Good list. I’m an Old on the younger side (mid-30s) who gets to bartend local indie music fests bc the young bucks get too trashed to work their shifts. I’ve been exposed to so much interesting music and the experience of watching young people consume music is a trip. Their phones are out the whole time, either for…

I take issue with them encouraging her to “focus on work.” I mean, fine, if that’s what she wants, go for it. But Ariana has been through so much trauma in a short amount of time, maybe she can so relax somewhere out of the public eye and away from all of these toxic people who keep pushing her to produce when it…

I’m a 6'1" woman and I feel your pain. I’m also irrationally annoyed at women under 6' who call themselves tall and lament men’s heights. (No shade at you at all, just hopping on this Airing Grievances train). The average American male is 5'10, so the women 5'8-5'10 should count their blessings. 5'11 gals can get by…

ACS and ACOG recommend pap smears every 3-5 years for women 30-65. If you have a long term birth control (IUD, Implant, or even sterilization) or are sans-bc, that means you might not be getting regular pelvic exams. Since the OC symptoms are so close to PMS, under diagnosis makes sense. Women are taught to deal with…

I am so sorry about what you’ve been through and that your teacher failed you. I ended up in the teaching profession, partially thanks to a wonderful male history teacher to whom I confided about serial harassment from a health care provider. I’d told my mom and she called me a liar, so I talked to a friend who…

I also thought it was Gaga! The stars' plastic surgery as contouring is making them all look the same.

I was in 7th or 8th grade when my grandmother took me to the mall Regis and told them I wanted to look like Rachel from friends. I have super thick, course, kind-of-wavy-but-more-frizzy hair. They gave me what the stylist called a “star cut” which is actually (according to her) how they do “the Rachel.” They part the…

You’re doing the lord’s work, watching this show so we don’t have to.

Fuck off. I was one of the people who lost my job after PP was defunded and had to seek employment in another Midwestern state so I could stay within driving distance of my disabled parents. Maybe take a deep breath and contemplate what it means to be a decent human being before you make attacks on internet strangers.

From the National Abortion Federation website:

My grandmother was 8 years old when she a refugee during WW2. She recalls living in a bombed out train station with about a dozen other people, all women and children, no adult men. Her mother was pregnant when they fled and gave birth in the station. Everyone was starving and my great-grandmother could not produce…

I wrote about it elsewhere in this thread, but while Iwas in hospital my boyfriend at the time also had influenza so bad it set off his seizure issues and now he has permanent brain damage. From the flu. Influenza doesn’t fuck around.

Yes, he often gets into it with the FOH manager who lets servers work while sick. That impacts the kitchen staff AND the customers. Servers/FOH folks are all over the restaurant hundreds of times per shift, touching everything, and not washing their hands as often as they should. But staying home sick means you’re…

Dehydrate yourself beforehand. The movie is over 2 hours long and I cursed myself for having that giant diet coke bc i had to get up to pee and missed a key moment.

And I cry at almost everything and didn’t cry much during the movie -- more afterward listening to the soundtrack and thinking about the movie.

Humans make errors. I don’t want to get into a car that was built by humans, on roads that were built by humans, in cities that were planned by humans — someone could have made an error and it is not safe for me in cars, on roads, or in cities. Don’t get me started on buildings, elevators, chairs, or planes, or even…

Husband is a chef and constantly worried about how the flu impacts staff and customers, especially because you have the virus for a few days before you show symptoms and lots of food people come into work feeling like shit because they can’t afford to take time off. He really wants his staff to all get the flu shot,…

I like the way you frame it — makes it more approachable to a variety of people who are otherwise apathetic.

Anecdotes are great. I’d never had the flu until my late 20s, when I got the flu so bad I was hospitalized for 2 days, in and out of consciousness because my respiratory functions were so compromised. I awoke to lucidity 2 days later to learn that my boyfriend was also hospitalized with influenza, except he had a…

That was a fantastic, informative read. I was really swept up in the music and emotion of the film and saw it for a 2nd time this weekend. I’d hyped it up to my friend, a man. Throughout the 2nd viewing I felt uncomfortable, anxious, and disappointed. Knowing the dramatic arc, I was able to see more of the nuance of…

Been listening to the soundtrack obsessively (and crying a lot!) after seeing the film on Sunday. I love it so fucking much and am mad that I have to give Bradley Cooper praise for anything, especially being a a wonderful screenplay writer-director-actor-singer for this amazing film. Damnit!