Solidarity is merely a fiction and there is no escaping prison, tangible or otherwise.

Uh oh. WATCH OUT, BABY. He’s coming.

Not only that, but they have an established avenue for dialog: parents *expect* teachers to form opinions on the development of their students, and to report same to parents. Some rando, via a letter? Yeah, no thanks. Not because it’s rude or invasive, but because being a relative of a person on the spectrum doesn’t…

One time Kim Kardashian went to the OB-GYN with Blac Chyna and I guess that’s supposed to mean something, but what?

Good Christ. It’s like they’re trying to become a Kennedy dynasty all in one WEEK, let alone one generation...

Does any part of you like him BECAUSE your friend likes him? No one owns their crush (especially when they themself haven’t yet got up the gumption to make a move and ask out said crush, i.e. your friend) so there’s nothing wrong with incidentally being attracted to the same person as a friend.

If someone you’re dating calls you “stupid and weak”, you need to call them a TAXI. The entire point of relationships in the modern age is emotional support. If he can’t give you that, what can he give you? People DIED and he cold shouldered you? No.

I’m actually pleasantly surprised by Gisele Bundchen’s politics.

“Cousins shouldn’t bread.”

I tend to dislike that as well. Once I heard how long she’d been gone, though, it made a bit more sense. If some madman rapist was keeping me in a metal box in the Southern summer heat, and making my meals, I’d probably look emaciated and vulnerable as shit once found. That may be what prompted the descriptor. Not…

Are there other punitive differences in solitary (like no reading material, no time in the yard, no bedding) or is the only difference the lack of free human contact you’d get in genpop?

Ha, I get SO ANGRY (on the inside) when employees of clothing stores are either too pushy or, worse, pushy AND openly lying about unflattering clothes.

Yeah. I worked at Wal~Mart as a teen (tilde or die) after they took over a smaller chain where I’d been happily working for about two years.

That’s not analogous, even factoring cultural differences. In a case where a child is being hurt by an oppressor, the parent who turns in her “guilty” offspring is turning in an offender and protecting a victim. Hard but morally sound decision.

Counter argument: Nope.

I believe you. Sadly. (Thanks)

We have security cameras in our home (my husband wanted them and set them up, and I really love them now that we work such different hours — we use them to send each other goofy messages).

This may be my favorite comment ever.

Oof! You have had a nasty run of it, haven’t ye?? To be fair I’m using spinal headache in the improper layman way (spinal headache usually means the kind you get from epidurals, i believe... the fancypants but more accurate term for my kind is cervicogenic headaches/referred pain).

My mother went through similar symptoms as yours — for me (spondylitis) it’s a systemic disease that mostly impacts my neck but occasionally likes to go on walkabout (like tonight, to my knee) juuuust to keep things exciting.