I have been properly reminded that IKEA furniture is actually nice now and I’m appropriately embarrassed. Congratulations on your new furniture!

It’s like furniture stores come in two types - wall-to-wall upholstery and almost no space to walk or a vast cavern with each solitary piece artistically lit from above.

That is so great!

Right? Too much effort!

Okay Ladyspin round up - I am A Lady and old enough to have non-IKEA furniture in a house I own. I wear skirts and dresses and makeup and I color-coordinate just about everything in my house I can (without getting crazy over-budget). But I have zero decorative pillows on my bed. In fact, all pillows in my entire house…

It’s a fundraiser for the Met’s Costume Institute. There’s been an event for decades but when Diana Vreeland came onboard in the ‘70s she really bumped up the profile.

Right? It sounds like the kids on the team don’t actually want to be on it. Or at least don’t want to go on to play JV/Varsity. Not to mention the whole freaking point of youth sports isn’t to make little Olympic athletes, it’s to get kids to a) run the crazies out a couple times a week and b) learn something about…

I think you nailed it in your comment “kids used to run around the hotel, swim, and cause trouble” - that was better developmentally for the kids but god-awful for the other guests and nerve-wracking for the parents. And hell on earth for the people working at the hotel. Things that keep kids out of trouble area…

So late to this but I’m getting a kick out of the announcer saying “the original call for Messrs. Sutton, Clark...” I think I thought that was only used in polo and the like.

Thank you - I was really confused because I remember reading about this when the shorts came out.

I can’t help it, I keep watching this over and over again.

Ah the Metro Sniffles. When I lived in DC I was convinced that I didn’t have one cold for three months I had every cold for a couple days each. Not to mention the office buildings which are 92 degrees in the hallway and 45 anywhere with a window. (I brought a thermometer to work to prove this.)

I use the Arm & Hammer sinus spray. It’s stupid expensive for pressurized saline, but I’m not worried about dropping things or accidentally drowning myself.

I remember being dumb enough to think it already *was* better. White privilege in action! That said it has been kind of freeing to just go ahead and say in my head “no, this person is not actually ‘just ill-informed’, they are racist” and treat them accordingly instead of doing the awkward “trying to inform people…

Does he have grandchildren? If he does I’m betting he’s doing it for them.

Ah but is is appearing as herself, or as a character?

I mean - I get mad when the amazing dancers on SYTYCD don’t tango right, how in the name of creation am I supposed to sit through this group just insulting the entire tango tradition?

Well, maybe if you have a spare, but if you’ve been keeping it in its jar like the instructions tell you to it shouldn’t need a lot of cleaning.

How would that work with tequila? I think it wouldn’t be bad.

The Sorority Special!