I've been comming here for years and years also and still grey, but I'm much too proud to ask. My sis and I both had that haircut throughout our childhood because my mom claims, and I quote "I work too much and too early in the morning to deal with long hair". I kinda see her point but we still looked like idiots.

No kidding, had it most of the eighties. We all looked like morons.

It was the best of being single and living alone. In the summer, when we get up to 45º , I just spent the whole weekend gloriously naked. Good thing my hubby has the same attitude. We'll have to give it up eventually, when our kid (presently in womb) gets bigger. But hanging arround naked is the best.

Well, I doubt that there isn't pressure to look, act, dress a certain way all through the year, because there is. I see it every day in my middle school students, the pressure exerted to be a certain way. This is the same, but more organized.

We are. In my corner of the world there has been a huge increase in the murders of women, most of whom where in the process of divorce. Not only there hasn't been a huge public outcry over the lenient sentences abusers are getting, some are even saying, huh, they were deffending what was theirs. Because women are…

Brava, your son sounds awesome. That's how I wish my little bundle will turn out.

So did I :D , so thank you for that .

I think that's exactly why people feel the need to belong more and more. In a society that's progressively more alienating, where people sever their emotional ties with their families early, being isolated and alone is just a natural by-product of modernity. But the human race needs to belong, we've evolved, as a…

It is. Because they're not just selecting lipstick colours for other people, it's not shallow, it's a way to control others. Because others are relinquishing their free will, their individuality to fit a mold. It is culty, although not religious.

I thought you kinda learnt that in college, no sorority needed. To be prompt, responsible and professional in what you do, I mean.

There's always someone out there eager and willing to dictate how others should act/dress/ speak, etc. Because the human spirit has a petty tyranical streak a mile wide. And given a smidgeon of power, no matter how little,it will show.

What a great idea, Jenny, can we do it to you first? And, once in a frame, you'll never, ever talk? Because that's a genious idea you've got there.

The kicker is that, listening to the lyrics, there really is no other possible interpretation. If in "Brother can you spare a dime"* for example, you can miss the undercurrents of meaning if you're not in context, what part of "Southern trees bear strange fruit/ Blood on the leaves and blood at the root/Black bodies…

That's roughly what we do. We each have our separate accounts and as long as the bills are paid, no one controls the other. We go shopping together most of the time, anyway.

I have a corset for when I need a smooth no lumpy torso. As a plus, I feel super sexy while wearing it , and recomend it once I'm also an actual plus sized person.

Yeah, that whole simmetry thing is bull, my right boob is also smaller than the left one. They're less uneven now because I'm pregnant, but there is a clear difference. I usually choose a bra to fit the larger one and adjust the straps accordingly. It sorta works.

THIS. Especially for us with larger busts, when you find the right fit and support, you stick to it. The tops we wear are purchased to fit the bra, not the other way arround. Because it's hard as all get out to find a good bra for us, much less several in different styles, you get what you get and are grateful for it.…

I think Portuguese Colonies had some institutions like that but not on the scale you describe. But most missions routinely took black and mixed race children from their homes to "teach" them how to be civilized and breed the "savage" out of them. No colonial empire was ever innocent or benign.

You get a standing ovation from this fellow fattie, way to go.

You could argue that most TV competitions are predatory and harmful. Talent shows exploit people's talent without delivering on anything resembling a solid careeer. Same with "unscripted" shows like Big Brother and similar. Rule of thumb: if it's on TV, the producers aren't looking out for your best interests, but for…