Sounds to me like anyone with a uterus can use the HOV lanes anytime they want, now, because with the insane way weeks of pregnancy are counted, you’re pregnant before you’ve had the sex that makes you pregnant, so...failing to get pregnant in any given cycle is pretty much the same thing as a very early miscarriage.…

Translation is really hard, even without the constraints of subtitles/captions. I took 2 classes on translation in college and one of the hardest exercises we did was a chapter out of Bridget Jones’ Diary. Almost nothing that Bridget writes is literally what she means, but the word/idiom choice all conveys extra…

Netflix’s subtitles are actually really good. I tried to watch something subtitled on Amazon a while back and it was just yellow with no shadow and I couldn’t read any of it against the super intricate visuals of the thing.

I totally have that turned off. Don’t remember how I did it, but it’s possible.

Why is Ohio the only state that’s right?

“kept warm overnight” *shudder* I can taste the salmonella from here

Forgive my not knowing much about this, but in every consumer electronic I have, the battery holds less and less of a charge over time. Wouldn’t you want to buy with an exceesive amount of battery so you can be confident that it’ll still have a decent amount of battery in 5-10 years? (typing this comment on a laptop…

9/11 has nothing to do with it. it is possibly the worst movie I’ve ever seen and not even in a fun so-bad-it’s-good kind of way. It’s all just “OMG, Mariah, you’re so great!” “Oh, I’m not that great” “But you are! You are soooo great!” for 2 hours.

My high school barely had a dress code. No hats was about it. It was the 90s, spaghetti straps and Big Johnson T-shirts were everywhere. One day I wore a too-short dress. As soon as I sat down in it during first period, I was like “I have made a huge mistake” but not a single authority figure said a word to me. And…

I definitely read “vulva” and was like how on earth does pizza dough explain this?

I’ve got a friend who has been following the research in children pretty closely and says that it is not yet clear that the benefit outweighs the risks in that population - like they’re more likely to have bad reactions to the vaccines (that myocarditis thing) and less likely to wind up hospitalized for COVID if…

Per the NIH, the vaccine gives you broader immunity to variants than an infection does: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-generated-from-covid-19-vaccines-differs-from-an-infection/

but rather because the hot water causes the fabric dyes to run.

Using 2 different sets of pronouns for one person in one piece is... a lot to expect. Allure’s readers are probably still getting their heads around the singular “they” in general. Heck, when you switch mid-paragraph, I’m even like “wait, are we talking about somebody else now?” and I feel like I’ve got a pretty…

That first set of pictures is fine. The second set is bad, but more because of the terrible waistlines than anything else

100%. As fun as this show’s costumes were, accurate they were not. I mean, not just the zippers - Lady Fetherington’s silhouettes are all wrong. A sweetheart neckline? No. The corseted waists? Are you kidding? This is the Regency. Plus, no one’s clothes fit right. They’re using synthetic dyes that won’t be invented…

Timmy’s suit is a shot fabric*, right? Like, it’s subtle, just champagne and gold, but I think that’s how it’s doing that thing.

I think the line would be clearer if more people watched the movie (I just saw it for the first time a few months ago - it was on Prime as of then. Ingrid Bergman! Good stuff!) Anyway, he does stuff like give her an heirloom and tell her how important it is, then steal it out of the place she’s put it for safekeeping…

Having (unfortunately) worn a lot of denim skirts in middle school*, I say dear god, never again.

THANK YOU! Betrothed means engaged, not married.