I keep saying that and people look at me like I have said something awful. I would take incapacitated by a heart attack instead.

Nope the president can decide to disclose what he wants to. I live in hope the next one along does accidentally pass it on though

Contact them regularly. And by contact- call. And regularly- every time there is a new issue you feels strongly about, every time you have a spare half an hour. One of the private groups I am on In Facebook posted a little blurb on what made an impact as a staffer- phone calls to the local office. (I am only…

I voted overseas so I had to make my own

Thank you- wasn’t sure of the context on those.

I just got my overseas ballot for Massachusetts and had an impromptu civil lesson in my office. Australians are appalled at the ballot design (they get a list of names with a box next to each name and you number each box in order of preference). They were also surprised by the inclusion of multiple items on the same…

I agree- I am surprised that this has been the key straw that has caused the break.

TGI Fridays is where I got my American food kick once my family moved overseas. It was easier to find (more locations) and cheaper than hard rock.But still rare enough that finding one was a special occasion.

I think her as an ongoing pattern of saying such things, but previously he has been able to deny it (no recording devices) or control it (reality tv). The fact that the media can hold recordings and play back the embarrassing parts has not really occurred to him.

Well my only for the Japanese market 3ds lets me have a darker skinned mii, but not an English OS. But I have to admit I have not investigated the curly hair options.

If there are biases in education they have been there a very long time- since before women were granted equal rights! A number of Midwest universities that admitted women during the 19th century refused to allow class rankings be mixed between the sexes- women were only ranked against women, men against men. Why-…

This! For reasons that were not entirely within my parents’ control, we unable to attend family funerals in my childhood - my parents are English, we lived in the USA. This isn’t to say we didn’t know about death, but due to intercontinental moves our pets were left behind (in good homes) and we didn’t have deaths…

We allowed women equality and they demonstrated their greater abilities at the skills society currently values. At the moment the skills and abilities that are valued are those that do not require greater physical strength or risk taking.

This is because almost all of the airports in the US are owned by the local government in the area and the concept of actually making money out of them is apparently not considered. The rest of the world either has actual airport corporations (often owned by the government) and they want to make money, or the…

If she tried for a long time to have a baby (which I gather was a thing), it can be very hard to hear others are. Especially when it’s not expected.

Not alone! I am currently pregnant after multiple miscarriages. We haven’t really had an option to tell our families, becuause my parents (who are divorced) have been swanning off to other countries and generally not available and my husband’s family are not in our town.

Interesting. I definitely predate Kylie Minogue, so maybe the Kylie I am named after was named after her.

It can also be a diminutive/feminine form of Kyle - which is a body of water. I always preferred that idea- not much different from Brooke.

And sometimes there are further complications. After many years of unexplained fertility and failed IVF we decided to use my sister as an egg donor. She didn’t get some of the blood tests done until the cycle was about to start so we didn’t see certain results.

This! I tell people that. I have had four miscarriages now, and that seems to do the trick. Makes for awkward conversations though.