As far as I can see, flybe and loganair are the only commercial airlines operating between Norwich and Aberdeen.

all these celebrities jumping to defend Meghan and Harry is kind of annoying. mostly bc I’m assuming they all fly private so they can go fuck themselves 

I have a two and a four-year old, and maybe it’s just because it is all they have ever known, but they most certainly DO care that they can see my face, my hotel room, my airplane, whatever I happen to be doing.

“Recently I have noticed a lot of people responding to text messages using the “Thumbs Up” emoji. Every time I receive this as a response to a text message it makes me furious.”

You’re wrong on almost every level. Chick-fil-A is a privately held company and its profits have been used, and almost certainly continue to be used, to support anti-LGBTQ causes. Dan Cathy isn’t just a hired-gun CEO; he and his family own the company.

For some reason I seem to frequent many restaurants that have these chairs or ones very similar. So I’m actually very heartened to read this article and the comments. Everyone around me always looks like they’re having such a great time, so I feel as if I must just be the old curmudgeon who hates these chairs, but…

I hate that first date with dad nonsense.  I'm still convinced there's a lost chapter from The handmaid's tale that involves this and purity rings.

Freestyle is just that - if you had the incredible power and technique to dog-paddle your way to winning the race you can do that.

PEDANTRY ALERT: freestyle is not a stroke, it is a discipline in which “the swimmer may swim any style, except that in individual medley or medley relay events, freestyle means any style other than backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly.” The answer you were looking for is the “front crawl.” 

Also, track has hurdles in…

This is the worst. I also saw something on Instagram recently where a “#boymom” posted a picture of her holding her son and the caption read “Girls love their moms. But boys are IN LOVE with their moms. So blessed to be a #boymom”. Which...has such strange, vaguely like, sexual undertones to it? Or am I reading too…

I also deeply hate, “Oh, he’s flirting!” He is not flirting. He is a baby. He does not want to have sex with you (or anyone, because, BABY).

And there’s NOTHING inherently wrong with pigtails and pink! Nothing wrong with dinosaurs and trucks either! A parent doesn’t have to resign him/herself to a “lifetime of XYZ” because of their kids’ genitals!

I read an article in either the New Yorker or NYT last year that spoke about “tribalism” and how it has become increasingly important to most people to assign themselves to a tribe and be zealous about identity.

My son goes to a Swedish school in the US.  All children sit down to pee.  I have taught him how to pee standing up if he’s outside and it’s necessary, but he sees peeing standing up as messy and weird and to be avoided if possible, which seems reasonable to me.

Socialization plays a role, but either way, raising boys is going to come with some experiences that just don’t tend to happen with girls. (For instance, none of my friends and I ever decided to shoot bottle rockets at one another. For my brothers, no matter how many efforts my parents made to the contrary, and how…

I’m a dad of two boys and if I may: this boymom shit sucks. It is hard enough to try and raise my kids to be polite and kind without external influences pushing shitty behaviors as “normal” on them. That embedded video is filled with outright violent actions that we just laugh off as “boys will be boys” and you know…

When I was interviewing daycares, while giving me a tour, one of the daycare owners referred to a kid in a class as “my little boyfriend.” That was the moment I did not choose to send my child to that daycare.

This whole thing is so gross. Some person here was selling first day of school shirts (which, wtf). The boys ones had “Mr Stealyourgirl” and the girls “daddy’s princess”. I think I lost an eyeball from all the rolling they did. I have three kids. They are all gross. They have all worn dresses and painted nails. They…

It’s times like this I’m glad that the doctor’s put down the wrong gender on the birth certificate for me. As a trans man, yes, it took years to pick through the psychological hurts and walls developed by being forced into a ‘girl’s role’ growing up in the deep south (like... A) gendered roles suck anyway, and B)…

All hashtag parenting (#boymom/#winemom/#soccermom/#girlmom) is annoying. The unseen kids in that video could have been any gender -as a mother and aunt, I know that boys and girls can both be sweet and tidy and destructive little hellions - it’s their unique personalities and not their genders that lead to these…