During wedding planning my sister-in-law’s mother informed my mother that there was no place for mother-of-the-groom in wedding planning and she should “wear beige and shut up”. There was barely room for the bride and groom in wedding planning, as far as she was concerned.

Maybe Mary is planning on returning the pricey wedding gifts for cash to pay down her loans. Some people assume asking for cash is inappropriate . . . returnable gifts are the next best thing.

It’s not just weddings. People, especially family members, feel that it’s their right and duty to tell you how to behave while pregnant, how to raise your child or children, etc. I think people overvalue their own opinions — just ‘cause you say what you think doesn’t make what you think interesting, valuable or true.

Getting sympathy on the internet?

Cookie Ironwood. Pretty sure that would only work if I wrote really slutty poetry.

I still remember my mother’s ritual for preparing a baby bottle: warm, shake to equalize temperature, squeeze two drops on left wrist to check temperature, lick formula off wrist, feed baby. Now I’m wondering if the ‘lick formula off wrist’ part was to check for errant substances rather than being too damn tired to…

Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A MacDonald, was famous for having alcohol in his water glass — particularly during important political speeches. His alcoholism was so well known it was actually part of my 8th grade history lesson. Of course, he did all sorts of other important things like creating the…

Still would have been rape if Kye turned out to be a middle aged white guy or a talking poodle or someone wandering by the hotel room. The homo/transphobia is probably what got the story widespread coverage but it doesn’t change the initial crime.

Statistics class was a long time ago, but I’m pretty sure “daytime audience of TV show who have access and interest in internet voting” is not a representative sample of the populations.

The Huckabee campaign probably selected the music (along with building a stage and maybe distributing those white crosses). Suing them would be a public service, but they’ve probably already set aside SuperPAC money to pay any fines.

Hah, I was thinking more like:

I'm still waiting for the pacifist who refuses to give gun licenses or hunting licenses — or refuses to serve veterans who may have been involved in violent actions.

I'm pretty sure we were supposed to be worried that the president would abuse the power of his office to ignore the constitution in favor of his faith. I guess it's okay so long as the faith involved is Christian, not secret-Muslim.

I kinda wonder if that is what happened. They took a watered down homeopathic ‘treatment’ with the drug to prove the treatment worked.

I never considered the knife-in-hand behavior, it’s a miracle no one has been sliced yet. The decorators work in tight, messy quarters and use whatever is in hand to gesture. Add in the slippery, frosting covered floor ...

I took a class in high school that was advertised like that — how to budget, how to read a loan document etc. What I got was how to duplicate Chef Boyardee dinners using ketchup, how to iron a shirt and the six steps of making cheese. The cheese thing was on the final.

Note: the solution to the hassling is, “I just lent my truck to my cousin and he moved three loads of manure for his garden. Still can’t get the bed clean enough to get rid of the odor, but I guess you can borrow it if you don’t mind the stink.”

I got a similar, if less stabby, lecture on my first day at a bakery about knives being dropped in the sink of wash water. Made perfect sense to me that you wouldn’t want to reach below the suds and feel around for a knife. Spent the rest of my time there trying to convince the long time employees to please not drop…

If you come across any organization presenting itself as wanting the best for you, wanting you to be your best self, we are a family etc you should pick up your shit and run.

Seemed more like Strex Corp from ‘Welcome to Nightvale’ to me. “Believe in a Smiling God” ::shudder:: It wouldn’t surprise me if they had the black helicopters.