“If you just lost some weight, I could actually be proud of you” - My grandmother to me, immediately after I graduated with honors from one of the top three universities in the country.

Awesome! My mom was just asking me if there was a subscription box I’d like to get my daughter.

The problem was that I knew pretty early on what went where, but had NO IDEA that there was, you know, movement involved for a long time. Until I found my mom’s stash of romance novels, probably.

I can’t stop seeing the...not symmetry, concordance? between her chin and her cleavage here. I mean, still gorgeous.

We had this American Medical Association encyclopedia that had an illustration of intercourse, but like...a dissection? It was a drawing, but of a straight couple doing it missionary style, but cut in half. Anyway, so I knew from pretty early on that the penis went in the vagina, but was kind of vague about how it…

It’s exactly the same with childcare (an even more fraught form of house work).

That is fascinating and gross (and doesn’t surprise me at all given what I remember of DGR).

The only ghost I’ve ever seen (and I am a ghost skeptic, so admitting that I saw it means I am 100% sure about it) was a cat ghost. When I moved to town, I rented an apartment that had a cat already there (the previous tenant had basically abandoned half of her stuff there including a kitten) and since I knew no one…

Ahhhhh how could I forget Father Ted! Feck!

I’ve actually only seen him in Black Books and Shaun of the Dead but I just adore him.

Yeah, as far as I remember he wrote (or co-wrote with Dylan Moran and possibly others) almost all of the episodes.

Yes! Graham Linehan, not just awesome for writing Black Books!

I was about to protest that my mom did an excellent job of driving on our first visit to the UK, but then I remembered the time she went the wrong way around a roundabout - twice - in a row - but it was on Orkney so the only oncoming traffic was a bunch of ducks.

It’s cute! I love a good wordplay!

Great minds and all that! Love your username btw (assuming it’s a play on Londonderry somehow? Anyway, funny).

Seems like we weren’t the only ones! Which just makes it more inexplicable to me that people like the parents in this story exist. If you believe God created the world/everything, then he created hospitals and the ambulances to bring your baby there and the doctors to treat him/her.

Well, it’s a cool interest to have! I am more of an amateur Jew, in it for the matzoh ball soup and kvetching :)

Right? I am not and have never been religious/faith-having so maybe I just don’t get it, but it seems to me that if you believe that all of existence is God/Supreme Being/whatever’s creation, then it follows that everything that exists (e.g. modern medicine) is God’s work?

Back in the mists of time I could have given you a one-minute summary but I was more of a British manuscripts person and it was fiteen+ years ago :) I mean I recognize the names and basic significance but that’s about it. Sigh... So are you in academia or is medieval Spain/Jewish history just an interest?

The grandparentals are Jewish, might explain why Gramps likes that joke so much!