I agree with you- people can do a lot more than just an hour and a half. But that's when you've been doing it for a while with consistency. Just starting or restarting? An hour and a half is a lot for you to handle. I say this as someone who went from 8 hours of dance a day + yoga to nothing back to an hour and a half…

Mine did when I had the stomach flu and was getting dehydrated. Gatorade or Pediasure, but I wouldn't drink the Pediasure.

I have a wealth of weird information.

I seem to recall that Henry VIII hired a highly trained swordsman to behead Anne Boleyn because of her status and that exact thing regarding the axe. Because beheading was such a common form of execution that people were highly trained in it.

Well, and wasn't there a guy in Oklahoma recently who had a botched execution that took over 20 minutes before they stopped giving him drugs and about 40 minutes before he died? And a guy in Ohio who had pretty much the same thing happen also recently? A botched beheading isn't any worse than a botched lethal…

Right? Have you met anyone who just cut out their parents for no reason? I haven't, I mean, I'm sure it happens, because people are weird, but both kids? Please. I have watched a lot of people struggle to decide if they should cut people out and hang around abusive or manipulative situations for way too long though.

Yes, although you tend to hear about it less, in no small part because a lot of it is quieter than other forms of fundamentalism. There's been problems with Buddhist fundamentalism and violence in Myanmar fairly recently (it's complicated because of ethnic and political stuff too, but aren't most acts of…

The makeup is ridiculous and I am also a makeup wearer. Most days, I have, at a minimum eyeliner and mascara on. However, I rarely wear foundation or concealer. To be honest, I don't need to, I have really good skin and foundation alway clogs me up a bit. But as for wearing makeup daily? I'm in the minority of a lot…

I have two friends that quit their sorority because they were being expected to do these kind of 15 hour days and my friends were like "umm, we have school work to do. Get harder majors or pick up a minor or something slackers."

Don't they know that waves are in right now? Ombre hair too. And seriously, how do they expect ANYONE'S hair to hold for 15hrs? Are they going to avoid wind and movement? I have easy hair- it has just enough wave that it's easy for me to blow dry straight or to curl and it hold reasonably well, but 15 hours worth of…

My thought, which isn't much better, is that the boy might have been older than 5th grade and so was the girl he impregnated. It's not much better though, because an 11 year old's boyfriend should be a dude that she sees at school and MAYBE elsewhere and they just call each other boyfriend and girlfriend- not that…

Some of the evangelical mega churches might be trying it already.

Is he one of those attractive priests you see wandering around Rome and think "uggh, celibacy is wasted on you"? There were too many of those around the Vatican, but true facts, I loved the Vatican so much that part of me wished I was Catholic and had a penis so I could study there.

I agree, especially about his limitations. A lot of people criticize him for not turning everything around super fast. But come on, it's like trying to stop a train, but it has 2000 years of baggage. I also totally have heard people (non clergy Catholic people ) complain that he's too liberal. Come on guys, he's…

I actually always enjoyed it, but when I was a teen I also was seriously considering going to seminary (with intense encouragement from the bishop who had decided in the few times we'd met that I'd make a great bishop someday), so I guess it went hand and hand. Plus- fire. Seriously I cannot understate the fun of…

Well, ok then, the pope has me swayed that maybe he's not just great at PR. I haven't heard anything about him sneaking out and I kinda love him for that.

I was an altar girl too (at the Episcopal church, so not entirely the same, but similar enough service that the boring bits were long and boring) and seriously, the best way that the church kept any of us from calling in sick was the promise of playing with fire multiple times a service (light candles, blow out…

Italian women in stilettos on cobblestones. How?

I see so many women wearing shoes like that IRL and just want to know how. Like, I get that most people don't have my fat flat foot problem which causes 99% of pointy shoes to be utterly unbearable, but still, how?

The rector at my church growing up alternated between a wooden cross (kinda like this one) and a slightly fancy metal one based on the liturgical season. Fast type holidays/seasons (like Lent) the wooden one came out because it was less ostentatious. I've seen wooden crosses worn with rosaries too, but honestly,…