We used to be in an 11th floor office on the water and the view out of those windows was like eating a piece of cake, it was so beautiful. And once at the job before that, the shipping manager came to laugh at me & my coworker, grown-ass women, because we were watching a construction crane out the window at work, we were both fascinated with it. Because it was fascinating!
Scavengers Reign was amazing.
Arcane
Sweet Tooth
Andor
I can wholeheartedly, enthusiastically, recommend any of those.
And The IT Crowd is one of the funniest things I have ever seen, if you can find that please watch it.
Oh we have the worst, most starved public transportation, half the buses run only every hour, and on the bike to work - only to work - I do occasionally get there faster if there is traffic but there is no bike lane, I either use the sidewalk if no pedestrians, or the road if people are using the sidewalk. Traffic has to be pretty damn bad before I can move faster than the cars, I still have to stop at the same lights.
We have the most generous annual E bike voucher raffle in the nation, I believe, and the city is working on bike lanes, but really, the road between my house & work has no bike infrastructure at all. The public transportation problems are because that’s funded by the county not the city, the suburbs don’t want to pay for it. But inside the city we need it.
Personally (city dweller) a car is a time machine. I can get where I need to go mostly on a bike or my feet, but if I’m pressed for time - and that happens plenty - a car can get me there faster.
My penultimate child was at university about 10 miles from the house. There was a bus that got within a couple blocks of the sprawling campus, so I told her take the bus, but a year in said she could use my car and I’d walk to work since my commute was so short. That gained her about 3 hours per school day and lost me about one hour. Car is a time machine.
No.
Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think y’all are really trying to sleep with all your friends, right? You do have friends who are like sisters not people you can see as partners?
I don’t have a best friend who isn’t my husband but am friends with straight men who aren’t my husband. My old boss comes over sometimes, we hang out, we are absolutely not into each other in ‘that way’. The brother of my ex, same. Just good friends.
Also, if you’ve already established that your boyfriend doesn’t care, why are you asking? If it’s his belief that all guys are absolutely indiscriminate and would always try with any of their friends, maybe ask him if that’s how he feels about all his friends who are women?
We make these occasionally and yes I think they are good!
Oh I was maybe 22, 23, loudly singing along with Elton John as he belted out “love I feel it in my haaaands, I can tell by the things I would do with another maaaan!” when I realized that probably was not something someone would sing back then. It literally had never occurred to me that he could be singing anything else, and it still sounds like that to me.
Love lies bleeding is the NAME of the song, but I’d never heard it announced or seen it.
Love lies bleeding in my hands
Oh it kills me to think about you with another man
If you are ok with a fun for now thing and both of you are on the same page about it, no, it’s not at all a waste of time. Aren’t you still a teenager? Don’t look for some forever thing yet, enjoy yourself!
That just looks like a facelift. Like damn near all actors get. Why do people compare younger pictures with older ‘done’ pics instead of old before and old after? Some ladies here at my work had eye lifts that came out great - they both look better - but if you compared their look now to when they were 45 of course they won’t look as good.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t IMO.
Mostly I love being physically embodied, I love seeing and feeling, eating, sex, lived being pregnant, I love having a physical body and consciousness.
What sucks to me is not necessarily physical decline - in general I’ve been able to handle what is thrown at me. I do hate time though. Hate the way we experience it in one direction. Hate the irreversible past that leads to the unavoidable future, it seems to just all be rolling out with no way to change it, every action came from some past action. Not just a big ship to turn, more like it will turn or it won’t but we can’t make anything happen that wasn’t already going to happen. Our present the irreversible past of tomorrow’s unavoidable future.
I fly a pirate flag here for Gasparilla, then usually nothing. We don’t have a whole flagpole though.
My kids put a rainbow flag in the window.
American flags on flagpoles left up all night just crack me up. Dudes wanting to proclaim they are so patriotic but then not following the etiquette requirements for that piece of fabric they put so much emphasis on. At school there were routines we had to follow, to put it up each morning and take it down each evening and fold some particular way.
If I had an actual flagpole - I’d make it a Maypole in spring. At Christmas make it a Christmas tree made of string lights. At Halloween put a skeleton stripper on it. At Gasparilla the pirate flag and in the summer use it to help anchor a shade cloth stretching to the house. I don’t think I’d usually use it for a flag.
Thanks, I did give them more water. And yes she is such a cutie!
Yes it’s confusing because “white” is a cultural category not a phenotype. Where I grew up the Hispanic people were the white people - all the rich Cubans who fled Castro, and people from Spain. You can be Hispanic & white, or black, or brown, it just means your grandparents spoke Spanish, basically. And it’s so funny because it was the white people who brought the Spanish language to the americas in the first place.
It’s not possible to understand racists with logic. Their ideas are illogical.
Pink Pony Club. WTF, why is it good? It’s good. Also Whole Lotta Rosie by AC/DC is such a banger.
Some bands have won me over with their live shows, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness and Bright Light Social Hour and Lord Huron are like that, I didn’t “get” them until I saw them live in smaller venues.
I’m not nostalgic like that, love to hear new music, and see new shows, read new books.
But boy do I like to know what bird that is in the yard. I feed the crows. I grow things. I wear clothes with elastic waist and flat shoes.
And teatime meal >late supper, I feel so much better if I eat earlier.
My kids’ elementary school had the opposite sort of message, the principal saying, in a flat slightly southern US accent - si quieres Espanol oprima el numero dos, like such an accent I am not sure anyone who spoke only Spanish would know what she was saying.
See
Kee-yer-is
Ess pan ohl
Oh pree muh
Ell
Noo mur oh
Dowhs.
Ack no, not in my house. I cook, husband does the dishes usually. I clean the dishwasher filter, maintain the machine and tell him not to clean the dishes before they go in. He doesn’t usually wash my cast iron because he was messing it up (which is not easy to do but he managed it) but all the regular dishes and most of the pots & pans are his world because he wants me to cook.
It’s just a Yiddish phase meaning something like oh, crap or ay yi yi.
My boss once asked how tall I was (we were the same height), and I said “are you asking for real, or as a guy?” And he said “I think as a guy?” So I said, “oh, I’m 5’10” and he was happy.
Because guys my height all seem to say they are 5’10". I am between 1-2 inches shorter than that, 173cm now, maybe 174 back then.
So, in my (admittedly limited) experience, medium height dudes do round up a couple inches usually.
That’s funny, my best friend growing up was from Taiwan and her dad kept trying to get her to eat more to get fat. “Eat more! Be fat like ike Pei Shin!” (her fat sister).
Is it so different in China or is it just that your mom would complain you were skinny, complain you are fat, complain you are short, complain you are tall?