Oh god yes.  Protect And Survive leaflets.  How to survive a nuclear bomb: crouch under your school desk until the all clear sirens say it’s safe to leave.  Which is probably in about ten million years.

You are absolutely correct. My mother is 90. She was widowed at 67. She’s had a couple of “boyfriends” since, but she’s absolutely not interested in being the caregiver of a giant man baby.

There’s no way Chick-fil-A is so popular in WA state, either.  Unless they only surveyed people in eastern WA, aka western Idaho.

My ex SIL was a midwife. I remember her telling me about a set of twins, one very obviously female and the other was intersex. They had to do a chromosome test to get some idea of whether the baby was XX or XY. The parents obviously wanted a boy, and didn’t care what the results of the test were going to be. They had…

My college room-mate was a Gemini. She was ... disturbed. Left me a suicide note one time, over the fact I had a local boyfriend, while hers had already graduated and only came round every other weekend.  

Proof that just because you can, does not mean you should.

Whenever I watch her talking, it’s on mute because I can’t stand to listen to her.   I don’t really know what she sounds like because I never hear her speak.  So when I read her words, written down, I “hear” them in the voice of Margaret Thatcher.  Maybe it’s the tweedy suits?  

Did she though? Did she get it fixed? She wore prosthetic teeth to play June Carter (because Carter was famously proud of her perfect teeth, that she’d had fixed) and Jewel is pretty loud about not wanting to change her smile.

I was going to guess “Tommy Tuberville”, but I’m not ruling out a sitting republican governor. The idea has merit.

As horrifying as an ectopic pregnancy?

It’s not hugely different from how we had abortion for 50 years and then Alito and a handful of other cretinous judges with their own agenda took that away.

I’ve heard of Kate Winslet and Cush Jumbo. Haven’t the faintest idea who the rest of these people are (and I’m British!  OK, expat Brit living in the States, so I don’t watch trendy current UK TV.)  Going to go back and live under a rock again now, kthx.

Yeah ... just what brands are y’all buying that don’t have a peel-off seal stuck securely to the top of the ice cream? I’ve bought Haagen Dazs, Safeway’s own brand, some vegan thing made out of cashews/macadamias, and they all have a tamper-proof seal. Even if someone licks that, it goes in the bin as soon as I take…

WTF is a “chaise lounge”? It’s chaise longue.

If I use my ad-blocker, I can’t see comments here at all. I have an ad-blocker on Firefox for pretty much everything else; I only use Chrome, without a blocker, for Jezebel.

She wasn’t asking for money.  It wasn’t about the money.  He can fight it to the death, and she won’t care.

I’m from Britain. A work colleague went on a vacation to New York and I asked her to bring me back one of those famous Hershey bars. She brought one for each of us in the office. We were unanimously horrified by how reminiscent of vomit they were. That shit is nasty. I get that you are used to what you grow up with;…

You’d think “clean mug” would not need to be said.  But I used to work at a car dealership, where the lads in the parts department had to keep their mugs separate from those of the sales people, the accounts people, and the mechanics.  Because the rest of us had standards, and clean mugs.  The parts department mugs…

Anyone who thinks they should use apostrophes to make plurals, should be fried. Or boiled.

At least a decade ago, Rick Santorum was complaining about gay marriage and how it was a slippery slope that would end up with people marrying hatstands. No one ended up marrying a hatstand. I confess, I am slightly surprised that Josh Hawley is apparently married to an actual woman, and not a hatstand. He seems…