Yeah, our school explained that they teach the 5 year olds to hunker down really small and be super quiet. “Pretend you’re a bunny hiding in the grass”. Jesus - what a fucking country we live in. 

I have three sons. My youngest is in 6th grade. About 6 months ago, we were in a lockdown in a mall during a false alarm linked to a reported shooting. Last night at dinner, unprompted, he started talking about how he didn’t respond to the lockdown the way he thought he would. My wife said she didn’t really think…

Christ, a few weeks ago I was at a store buying some sodas or something, and the clerk told me my total in Spanish. She quickly corrected herself in English and acted so embarrassed. I live in a pretty Puerto Rican neighborhood, so she speaks Spanish to a lot of customers, but she was crazy apologetic to me, a White…

“Plus, this skull-cap works like an invisibility cloak!”

He’s going to have a regular spot on Fox News or at a right wing think tank within a matter of days.

Um what makes you think the Latinos speaking Spanish that are causing him to embarrassingly melt down in public aren’t local? There’s a large population of Puerto Rican and Dominicans in NYC who are local and bilingual. See Mero of Desus and Mero if you’re confused.

““Maybe you should get hit by a car, you piece of shit,” someone responds”

Stay tuned for the next chapter. I have a feeling he’s gonna learn some kind of lesson after he’s identified.

And it also sounds like she was a good teacher too if she hated the pair of students *and* gave them the only A in the class. That is some good teachin’.

It sounds like you kind of learned a lot from Mrs. B.

I love Mary Wickes, but that performance came with miscast June Allyson as Jo and Liz Taylor in a disconcerting blonde wig. Hard to get past all that.

man, i’ve always agreed with this. Marmee, go over to Mr Lawrence’s and ask him to donate his excess food to the hummels. Also, if they’d never gone over, Beth might have lived! Stupid Hummels!

Watching this adaptation I feel especially bad for Mamie since all 4 of her daughters appear to be born within 12 months of each other. How can all 4 of them be 16? Amy is supposed to be 12.

And yet, women who do take their husband’s name continue to lie to themselves and rationalize it every which way besides recognising the practice for what it is: patriarchal nonsense.

I lost interest as soon as the phrase “mellow out!” was actually uttered in a mid 19th century script: BLASPHEMY.

man that joke was old at Queen Victoria’s wedding

There is protocol for everything in the royal family, including the royal wedding night. The bride kneels before the prince and recites “I offer you my honor.” The prince then replies “I accept your offer.” And it goes on like that all night: “Honor, offer, honor, offer, honor, offer.”

I was visiting my ex-in laws in the UK (married young!) when she passed, and my parents were meeting us out at their country house. Early that morning, the ex MIL showed up with a mug of tea and quietly asked we come downstairs to hear some news. Ex FIL was a knighted ex-barrister, and the phone rang incredibly early…

You know, being a royal wife/marrying into the royal family is a very specific thing to do. It’s a full-time job where people are watching you all the time, so you’d have to really really want it. As much as a lot of young girls talked about marrying Harry, probably the actual number who’d want to go around waving and…

I got up at 4 am to watch Diana marry Charles and would have gone after Andrew before he married Fergie if I thought I even had the remotest chance. Alert the biographers!