I agree it’s best left out. If this person becomes part of your circle of friends or acquaintances, they’re very likely to bring it up themselves when discussing their family or a similar topic that makes people discuss immigration. It’s not worth making someone uncomfortable.

Living in NYC, and particularly working in the professional services sector, a lot of people are from elsewhere. So a pretty standard “getting to know you” question is “Did you grow up around NYC, or somewhere else?” and can usually be asked without making people feel marginalized. In other places, especially places…

When you run into your 8th grade algebra crush at the bank.

Oh my, I am loving the fact that Meryl Davis’s other tweet includes Rylan’s couch breakdown

No, it most definitely is not. More than half the season comes before Nationals, it’s just that people who only pay attention once every 4 years don’t notice. Ashley had won bronze at the Grand Prix Final that season (and if you don’t know what that means, you’re probably not in a position to be making pronouncements…

Or, they’re in a clique? Several people taking a side against someone doesn’t necessarily mean they’re right especially when it’s to make that person do something they want.

I will watch for Minchin alone.  I suspect he’ll be great, I can’t picture him not doing something well

I don’t know what to think of this anymore. I do feel vast sympathy for Rose given what she has gone through and she deserves all the help in the world getting her rightly due retribution and justice regarding Weinstein and those who were complicit. At the same time though increasingly it seems that her method of…

Voluntarily going into a hot tub with someone does not mean you also consent to sex. The only time someone consents to sex is *when they consent to sex.*

seeing her name in headlines again and again, as part of one person’s attempt to gain more attention for her personal cause, along with Harvey’s desperate attempt to vindicate himself, was devastating for her. It broke Jill, who was just starting to get her life back on track.

Just recently watched that episode, and it’s my fave one mainly because of Michael Sheen and David Mitchell. That was the first time I saw Jameela, though. She was quite charming and gorgeous.

That IS Noel Fielding! Oh, good. I haven’t followed much about the new Bake Off and thought I was just hallucinating Vince Noir

Nobody tell her about the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 which killed between 40 and 100 million people. And everyone knows 1918 was way before gay people existed, so it’s not like it was sent as a plague for our sinfulness like modern plagues.

I would like to remind everyone that if they see the right-wing bigots and trolls that will inevitably swarm the comments section that there’s a better alternative to dealing with them in addition to dismissing their comments. Simply go to the Kinja Helpdesk (https://kinja.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new) and send…

I don’t envy the women who are out there trying to meet people in this sea of sharks.

I’m calling her a TERF because she’s made TERFy statements before. She has a long history of anti-LGBT and anti-WOC commentary. She called herself “the architect of #metoo”, erasing Tarana Burke, among other things. I don’t see her as an imperfect ally; I don’t see her as an ally at all. I admire her courage in taking…

It never ceases to amaze me how different people can have such disparate views of the same situation based solely on partisan politics. And the media outlets they consume, I guess, but those are largely based on partisan politics too.

This was me after Trump’s “shithole” comments. I took a break and looked for other things to read about and do. It’s important to step away for a little bit to keep your mental health.