WHY GOD WHY

YEP. Call me when someone gets cancer from second-hand sitting...

‘Whoa, you’re a trans kid? We don’t do that. We don’t believe trans kids exist.”

I don’t often use this phrase, but I can’t unsee that.

UGH, pants. I am 5'7" and fat, and I keep having to hem pants because they’re all like ten feet long. I shouldn’t have to buy “petite” pants (when they even exist!) because I’m not “petite”! 

I’m not going to be able to unsee this now.

YES. It’s gotten to the point where the word “stamina” itself grosses me out.

Somehow this is the part that grosses me out the most.

I went to schools with uniforms from K-12. No regrets. There was still plenty of room for self-expression - we had a lot more latitude in choosing shoes, hairstyles, bookbags, etc. We could wear pants or skirts, sweaters or sweatshirts, tights or not. I’m sure it was easier on our parents, too.

Yeah, the super-strict dress code is crap. I worked at a retail store where we couldn’t wear pants that had “patch pockets” - like jean-style pockets. Trying to find affordable (on a retail salary) pants with that specfic limitation is crazy. And I couldn’t wear half the clothes we sold!

I think it depends on where you lived/went to school. I graduated high school in ‘99 and it wasn’t a thing for us...

That kid is way more aware than I was in junior high!

What?! That is horrible and I’m sorry that happened to her/you.

“Geriatric” sounds like you’re ninety years old and walking around using a walker! Insane.

I am also a fat person who goes to the gym, and lately it’s been with anxiety that someone is waiting to snap an unflattering photo of me while I’m exercising or changing. Logically, when I write that out, I realize that it’s kind of paranoid, since people at my gym basically just keep to themselves... but anxiety…

It would be a gag gift. Emphasis on “gag.”

Radio Shack was great, like, decades ago. I remember looking through the catalogs and being interested in all of the weird random radio parts. I had a great stereo from there that I got back in 1994. Over the last few years, it’s just become another cell-phone-and-miscellaneous-electronics store.

Right? I found that quote horrific. What non-sociopath thinks of that? 

Thank you for this discussion. My mom died a year ago today. Last Mother’s Day, I was with my mom in the hospice. I’m not looking forward to this Mother’s Day, obviously, and I think that my tactic will be to avoid TV and social media. If anyone else has any suggestions, I would welcome them.

I am tired and I read that as “all-you-can-eat butter.” Which is only marginally worse than all that fast food he eats.