Repositioning crew is one thing; if they’ve got to be somewhere, they have to be there. But United should never have let those passengers ON THE PLANE without getting four to agree to give up their seat, or even bumping them pre-boarding. They needed to up the ante - go up to $1200, etc., because unless it was a small…

Agreed. If people don’t like your comment, they can scroll past, or as one so sweetly put it to you downthread, shut the fuck up. My kid is the teacher - you know, the one who has spent a significant amount of the last several years of her life picturing how she’ll respond when it happens at her school, so she can…

Those pictures are so sweet. They were both beautiful.

I’m sorry to make you cry. And pets DO feel. Oswald and Rudy left behind one poodle brother and two feline brothers. My cats always slept in a big pile at night, and Bob and Emmett have only recently stopped looking for Ozzie at bedtime. Gus (poodle) developed a crazy separation anxiety, which has persisted since we…

Shit, I’m so sorry. I lost my Oswald to sudden kidney failure, too, in December. It’s heartbreaking. You gave him the gift of a painless death, although I do truly know how much that sucks and I’m so very sorry. Like you, I lost him 8 months after my sweet Golden died of cancer. They were besties, and I like to think…

Even in a weather delay? I can see if it was a mechanical or crew scheduling issue, but zero American carriers pay for weather delays, be it for food, lodging, or time compensation.

Backatcha. I’ve been sick for 6 weeks, I’m working out of town, my dad - who had a heart attack LAST week while I was home - was inconsiderate enough to have ANOTHER ONE this week, goddammit, requiring me to get medical information relayed through my sister. (I am a nurse. My sister has a grasp of medicine that…

Oh, see, if I was better at internetting - or not so goddamned old - I would have known that. Thanks.

I feel like he must be somehow related to Stephen Miller. They share the same dead eyes.

I think she might be referring to “loosing” - people often misspell “losing” (to lose - the game, the war, etc.) as “loosing” (let something loose). It caught my eye because I’m a little compulsive about those things, but either way you meant it, it makes sense. :)

Because OF COURSE HE DID.

I was trying to find some witty reply, but words fail me utterly. I guess I’ll leave it at, “Wow.”

Man, I don’t miss them either. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed them when they were happening (as much as I can remember through the haze of exhaustion) but I’ve gotta tell you, they are 22 & 24, both Officially Educated, and paying their own bills. That does not suck.

He’s not even that fucking old. He’s 50, and he can hear everything else. Does he just have lazy ears? I don’t know how he doesn’t have brain damage.

Hang on. If she’s anything like my daughters, she’ll continue to have OPINIONS on things of great importance, like the seam on the end of her left sock (but not the right one), and “how blowy the air conditioner is” (a direct quote, btw).

We never really tried to temper volume when our kids were babies, but neither one of us are loud-talkers. We could literally vacuum the carpet in the room next to theirs and not wake either one of them. Thirty minutes later, however, I swear a squirrel fart two counties over would jolt them immediately awake,…

The resistance is female. And it’s largely middle-aged. So don’t just plan on that Millennial costume - dress up as your MOM. We’re pissed, and we’re not sitting down. (Well, half of us white moms are pissed, anyway. The other half apparently lost their goddamned MINDS in November.)

OMG please tell me that didn’t happen for real. Seems like 9-11 jokes should forever be too soon.

My daughter works on Uncommon Sense with Charlamagne on MTV2; they film Friday night at 11:30 PM. In her words, “I hope the RuPaul show does great in its new time slot but OMFG they need to get their asses OUT OF OUR STUDIO FASTER.”

“you’re not Jack Bauer so stop pretending to be”