It is condescending. And it's deserved condescension. People who sacrifice the health of their children (and of everyone else's!) because of their shoddy research skills, poor understanding of science, inability to understand the (in)significance of individual anecdotal evidence, and who are so mentally shallow that…

I think it's harder to adhere to that when your kid is a boy. Girl clothes are so over-the-top girly. You might get the side-eye if you dress a girl in something boyish, but put a boy in something pink? Watch out!

"Beautiful cup of yogurt"? You are a LIAR, sir! You peddle nothing but sweetened wallpaper paste!

Heck yeah. We're a one-child family, and we're both on very good incomes (about 1.5 times the average), and I've got some great benefits while I work part time. Friends of ours who are on roughly the same earnings did the math, and realised that if they had three kids, the child-care costs outweigh one income,…

Okay, self-hair cutting is pretty brave. Congrats! I do a backwards-in-the-mirror trim of the back of my neck myself. It's terrifying.

And if sassy, you "j'accuse!!"

No, that is incorrect. You are speaking as someone who doesn't know anything about how figure skating works or the judging system. It is NOT completely subjective. Not by a long shot. Every single element has a base value. Points are added or deducted from that base value (grades of execution) based on very specific…

Seriously. I have even read the lists of ingredients on the back of various toiletries. Anything to occupy myself.

I'm probably just-below-average in the parenting skill set, so just about anyone I hire would be better than I!

Hope she breastfeeds at the mediation table too while that county cuts her a check.

I don't think you're interested in anything other than being right, but most people can come to a reasonable assumption that when someone is found dead by overdose, the scene wasn't pretty. But by describing Hoffman as having died with a needle in his arm, it morbidly puts people AT the scene and gets people talking…

Snape didn't die. I don't know what you're talking about.

I just had to do some serious digging into backlogs of FB messages and Etsy listings (don't ask) to find the name of the fic, but I prevailed! Snape's Oceans:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7305977/1/Sn…

Thanks for sharing your recommendations!

The only HP fanfic I've ever read was Hermione / Snape, and it was seriously wonderful. I read one good fanfic and walked away, because I didn't want to ruin the experience with mediocre dreks. Anyway, Hermione and Snape (as adults!!!) are a good pairing with their intellectual capabilities and interests.

Check my username. I can recite every episode, backwards and forwards, quote it almost subconsciously, and answer any trivia question about it. But let us never speak of April, or most of season 7 after ASP left.

I agree, my mother used to say "You're not leaving the table until you finish your dinner" and it usually happened when she made liver as well, which I HATED and still can't stand. I would sit there, for almost an HOUR, and not touch it until she lost her patience and sent me to my room. I could never force my kid to…

Won't force feed my kids either. First, because it's awful. Second, because I have no idea how to do it! If I am able to sneak a bite of Food They Don't Like in there somehow, they realize it and spit it out immediately. How do you even force a kid to chew and swallow something.

I think it's kind of messed up to force your kids to eat things that they clearly hate or can't stomach. There's a line between "disgusted by the the point of illness" and "but I don't waaaant fish tonight."

*sigh* Yeah, that's the common usage. Which I find stupid. The use of the word "slash" is to denote the two characters involved in the sex act. I suppose historically this stems from Kirk/Spock sex fanfiction. But since that's not the only kind of sex fanfiction that gets written nowadays, and since the…