Bagebers is my new favorite word. This story is so disjointed and amazing. Was the woman the "sear?" Is that a fun aside? What does Germany have to do with this? Why was Jesus clipping his holy toenails in the Czech Republic? Or were the holy toenails lifted from beneath the noses of the Swiss Guard?

Dude, you're on the INTERNET. You can be whatever age you want to be. You can also be Burt Reynolds!

That brings to mind this old SNL sketch. (Transcript; video not available.)

I looooove my esthetician. I don't go to her much for eyebrows as I'm poor right now, so I maintain with tweezers, and then if I fuck up the shape, she fixes it for me.

Oh, I totally didn't think you were advocating the waxing of toddlers' eyebrows. I don't know anything beyond the clip shown, so she could be using those strips that you rub between your hands, which wouldn't involve any dripping of potentially too-hot wax onto a child. It's still pretty gross, though, in the way it…

God told them, is my guess.

I'm just going to point out that even if she knows a thing or two about waxing, she can still fuck up.

I'm so sorry to hear about your mom.

I divide my hair in two, twist both strands clockwise, and then pass right over left, make sure the twists are tight, right over left, repeat. It holds and looks cool!

Ha, I understand. Also, what might not be apparent on the surface is how well commenters know each other. I wouldn't have done that to someone I wasn't familiar with and who wasn't familiar with me. I'd just move on or respond, but there's enough familiarity that I wasn't worried that I'd offend Cassie. The…

Nope, I was being an asshole. I indicated that in my response to her.

Because you don't want it to be braided? I know people who having braids in hurts their scalps.

There are too many nouns and not enough verbs for me to understand what you're asking.

Check out rope braids. Two strands, twist. The end. It looks different enough for people to say "oh wow, that's neat!" but it's simpler than a regular braid.

I'll french braid your hair! AND, I can teach you how to french braid hair by demonstrating on myself. And dutch braid, and fishtail, and rope braid.

I would say that they're pro-life and pro-choice, even if that's not how they identify. I don't see those as opposites as well.

It's always driven me nuts that "pro-life" and "pro-choice" are used as opposites. Anti-choice is the opposite of pro-choice.

God. Duh.

I happened to be reading Room when the Cleveland kidnapping unfolded. I had to stop reading for a while.

Ah. My friend worked in France when that scandal was going on, and took a day trip to Luxembourg, and yeeeeeeears later, sent me that postcard. On the back she wrote about "the scandal," but didn't know which prince it involved. She said that her guess was the "greasy looking blond one,"