It’s not mansplaining when the woman is actually *wrong*, though?

Last time I held a DVD? This morning. Last time I held a CD? A couple of days ago (Monday, I think). The car I’m currently driving (a 2018 model, no less—it belongs to the person I’m housesitting for) has a CD player in it.

The baking aspects aren’t really that challenging—they get recipes, they’re not asked to bake anything complicated (the doughnuts started with pizza dough that was given to them, there’s pre-made buttercream available). I mean, if you can’t bake at all, that’s a problem, but if you bake a lot of boxed cake mixes and…

I didn’t like the movie, but I bounced *hard* off the book as a kid (despite that capsule description of Meg above being an accurate description of kid-me as well), mostly because of how much I loathed Charles Wallace—but I also didn’t like Meg. Or anyone in the book, to be fair.

Church cookbooks—and other similar community cookbooks—are my favorite type of cookbooks; they’re the only ones I buy these days. (I get other recipes off the Internet.)

It’s not *not* Southern. I mean, it’s not “Southern cooking,” but I was an adult before that movie came out, and fried green tomatoes were definitely something that people ate in my part of the South. There are only so many mock apple pies you can make, and tomatoes have a tendency to fall off the vine/need to be…

I am *related* to a gay Trump supporter. I mean, she’s basically the person in the family that everyone just backs away from whenever she starts talking, but she’s definitely queer (married to another woman) and she had a Trump sign in her yard. Let me rephrase that: over a year past the inauguration, she STILL has a…

I actually prefer booths *because of* a disability issue—sitting in a booth (at least, if I can have one side of it to myself) means that I can angle the way I’m sitting so that my bad hip is in a less painful position. (It’s not easy to get into or out of the booth, and stowing my walker can be a challenge, but at…

And I believe you, but that doesn’t change the fact that the schools in the area where I taught started doing active shooter drills right around Columbine (and from what I understand from friends who still work in the area, have been doing them all along for the past 18 years). This isn’t a completely new thing in…

The last year I taught was the 1999-2000 school year. We had “active shooter” drills *then*.

Exactly. I cannot *stand* hamsters. They’re the only rodents commonly kept as pets in North America that I flat out do not ever want to have living in my house.

I would still take the hamster from her in that situation, and do my best to take care of it properly until I found a home for it with someone who actually…

I know a few writers who have sold books (romance, erotica, and f/sf) that are basically AU fanfic with the names changed. They didn’t publish it as fanfic *first*, though. And I mostly know this because I know *them* and they’ve mentioned it.

(And to be fair, if I hadn’t already known, I don’t think I’d have read 50…

It also sold as a book first, once the author changed all the names. I read a good chunk of it when it was One Direction fanfic (I have a terrible case of Trainwreck Syndrome, and I can’t NOT look when someone tells me, “Maggie, this is terrible, read it!”) and... yeah. It was terrible.

Even if you weren’t planning on taking the kids, it can be difficult to get a sitter for sick children (and, of course, if they’re more than a little bit sick, you don’t want to leave them to go out to dinner anyway).

Ugh, the Menard’s jingle. (I hate it on its own merits, but I have an extra layer of hate because my scumbag ex used to randomly sing that jingle at the top of her lungs [including at a point where we lived 500 miles from the nearest Menard’s and I’d never even heard of them]. So it’s a terrible jingle + memories of a…

I know what you’re talking about, and you argued that it wasn’t already in this movie series. Did you see the first movie? Because there was an actual romance storyline. Therefore, sexuality, as you yourself defined it, is already in this movie series.

Sexuality has already been brought into these movies. It’s part of the first one. (And that’s quite apart from the fact that yes, it’s also part of the original HP series as well.)

Nobody’s asking for sex scenes. Heck, given that the actual “falling in love” part would have been when they were even younger (based on…

They don’t seem to be any heavier/larger than the $1 and $2 coins in Canada (though I admit, I’ve carried far fewer US $1 coins than I have the Canadian ones), and those aren’t really a problem.

As a former server, I never had any problem with people doing this. Never. It was fine.

Yep. “Efficacy” for a vaccine is measured in “did it prevent you from getting the disease.” (With the flu shot, it’s “did it prevent you from getting a strain of the flu covered by the vaccine.” ) But one of the huge things that the flu shot *also* does is reduce the severity of the disease, which is often measured by…