There’s a lot of discussion to be had over whether this ad—well intentioned as it is—is framing men as saviors and decent, not-bad behavior as heroic, whether it goes to far in centering men and their experiences, whether corporate statements of virtue mean anything at all. These are all good conversations.

On a fully…

Also, no press is bad press. I’d be interested to see sales and stock numbers for Gillette in about a month.

The responses are fucking insane. I can’t see how anyone finds it offensive to suggest it’s better that a grown man intervene when a school kid is being beat up by a gang of kids?

that’s it, Instagram is ova

Maybe a tablet or smart phone understands a beak? After all chickens have a pecking order...

Eh, you shouldn’t coddle them. 

You have to look at the sunny side of things.

Good to know you can take a yolk.

Omelette you slide for that.

*don’t say it*

The finished sample is fucking incredible!!!

Hi there Pie Pie! I haven’t been working on much so I don’t have much to show but I’ve started on my Harry Potter Hufflepuff crest. So far I’ve spent the better part of 3 days on it. I’m thinking of making it into a little house banner when I’m done.

I made a cosy for my coffee press and repaired some jeans, but it takes forever to upload pics from phone (gremlins?) and I didn’t plan ahead so I’ll have to post them some other time. I was especially happy with the cosy because it works (!!) and I found fabric to match the 60s dish set I got from my grandmother.

Heyyyy SNS, it’s been a while. Craft Thread? Craft Thread!

“On my office chair?!?”

Leaving aside the fact that “massive” can simply mean “very large,” an inflated hot air balloon can weigh over two tons. so it’s questionable whether it would be technically correct to say a hot air balloon could not be massive. Or what if we were simply comparing a very small balloon to a very large one?

If you were still in high school, I’d recommend you leave them in your gym locker until the end of the school year.  That’s what me and my friends used to do.

If you were still in high school, I’d recommend you leave them in your gym locker until the end of the school year. …

I starred this because I LOL’ed, but I don’t think of fastidious and pedantic as synonyms.

Can I say that from a European perspective “sick days” are a little strange? I mean having a set amount of them. There have been years I’ve hardly been sick a day and others where I was out three or four weeks. In the first case I would have been tempted to use the days “just so”, in the second case I might have been…

Come to California, paid sick days are required by law.