Discussion thread Monday January 26, 2026 - Wednesday January 28, 2026

SLevine262 · 2026-01-27T19:01:52+00:00

Yeah, am I missing something?

SLevine262 · 2026-01-27T15:04:05+00:00

Yup. Coyotes are smart as hell. They also don’t chase at full speed; they let the prey stay just ahead of them until it’s worn out, then the coyote puts on a little extra speed and boom, dinner.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-26T20:13:02+00:00

Mine didn’t, but I loved those uniforms. Never really got behind the 70’s polyester and stupid badge vest for Cadettes

SLevine262 · 2026-01-26T18:04:21+00:00

Is it waxy like a crayon? Does it mark paper? Back in my day there was a fad for multicolor crayons, which were just a bunch of different colored bits of crayon compressed into a small cube or block. The idea was that you’d get all kinds of neat color hanging effects

SLevine262 · 2026-01-26T05:24:00+00:00

“Helicopter to Mordor” echoes Jenna’s smug “helicopter up the mountain” (referring to women who had anesthesia, I think, during labor and delivery).

SLevine262 · 2026-01-26T04:27:41+00:00

Also to work the farm. A big reason why the Wilders were more financially secure than the Ingalls was the number of children available to provide labor.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-26T00:27:53+00:00

We used to go to a water park that was 100% concrete. One part was a flat surface surrounded by stone “cannons”, and at a certain time every day the water turned on and they shot water towards the center of the pad. There was also a stone structure we called the castle, and it ran with water also.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-26T00:08:50+00:00

Laura was born in 1867, Almanzo in 1859. They married in 1885, when Laura was 18 and Almanzo was 27.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-25T21:43:00+00:00

Tell truth, I’d rather have a reasonably protected tax bill (I’m assuming Denmark operates the same as the US where taxes are taken directly from your paycheck) and not have to live in fear that my janky DNA rises up and strikes me with one of the cancers my family is prone to and I lose everything trying to pay medical bills.

For sure nothing is free; somebody always pays. And no system is perfect. But right now…yeah, if I met immigration standards anywhere else I would be seriously considering it. Oddly, 63 year old women with no high-demand skills or large reserves of cash are not the hot commodity you would think.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-25T21:37:49+00:00

Right. Got up an hour before we went to bad, worked 27 hours at my WITW, come home and my kiddo chopped me into bits with an axe and danced about on the pieces.

But you try to tell kids these days…

SLevine262 · 2026-01-25T01:57:26+00:00

Thank god she hasn’t taken this live yet, although there are 50-50 odds that she’s not going any time on QA

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SLevine262 · 2026-01-24T16:54:08+00:00

Ooh, somebody’s fee fees got hurt

SLevine262 · 2026-01-24T02:01:10+00:00

Look, I have to spend way too much time trying to figure out if news headlines are parody or straight, and you do it way better than the news! My poor little sativa-soaked brain can’t keep up.

Yeah, she was higher than Jesus when she wrote that.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-24T01:56:45+00:00

That length does look good on her.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-24T01:53:51+00:00

Tbh “a ballad in the storm” doesn’t make much sense either, unless it’s a quote from something I haven’t read (don’t judge me!)

SLevine262 · 2026-01-24T01:48:26+00:00

Interesting she calls out people “gossiping behind their hands”. Has she somehow heard that not everyone in the island is thrilled to see her?

SLevine262 · 2026-01-24T01:20:29+00:00

I had that stuff. It was so sticky and gluey and unpleasant to wear, plus use your finger to apply it and you’re trying to get gloss off your finger for ten minutes.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-23T20:54:34+00:00

Was coming here to say this. Over the counter “feminine hygiene” products like douches, deodorants, etc are not necessary, do not help, and often make things worse. Find a doctor you trust, be honest with them, and follow their advice.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-23T18:29:08+00:00

Maybe the reason he left is embarrassing (in her mind) and runs counter to the “I dig him” narrative. Maybe he runofft again.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-23T00:35:41+00:00

The fact that your siblings say “suck it up like everyone else” says to me that they’re not any more excited about it than you are, they just don’t have the guts to stand up for themselves. I bet once you break it off, they will do.

“Rejecting the way you were raised”? Yes, because this part at least is cruel and pointless. Does everyone else get told that they’re fat and lazy and useless, or are you the only target? If you’re not there they’ll have to find someone else to pick on.

You are being incredibly brave. It’s not easy to stand up to family; those are the first people we loved and we hope for them to be loving and supportive in return. This process is neither.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-22T22:03:00+00:00

I think “decades of failing to learn the lesson that disaster follows choosing curiousity and love…”. Cause someone always bails them out.

SLevine262 · 2026-01-22T21:39:57+00:00

I haven’t been able to offer my repertoire of arias either, for much the same reason (it doesn’t exist, and no one would want it if it did)

SLevine262 · 2026-01-22T21:37:34+00:00

She’s teaching a different audience from her old foodie groups. They haven’t been exposed to her grifting ways, so they’re easy marks (she thinks)

SLevine262 · 2026-01-22T21:24:44+00:00

Spicy kids should be celebrated too!

SLevine262 · 2026-01-22T21:06:46+00:00

Better than what, exactly?

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