I wear UV-protecting, long driving gloves that cover my hands and whole arm in the car. Everyone tells me they look dorky, but I don’t fuck with the TX sun.

Yes, breathable long sleeves and a loose skirt/pants actually make me feel cooler. And my big floppy hat helps prevent that gross, tired feeling of having sun beating down on your head/face too.

Pale Texan here, I feel you. Everyone’s out there in their cute little sundresses, and I’m in my big floppy hat, t-shirt that covers the shoulders, UV-protection slip-on sleeves (which I also wear while driving) and a long skirt. 100% cotton everything, for breathability.

And people think that it could never happen to them or their kids so they don’t give a shit.

Same! I feel really lucky to work at a place that has a healthy attitude toward vacation. We went to unlimited vacation days last year. The higher-ups LOVE IT because they don’t have to spend time submitting time sheets for their direct reports every week. And our company culture HEAVILY encourages taking vacations to…

Right. The wording was meant to make it clearer for the non-traditional Catholics. They worried that “cover your head” would be confusing to people and some might show up in headbands or wear head scarves. So they used the “cover your head in a veil” language so that people would hopefully Google “Catholic head veil”…

Both scenarios mentioned on this thread would be equally fucked up enough for GoT.

Yep, there are only small pockets of people like them (pre-Vatican II Catholics). The women also don’t wear pants -- only skirts or dresses. Before my SIL got married (and I was expected to play nice), I had to wear long skirts every time we saw them. Literally the day after the wedding, though, I started wearing…

The family she married into has 16 kids. They are Super-Catholics. Actually, they follow pre-Vatican II requirements.

I think it depends on type of Catholic? We have a ... spectrum of Catholicism between my and my husband’s family. His family tends to be more “traditional,” and at my SIL’s wedding, head coverings were required (her husband’s family is even MORE traditional). Like, mailers went out with the invitations saying, “ALL…

Yes, this. This here is the secret to my husband and I NOT divorcing. We will make exceptions occasionally. I’ll obviously hang out with his family at times I’d prefer not to, and he’ll go on a hike with me on my birthday. And we make sure we have one night a week alone together to do something we BOTH enjoy, but, for…

Silver lining: The missing-the-joke response gifs are really bringing it.

Seriously!! The whole “Women be baby-crazy” narrative has never played out in my own life. Once all my male friends hit 27, they became very serious about finding a host, while my female friends of the same age were either ambivalent about kids or wanted to wait til their 30s.

Agreed.

I’m so sorry this has all happened to you. And that there are so many monsters out there who would casually say this was your fault. It makes my blood boil — can’t imagine how you must be feeling.

Whenever I’ve talked to a Republican about this issue, their argument always boils down to not wanting to pay for people who “gave themselves Type II diabetes or a heart condition.” THIS is how they view people with pre-existing conditions.

Watching this show, I thought to myself, “Thank god I got out of high school before the social media age.”

I’ve had two female friends drive for Uber. Both quit quickly. In order to make real money, you’re dealing with the late-night bar crowd. Men who have struck out with women all night like to aggressively hit on their female driver as a last-ditch effort, apparently.

Convenience. I can use an app on my phone to summon a Lyft/Uber to me (and I can see exactly how far away it is). With cabs, if I’m not in a busy area, I have to call dispatch and wait on hold, then wait another 30 minutes for the car to actually arrive. Or, if I am in a busy area, I have to stand at the side of the…

Right? I probably wouldn’t attend this particular festival (as I never even realized it was happening, as I am not the target demographic), but I’m also scratching my head about how people who spent $1k-$3k are somehow worthy of ridicule and should have “known” this was a scam.