Why are we making fun of people for physical characteristics that are beyond their control? I thought we were trying to be better than that around here. Anyway, there’s so much else to laugh at in this man’s case that it hardly matters. I don’t like jokes about people’s physical traits. Do you consider them a valid…

You don’t “have” to be friends with anyone. Period.

Shit. I know we’ve already established “not all white people” and everything. So, in this grand race war that y’all may or may not start any day now, what are we supposed to do if we’re totally white but unwilling to fight on that side? I could hide, so I’m not killed just for looking like them. I could be a spy from…

This has to be related to the “Trail of Blood” stuff I saw growing up. My family had a fit once when my teacher classed Baptists in the “Protestant” category. Protestants broke away from Catholicism, you see, while Baptists had been separate from the beginning. It was a really big deal to them.

I like “kind.” :)

I was raised by fundamentalists, and I’ve seen it all from the inside. It’s worse than outsiders know. They have ways of twisting reality until they can justify basically anything they want to do, and no one can argue with them- because GOD. As they say, you can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason…

Aw, man... Liberty University? What’s the point?

I’m constantly grateful that I’m one of the lucky few. I love milk way too much, and drink a glass two or three times a day, every day. I genuinely miss it if I don’t have any for a day or two.

If anyone ever said anything about Fred Rogers, I’d demand proof. Everything he’s ever publicly said and done shows him to NOT be the kind of man who’d ever do anything like this. If it ever turned out that he really, actually did something so offensive... I’m not sure how I’d deal with that.

What people don’t realize.....

WHAAAAAAAT - IS THIS REAL?!

Haaa, I just saw this one the other day. Amazing how things work out, isn’t it?

All the Showbiz places ended up being rebranded as Chuck E Cheese in the early 90s.

I’ll take any opportunity to proclaim that I quit smoking on July 7, 2017 after smoking for 23 years. It was a huge deal, and I have won the right to tell everyone in earshot for as long as I see fit.

My (entirely white) class went there as a treat when I was a kid, probably second grade or so. It was still Showbiz Pizza Place then, though, before they changed the name officially to what everyone already called it anyway.

This is what I’ve been thinking. Yes, people are happily being just as shitty as ever... but we’re starting to call them on it. It’s the little things.

Just noting an error for correction— did you mean that you thought your work “exacerbated” your illness, rather than “exasperated?”

This has mostly faded over the years, but individual people used to have different colors to me. I still remember them. In my class, Josh was brown, Dani was orange, Zach was green, Andrea was red... The female bus driver was orange, and the older male bus driver was brown.

I do! I was just trying to describe a taste to someone a few days ago, and I was getting really frustrated with it. All I could come up with were words like “sharp” and “bright,” and the person just wasn’t understanding me at all.

I’ve never understood people’s willingness to be hurt over and over again by family members.