And in fact when I went away to college, we went to court to have my dad’s $50 a week payments go directly to me. The money was to pay for my food and such, so it went to the 18 year old now living on her own for most of the year instead of with mom.

I’m also a big eshakti fan. Another great thing about them is that they’re literally putting out new styles every single week. So if a particular color palette or cut is popular right now but doesn’t work on you, you’re not stuck waiting out an entire season like you are with Old Navy or Lane Bryant.

I know my house insurance had them too, including the nuclear clause.

I’m legitimately feeling panicky after reading this entire thread.

I’m not quite 40. I’m fat and have extremely oily skin (and the accompanying permanent acne), and don’t appear to have inherited the giant bags under the eyes that run on my mother’s side. As long as I keep dying my hair, I fully expect to still look like I’m in my 20s pretty much indefinitely.

I’m baffled that this is needed advice. Maybe it’s only obvious to women, many of whom are used to spending a few extra hours getting ready for first or special dates?

Also bearded dragons. Cute, much softer and cuddlier than the spikes would imply, and love humans.

My cat also used to shit in his carrier in cars, every time. Turned out the carrier was the problem. Now I leave him out of it and let him chill in the car like Nala, and he’s perfectly fine.

I had no idea. I’d say something about that man being a monster, but, well.

Damn you, I came into these comments just to make that joke.

With 12 Inch Black Destruction! 3, Chocolate Honeys Go Down On Wet Latinas, and 18YO Nannys F... Hard Black Meat Until They Scream on the list, they’re at least three up on the Oscars. Plus lots of LGBTQ representation.

For the record, as a woman who is over 6' tall and around a size 24 to 26, if I’m flying somewhere these days, it basically means that I had literally no other options (so, family emergency, required work trip, etc.). That weekend trip to Vegas might be tons of fun, but it is just not worth the humiliation, anxiety,…

Yeah, no. I’ve worked for UPS (as a contractor), and they are extremely old fashioned in many ways and they are absolutely not tattoo friendly. I’m a software developer, so I can’t claim to know what the people working in the warehouses can get away with, but I had to wear long sleeves everyday to cover up my forearm.

I regret to tell you that erotic childbirth is, indeed, an actual fetish that I’ve occasionally run across in the wild (or rather, in erotica). It is distinct from the actually reasonably common pregnancy fetish.

I am the terror that flaps in the night!

Straight, cis woman, and the last time was probably in the early 2000s sometime. I’m someone who loves to give blowjobs but is only so-so on receiving, and I’m very much with the “too much concentration required to actually have any fun” crowd. And I’m extremely clumsy, so with that much going on there’s a real chance…

I had a similar experience when I moved from New Jersey to South Carolina. My first winter there, we had light flurries that were due to turn into a few inches of snow that afternoon. It never even occurred to me not to go into work that morning. When I got there, the only people who had showed up were the transplants…

I think you’re feeling a little too defensive here? I never said that once a week is an unusual amount to call your mom if you have a reasonably normal relationship with her. That’s roughly how often I talk to mine, and she’s not by any definition a normal situation. (For the record, I don’t think I qualify as having…

Well, with my mom that’s a very complicated question (she’s obsessively clingy, emotionally abusive to my step-father, and an untreated schizophrenic who treats her delusions as unshakable reality), but yes, I liked my dad and like my step-father in the “friends” sense in addition to loving them. That’s not the same…

Or your mother is unhealthily attached to your grandmother. If it makes them both happy than that’s fine, but I always look a little askance at anyone who speaks to their parents daily and doesn’t work or live with them. I know three people like that off the top of my head, and only one of them seems emotionally…