I live in Vancouver and prices are similar, maybe even more (which is insane as SF is a far far more wonderful city, but I digress)... and yeah, I have NO IDEA how people are buying houses here. Who are they? How much money do they make? Some are investors and wealthy immigrants, but some of them look like regular…

Next worst are the people who tell you to just stop eating gluten / dairy / current trendy food to avoid and it will cure all your health problems.

Has it? It must have happened since I stopped paying attention to such things ;) yeah, bottom line is that most of us most of the time need to plop the kids somewhere safe and out of our hands at least for a moment or two.

I frequently see toddlers strapped in strollers squirming and struggling to get out as their parents roll them down the street. It doesn't seem that different, just socially acceptable. Sometimes you need to restrain a kid for its own safety, or your own sanity. And a household was a dangerous place back then — cast…

These pronouncements about what one needs to do or be by a certain age tend to be of interest only to people who haven't yet reached that age. Like listening to a high school student agonizing that they have to read the canon before they graduate or get to Europe before they're 21. As you get older you just smile and…

Maybe he means not microwave popcorn, which is loaded with oils and flavouring? Waaaay long ago people popped corn in a saucepan on the stove with oil, shaking it continuously (hey! Good exercise!) but air poppers are pretty ubiquitous these days.

Yeah, it's depressing. It seems very adolescent — "let's make fun of absolutely everything mom does because she's so uncool and she never was cool and I'll never, ever, ever be like her" ... then it spreads out as a general idea because we all, what? wanna be the cool teenager and not the frumpy middle aged parent?…

Well, that's pretty sexy mom dancing!

When I was in school I think it was an archaic waste of time, as we all got far more exercise outside of school hours or even running around at lunch time. These days I think that, sadly, it's vital. The idea that it might be the only time of the day a child gets any physical activity is horrifying, but apparently,…

LOL at suggesting a dog eating something it finds on the ground constitutes anything close to a "decision."

Do some people not mind that their dates lied about things? Do they just expect it? If I found out someone had shaved a few years off their age or even puffed up their résumé, I would be really weirded out. I guess it would make me think that they were super insecure, as well as dishonest and oblivious to the effect…

I don't know much about changes in most manual jobs, but I do know that my farmer cousins spend huge amounts of the day sitting in a tractor/ thresher/combine, when their fathers and grandfathers would have been literally out in the field. I suspect a lot of manual jobs are also no longer quite as manual as they used…

I did have occasion to use my MIL's ancient vacuum a while ago. Holy jeezus did I feel like a weak sister, and I only have a 1 BR apartment, not even a split level house. Never mind thin, they were strong!!

It sounds to me like a kind of OCD, like germaphobes who have to clean all surfaces with antibacterial wipes before they touch them. It must make their lives so difficult to have such a feeling of disgust for their bodies.

I remember feeling this way when I hit puberty. I shaved my arms once. But then I got used to being a human.

You're right, but WW in particular as far as I know is about portion control and diet, and doesn't, officially at least, explore other reasons. So it is a program devoted to self control.

Yes, imagine back to a time when this might have actually been true....

Exactly. If your kids have flu and you can't find child care, that is actually a day off, a sick day, or if you're lucky, a personal day. Not a "I'll work from home" day.

Cry me a river, etc., OK I guess if you hired on with an employee agreement for flex time you might be able to get compensation for the terms of the agreement, but, um, not sure what the story is here.

Did he just joke that he couldn't understand Selma Hayak because she has an accent? FFS.