But yeah, I agree that her comment is pretty stupid. My sister is a fourth grade teacher on an Army base and her kids love all this dance culture. Seems pointless to hate on it when it’s just people having fun, expressing themselves/their culture and doing something physical and positive under the guise of being a…

Meh, I’m 32. I’m not hating. I joke about being old a lot.

Thanks! Edited! Your bridge is over there! ;)

Congrats Kinja White Knight. I shall sing of your chivalry. Ride away to your next adventure.

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Seriously. I have the double misery of being a plus sized and unusally tall person and I am about 1,000 times more conscious of the space I am taking up than your average flyer. I always choose a window seat so I can try to press myself up into the void the window leaves and fold my arms up to read a book so they…

I feel this. I graduated college in 2007 and got a job in newspaper journalism right as the bottom was falling out. I spent more than half a decade living in shitty apartments, quietly asking my parents for money for plane tickets home and to cover emergency expenses, and saving for nothing, because there was nothing…

I had to learn a choreographed tap dance to Greased Lightning as a 10-year-old for a Grease-themed dance recital. Must have tapped my heart out to that song about a bazillion times before our teacher finally realized it was dirty as hell and found a clean version somewhere. Still, I was a little haunted when I finally…

I understand. I recently moved from an area where I spent all of my post-college young people years building a network back home to the state where I grew up for a great job. I have a lot of friends in my college town a couple hours away, but I can’t really be driving off to visit them every weekend and I’m 32 so a…

Yeah, just the variety makes me kinda excited. I would have loved that as a kid. I enjoyed Barbie growing up in the 80s and 90s, but even as a little brunette kid it was a little disappointing to just have piles and piles of spookily identical vacant blonde women with different outfits. We always fought over the…

It goes both ways. Just call people what they want. I have a give name, “Nicole” that was abbreviated to a nickname, “Nikki” before I could even talk that everyone, family and friends, has always called me. Literally nobody but people who are meeting me for the first time after reading my name on government documents…

What’s a rimming seat? :(

What! I’m a little sad this apparently just happens. They hit a cute little Snowy owl though.

One of my friends was driving back from an early morning assignment once (reporter and photographer, before dawn) and an owl swooped down in front of their car. They thought they hit it and felt bad but didn’t stop cause they were on the highway. Dude was driving an SUV with a large grill. Turns out, the owl was still…

Well. I got a job here, so that’s pretty much it. But I did grow up liberal in the South so I’m also accustomed to a feeling of general disappointment.

I grew up in Texas. Not necessary. Our last few conservative governors were dumb but at least unremarkable (expect that one that became president and started a war I guess but he wasn’t our governor for that).

Yeah, I grew up in Texas and he was AG when I was going to college in Austin. I don’t recall him going bananas till he ran for governor though. Maybe I didn’t pay enough attention to his AG politics.

Motherfucker I just moved from Louisiana where Bobby Jindal was raining ruination and conservative fuckery down on everything, and now I’ve got to deal with this Jade Helm tin foil behatted jackass?

I used to ship my cat and this stray cat that came by and visited. Stray cat would come up to the glass door and paw at it frantically and my cat would run up to the window and meow until we let him out. Then they’d sit on a bench in the backyard next to each other for hours. They were both neutered males but who am I…

I used to work at a newspaper with very strict professional dress guidelines. I was an environment and wildlife reporter and I was constantly going out into the field on boating excursions, on four wheelers and levees and etc. and I was told I wasn’t allowed to wear sneakers on the job and that I should try to find a…