an undergrad at UNC Chapel Hill, one of our frats had the moat party on the last day of class each spring. They built a swimming pool in the front yard using cinder blocks, plywood, and plastic pool liner. They also built a foot bridge over the pool to get in the front door, and installed pipes to…

Most standard/cheap margarines contain milk proteins, so they aren’t vegan. Earth Balance is the brand of vegan butter I’m most familiar with, but I’m sure there are other brands. It’s nothing like shortening.

I saw the same documentary and yelled at the TV during that bit. It was sickening to see adults who never actually met Diana sobbing away while William and Harry stood there consoling them.

I think this is an opportunity for privileged allies to step up and use of the leave time they never get around to using. The organizers also are encouraging people to participate for only part of the march - I expect there will be a lot of one day marchers, and even people who just join for a couple of miles while…

Note - I am only posting this’ll because you seem to be really into language. I typically do not correct internet strangers for inconsequential shit.

They do. Also Pepperidge Farms chessmen and Lorna Doone cookies. Lorna Doones have the added bonus of being vegan - I made a vegan banana pudding for Easter, and it was a hit. (We have one vegan in the family, and I enjoy the challenge of veganizing traditional recipes).

It will be really easy once they upgrade to Prime implantable microchips. Until then, it will either work with a phone app, or manually entering phone numbers to look up accounts.

I don’t think Sourdoh was talking about older and younger kids on the same team. The problem is that younger specialization in sports means kids can’t take up new sports later in adolescence. It’s hard to start soccer in middle school with no prior experience if all your classmates started playing with super…

My mom and I flew round trip to Paris on AirFrance last summer. We had business class tickets, so we had access to special/priority lines at pretty much every check point. We had men cut in front of us at every single line. It was humorous at first, but got really annoying really fast.