I’m not sure I agree with the entire theme of this article.

Yes. She said so, and you can watch her practicing and see just when the problem started. She began landing outside of the lines on vault and floor exercise — WAY outside of the lines, like completely off the landing area, not just part of one foot. Gymnasts who could tell what was happening explained slow motion…

If she hadn’t gotten the twisties and had won as many gold medals as initially predicted, she wouldn’t feel this way.  She has nothing to feel bad about.  She was healthy and ready to go before she got to the Olympics and while practicing beforehand.  It takes nothing away from her legend or legacy.  She’s still the…

That sign would make me turn around immediately.  I also turn around for high water signs.  I gave up defying death a couple of years ago.

Absolutely.

I don’t disagree with you.  I’m going to tell you what I tell everyone else - write your congressperson.  You have a valid viewpoint, and the people making this policy don’t care what I say about it, but your congressperson might.  I say “might” because some of them suck, but perhaps you live in a district where yours…

Write your congressperson.  The last time anyone asked my opinion was in a class.  I’m not being snide.  You have a valid point, and I have no way to influence how foreign policy is carried out.

Way above my pay grade, dude.  If I was in charge of making US foreign policy make sense, I’d have gone insane a lot sooner.

That’s true even if you suck at it. Even if you tell people you suck at it and they’d be happier doing it themselves, they assume the X chromosome means it’s your job. I had this boss, who I hated already for other reasons, and I’d just started the job. I was told on Friday afternoon that I needed to set up a three…

Yeah.  My brother tried to pull the “but I don’t LIKE hospitals” crap when my mother and father were in them.  My not very sympathetic answer was “Tough shit.  Neither do I.  Get here now.”

I don’t think a lot of girls discourage their male siblings from helping for any reason.  I know there are wife/husband pairs like that, but I would have been delighted if my brother had been required to do any of the annoying chores I was, and I wouldn’t have cared if he screwed them up.  He’d have been the one who…

The first time I saw my father lift a hand to do a chore around the house I stood there with my mouth open watching him.  I was 20.

I see... well, if she insists on being miserable, no one can really stop her.

Same.

Her son came home with a dirty mask and she’s upset about it? Has she met little boys? They’re dirt magnets.  My best friend when I was little was a boy. We could be playing outside all day (usually Batman; we loved Batman) and he’d be a total mess and I would still be clean.

Wow.  I bet that was helpful to you, a new bike rider with questionable balance...

I got it too... and someone replied to something I wrote months ago, so it’s not just you and me.  I’m getting to read some interesting stuff in the greys, though.

With all due respect to your tiny little internal scream - you needed to be vaccinated to go to school. This is really no different except that you can avoid it by changing jobs. You couldn’t avoid school vaccines by changing schools.  

Yeah, neither do we.

Well, she’s not wrong; everyone who gets the vaccine IS going to die. It’s just that everyone who doesn’t get the vaccine has a much higher chance of dying SOONER, and of a virus that could have almost certainly avoided if they’d have gotten the vaccine.