Ehh, I find the term useful in exactly the texting scenario you describe, in consciously using it to decide if I’m genuinely friends with a person or not. If my reaction to a given person is, like yours, “YES!!!!!” then it means I do want to be friends with that person and it’s probably a case of equal footing and…

Right? let’s have MORE OF THE STUFF that no one gives a shit about. That’s how to do business, babey!

edited cos eh, can’t be arsed with trolls

Well yeah, hardly a mystery, but I’m still going to tell him his herb-instincts are stupid.

Dear G/O Media, there is a goddamn impeachment hearing going on and this site used to have live interpretations on such stories. For fuck’s sake. Do you think we REALLY care more about Aunt Becky or turkey meatballs?

Yeah, I agree with that stance for some purposes, but like... I suppose it was partly the way he wrote that particular bit, specifically as an aghast, “I’ll never understand why women would run with headphones,” that made me feel like, wait, seriously? You... really can’t understand that? Well that certainly calls…

Fair enough- if it’s a technical term, I rescind my comments and apologize.

Off topic, but I read that book on everyone everywhere’s recommendation and it... also felt kinda victim blamey at times? It was the bit where he was going on about “why would women run with headphones!” that eventually bummed me out, and that was on top of a bunch of other late 90s advice like never be drunk and…

Actually it’s disrespectful language that makes light of someone who has been victimized and a mother who bore witness, but yeah okay, “inserting yourself into a news story” is a FINE way to characterize it, you absolute fuckmonkey.

INSERT YOURSELF? are you serious right now?

Slate has the best shady take on Patrick. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/11/deval-patrick-finance-friendly-democratic-candidate.html

Dude that’s like lamenting that you have three flavors of unflavored frozen yogurt: old capitalist, gay capitalist, and black capitalist. They just aren’t different in substance and we have the luxury of including serious candidates who offer more.

Okay, I’m gonna tinfoil hat this binch and suggest that Deval Patrick is here as a spoiler for both Warren and Sanders, but especially Warren. He hasn’t had name recognition in ten years and he went to work at fucking BAIN CAPITAL after leaving the MA governor’s office. But he is Masshole famous. So, theory: he…

It was. Sorry about the stench warfare.

Also, if he’s saying that a lawyer who worked for him and now works for the other side might have a conflict of interest in him, isn’t that basically admitting he’s a shit to work for?

I specifically remember doing so as a child and then, as Tom says, going RIGHT off that notion around 13. I went back to milk in cereal when I was eating cheap in uni and discovered that I had definitely downregulated my ability to digest it, and I kept running to the library stacks to lay huge farts.

Herr honk and I recently were in an airport in CA flying back to the UK and we were in the final seating class, and there was a massive line in front of use to board, extending well past the queuing guide ribbons. So we just kept sitting in the seats next to the queue, because what’s the point until the line diminishes…

The thing about hair removal from the vulva is that there’s no biological purpose for it and it’s potentially harmful. That doesn’t mean it’s never fun - I indulge sometimes - but it’s unsustainable for a LOT of women, me included and women of colour rather consistently so. So sure, you can frame it as a personal…

Right? Like what’s your option there, drool internally?

No, weird is my mom, who likes to physically dip things in other things that are not appropriately combined. Like an onion and red pepper scone in a latte.