Probably not, although there are those weirdo dogs who do like having baths and massages, which is the same general process. I just meant that it’s not exactly animal cruelty on the level of say, declawing a cat for convenience or docking a dog’s tail for appearances.

They do make animal safe dye, it’s basically like food coloring.

I love everything about this story. It reminds me of a character from these children’s books written by John Bellairs - anybody else read those? There was a woman who was just all purple. Her house, clothes, everything. And I remember thinking when I was a kid that I really wanted to do that when I got old.

It’s not “who suffered more,” so much as it is, “there is room to talk about both, separately.”

Indentured servitude was often really, really brutal and terrible. I spent a while studying the practice in colonial New England, where it was pretty common for young girls to be sold into it as house maids, where they would be beaten and raped until they managed to get out of it, which could take years and years.…

Bridesmaids, though.

I feel like if 27 Dresses had been a Hallmark Channel made for tv movie, I could enjoy it. That’s about the quality I expect from a made for tv movie. But it was a real, released in theaters movie! Her agent must be terrible.

Yeah, Supernatural is on season freaking 11 now. I’d say Padalecki has done pretty well for himself. He must be making bank, what with all the conventions and person appearances stuff they do.

Ah, yeah. It’s racism all the way back to the beginning, that’s for sure.

I get such a creepy vibe from him. Like he’d be the type to have a literal skeleton in his closet.

She’s not wrong. There have been waves of this in American history before. This is something that’s happened before (like when the US closed immigration from China and Japan in the early 1900s, or when there was backlash against immigration from Europe in the 1800s, or like in the 1930s when there was that huge…

Oh lord, that photo reminds me of the first time I was confronted with a German-style toilet.

It’s a real tough house over there.

I would so take that furniture off your mom’s hands. I love that kind of shit.

My basic green smoothie base is spinach, almond milk, protein powder, and a bit of banana for sweetness. After that I add either an additional fruit, or oats, or spices, sometimes vanilla extract. The more fruit you add the less healthy it is for you, unfortunately.

You might want to be careful about monitoring your sugar intake at other meals if you’re going to be drinking a naked every day. They are jam packed with sugar. Even though it’s from fruit, and even though most of them have a bit of fiber - less than you may think, despite how chunky some of them are, check the label…

Well that is not great :(

But if they’re that close and they’re worried can’t they just go to his house and check it out for themselves? That’s what I don’t get. He’s at home, they’re his friends, why not make sure in person?

I would totally wear those last 2 eye looks, though. Not too shabby!

Now that you mention it, that’s how it was when I was growing up, too. Adults might play board games with us but that was pretty much it. I have four siblings and about twenty cousins, though, so there were always other children around to play with. If people today only have 1 kid, that might explain why they feel…