I had no idea! I’m going to search for it...

Ok. I thought you people were all high as kites on really bad fucking drugs but that “belt pack” (snort) is actually cute... I still wouldn’t wear it around my waist, but I’d definitely wear it as a cross-shoulder bag...

I admit I enjoyed the first movie (only that one), but the books, oh the awkward cringe-fest that are the books (at least the first two, never read the third), are amazing...

Boy. You must really hate Kermit :(

Not unless you ask first :)

I read it as a teenager, it was...whoa...

I feel like the dead horse has been turned into powedered glue at this point, and I realize I’m preaching to the choir but... as a Canadian who does not have blinders on about her country (and is not a fan of JT and his government’s environmental shenanigans*), and as a sympathetic observer who fully realizes that…

As for “state-sponsored” - once again, in the realm of exceptions for “small government,” I guess.

I haven’t had a miscarriage that I’m aware of, but I’m currently almost 9 weeks along with my second soon-to-be-child-inshallah so miscarriage is certainly on my mind. My first response to this was just fuck off Rick Scott. I find it ghoulish and weird, though I guess some people may find comfort in a piece of paper.…

And this gives credence to that (I’ve fallen down a profoundly disturbing wormhole and need to get out NOW)

And some people like to be beaten. And not in the “oh hey I’m so kinky spank me please honey” pseudo-BDSM kind of way, I’ve never seen any discussion of it ever but I’d be very interested to know if she was ever diagnoed as a sexual masochist (or even sadomasochist).

Bowing with your hands together isn’t “faux-Japanese”, it’s real, formal Japanese. I have way less of an issue with someone performing the bow (they’d have to learn to do it anyway as it would be a part of formal greetings while travelling there), than what the rest of the team is up to...

Too late to edit, realize my negative isn’t working - should read: “merely for the sake of not preventing, or preventing preventing, or...” wait no, need a positive: “abetting/enabling the fertilzation etc.”?

The regulation chastises the original ACA religious exemptions for excluding “non-profit organizations that have an objection to contraceptions based on moral convictions but not religious principles”

A bit off topic maybe... My parents were born in 1950 to devout Catholic families - my dad came out as gay when I was a kid in the very early 80s, but didn’t tell his parents or siblings for several months. His family, who had always been warm and welcoming, treated my mother like *shit* for “daring to leave” my dad.…

Oh wow, we have the pets with family names too (they’re under my last name) but I can’t believe your vet office is that intransigent (or dense) about it...

See this is possibly the case except that the boss couched it as “some of your co-workers told me...” nonsense. That is some passive agressive concern-trolly shit. If she was a good boss and Bouning Betty was actually a little overthetop-intimidating-confident-bulldozer, she would take the approach that your boss did…

Omichristonacracker... I am late to this conversation obviously but I had to respond to this part: My boss said that she thinks these people might just be insecure but she wanted me to know for “my own professional development”.

That’s how it’s done in Scandinavia by default (maternal surname as middle name). My partner and I also, though not remotely Scandinavian, did that with our daughter’s name, no hyphens.

I’ve had mistakes go both ways - my partner (we’re living in sin but it’s legal in Ontario) has been Mr. Harmolecule more often than I’ve been Mrs Whatsit but both have happened, and our daughter (who has both our names but unhyphenated), has been referred to with either or both. I don’t even bother correcting, who…