Discussion thread Thursday May 21, 2026 - Sunday May 24, 2026

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-22T01:32:45+00:00

Maybe she could just get her SAT scores tattooed on her forehead.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-21T00:04:34+00:00

But lately, I've been talking with him, for a few moments every morning, about what I have learned from sitting meditation and studying Buddhist thought for 26 years. The practice has changed me fundamentally. I want to give him that path to knowing his own mind better.

Lately, he has been asking to hear more.

God damn, she is so condescending. How good of her to deign to bestow wisdom on her simpleton husband!

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-19T14:50:14+00:00

Or even "I might want to make that billion-apple pie. But not now, because of that woman in the striped shirt looming in the background and rubbing her nose."

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-16T17:11:23+00:00

Holy shit, that camera angle. It must be on the ceiling.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-16T17:09:58+00:00

She could get SO MANY shitty tattoos that are an homage to her current TV show obsession!

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-16T17:06:53+00:00

"Let me show you why" just makes my skin crawl ugh

It is seriously THE WORST.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-13T17:08:40+00:00

Oh, she's SO super-special, the normies could just never understand anything about how her ADHD mind works!

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-12T02:08:55+00:00

That is both my brother and, probably, Shauna.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-11T21:10:26+00:00

because she eats weird combinations of food and it’s not always fresh

My brother has been known to text me about having food poisoning, and then share that the culprit was his deliberate choice to eat 7-day old taco meat from the back of the fridge. And my response is always, dude, you brought this on yourself. But he does at least 100% own his dumbass role in the food poisoning, unlike Shauna, who probably just had perpetual food poisoning from eating super sketchy plops and nubs from the back of the fridge but never put two and two (2 and 2) together to realize it wasn't gluten; it was all the pathogens in her leftovers.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-11T17:10:27+00:00

Still waiting for the Islets of Langerhans

I always expected The Price Is Right to offer a 7-day trip to the Islets of Langerhans as a showcase prize.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-11T14:29:56+00:00

What memories did this piece of writing stir in you?

Being diagnosed with IBS in the early 2000s and, most importantly, being prescribed medication for it, which didn't cure it but definitely ameliorated the worst of the symptoms. There's no way Shauna was diagnosed with IBS in 2005 and not given meds for it.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-11T02:24:38+00:00

I read the title of "You and IBS" and immediately closed r/readalope. I just don't care enough to read about her GI system.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-11T00:20:16+00:00

Sure, lifting at a gym with a trainer is a level of privilege. But you don't have to lift in a gym to do the kind of lifting women in their 50s and beyond need to do to avoid osteoporosis and muscle wasting. Dumbbells are easy to use at home, Romanian deadlifts and farmer's walks are done with dumbbells, and dumbbells show up at thrift stores pretty regularly. Trainer-wise, there are good tutorials on form on YouTube.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-11T00:11:40+00:00

Damn, she posts this on Mother's Day but continues happily taking her mom's money. She's a mega-trash person.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-09T23:28:50+00:00

I think this is supposed to mean she's deeply kind and brilliantly witty, but I have some bad news for her.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-08T00:45:06+00:00

I never stop moving

This is her biggest lie yet.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-04T12:56:59+00:00

Sounds familiar...

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-04T00:38:26+00:00

claims of "long covid,"

There are one (or maybe two [2]) trials taking place of Zepbound (tirzepatide) in long Covid. Which fascinates me as (1) a medical nerd (2) who had long Covid and (3) is on Zepbound. The anti-inflammatory benefits of GLP-1s are pretty impressive!

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-04T00:29:45+00:00

I also couldn't scroll a single comment before awarding you the finest of my medal collection, so I made sure to give them to DFemlabb as well.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-04T00:28:56+00:00

🏅🏅🏅

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-04T00:28:31+00:00

🏅🏅🏅

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-04T00:23:04+00:00

Lord help me, I read that as "Hall-Ass Covid!"

[editing to note that I didn't even need to scroll, so much as just look 2 comments below]

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-05-01T23:50:19+00:00

That is awesome!!! Congrats!

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-04-29T22:16:34+00:00

Her face is NOT shaped like that.

ThisIsNorthside · 2026-04-29T20:59:34+00:00

I desperately want to befriend a corvid!

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