I’m sorry, son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I’m the co-pilot.

I know you. You’re Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. You play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Thank you for this.

And my grampa, from the Bronx— “bottle” was “bo’ull”. Also born 1920 or thereabouts. He always talked like Harvey Keitel on a bad day. :)

Yeah I grew up in South Jersey and live on the PA side now and I hear the glottal stop all the time here. I’m in Chester County, by the way. Whereabouts are you?

Thank you for sharing. We lost our son to cystic fibrosis in 2009. When the time came and the doctors told us that there was nothing more to be done, we didn’t hesitate with withdraw care. It was heartbreaking and the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but to have tried to prolong things would have been selfish and…

I, too, have had to choose to end my child’s life - in my case, to turn off the machines. In a week it will have been 17 years, and I still can’t think of it too closely. I share your pain, and I send you love.

I have become inured to uptalk. Vocal fry and the millennial glottal stop are still killing me though. I imagine, at some point, these will become default as well.

No one screams “white middle class American woman” more than George W. Bush.

I am so very sorry for your loss.

Not much. What’s up with you?

WHAT’S UPDOG???????

Solid advice on uptalk, but I find updog more useful in most situations.

As I have written before, my daughter died when she was five in 2011, two months after being diagnosed with an inoperable and malignant brain tumor. There is no cure for her type of tumor - DIPG - and current treatments do little more than extend life for a few months.

I am not the only evil person on Twitter who was kind of hoping he would jump.

Eight seasons. Archie used the slur “coon” (ugh), but never the n-word until the 8th season when they devoted an entire episode to... why you shouldn’t ever use that word.

Terrorist. Lets call him a terrorist because that’s what he is.

Jesus Christ, poor Chris Cornell is ashes now.

I have real, debilitating allergic reactions and her list makes me seethe with rage. People have gotten awfully comfortable with using the word “allergy” to scare other people into submission. I’m fucking sick of it. I would give anything to eat a pastry without having to ask first if there are nuts in it. WOULD LOVE…

Yes. Yes, I did.