WTF?! No. How about we represent women’s contribution in the existing museums instead, right next to the men?

This might be nitpicky, but isn’t this a full-on snub? Seems more snub than shade to me.

She took out a hit on Wendy. Stone cold.

Exactly. The whole *point* of shade is that it’s subtle. Requesting that Shade Court (Shade Court! Of all things!) be more OBVIOUS runs against the grain of the whole enterprise.

Yep. If it’s a prank, the entire PNW is playing along.

I read this as responding to the post about babies, up above. Hilarious image.

No. The *worst* color is that kind of greige that minivans, particularly early 20teens Odysseys, often are. You know, when you can’t tell whether the car is grey, or tan, or brown, or ... Those colors actually foil the ability to see the car, like the visual equivalent of the frictionless spaceship in Hitchhiker’s…

It wasn’t, “Are you fucking kidding me?!?! That clown?!?!” (like me and everyone else I know?)

“Now in color!”

Replying to myself to share an update: she was recently diagnosed with a severe case of celiac disease! Her antibody levels were literally off the chart (TTGa >3,000), which indicates that her villi are probably trashed.

Best tip in there is the drink lots of water one. Based on 30+ years as a fainter, here’s what works for me:

I’m considering it a personal win that my 11yo (who switched schools this year and is consequently struggling in math) is blaming her old school for not having taught her the material, bc “I’m good at math - I just don’t know this part of it yet.” So grateful that all of my counterprogramming against the “math is…

Thanks for your kind words and sympathies - it means a lot, esp. as this is obviously something I can’t really talk about much IRL.

Thanks, greenjello; speaking as one of those parents, it is very, very hard. Over the past year I’ve been pushed, shoved, whacked, bitten, slapped, and kicked; we’re on our third or fourth counselor at this point. (BTW, my child is wonderful everywhere but home — keeps it together until reaching a safe space and…

Well, yeah. In the country, it’s just called dressin’.

Not true; some kids in healthy loving environments do get physical. Speaking from experience.

Gotta break out the vacuum. Any other path is madness.

This. I’m super-close with my sibling who is a decade younger, and have no relationship to speak of with the one in between who is only 3 yrs younger.

Co-signed! One side of my family is from WV (part of the great WV diaspora ...); my remaining family who didn’t leave are practically individually identifiable as blue spots on certain county voting maps.

Are you talking about CA, or CO? Our rural/urban division runs east/west, not north/south. Anyway, agreed that there is a rural/urban division; having lived in both, I think part of the issue is that the educated folks with more opportunities tend to leave the sticks for the cities.