My lit-geek girlfriend once put it to her students as "Be Darcy, not Heathcliffe." And it's true. He has this great line at the very end of the novel to the woman who rejected his initial proposal "You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My…

They also share a fondness for quirky glasses - the evidence mounts!

This hews incredibly close to the text messages my Mom sends me about 3D printing and "designer babies". I... truly don't know what to make of this.

That's awesome - in our city it spun out from a Mom-centred campaign to get the city to declare itself breastfeeding-friendly. At the time, a lot of women were getting crazy hassle for "whipping their tits out" in public to feed their babies. Moms were like, "fuck that" and wanted the city to put out a policy…

Yes. It's even more annoying when spoken aloud. That, and "very unique" are the ones that make me nuts. Is it the only one, or isn't it? There are no degrees of being the only one of something. ~breathes deeply~

After a long day reading papers, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the correct use of less and fewer in rapid succession. It's beautiful. It's what I needed.

And now, I'm wondering if you live where I live. We had that same fight, like, 10 years ago, I think? Apart from city beaches and parks, though, you never really see it in action, unlike the proliferation of topless dudes all over the everywhere come summer.

Girl, manfeelz are facts, didn't you know?

That's an awesome solution. I'd always try to direct the flood of Thanksgiving volunteers to pre-holiday sorting gigs at the food cupboard, trying to match seasonal good will to seasonal good will, but yours is better. One of my favourite occasional-volunteers was a couple who volunteered a couple of days a year: on…

You just blew my mind. I had no idea that Jess from FNL was also Denise from Full House.

Right? During the time I spent volunteering at a local shelter, I threw out a lot of: "When you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you." to large church groups coming in to do a 1-time feel-good stint. Your poverty petting zoo remark upthread was woefully accurate to how a lot of people felt about our…

The trick would be to find a day that his church/cult/whatever spends "in reverent silence."

Yup. Sounds like a folksy threat to me.

Sweet mother of crap - that still. Courtney Love from the forehead down, and thennnnn... This is a perfect encapsulation of why, of all people, Katy Perry doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. For some people, I might be moderately willing to entertain - yeah, okay, maybe this is just a piss-poor execution of an "old…

Sweet mother of crap - that still. Courtney Love from the forehead down, and thennnnn... This is a perfect encapsulation of why, of all people, Katy Perry doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. For some people, I might assume - yeah, okay, maybe this is just a piss-poor execution of an "old Hollywood" marcel wave…

What could go wrong? As someone's who's done both, level with me here: What's worse, fractious toddler who sleeps never and thinks sun=wake-up time, or fractious pre-teen who sleeps always and thinks wake-up time=fuck you Mom?

Cows and toddlers wait for no man, and/or artificial time-keeping construct. Interestingly, DST is observed in all but one of the Canadian provinces (I think). The abstainer is Saskatchewan, which for a long time had the greatest number of farming households per capita in our great country. Farmers were like, "fuck…

Yeah, and then your kids totally ruin the joy of "falling back" because they're like "time for breakfast" and you're like "I beg of you, go back to sleep and fully accept that it is actually 5am." Mommy feels like it's 5am, always.

Shit, man. Whatever happened to the Christian value of "Do unto others then STFU about it"?

And then, one day after the club and sleeping into 11:30 thing is long behind you, you have a kid who can't tell time yet and doesn't understand how Mommy can magically decide that he needs to fucking get in the car and go to school even though the sun just came up and it is clearly still jammy time! And on one level…