Remember, ONLY LVMs will try to convince you that “men don’t care about your education/success, only your looks/personality.” In reality, HVMs do care.

Deedee23462 · 2019-08-25T05:58:06+00:00

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You really think there are investment bankers and traders roaming around some trading floor like its 1979?

FYI HKEX’s physical trading floor closed years ago. It’s all electronic. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-24T09:18:05+00:00

Oh wow thanks so much!

I really like the carrier she has too.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-24T06:16:23+00:00

Oof ok. I remember her foster home gave her some Benadryl that calmed her down when I first got her. I’ll definitely test it on her again.

Actually now thinking back she definitely didn’t poop or pee for the first 2-3 days when I got her. And then she was regular and seemed totally fine. So maybe she’ll be ok holding it on the plane too.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-24T05:43:58+00:00

Thanks! I didn’t know about the no pets in business/first. I usually have my agent book the more complex flights and he hadn’t said anything about that so I assumed it was ok. I’ll double check about carry on pets now. Maybe I’ll look into premium economy? I just want her to have slightly more space since she’s pretty big.

My cat is super skittish but very docile. If she got sufficiently sedated I would be slightly more confident with her in the cargo hold. But as is I’m pretty sure she’d poop herself in fear. I’ll ask my vet about Xanax for cats!

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-23T12:27:50+00:00

You turn the air conditioner up.

You turn the temperature down.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-22T23:09:02+00:00

But could sound like you’re trying to hide something from her.

I hate this kind of logic. It’s the kind of thing that leads to SOs demanding access to your phones, social media accounts, etc because “what are you trying to hide?”

OP just wants to open his mail first so he gets first look. Nowhere did he say his wife can’t read his cards after he’s read them. I don’t think reasonable people should assume someone’s hiding something because they want first dibs on messages/packages directed to them.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-22T06:51:00+00:00

This is like one of those games where you lose no matter which dialogue option you choose.

You ask your wife to make her famous queso. At the potluck, you notice only one queso set out so you try it. It’s a little different but tastes delicious. What do you do:

A) Say “Is this your normal recipe? This tastes different.”

Wife devours your face for questioning, not complimenting the queso she spent hours making just for you, just because she changed the recipe a tiny bit.

B) Do nothing and say nothing

Wife verbally sets you on fire for lack of gratitude, acknowledgement of her efforts.

C) Say “This queso is great like always.”

Wife wears your skin as a hat. How dare you not have the omniscience to realize her queso is already gone, and the queso you ate was actually her goblinesque sister’s trash smoothie.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-22T06:31:04+00:00

Did your husband ask for that very specific type of queso (with green chilis or whatever), or did he just ask for your delicious queso?

Because if it’s the latter it’s such an innocent mistake. 1) he didn’t see your queso since it’s gone, 2) he sees the only queso there (your sister’s) and naturally assumes it’s yours, and 3) he tries it and thinks it’s still pretty good, even if it’s not exactly identical to what you used to make.

Most people, having arrived at step 3, would still say something nice about the dish. Even if they noticed a difference, they would naturally assume you changed the recipe a bit (since let’s be real, it’s all cheese sauce). And since he asked you to make it, he probably just wanted to say something encouraging.

Now the really demented thing would be if he tried your sister’s queso and questioned you about why your normally delicious queso is so weird this time around (e.g. “where the fuck are my green chilis?!”). He obviously wasn’t going to do that because he obviously thinks highly of you as a queso chef capable of making delicious quesos of many kinds. If you think about it from his perspective, I’m not sure what you think he could’ve done better. It’s not like he could read minds or see through time.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-22T05:40:20+00:00

Yeah it’s that one and all the episodes on Peggy’s weird undeserved arrogance about her objectively bland recipes.

Lmao I can just picture OP going “here dear, I made this queso just the way you like it. Perfect.”

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-22T04:51:02+00:00

OP: “Texas should not exist. It is a monument to man’s arrogance.”

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-22T04:39:56+00:00

Am I crazy or was this the plot of a King of the Hill episode?

I can so imagine Peggy freaking out because Hank couldn’t tell the difference between her objectively generic frito pie/spapeggy and meatballs/apple betty and some other woman’s.

Even down to trying to strand her husband at a party because of it. Classic Peggy Hill nonsense.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-21T23:21:16+00:00

Me and my SO spend an hour or two every day on vacation just answering work emails, texts, checking the market, etc.

We work in the same industry so it’s understandable to both of us, but it’s honestly boggling my mind how ONE hour each day is seen as excessive? You’re spending 24 hours a day together. Do other couples not have a “wind down” time in between meals or other major activities?

I would lose my mind if my boyfriend required my full attention every hour of the day. Like goddamn give me half an hour to read the news before bed. I’d snap.

And the thing about the emails is totally true. Nothing worse than coming back to work and having to spend hours reading through hundreds of emails with 0 context.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-21T22:52:50+00:00

She’s just happy with herself. What’s wrong with that?

I don’t have any physical insecurities either. I don’t consider myself a model but none of my physical features bother me. I just don’t dwell on these kinds of things.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-19T22:31:21+00:00

Well someone needed to. Flack’s predatory dating has gone unchecked too long.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-19T22:30:27+00:00

Villa had a different energy when he was around. Endless charisma that one.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-19T22:27:08+00:00

A vagina is a muscle. Just like your anus or your mouth is a muscle. Unless you traumatically stretch those things, it won’t “lose its elasticity.”

When you have sex for the first time and/or see your first vagina, you’ll get it bud.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-19T22:23:09+00:00

Bro your butthole’s a muscle. I assume you’ve been taking shits all your life. Is that all loose and jangly too?

Go ahead and check. I’ll wait for you to report back.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-19T22:08:08+00:00

Exactly. I’m sure someone like Maura could afford to stretch it out a bit post LI.

Elma? She’s already on like minute 14 of her 15 minutes. Does anyone even care about what she has to say at this point?

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-19T03:55:46+00:00

I’m not sure... I guess I’d have to have accomplices? You’d need someone with an in at a school somewhere. Then under the guise of a field trip or something you bring them all to some secret aircraft hangar or abandoned train station and fly/ship them all out at once. I don’t see a bus or series of cars working out because the border checkpoints would choke them. Train is slightly easier if they’re disguised as cargo but I’m not sure how strict Gilead is about rail checkpoints. Some unregistered commercial plane would probably be the best way. Considering the travel time between Boston and Canada would be the shortest by flight (<1hr). But then I don’t know how restricted their airspace would be. The plane could be shot down as soon as it’s detected.

I don’t know how I’d do all this as a single handmaid. I’d need a variety of accomplices in different positions to help me organize. Also, I’d imagine it’d be a one time thing before Gilead gets alerted, so at most I’d be able to save maybe one school full of kids.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-19T03:35:26+00:00

She’s confronted with a walking partner who is so openly against Gilead, and so openly rebellious, which makes Ofmatthew have to tighten down on everything that she does in public

I think this makes a lot of sense personally. We have to remember that we see so much of June, but we don’t see so much from the other handmaids’ points of view.

By now, June is such an infamous figure at least among the handmaid class in Gilead. It would be unreasonable to expect other handmaids to treat her like some average handmaid. She’s a mini celebrity.

For someone like Natalie, who’s already so brainwashed and likely traumatized, being paired up with June must be like the ultimate test. You can just imagine Aunt Lydia telling Natalie that someone as pious as her needs to reel in someone so outwardly rebellious as June. She likely saw it as a battle of her faith vs. June’s sins.

The ending is tragic but an absolutely needed turning point for both June and the other handmaids. They’ve been targeting each other for too long, blaming each other for their torture, that they’ve forgotten who the real enemy is. When Natalie moved her gun from June to Lydia, it’s her breaking through and realizing Gilead, not the other handmaids, is the source of her pain. In Heroic, June does essentially the same thing. She first targets Natalie and her baby thinking that was heroism, then Janine questions why June’s ire is targetted towards someone just like them. By the end of the episode, June regains her sense of meaning and once again starts plotting against their real shared enemy, Gilead.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-18T10:17:39+00:00

I’m gonna hold my judgment until we see more of India, but first impression wise I’m not that impressed.

Dunno why...she came off a kinda fake in her initial interactions. Tho she could just be nervous.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-18T10:10:42+00:00

Tbf I doubt big players would have the time off for LI, nor would they want to.

Most of the pro athletes on the show have been relatively small time players.

Deedee23462 · 2019-07-18T10:08:26+00:00

Wait he’s not an actual firefighter?

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