High school is out, and for some reason, this troll above us isn’t in the grey. I am, but the teenage troll isn’t. Great.

There is a procedure called Microsort where the sperm are run through a machine in an attempt to sort boys from girls, and most of the ones that produce boys go to one end, and the ones that produce girls go to the other. It is not a guarantee, but it ups the chances.

Bwahahaahaha! It’s worse than that!

That was fantastic.

My favorite was hearing, just before I had the baby, every terrible delivery story on the face of the earth. Shut up, people. I do not need to hear this right now.

All jeans should be fitted, but then, er, I say that, but I don’t do that. I just roll them all up.

YES! There’s the description I’ve been looking for!

It’s simply that it’s standard. I think, in these arguments, we forget Taylor Swift is a product, too, as well as a person. She should have some rights to her own image.

It’s a good argument that it needs to change, maybe residuals for photographs used repeatedly? I have a feeling, though, that it’s so standard a practice, it probably hasn’t occurred to any of them to feel any differently. Maybe she’ll read this stuff and consider it? She’s on the Internet all the time, like the rest…

I meant that the photographer has to ask, just like the writer does.

Yes, but isn’t this true of all creative work? If an essay or short story is published somewhere, you can’t publish it again anywhere else, without permission. The correction I might see in these standard contracts is to consider the rights to some kind of royalty payment to the photographer being inserted into the…

It actually sounds like a pretty standard contract to me. This is how it works in these fields, both writing and taking photos. Once your work is used, it’s standard to have to get permission to publish it anywhere else. This is completely normal stuff.

Well, we don’t agree. That’s okay! I think boot cut balances the body and allows for hips. As I’m an old, and have seen these fads more than once, I’ve had a lot of time to compare. As well, skinny jeans, being closely cut, are more likely to be bought in a wrong size, because the wearer doesn’t want to go up a size.…

Bah. It’s hard either way in a country where the middle class is disappearing and there isn’t any help with child care.

No. They look good on people with more narrow hips. They don’t have to be skinny. I just dislike the sort of weird triangular thing that happens when they are worn on most women, because hips. I get it. It’s my opinion only. I’m okay with disagreement.

No, but I am advocating for not wearing jeans so tight that you get a muffin top when you weigh 90 pounds. Plus, they make women look like little upside down triangles.

Okay. This is only my opinion. Ideas may differ.

Well ... I may be understanding this wrong but ... let’s review.

These outfits kind of make me want to punch someone. At least, anyone wearing them.

Right?!? He totally sandbagged her.