“Thou” is second person singular/intimate.

You learned a prescriptive rule that rarely actually reflected usage and when it did also reflected a deliberate presentation of male/masculine as default (unmarked) and female as aberrant (marked).

Give them a history of English Grammar and a copy of Shakespeare. :p

Or, “I feel like there a lot of good people out there answering this better than I can” (“...and we should listen to them”). Like . . . is it that hard to not feel the need to be seen having The Answer for everything?

At this point it would probably be
easier and simpler to identify and recognize the few that aren’t sexually harassing and assaulting people and just take the rest out behind the shed.

I’d track down that funding and who they really are. I find it a bit in likely that there are really very many Irish med students at all who are anti abortion.

It’s going to be nasty... The Iona Institute and their ilk are massively funded by the rabid right wingers in the US as well as Opus Dei, and it looks like the Russian Bot Army will be pointed our way next. It’s a serious sign of the Church losing its power over the state, and of course they were trying to get a…

Good for her.

Ye can’t forget them. We won’t let you. :p There’s basically 3 options now:

The Oireachtas Committee on Abortion has recommended repealing the 8th amendment and allowing abortion without restriction up to 12 weeks. Varadkar has called for a referendum as early as May.

No kidding. This whole debacle was a Tory power play with no intent to win, and now you’re practically being held hostage by Nigel fucking Farage’s ilk and the DUP!

An actual real risk that has been assessed on this side of the border is the possibility of the Loyalist paramilitaries joining forces with the Nationalist paramilitaries to attack the UK because they’d been betrayed by their government. No idea whether the UK authorities have considered that risk, or if they’re just…

Yeah, the Brexit debacle has made it very clear exactly how much not just the UK government but a large segment of the English population (particularly the English) don’t really get that the UK is more than England and are completely ignorant about where their border even is, let alone why Northern Ireland is a…

Honestly, I think the most important thing is to not stress out (and definitely not stress your kid out) about comparing them to progress milestones or other kids. Do NOT make reading a competition or make them feel bad for being “behind” or arrogant for being “ahead”. Just model how fun and useful reading is, and…

I will happily scatter Lego far away from children just for him.

Sounds about right.

I’m still continually surprised I ended up with mr. lurker. I was NOT LOOKING TO BE PAIRED UP WITH ANYONE and it completely derailed my life. The life I’ve ended up with is not one I’m complaining about, but getting married basically meant my life plans being thrown out the window and that’s not something I’d exactly…

So did Nixon.

Health would definitely not save face in his twisted head. It would be an admission of weakness. Also, as soon as he steps down, he doesn’t have the defense of “I’m the president. Anything I do is legal.” (Which isn’t an actual defense legally speaking, but it sure is in his head.)

It is INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING AND I AM JEALOUS. My partner is pretty much a sleep savant, and I have had sleep onset insomnia chronically for pretty much as long as I can remember. (Various childhood trying-to-sleep / lying awake in bed tactics mental interior design and making up the same story over and over again…