Well if that's how it is, I'll be with the bitches, thankyouverymuch.

omg, I call my cat "parkour kitty" all the time when she's being spastic. Maybe all kitties are parkour kitties at times.

I'm with you that respect is something baked in to your relationship, but in trying to understand what the other side of that disagreement might look like I'm reminded that not everybody necessarily has the same definition of 'respect.' Many people are on board with some abstract notion of it and don't know how to…

Well the avoidance of talking about race is often a reaction to the discomfort of all involved. The last time I talked about race (and about some complicated feelings and perceptions around it) to people that I thought would understand that I was trying to sort out some feelings I myself was uncomfortable with, I…

yeah, if she gets the nod I'll vote for her because she's not a republican (and republicans are still pretty scary to me right now), not because she's a woman.

"annoying or molesting a child"? Isn't there quite a lot of distance between annoying and molesting?

well, if he's commuting from Malibu or the Hollywood Hills, yeah, I might tell him that. Because those guys chose to live way the fuck out there so that they could have fancy houses, and that commute is a privilege of their own choosing. The people who have terrible commutes because they can't afford to live closer to…

Actually having talked with people who consult on medical dramas, it turns out that a ridiculous amount of the general public's medical knowledge (or in some cases, misinformation) come from TV dramas. So it's actually pretty important to be correct, and Grey's Anatomy and many other medical dramas have regular…

They are pretty, but I'm still so glad I have something more slender. Weeks after I got mine I found myself in a client's office installing temporary signs (paper ones for the inspectors before final ones are made in case there are issues) and smoothing it down realized I would've ripped it apart if I'd had one of…

EW. The shoulder rub thing really weirds me out. Hasn't anyone taught these godly people about boundaries?

Remember that "literally" now means "figuratively," exactly because of comments like that one.

A guy on a construction site for one of my projects years ago found out that he was infected and the CDC called us (the architects) up to inform us that anyone who'd been on site during a certain date range needed to get tested. I'm thinking now of how many people they needed to make that call to—between all the…

Also given that the symptoms are things like fatigue and coughing, doctors tend to explore dozens of less scary options before they land on TB as a possibility.

My money's on that they didn't know. Even if they have signs, doctors tend to expect other causes first since TB's not super common. I had it as a kid, and my doctor was so skeptical about that being what it was that they were really quite careless with public health. I had a borderline test result from a routine…

yeah, I'll contend that there is a place for the term in our language. It just happens to be a much smaller place than many people seem to think. Someone's old computer =/= ghetto. A neighborhood with an impoverished marginalized population on the other hand? yeah, I'll let someone call it ghetto.

well he also never listens to music on it, and doesn't have any apps (he uses MY phone to play games on!), and mostly relies on me for navigation, so it's not that hard for him to maintain. I on the other hand am constantly taking photos, posting them to instagram, listening to music, checking messages, getting lost…

HA, you sound like my husband! He's such a religious charger, and I'm so haphazard. Somehow we both function, but he's constantly convinced that I must not be a functional human because my phone isn't at 80%+

Are they socially conditioned to believe that girls aren't people? Because that's the only way your comment is making sense.

If the Iron Islands and everyone ever affiliated with them got torched by a dragon, I'd count it as a serious improvement.

I'm a mixture of those—I love Jon Snow chapters and Sansa chapters, but both Stannis and Daenerys are super boring for me. They just blather on about their rights and their place and never get around to doing anything actually interesting. I did love Daenerys in book 1, but she's been boring for quite a while now.