Parts of Europe had a long tradition of telling children that Jews would eat them. I don’t know whether they talked about molestation back then, but it seems pretty equivalent.

It is very dated (just saw a season recently via my roommate). Sometimes cringeworthily dated. It does have some really good acting. The cast are all very good physical comedians, which I don’t think I noticed as a kid. But yeah, nostalgia and only in small doses.

My roommate is rewatching so I’m seeing it again for the first time since I was a kid/teenager. I think that I have to counter that Chandler is the worst, followed by Ross, Monica and Rachel. Phoebe and Joey are kind of the only decent humans in the bunch.

I was in the totality path and the moment of totality was so much better than I could have imagined. It took my breath away. I pictured “partial eclipse but more so” but when you take off the glasses and see the big moment it is beyond any expectation I had. It may be the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my life.

When I was barely 21 I interned at an art gallery and a large portion of my work was crafting blurbs and explanations and other things. It was just impossible. You just want to write every time, “Just look at it and have your own experience, that is part of the damn point!”

I think there are many things that I legitimately would have liked had I not encountered them while being monitored carefully for reaction.

I mean, I don’t forgive them. But for all of our sakes I hope there are a lot of people feeling that way. I don’t know any open Trump supporters, so I fairly frequently Google “Do Trump supporters regret their decision?” to make me feel better that this will only be a 4-year disaster. Well and also, schadenfreude.

Yeah — hand up, daughter of a cheater here. My mom told me (I had the benefit of being a young adult at the time), I screamed at her over the phone in a parking lot and said some really terrible things. I stayed mad for a while and had/have very complicated feelings about it but despite what I expected and told her at…

Watching or listening etc to anything while someone constantly looks over to see if you’re getting it is the worst! And even worse if they pause to explain to you why it’s great.

That’s fair and undisputed. I grew up in a diverse and progressive community and have gone on to live in them... My bubble collapsed and I’m trying to deal. I’m not saying my sadness is on par with racial subjugation, I’m just saying that I had a hard time realizing that the people that I interact with on a day to day…

I have my first pup at the moment. He’s 8 months old. I have actual nightmares about this happening to him not every night but pretty regularly. I’m so sorry you went through that! I’ve already had to check on him 3 or 4 times just reading through this thread.

My partner is 6'6" and a history nerd. Just putting that out there! (in seriousness though that’s a very sweet remembrance to have).

I have an adult step-sister who still will only eat mildly-seasoned chicken, so YMMV. But at least for me the scariness of seeming lame in front of friends made me realize hey, this is really good!

I think the internet parent wars are directly responsible for my hesitance to have children.

As a child I refused to eat basically anything other than spaghetti with cheap supermarket sauce and hamburger meat. When I was fourteen my friends started going to sushi restaurants, Indian restaurants, etc, and peer pressure sorted me out. There’s hope!

I was sick recently and made myself sweet potato puree because that seemed like an easier thing to digest... and definitely had a moment where I thought “hmm, maybe baby food is a good option? like always?”

This is an #unpopularopinion but I feel the same way about Star Wars (the original series)... I didn’t see it until I was an adult and I’m pretty convinced that I missed my window because I couldn’t even force myself to get through the full trilogy.

Yeah I’ve been... verklempt I guess. As this all unfolds I’ve been more and more folding into myself as I realize that things I thought were fundamental values are just not respected. Trump is a raving lunatic but the fact that he’s still supported is what’s been primarily driving me down over the last 8 months.

I would 100% invite Mark Wahlburg to my barbecue, and hope deeply that he RSVP’d yes. I’m not sure how he’s pulling off this pay rate, but the only thing I begrudge him about gaming the system this way is that it doesn’t seem that non-white or non-men people can do the same thing.

It’s not Wahlburg vs. Stone per say (I kind of just wanted to reference that plant scene), it’s the top-paid of each gender. Why is there not some woman making as much as Wahlburg through some big blockbuster series?