This woman is awful. My dad thinks she’s just a straight shooter (he has a Sarah Palin figurine on his desk, so there’s that) but I think she’s absolutely despicable. Nearly Bill O’Reilly despicable. (My dad also hates him, so there’s that.)

But what about my Carl’s Jr. turkey burgers?

I love these - they’re Lucy by World Walker for Birkenstock (whatever that means) and I wear them all the time. They’re simple and SO COMFORTABLE. My next pair will be gizehs though...

Yeah it’s easy not to give a fuck when you’ve never had to anyway.

While it ranks #4, I think it’s necessary to stress the importance of making a thoughtful decision about where and why you travel, especially when considering places like Antarctica (or Poop Mountain/Everest or the Great Pyramids or the Grand Canyon) - all we need are a few more idiots like that woman roaming the…

Yes, NBD exactly. She wasn’t “pretty funny”. She was “funnier than you’d expect” or “not as vapid as you’d expect” but it’s not like she came on the show and was hilariously witty and urbane. I would have enjoyed hearing Peter Sagal’s banter with her instead of the guy who filled in that day.

I apologize for the length of this post, but it’s so rare to see an article on Antarctica, and I have to take those opportunities to introduce as many people as possible to the most amazing person - Robert Swan. OBE. I met him in early 2001 when he was keynote speaker at a conference I attended, and his speech sparked…

I totally agree. I agree so much I quoted you in another thread...

My cat just plonks herself down (elegantly) underneath me in down dog or cat cow or whatever, like I’m her shelter. Then she’ll rub her face on mine when I’m close to the floor. When I’m not stationary she stretches out at the end of the mat so I have to shove her off the end just to get into plank.

Were the monies she paid back court costs & attorney’s fees or...?

Sock it to me.

Are there two people coincidentally named Ron Jonson & Jon Ronson?

That reminds me of a human sexuality book I read in high school that said “a vagina is a hostile acid environment” - a turn of phrase I really liked. :)

When I got married (at 45) we bought fancy crystal high and low ball glasses for ourselves because they were on sale at Tuesday Morning & they were Shannon crystal, which is hubby’s last name. That was in 2008 and they are never used. I only use the same Disney 100th anniversary glass I got at a thrift store.

What kind of beauty products are made from cheese, much less home-made cheese?

What about this mind-numbingly stupid effort?

I forgot to mention his close-set beady eyes...

Yeah, I count myself supremely grateful that she disappeared completely from our lives when I was in 9th grade. I don’t know how she would have dealt with her aging and my puberty/adolescence. She was the prototypical evil stepmother - so nice to us leading up to the marriage, and afterwards around my dad, but rotten…

Wow, maybe my stepmom married your dad after mine divorced her. I can still hear her telling me when I was about 7 that my laugh made her sick. She left when I was 12, thank god, or I don’t know what else she would have done - she’d already hit me on the head with the coffee pot. Once she got mad over some childish…

I find his pouty, round, baby-fat face unpleasant and his general demeanor annoying. I don’t find him remotely attractive. Even in a GOT context I just want him to take a bath.