The yam and sweet potato are actually two completely different plants. The names are sometimes used interchangeably now but they’re not even related. There were no sweet potatoes in Mongolia.
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‘I am also on the Genghis Khan diet, which is recommended for young lotharios and involves eating sweet potato, sunflower seeds and horny goat weed.”
Not even upperclass, a Baronetage is an “invented” title sold by the Crown in the 18th century to raise cash.
Well-built heels can be surprisingly comfortable to wear.😉
Ooo, in the mid-90s I inherited someone’s cool overalls and somehow ended up peeing on one of the straps at camp? Yeah.
I have had this happen a few times. Drunky Drunkerson me has always managed, but it requires an almost entire disrobing. It’s even worse to reinstall if you’ve been dancing and are all sweaty. Contorting oneself in a tiny filthy bathroom stall and trying not to touch walls, the floor or the toilet is the stuff of…
Back in the mid-90's I had a romper thing from the Limted. It zipped up the back. I wore it on a flight where I had to use the on board restroom. That went about as well as you would expect.
This is stellar and I love it and pardon me if I’m being too obvious but what do you do when you have to pee I mean.
I have close to zero fashion sense beyond what ties go with what suits I own.... and even I am like “damn, that is pretty amazing”
As a parent, they seem so weird. You get to spend such a tiny amount of your kid’s life living with them. I can’t imagine chopping off so many years you could be spending with them.
As a west coast guy, boarding schools are such a weird concept. Ugh, no thanks.
Wonder if Choate alumna Ivanka Trump will make a statement about this horrifying news.
It’s very realistic- that oppressed people choose to further oppress others down the ladder in order to maintain relative privilege is something that occurs all the damn time, unfortunately. And it’s funny to me, how most often, the most important privilege identifier/denier is class. Out of all the things we oppress…
I just found out the “Oryx and Crake”, “Year of the Flood,” “Maddaddam” trilogy is being developed for a TV series by Darren Aronofsky. I’m beyond excited. These are some of my absolute favorite novels.
For anyone that hasn’t gotten enough horrifying dystopian misogyny from Handmaid’s Tale (or, y’know, sticking their head out a window) I highly recommend Octavia Butler’s Parables series.
“in Atwood’s novel, Gilead, as a white supremacist society, killed or exiled all people of color, calling them ‘Children of Ham’”
One of many things that stuck out in the novel was how the wealthy and privileged wives absolutely openly CHOSE this turn of events; how women themselves will absolutely chose to not only hold up privilege but will choose to hold up any means to hold that up, including a murderous, fascist government. So don’t feel…
Lately, the only unrealistic thing about the Handmaid’s Tale (at least to me) is that Offred and her husband could afford a house in Cambridge.