See I didn’t think it made that point even though it was screaming to be made. At best we might infer that now the author realizes how you can’t just look at divorce rates and declare arranged marriages more successful because of a variety of contexts, but she certainly didn’t connect the dots/make a point.

I came across this article and remembered this conversation and felt the need to share. I had not remembered Pierce Brosnan adopted and raised his first wife’s two children. So yes, Pierce Brosnan fucking class act human being.

When I was a pregnant teen they suggested I drop out of all my advanced classes (I graduated second in my class) and do homebound and someone went a crusade to get me kicked out of National Honor Society. No one cared who the father was.

That was a very gracious response. This 42 year old formerly pregnant teen certainly bristled on your behalf.

Emma Stone is really Emily for the same reasons.

My husband is pretty fond of me and he still misses plenty of that I post. I wouldn’t be too sure that he saw it but I would also hope that you wouldn’t care after all this time and with you married to another guy who you have a baby with. I wouldn’t still be friends with someone who had treated me like that though!…

Ivana Trump’s rape allegation centered on a time when Trump was grumpy because he had a face lift and was hurting.

Me too! And I felt like Giada just had no answers for her very reasonable questions and was pretty bitchy in brushing her off.

How would he even be able to see it? But it’s been so long I don’t see how or why anyone would every consider that you were posting it at him or in contrast to him or anything so no I don’t think it would be shade.

I think this is part of what bugs me about her. I hate all the ridiculous over the top over-pronouncing. Just say the damned word already!

Absolutely. He shit the bed over and over again. He handed Trump the election. And then even last week he still dicked up admitting that yes Trump was balls deep in Russia by telling most lies about the emails even now! At best he fucked it up yet again and they were yet again having to try to figure out how to…

In my state if you have any income you don’t qualify for Medicaid. We did not expand it and it only covers children and pregnant women. The fine for not having coverage was very minor compared to the premiums and so many people opt to just pay the fine. If your state didn’t expand medicaid a lot of low income people…

And the experts totally agree with you. I’ve got a teen who has been hospitalized and yes other kids were part of it. So were lots of other things. And the articles I’ve read pointing out why this show is problematic make exactly this point. It’s not the bully because lots of kids are bullied and don’t become…

A lot of it is how everything is depicted. The suicide in particular. It just goes against all the recommended ways to depict and discuss suicide.

My 14 year old with asperger’s and type 1 diabetes had to be committed after she watched the show and then made threats for hours in a group text with classmates. With her social/interpersonal communication issues she watched the show and saw that this was a way to connect with peers and find out how they would feel…

That is exactly how I took it. It’s not just using standard English. It’s something more. The Martin clip captured it perfectly.

I’m confused. I only know this phrase as a reference to spades being the best suit in some card games. I’ve googled but I’m not finding any racists meanings. Has it become a dog whistle of some kind? I’m horrified by the rest of what was said, but I didn’t know that phrase was offensive.

He had flown on a totally different flight. He was not with them. They checked “him” in on the flight in question and were using his boarding pass.

I went to Berkeley in that exact same timeframe and while I agree that it and SF were a bit dirty I never experienced BART escalators not working for months at a time much less due to human shit. I am from the deep south though and Berkeley was my favorite place to live ever. I was willing to ignore some dirt for sure!

Except the older son did check in and they issued the boarding pass to them and let them through with it. Then at the last second suddenly they wanted them to give up the seat. They paid for it. If they wanted to just strap the carseat into it and have it empty that’s their perrogative.