This kid was 100% able to drink out of any glass that wasn’t too heavy for him to lift; at the table, he drank out of the same glasses we did. He just decided that wasn’t good enough when he saw the shot glasses in the liquor cabinet one day.

In the books, Mary Poppins is pretty clearly some kind of magical/supernatural being, so not aging, or aging very slowly, would not be unbelievable.

I loved those books as a kid. I remember liking the songs from the movie, but being disappointed in it because it wasn’t as interesting to me as the books.

In all seriousness, while the books I’ve read (I must have missed at least one, if this is based on them, because I’ve never read one where Jane and Michael [and the other Banks children] are adults) don’t take place over a long time-frame, Mary Poppins is pretty clearly some sort of supernatural/magical being.

I often drink other things out of wine glasses, too. (And don’t even get me started on back when I had a three-year-old in the house who went through a spell where the only way I could get him to drink water was from what he called the “baby glass” and the rest of us know as a shot glass.)

I love sealing wax. I bought some at Hallmark when I was about ten, with my birthday money, and then used it for years (until I lost the seals in a move). I wrote a lot of letters in my teens/early 20s, too (pen pals, plus a lot of SF fandom was conducted by letter back then), so I got a lot of use out of it.

Yep. Haemophilia runs in my wife’s family, and she has relatives who contracted HIV before they tested (or could test) donated blood for it. One of them is still alive, thanks to antiretrovirals, but he’s the only one.

Wow. You’re stupid.

No, they’re opposed to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, which are disproportionately used to incarcerate people of color.

Yep. They couldn’t get a unanimous vote to remove him, but they *could* get one to suspend him, without pay, for the remainder of his term, after which he isn’t eligible to be elected or appointed as a judge in an Alabama court.

He can’t be a judge in Alabama after this (you can’t be elected or appointed when you reach the age of 70, and he’ll be over 70 when his term expires). Unfortunately, it wouldn’t surprise me if he ran for some other office....

The show took nothing down. The Jez article misrepresented what was in the bookstore’s statement. The show asked for the sign to be removed, and the bookstore refused.

Well, according to them, it didn’t come close, because the tourists that sought out the shop because of Portlandia only took selfies outside. They also pointed out that letting the show film there was hurting *other* businesses in the area, who weren’t getting paid by the show or getting any of that hypothetical…

From their statement, the sign wasn’t removed, but the show asked them to take it down. The store refused.

Squirrel in Brunswick stew is delicious. Fried squirrel (fried like chicken), not so much. Definitely better cooked in liquid and with lots of strong flavors with it.

I wear them as house shoes. I need to not go barefoot for various reasons (one of which is that since I stopped, my back problems improved a lot--I think I need the support). They do not go farther than my garbage cans, ever.

That’s where my mind went, too.

She described a student as a pedophile. Also, “the kids say worse” isn’t much of a defense. She’s supposed to be both a professional and an adult.

No, Brad Pitt wasn’t in Lost Boys.

And that was the late 80s--starting in 1987.