Yep.  If this had been a BBQ or something similar, I can see expecting kids to be invited.  But cocktail parties are for adults, just like dinner parties are.  Besides, a 2 year and 4 year old will get very cranky very fast that late in the evening.

I am the same way, and I think most of my friends are.  If kids are invited, the host will say so.  It sounds like the LW doesn’t have kids, is having a party centered around booze, and is probably hosting in the evening.  It seems bizarre to me that someone would presume to bring their kids to that.

I was prepared to rail against her until I saw she banned Elf on the Shelf.

How is Kissinger still alive?  Has the devil refused delivery?

If he doesn’t win the reelection, I think he will refuse to step down.

Rancid meat and old grease.

Cheney is hardly a pleasant person, but he looks like he is planning to waterboard Trump.

Ghirardehli hot chocolate, dark rum, and a peppermint candy cane as a swizzle stick.  Yum.

I didn’t know about Bulleit.

I don’t eat it based on the owner’s record with LGBTQ+ rights.  However, when I say that to my coworkers, they seem to think it is crazy (yay, living in a red state) and it will get ordered for work lunches anyway.  So I point out that a couple years ago, they ordered it and I got food poisoning.  Then they will agree…

In other words,

I would never wear fur, but I wouldn’t put leather into that category because animals are killed for their skins.  Cows are eaten.  Pretty much every part of the cow (or pig because a lot of leather is from pigs) is eaten or used in some way, so those types of leather are just efficient use of the animal.  You can…

Saffron has been a name since at least the days of Ab Fab. I kind of like it. And parents have been naming their daughters after plants and flowers for centuries (Rose, Violet, Veronica, Holly, Sage...)

Another way that I have heard the same sentiment is that men shouldn’t say or do anything to a woman that they wouldn’t want another man to say or do to them.

If we women are just too dangerous, then maybe the men need to stay at home where it is safe and not venture out into the world without a chaperone to protect their virtue.

I have lived in several parts of the country, and traveled in more, and KC BBQ is hands down the best in the country.  It is soooo good.  And burnt ends are the best part.  I am not sure I have ever agreed with an article as much as I agree with this one.

So he’ll be in another movie that is visually interesting but I will forget 5 minutes after watching.  My husband loves Wes Anderson movies, but I just can’t get into them.  And would it kill him to have female characters?

So rapey!

They think it makes the protagonist heroic if he still wants to have sex with a woman with imperfect tits.

I suspect that it is the specificity of the amount that comes off as crass. If she had said, “This is expensive. Can anyone pitch in?” she probably would have gotten a better response.