My experience as an avid childhood reader was that coming across racist incidents or themes in books turned into positive teachable moments. I would ask my mom for contextual information when I didn’t understand a topic, and if it was something racist (or sexist, or what have you) I would get a sit-down talk about how…

I feel for you- I’ve been there! I pray you can at least have peanut butter, alcohol, or cheese. All of those are pretty fun :)

I, personally, am able to tolerate small amounts of caffeine such as what’s found in chocolate (thank god).

I, personally, am able to tolerate small amounts of caffeine such as what’s found in chocolate (thank god).

Yep! I used to not be able to have any, due to a heart condition, but constantly craved chocolate. Now that that’s corrected, I can have caffeine, but don’t react well to the amount in coffee or soda. Chocolate works out just fine, but that’s just me!

And those of us who just don’t handle it well (thanks to prior needs of zero caffeine ever- I feel your pain)! I’d love to try to learn more about sampling coffee, but never would unless this sort of thing were available. I settle for being a chocolate nerd.

Same. I freely admit that I don’t like coffee, I like coffee-flavored sugar cream drinks.

My main reason is that I don’t feel like spending more than $20 and maybe two hours on creating a costume for one day ever. I have some good ideas, but executing on a budget doesn’t really work. Also I have never cared. Even as a kid, it didn’t matter to me. Can I just show up and have someone give me candy?

It’s especially puzzling considering how many of them supposedly design their own personal wardrobes. If they can do it for their own non-model bodies, why not others?! Perhaps an added challenge to tailor for a brand new body’s idiosyncrasies, but c’mon.

I have lost two super-close friendships in the past few years, ending up with the same feeling of “burned down archives.” I have to thank you for putting words to this feeling. Both of these friends were men (I’m a woman) and it’s so interesting to me to read all these stories of mostly girlfriends’ falling out.

I was absolutely going to say Hamster Dance. I was young enough that I didn’t really know how to use the internet when it was becoming ubiquitous, and that page was my go-to entertainment jam.

She sounded like Lurleen Lumpkin. I couldn’t get past it.

I don’t know what you are looking up, and I know what you mean if it refers to general website content being deleted over time. Peer-reviewed publications would be archived somewhere with the journal though, even if the given link became defunct (unless the paper was retracted, which would be a more serious citation…

At a similar rate of use, I needed new pointe shoes every 6 weeks. I usually actually got new ones every 4 months or so (not very healthy, btw- once they are broken they won’t support feet properly and could cause injury). Best of luck to you and the little dancer! Heh.

In this case, I kind of equate not desiring the job with being incapable of it! But yes, also valid and important.

No. That cannot happen. The random chromosomal sorting will continue to occur in all populations. Especially as the worldwide trend of women getting pregnant later in life continues. Plenty of women in the world never know of DS before giving birth, and among those who do have such prenatal care, plenty do see the…

The point remains that DS could never go “extinct,” as the OP suggested, because the incidence is random chromosomal sorting errors during gametogenesis. It’s important to understand that distinction if that’s going to be someone’s argument on the issue.

Not to mention that Down Syndrome, and other trisomy conditions that allow fetal survival, will never “go extinct.” It’s not a Mendelian trait. It is a chromosomal abnormality that is not passed down (unless the person with Down Syndrome reproduces), and the only risk factor indication is age of the parents (and maybe…

Certainly I don’t know the details, but I imagine that there would at least have to be some “talkin’ to”s depending on whether a manager was alerted and what happened since. It could be viewed as a big problem if either the employee or the manager never took it to the next highest authority. That would also depend on…

Apparently, the guy I dated for a short time before he told me he was married. Found his standard email addresses no problem. Dude’s an idiot.