That actually pissed me off reading it because I feel like my mother wrote it. Lol. If I had a quarter for every unnecessary no I got from her growing up, I wouldn't be working today.

YES! My dad wasn't really a spanker (although he would in extreme circumstances) but what he lacked there, he made up for with sheer punishment ingenuity. He did everything from take doors off hinges, to make us do gardening work and help with projects around the house instead of hanging with friends in the summer.

that even works with adults!

Absolutely. Their little heads get all confused, they can't help it sometimes. Our rule was, tantrum all you like, but take it to your room, we're trying to watch Chopped. We had maybe 10 tantrums total.

Oh they were the worst, those year 7 b.c. kids. Always tearing through town on their donkey carts blasting that damned loud Lyre music.

There is no performance if there is no audience

Thank you. I am so tired of the constant refrain that "today's kids are the most spoiled ever." (And the constant trotting out of that dreadful New Yorker article to support it.) From Hesiod to Bronte to Roald Dahl, people have been complaining about spoiled children and how they will ruin the future of the planet…

Yes. Basically the way I've tried to look at it is this: My daughter is the world's worst troll. If I get angry, then she wins!

A child will know fear even if they are never hit. Using a more restorative approach to child rearing allows allows the child the engage what they did wrong and bring a working solution forward. This grows higher order thinking skills which are much more important to the future working environment than sitting down…

All it takes is ONE instance of sleeping with someone on the first date— presto, you're Easy Virtue[tm]!

WILD STUFF

Because heaven forbid a woman/baby girl not present as hyperfemme! Gotta excuse it: "they're my boyfriend's jeans... because we just fucked." Like, "the boyfriend jean" was already a weird thing, but then they applied it to babies. This is just very tone deaf.

Oh god, I miss those and all of the awful Australian snacks like Chico Rolls.

Australian treats are the best. Ever had a Tim Tam?

Choc-tops are amazing. They have no equal in the intersection of of chilled desserts and movie food Venn diagrams.

For those wondering what a choc-top is, it's this:

If there was ever a marriage of convenience it is Christian Conservatives and Israel. These are the same people who spent the past FOREVER demonizing Jews and putting them in ghettos and if apocalypse type shit went down you can bet your sweet ass they would be doing it again in a heartbeat.

It's almost definitely as though conservative Christians are using accusations of anti-Semitism as a smokescreen for their own Islamophobia...

It's interesting to me that's almost everyone I've ever seen pull the "IF YOU'RE NOT 100% SUPPORTIVE OF EVERY THING ISRAEL DOES YOU'RE AN ANTI-SEMITIC NAZI" is very decidedly not Jewish. It's almost as though conservative Christians are using accusations of anti-Semitism as a smokescreen for their own Islamophobia...