I was thinking that there was a very good reason he dropped the cat so quickly after getting it off the pitch - that level of terrified cat + bare arms = permanent scars.
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My high school didn't start until about 9:30. However, sports and activities (like marching band) would then take advantage of the extra morning time. And as this was in Texas, cool mornings made for better sports practices. So any of us involved in extracurriculars like that didn't get to enjoy a later start,…
I was betting that some concerned individual brought in the cards and placed them on the shelves. I'm now a little bummed that it was a vendor error rather than activists.
As someone also crap at sports but enjoy taking part and try hard, I appreciate the 'Yay! You tried!' ribbons and stuff. Obviously the really good people will get nicer trophy and ribbons, but it's nice to get acknowledgement that you tried.
I'd like to give Barack Obama a lot of credit for saying he's not going to do this (so far) despite lots of people nominating him and will be donating money instead.
Just wanted to pipe in with my own little story about cis-gendered women having some of the same issues. I'm a cis-gendered woman, and when I lived in Dallas, TX, about 6 years ago for grad school, I had super short hair (effectively a men's cut). Back home in San Francisco, this was just another haircut, but I…
Oh yes I totally agree. Part of the reason I shrugged and gave her the warning was to keep from laughing at her. She was in her late twenties but still lived with her mum who did all the cooking and such, so she had a bit of trouble with that sort of thing the week she stayed with me.
This reminds me a little bit of when I took my then-9 month old kitten with me to visit my grandparents (I wanted him to meet the family). We stayed at my uncle's house for a week, where they had 2 cats. The younger cat (3 or 4 years old) completely hated mine and we had to keep them reasonably separated. The older…
I actually have a somewhat amusing story about this. A doctor from Egypt visiting my university stayed with me for a week last year (I'm Jewish and she's Muslim). For dinner one night, she picked up a hamburger pizza from the supermarket. It was only after she finished eating it that she noticed the small writing on…
I wrote a longer explanation in its own comment thread. It's actually a pain in the neck to get certified kosher products if you're not in an area with a large Jewish population. I basically have to do mail-order (online shops) or travel to Glasgow to the one store I know about there. And I'm lucky that I keep more…
This was actually a bit of a culture shock when I first came to the UK from the US.
I've mentioned this in responses to other posts, but kosher labeling is done differently in the UK than in the US. In the US, just about any product that can be labeled kosher is. It is not so in the UK. Pretty much the only items explicitly labelled as kosher are specialty items. Some Jewish groups publish books that…
Kosher labeling is done differently in the UK than in the US. In the US, pretty much anything that can be labelled kosher is. In the UK, pretty much only specialty items are labelled.
Such labeling is done in the US, but not in the UK. Pretty much the only things with a kosher label in the UK are specialty goods. I've just gotten really used to reading labels (because I'm not super strict), but there are Jewish groups that publish books that list whether or not branded items are kosher.
Oh no, I simply wanted to add supporting evidence to your thoughts on Kerman. But it's a bit late in my neck of the woods, so that likely didn't come out. I also wanted to add something about how this isn't quite so apparent on the show, but couldn't figure out how to work that in to not completely trash the show,…
There's a reason JK Rowling writes Rita Skeeter in a similar style.
In Kerman's book, she does spend a lot of time acknowledging that she is very privileged. In the chapter where she goes into how she'll be employed after she gets out of prison (at a friend's company, if memory serves), she immediately says that she knows the vast, vast majority have no such luck and struggle to find…
I was a high school senior back in 2002, and I remember searching the TV listings in the newspaper for when Firefly next aired. It kept changing and I couldn't keep track. I think the only episode I managed to catch was the pilot.
This is where I loved the inclusion of the 2nd video. It shows that, in the 3 years since the first, she has learned a great deal about artistry as well as skill. So she was able to amend the 'boring parts' to include interesting dance moves to keep us laypeople entertained while doing less visually-stimulating baton…