Ugh that is so awful for your poor grandmother! I have to say though, there’s a great screenplay in there.

From what I read of the hideous comments on the articles about the incest/molestation, they all convinced themselves he was a “child” at the time (he really was not— he was like 15 or 16 during some of it at least). So that excuse kind of eroded. Plus they don’t care about shit like that— they come from the old school…

Weren’t there a lot more than two? I thought it was a pretty common method of execution/torture for the Romans. Which just makes your point even more.

That rings a faint bell. Makes sense— a bible story that’s like ok people, stop sacrificing perfectly good animals like barbarians. Isn’t that what a lot of bible stories are (if you’re non-religious, obviously). Fables that are meant to guide people.

I’ve always thought that as well. My takeaway from that story is that the Romans were fucked up, a lot like other societies have been fucked up over time. And wow, people can be really fucked up. It almost seems like it’s just a part of the story of Jesus’ life, not the main event. Shouldn’t it be about how he lived,…

Same here— first with Christianity as a kid (my mom is Jewish but we did a stint at a church for awhile) and later with Judaism as an adult (my husband is Jewish). I’m convinced that some people, including me, just don’t have the gene for it. I was like 7 and asking really weird questions and going, no, I think if…

There’s nothing wrong with working at home. This person was ONLY working at home and only during odd hours— not after a day at the office. So it wasn’t like, ok, I’m working from home today, so I’ll dial in for that call, or email me that brief and I’ll look at it. Just radio silence much of the time. With little work…

I may be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure she has said that she does.

So true. I worked at a large law firm for years. So many attorneys talked about how much they worked and they routinely used the highest ever hours as their “average.” Sure they stayed super late, but many also rolled in at 11am. I always worked more like 7:30/8am to about 6 or 7, but wasn’t considered hardworking…

I remember that— I think it was my first introduction to her, and then I read some of her other garbage. Horrible.

I grew up on a street with like no kids, and I went to a weird small private school where PE was taught by the art teacher or whomever else was available. Since my parents were totally unathletic and really didn’t ever even go outside, I just wasn’t exposed to sports at all. If sports for little girls had reached the…

You were a step ahead of me. I never even considered trying any sports because I was so bad at just PE in elementary school, and my very non-athletic parents weren’t about to raise the idea.

I’m 43 and I vividly remember seeing them as a kid through the window of the Jack La Lane fitness place in the mall. I thought they were super funny so it stuck with me.

My son is starting middle school next week, and I’m told they have several teams you don’t have to try out for— track and cross country among them. Just show up to the workouts. I like that they do that. They have a lot of clubs and stuff to give the middle school kids stuff to do— so much better than when I was that…

My understanding is that the formaldehyde is what makes it work, sort of the same as a perm. The keratin is just a protein— it doesn’t straighten your hair. I was getting it for awhile a few years ago and it stopped working as well when they changed the formula to be less toxic. My hair stylist offers an “organic”…

Yea I think it may just be the culture of all kid activities now. Sucks. My daughter ended up doing it for gymnastics— she’s going three days a week, two hours per time. If she did that for dance she would be “good” enough to keep at it I bet. She loves it, so it works out. She had sort of hit a wall with dance…

All the schools I know of in our area, and there are several, are pretty much the same. They’re nothing fancy, but their intro level classes are for very little girls, and it’s all about the performance at the end of the year. For girls over age 9, there’s like one intro class at 7pm on Mondays or something awful like…

Oh they totally have classes that you can go to once a week— this is just a neighborhood place, not Dance Moms or something. But to go beyond like the intro class (which they really only have for very little girls), the idea is you go a lot more. And the girls who are still at it by like age 9 start to get way more…

I almost had to disown a friend once because she was like, I tried to watch Office Space because I heard Jennifer Aniston was in it, but I didn’t like it so I turned it off. !!!!!!!!!

I can see that. It’s like, look, I did soccer this year! My daughter sucked at ball sports, but I’m so glad she had those few years where she did it anyway.