All aboard the racism train!

I’m 33 and DEFINITELY got the nostalgia-feels. The show felt like home to me. Even though I didn’t see Goonies, ET, et al right when they came out, I grew up on those movies.

And she won’t, even after her community service. She lacks the emotional complexity, intelligence and maturity to learn from this.

The rescue was quite low-tech, given the inability to use radios and phones in the caves. In other words, the rescuers crawled in and found them.

This here is actually the best account:

Your story has me taking deep breaths.

There’s a network of caves near me (the main entrance to which the city has blocked off). The networks spread underneath practically half the city. To get to the very end, it takes 8 hours and, for 90 percent of it, you can’t stand up. And for most of that, you can’t even SIT up. So, for 8 hours you are either walking…

I went to Botswana as a regular old tourist a few years back, and everyone was like, “Oooh Africa! Are you going to volunteer there? Build a library/church/orphanage or teach English?”

If you’re willing to shell out a bit, I bought a pair of Clarks gladiator sandals (the exact ones I got aren’t on the site anymore, but there are some similar ones). I walked all over India in them, no blisters and they were able to be cleaned with a wet wipe at the end of the day without damage. It didn’t rain while…

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…