Hah. RMP’s interest in social issues rates slightly higher than Kinja’s.

The costuming looks exquisite, but I have such a hard time seeing anything except DAKOTA FANNING. Sometimes actors can make it look like they might actually belong in the costume/scenery and sometimes they look super out of place.

This is one of the latter.

The last three places I’ve lived have had huge restrictions on breeds allowed in the building. I work in a city that is working to ban all bully breeds (which seems impractical, in addition to unethical?)

I’ve never really gotten to know a pibble, although I’ve done snuggies with a few at the dog park. I’d be open to…

Airedale rescue people can be more obnoxious than actual Airedales, and don’t necessarily feel as bound to the letter of the law as animal control. If you ever need info for an Airedale rescue group to turn them loose on her ... let me know.

Or you live in a place where pibbles are banned. We rent, and as much as I love their ridiculous faces, they aren’t permitted on many leases. There are a few cities nearby which straight-out ban them, regardless of renting/owning.

I’ve been in close contact with my local shelter for about six months waiting for a dog…

Thanks for saying this. (This is the reason they dock Airedale tails ... they’re easily weaponized.)

I fostered one who hadn’t been docked, and he wagged his tail so hard across my leg that I needed stitches. I’ve lost touch with the family he ended up going to, but about a year in, he’d broken the tail so many times…

Yeah. When you’ve got 41 dogs on site, you aren’t a breeder. You’re a puppy mill.

No, there’s not a correlation between altering the dogs and aggression - assuming it’s done safely and at an appropriate age. (Terriers get their tails docked at day four or five. I’ve seen some ear docking done much later in life and wonder if that doesn’t leave them feeling a little foul about medical procedures.)

Do…

You have essentially described my family.

Rats off a sinking ship? He can’t get anything positive from continued association with orange overlord, so he’s going to lie low long enough to claim a break from that regime.

If I didn’t need deep breathing to work (woodwind player), this would be intriguing. I have terrible posture.

... so when you say friend, you mean a person you know and tolerate?

If you would take the satire out from the end, some of them are legit questions.

One suspects that in eighteen years and nine months, colleges will no longer be open to plebes like my kids.

I don’t think he understands how many obstacles there are for people who aren’t wealthy.

Have babies!

But don’t have babies if you can’t afford to have babies!

We can’t afford for you not to have babies!

Just lie back and think of England!

I’m aware of the history. I just wasn’t sure which post was supposed to be trolling me.

A second one came by with lady brains and I figured it out.

... wait, which one? I’ve got one that looks like sarcasm (I laughed) and another that is condescending but not outside of the normal Kinja not-getting-my-humor zone.

So like ... can I have maternity leave? Affordable prenatal care? Any treatment for my battered lady-bits after birth? Help with childcare? (My parents live very, very far away and I really like what I do for a living.) Will my daughters be able to get jobs where they won’t be harassed by their employers, or is their…