Do it! I would respect someone who showed up to pretty much anything in that outfit.

I dunno about Argentina, but in Ireland, which is also a Catholic disaster with regard to abortion (and is just now in the process of legislating for legal abortion), yes you absolutely do get free prenatal care including GP visits and ultrasounds in the maternity hospital, generous maternity leave of usually 6-12…

Carrying bags of concrete on construction sites building new rape crisis centres and Planned Parenthoods.

Ah but if you could flip the house in a matter of days and raise the price by several hundred euro every time you advertise (illegally, we’re in a rent controlled zone but who’s willing to pass up on a bed to fight that battle?), and you knew if a tenant complained about anything you could have them out within a month…

The universe needs more landlords like you. My rented home is soon to be sold and I haven’t a hope in hell of buying it, so back on the market for a place, and I’m looking at one fewer bedroom (so no spare) and less space for up to €500/month more than we’re paying now cause Ireland’s property market is on fire in the…

Also not sure if this will help your specific problem, I’m coming at this from hyperextension not dislocation, but it might help; silver finger splints to prevent your fingers moving out of the range they’re supposed to be in. https://www.silverringsplint.com/

I think it’s kind of crazy we expect, these days, to have a partner who is our best friend, a good housemate for us, emotionally compatible, sexually attractive, a suitable co-parent, and a romantic ideal. All in one person? (I personally think heteronormative monogamous nuclear partnerships as default is a terrible…

I cannot imagine looking my child or grandchild in the eye and saying, it’s not your fault but you’re no longer welcome here. Maybe if they were violent due to mental illness and refusing treatment and I needed to keep myself or other family members safe, if all other options were exhausted. But about a random…

It looks uncomfortably déshabillé, like, her trousers have slid down and her thighs are exposed not-on-purpose. She’s giving me more “oh no naked in public!” vibes than if she had just been wearing a swimsuit... 

This is the best take I’ve seen on this whole ... Thing ... so far.

You’re very welcome! 

Well I am Irish! Which is why I can do little to help my American friends and family but offer hexes and slang. Please everyone vote in the midterms, even if your local races are reduced to Bigfoot-porn-mud-slinging (wtf). We just got rid of our ban on abortion and women (and others) have gone through hell here without…

Yeah, it’s always better once you’re properly settled and all the administrative stuff is tied up! I dunno what “health scheme” you’re referring to; our public hospitals are free, but there are waiting lists for seeing consultants so most people prefer to have health insurance too (which I believe you’d be required to…

Fair play to her. And a hex on all those obstructionist gobshites who refused to allow Obama his nominee and another hex on all those hateful fuckheads who voted for Trump and a third hex on all those self-righteous gombeens who didn’t vote for Clinton either because she wasn’t ~pure~ enough or because they thought…

Fáilte! (Welcome!) I hope you’re settling in well in Ireland, despite how stupidly expensive things are here. The tax office people are generally really sound, I’m glad they put you on to applying for child benefit. If you have trouble with your taxes, or just want to make sure you’re getting all the stuff you’re…

That’s (one of the reasons probably) why we have Archive Of Our Own now!

TEETH! (Ungrey me, this one is good!) My first and (so far?) definitely most bizarre summer job is the year my very odd uncle went into the TEETH IMPORT business and imported an enormous amount of TEETH and I spent the summer sorting the TEETH by size and whiteness. You ever walk into a disused spare bedroom and find t…

My family used to do proper, traditional Summer Christmas. You invite your friends/victims over for a barbecue and when they arrive, SURPRISE! You’ve got a Christmas tree up, carols playing, the turkey is on, champagne pouring, crackers ready to be pulled. Hilarity ensues. My parents even had a plastic Christmas tree…

But if you thank your shirt, and then the shirt rips, don’t you cry hysterically while throwing the loyal, injured shirt into the bin to be destroyed or moulder in a landfill, presumably feeling betrayed and lonely forever? I would have serious concerns about the Loyal Objects Retirement Home that could very easily…

Tearing sections out of books is literally the worst decluttering idea I’ve ever heard oh my god books just go nicely on shelves or can be given away whereas random fucking book pages are going to go somewhere stupid and the rest of the book is going to have to go in the bin also it’s sacrilege so jot that down Marie…