Thank you! I think, like with any - lifestyle? orientation? movement? (none of those feels quite right, but you know what I'm getting at) - that has to fight an uphill battle for legitimacy, out poly people do a fair bit of explaining, trailblazing, and myth-busting. That said, open-ness isn't evangelism. I have poly…

Wholeheartedly co-signed. My closest cousin (we grew up in the same house and shared a bedroom, more like sisters, really) and has become a pretty unapologetic evangelist for polyamory. Hard to know if she's more prone to grand-stand about that or her paleo eating habits, another movement founded on simplistic and (to…

So, should women of childbearing age consider this in preparing their advance directives? Like, I'm thinking of my personal case - my husband and I prepared living wills a few years ago after a horrible, messy end of life care situation with his grandmother. Our directives are pretty explicit about not wanting any…

You mother sounds terrifying. I'm picturing her literally diving across your, poor, doomed uncle's prone body to knock the shit out of your dad's girlfriend. What the fuck!

That's... probably for the best. It's positioned somewhere between the duet Mark McGrath did with Shania Twain and his stint as an entertainment reporter, both in terms of timeline and general terribleness.

In the same vein - Sugar Ray. "When It's Over" for extra meta awfulness.

My boss eventually retired in a cloud of gruffness, probably not coincidentally after our Department's declared commitment to a paperless workplace (which never really went anywhere, shockingly). We held a big retirement do at his family's summer place - a very grand but "down home Canadian" log cabin on a lake,…

Yowza - that's a harsh scroll down. I was laughing until I wasn't :-(

Ohmigod, the nostalgia! My girlfriends and I used to go through my Mom's old McCall's and Vogue patterns and insert thought and speech bubbles over the women's heads. We weren't the most imaginative lot, though, so when it didn't devolve into passive-aggressive sniping ("Hey Madge, Don't you think Kiki should just stop…

Yup. I predict that I will become, at a minimum, 20% more insufferable. And I am not mad at it.

Whoa. I am generally a bit of a grammar hound, prone to shrieking "it's fewer, not less" at inopportune times, but I genuinely never knew this. I am become that which I disdained!

see also: the uterus.

Civil service policy drone here. One of my first jobs (~ 5 years ago) was working in the outer office of a crotchety but lovable bureaucrat from another time. He could peck out emails and send them from his PC (but not his Blackberry), and read incoming emails on his Blackberry (but not his PC, somehow), but beyond…

The 50+ set love them some really bright chunk-style highlights, too. Recently, all but one of mes tantes showed up to brunch with 3/4 of a long asymmetrical bang dyed either bright purple or platninum, and the rest of their heads bobbed and dyed a dark auburn. Two also had a contrasting chunk at the crown. Brunch was…

Hysterical - I just came back from a christening in Ste. Agathe, and as a pale-ass blond in chapstick and BB cream, I definitely looked like an alien. Also, conspicuously not Catholic. I was far and away the most commented-upon guest.

Hah! My immediate first guess was that people were having sex in there. Close enough, I guess. I was changing my son in the family washroom in Calgary airport a couple of years ago when a giggling teenaged (?) couple burst in, clearly thinking about grabbing a quick pre-flight fuck. When they saw me, the woman…

I mean, hard to expect any less from the home of $7 daycare and the most progressive parental leave policies in the nation, right? Super baffling about the situation at Unnamed University, though, especially since la belle province makes it easier than anywhere else for parents to attend school while they have…

Based on the replies to my comment, it seems like I'm expressing some central-Canadian privilege here. It seems to be much more regionalized than I thought. Possibly our city also benefits from business owners' trying to keep pace with the demands of an especially demanding populous. From my encounters at various…

Maybe it's more of a regional thing than I realized (we're in a larger city in Ontario). I have encountered them pretty much everywhere that I would reasonably take my kid (i.e. the neighbourhood bar doesn't have them, but c'mon), sometimes combined with a standalone accessible washroom. It also seems that, in places…

Does the U.S. not do the "family washroom" thing? In Canada, it's pretty common (although by no means guaranteed) that there'll be a men's, a ladies' and then a single unit "family washroom" with a changing station for Mom/Dad to use, and usually a bench so you can park any older kids who can't be left alone outside.…