I bear almost no resemblance to that side of the family, mostly my build, but my face is all my mother. Like, we have a great picture of them with all of their kids and grand kids from their 50th anniversary and I’m over there like “one of these things is not like the other.” It would be even more noticeable if I…

Anger is an emotion that I don’t have as frequently or strongly as some of these others and when I do, I rage, shut down, and am not productive. So, I would much rather not be angry and be able to function enough to do things.

I have similar feelings, only grandparents instead of parents (my parents would be contemporaries to Sally and Bobby). The show really has given me some insights into what my grandparents’ lives would have been like, at least to a degree. Betty really reminds me of my dad’s mom in a lot of ways- educated, but not…

Right? No need to be cutesy, just say cross legged. That’s what they said when I was a kid and were starting to phase out “Indian Style” (although that was still mostly what was used in elementary school).

Yeah, I wonder how close this is to her natural shade.

I love them for my legs and pits. I started using my husband’s because I forgot my normal razor once and am not going back.

My husband switched to safety razors a few years ago and recently, I left my razor at home while we were traveling so used his to shave my legs. Never going back to the other kind of razor. It makes a huge difference. Takes longer, sure, but really effective shave.

I’m really liking her blonder hair color. Like, she’s stunning with her Joan hair, but this is softer and really pretty. If I could pull this hair color off with my skin, I’d totally try it (I can’t).

A friend’s family adopted a girl with a big port wine birthmark like that and she was tormented by the kids and abused by the adults at the orphanage because of it. Now, her life is an extreme example, but people, and kids in particular, can get so nasty about something different looking on a person. I can totally see…

I know someone who literally ran into Prince turning a corner downtown. Of course, he’s a tiny dude and she may have knocked him over...

Ideally our laws would reflect secularism.

First cousin and usually out to third cousin marriage required a papal dispensation for a large portion of time, especially in the middle ages until the Reformation, because of the taboo against consanguinity, so it’s not just 20th century eugenics thing (although I won’t argue that it made a resurgence because of…

I’m from a not rural area, but one that had been rural until it got absorbed by the major nearby city in my lifetime. I was a serious anomaly at school because I had no cousins in town and distinctly remember my friend attending a family reunion that was the “Mother’s Last name-Father’s Last name” reunion, one side of…

Yeah, my husband and I have similar ancestry form many places (both of us have ancestors from like, 10 different countries of origin and we’re white with Daughters/Sons of the American Revolution credentials, so there’s bound to be place of origin overlap). I know we’re not within what I’d call close cousin range,…

What the fuck did you think would happen

Right? How does a man whose father and brother were both president not know exactly what kind of questions he’s going to be asked and that he’s standing on his brother’s really shitty legacy, so people are going to question him about that. I mean, I understand how he misinterpreted the question and then didn’t want to…

Ok, actually, I’m going to ask for advice from a random internet stranger about skin care, since you do this. I breakout every time I use makeup or a moisturizer with an SPF. Like, bad zits and painful patches. I have tried a bunch of stuff- “natural” products are often worse because I’m allergic to a lot of plant…

I think there’s an important thing missing from this story that I read in the CNN one- this girl tanned 4-5 times a week for years. She had a tanning bed in her house. So, like kids burning isn’t good and being out in the sun might be bad, but odds are you still didn’t do as much damage as a tanning bed 4-5 times a…

I need to find the article, but a Romney advisor basically just said the same thing. They’re recognizing it too, well some of them, but the out crazying continues.

What depresses me is that this is how it’s supposed to work. Some party loyalty makes sense, you join a party for a reason, but ignoring your constituents just defeats the purpose of the whole republic part of our government system. I actually started voting straight ticket, something I said I wouldn’t ever do,…