LOL Hulu won’t ever lose my business for not having autoplay! We also have the version with ads, which I actually like cause I don’t feel bad about checking my phone or getting up to go do something real quick while an ad plays. I told my cousin this awhile ago and he laughed and was like “you watch tv like my…

I have a similar thing with xfinity from Comcast. I enjoy it a lot on weekend mornings and during big events (like watching the inauguration today) and during the holidays. 

I preface this with the fact that I watch very little tv so I probably shouldn’t be any read on normal streaming behaviors. I stopped watching Netflix as often when they started doing auto play ads. It made it super disruptive to just browsing so I only watch Netflix when I already have an idea of what I want to watch…

The level of victim blaming bullshit there is staggering. 

I think it would depend on the context of the media for me. He’s been edited out of home alone for years for time constraints, so it’s not like he adds anything to the movie. I would be unhappy with taking him out of sex and the city, though. his presence in the show highlights how we glamorized the rich for just…

I grew up in Mississippi, and remember his cameo in home alone as a kid and thinking he was...weird? After that I mostly just thought of him as tabloid gossip. My parents (poor white people in the south) LOVED him though (sadly still do). I sat through many hours of the apprentice growing up because they loved it and…

I see a lot of nurses believing the same crap in my small hometown in the south. A girl who I went to high school with and works as a nurse now got it back in May, and she just says they were lying. Mind boggling. I see this stuff, and just consistently tell my parents I will not be visiting the south until we are all…

I legit just don’t see what holds their marriage together beyond the fact that they’ve just been together forever. My partner only talks to his dad once a year (at Christmas) but he and I text and talk to his mom all the time. She doesn’t usually have much to say about her husband. 

The flu. I shit you not, he swears it’s the flu. He says it’s the flu and the hospitals are getting paid to call it COVID. His wife works in a hospital lab that’s done nothing but COVID for months now, and she won’t talk to him about it anymore. 

I would put money on this person being a Covid denier. My partner’s father works on an ambulance and is STILL CONVINCED Covid is all hyped nonsense. He spent his entire Christmas Day getting Covid patients to the hospital, and he still doesn’t fucking believe it’s real. These people are dangerous to have working in…

I took two weeks off for Christmas and literally did nothing. I thought of it as “I am exhausted and burnt out, and two weeks of doing nothing will help me rest.” And it did. I slept late (for me). I took long baths in the middle of the day. I watched movies, danced in my apartment, I basically relished in having…

I’ve considered getting someone to come in and clean my house once or twice a month for this same reason. It’s not that I’m lazy or anything, but it would save me hours of time that I can spend with my spouse, taking the dog to a park, reading, etc

Same here! I took two weeks off for Christmas and New Years, and my boss was like “oh, big plans? Visiting family or taking a trip?” And I was like “first of all, pandemic. So no. But no, I plan on doing nothing. Enjoying Christmas mostly.” And she was like “...nothing?” Yes. I use my vacation days and sometimes I use…

Agreed. I am very white. My family always told me and my siblings this long story about how we were Jews in Germany who escaped right before the Holocaust and changed our names. I’m professionally trained as a historian and an archivist, and I realized, after very very simple checking, that this story was very…

I remember a few things. I went to the art museum here in Seattle to view a collection of Italian art in January. I went to the ballet (or maybe the opera?) in late January and wore a red velvet evening gown. In February, I treated myself to afternoon tea with a new romance novel on Valentine’s Day. I think it was the…

I already tended towards more formal looks prepandemic, and my online window shopping during this pandemic has been intense...

God, thanks for the reminder of why I left academia (was in History). I have so many of the same stories.

I’m 30 and healthy. I usually do my annual exam in June, and this year I have to do my usual women’s health stuff then too, so I figured I would ask about it when I make that appointment in the summer. I don’t really expect to be able to get it before then. 

oh great, now this is burned into my brain.

Hello fellow government employee...this is relatable content.