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Amazon is including Season 1 of "The French Chef with Julia Child" for free with Prime through 3/31.

I am way, way, way too sick to actually try to keep up with any of her recipes right now (though I've made her boeuf bourguignon at home before), but it is exactly the kind of comfort-watching TV that I enjoy when I'm stressed or don't feel well -- just interesting enough to keep hold of what's left of my attention span, but nothing so intense that I'm going to care if I fall asleep in the middle of it.

@Kestrel said in RL things I love:

A non-violent direct action group I'm a member of is holding discussions online about ways to raise awareness for environmental issues.

Due to strangely pervasive spelling mistakes, a legit discussion is now being held on the viability of gorilla gardening.

I shouldn't laugh.

....Are they trying to use gorillas to help grow gardens or are they trying to grow gardens full of gorillas? Inquiring minds want to know.

Fuck bronchitis.

<cries>

One of my coworkers just told me about Deadly Class and it is so fucking good. Why is this cancelled?!?

Does anyone know who played Elsa? I wish she'd come back.

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@reimesu said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Clearly, what she wants is for everyone to beg her to keep control. Be aware that if someone recommends that A should run it instead, she is going to throw a shitfit.

Oh, I'm sure. I am absolutely sure.

During steotch, another gal made it clear that next year, she was gonna run her own team. I've come to understand why.

I was gonna say that I'm pretty sure this is the point where someone is supposed to shout "But with blackjack and hookers!", then make their own group.

@Tinuviel said in RL things I love:

@Aria said in RL things I love:

He was under the impression that vaginas will "hold the shape" of the last thing in them

Well. That would make certain prosecutions a whole lot easier.

Honestly, the best part was the look of pure horror on his face (mind you, after I wiped the look off my face at the sheer stupidity of what he just said), when the conversation turned to this:

"Andrew. Aren't you the younger sibling in your family?"
"Yeah, why?"
".....How do you think your father got your mother pregnant with you after your brother was born?"

@Kestrel said in RL things I love:

@Aria said in RL things I love:

(remind me to tell you guys the story about me having to explain to my college roommate that no, he would not be able "tell" if his girlfriend had cheated on him the next time they had sex)

Oh my god. I have heard this one. I think?

Queefing is a sign that a woman has air trapped in her vagina caused by having had sex with another man.

Allegedly.

I heard this amazing fact told by a married man.

Nope. He was under the impression that vaginas will "hold the shape" of the last thing in them, so if someone else's dick had been up in there, it would fit differently.

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Apparently, someone forgot to tell me that my vagina works like a reverse jello mold.

There were words. And since I went to the university that houses the Kinsey Institute and took several of their classes, I sighed very heavily and made him, the two other guys who lived in our house, and about four of my female friends take the "Human Sexuality" class they offered over the next few semesters.

By the end of junior year, I basically had a standing policy of gently offering "Do you need to ask me any questions later after you've thought about it for a bit?" to my male friends and roommates when they came over after that class, dumbfounded and silent. I was doing the Lord's work.

@Kestrel said in RL things I love:

@mietze said in RL things I love:

tampons are seen as virginity stealers or the gateway to whoredom

Thank you, I'm stealing this plot concept for a horror screenplay.

I just need help coming up with a title. Revenge of the Tampon? The Cotton Menace?

Men's imaginations make for a wonderful source of inspiration.

For your enjoyment, I present Teeth.

Thanks to my American Gothic class when I went back to college, I once had to opportunity to gleefully explain vagina dentata to a classroom full of fairly sheltered and privileged students at a Catholic university. My professor was trying very hard not let his giggling show. It was great.

ETA: Now that I think about it, given the number of absolutely ridiculous and absurd "facts" I have heard men claim about the female anatomy (remind me to tell you guys the story about me having to explain to my college roommate that no, he would not be able "tell" if his girlfriend had cheated on him the next time they had sex), I'm starting to think maybe we shouldn't have corrected that one? Like, how much better would it be if we just started telling 15 year old boys in health class that if you try to force yourself on a girl, her vagina teeth might clamp down and bite your dick off? Consent! It really matters now, fuckers.

@silverfox said in RL things I love:

Man, I get violently ill even thinking about tampons (I must be allergic to something in them, cuz within five minutes I get dizzy and sick to my stomach, same as any metal but surgical steel earrings.)

People are stupid.

The cotton/rayon blend in most tampons is bleached with chlorine so as to be that bright white color. You could be reacting to that.

If you ever feel the need to give them another go, as weird as it sounds, try an organic 100% cotton brand like Cora. I know that sounds like weird hippie advice, but I know women that also have reactions to pads with that "dry-lock" technology because it's basically just a plastic mesh laid on top of the cotton and, unsurprisingly, having rough-textured plastic rubbing against your bits can irritate the delicate skin.

@GreenFlashlight said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Aria said in RL things I love:

I'm not sure which I find funnier and/or more terrifying -- them thinking that's actually how any of it works or that a bunch of people looked at these assholes and went, "By golly, they really seem to have things together. We should elect them to Be In Charge."

You forgot option 3: that someone actually married them.

Women willingly marrying men is the best argument I have against the idea that sexual orientation is a choice.

Me: <snort-sprays water while laughing>
Husband: What's funny?
Me: <reads post>
Husband: ....Okay, I kind feel attacked.
Me: By the post or by me finding it that funny?
Husband: Kinda both.
Me: <laughs harder>

@GreenFlashlight Let's not forget these are some of the same idiots who think that periods are like bodily waste functions -- that women can just hold it in until it's convenient, but are apparently so repulsive and inconsiderate that we can't be bothered and would rather just bleed all over ourselves and everything/everyone around us.

I'm not sure which I find funnier and/or more terrifying -- them thinking that's actually how any of it works or that a bunch of people looked at these assholes and went, "By golly, they really seem to have things together. We should elect them to Be In Charge."

So some dumbfuck lawmakers in Tennessee are expressing concerns about classifying tampons as a necessity -- and thus removing the sales tax on them -- because they're concerned that women will just go crazy at such fabulous discount and buy 'too many', whatever that means.

That is not the thing I love. What I love is that several of my friends and I have turned this into a chain of ideas on possible uses for a dragon hoard's worth of tampons. Among my personal contributions to the discussion:

• Combat rising sea levels by using them to build strategic levy walls
• Soak them in flammable liquid and then use the little string to ignite what are now weaponized projectiles
• Reduce tissue waste by just shoving one up the runny side of your nose during cold and allergy seasons

@Admiral Definitely press charges.

@Testament Oh, god. You're like me and Rothy's colors. SO MANY COLORS.

FYI -- Cashmere sweaters are currently $39.99 at Macy's.

@Ghost said in Bad TV:

@Auspice said in Bad TV:

Supernatural should have ended where it was written to end. Season 5. They wrapped up the story nice and neat. Then it became the dead horse that kept being beaten for views.

I gotta give it to the cast, though. Good on them for making good money across 15+ years on a show that I'm sure they're well aware is repetitive and tropey. You git that money, boys.

I love Supernatural, but I love it knowing full well it's garbage. And really, so do they -- a fact which I give them full credit for. Everything after season five is best summed up in a quote from "Chuck", an in-world author writing Supernatural as a book series that is accurate to the character's lives before they happen* and which will later become the Winchester Gospels, because he's actually a prophet:

"It's not jumping the shark if you never come back down."

I give them full credit for the recognition of the general garbageness of the show and also that they continue to very clearly and obviously have of fun making it and a boatload of fun with their fans. Good on them.

(*Yes, I really just typed that. >.<)

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Is it because they're being self-absorbed and making you do unchecked emotional labour without considering your current availability for it?

This. So much this. So, so much this.

There's someone that I have known for a long time that only pops up once in a while to demand counseling and emotional support while being abusive, or simply to be abusive.

They became very angry when I said I was not available for that, and tried every angle of emotional blackmail to force the issue.

But I am not a therapist. I am so not qualified to be someone's therapist. I am super extra not qualified to be someone's therapist when the time they choose to drop in to demand attention is fifteen minutes after I get off calming my own shit down to 'will survive the night' on a crisis hotline at 3am. Even when they were told this, none fucks given, I'm such a monster for not providing them support because they want it! They want it now!

There is a very special hell for these people, so help me.

Okay, so, how exactly did you become friends with my mom?

@Arkandel said in Dating in the 2020's:

This is really interesting. I haven't dated in a reaaaally long time but it sounds pretty fascinating that the way we look for romantic interests can (or is!) actually changing society as we know it.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-society

I'm definitely part of this statistic. @insomniac7809 and I met online through the DigiChats when we were teenagers, became friends. Met other online friends who become mutual RL friends. Said mutual RL friends convinced us the other was not an axe murderer and okay to meet in person.

We've only been married since last spring, but our pre-marriage romantic relationship -- not counting the literal years as online RP buds -- has outlasted every single one of my cousin's marriages. One is close on our heels, but she and her wife definitely did the "same sex couple who met online" bit.

Apparently, the family "weirdos" are the ones who got it right. <shrug>

Sooooooooo, my company just updated their dress code and I'm super excited. We're adopting a "dress for your day" policy that now allows jeans, something that never would've been considered even just two years ago. (For reference: I work in the finance industry, which is notoriously conservative re: professional image. They only stopped making all employees regardless of level wear full suits and ties to work in, like..... early 2013.)

But! But. Even more exciting than that:

"At X, all gender identities are respected, and employees are welcome to dress in a way that allows them to express their gender identity and individuality."

Please excuse me. I'm getting a little watery-eyed with pride over my employer.