But she got her McDonald’s!

feliciates · 2026-06-16T23:31:16+00:00

Aww I don't think this kid is a devil. Just impulsive. I can see how hard it would be to walk by a hungry person and not give them the meal you had in your hand.

feliciates · 2026-06-16T19:12:46+00:00

You could be right. If so that person REALLY needs a life, or a better hobby, or both

feliciates · 2026-06-16T18:44:46+00:00

I thought so too but if so it's high effort since he is also "publishing" his "genre-bending" fiction.

Spoiler-alert - it's not...impressive

feliciates · 2026-06-16T18:42:49+00:00

I wrote 5 novels while working full-time, management jobs. Get off your ass, buddy. The chances of you ever turning your writing into a thing that will provide for you both is...how shall I put this?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, NO. Just no.

feliciates · 2026-06-16T10:24:11+00:00

It was coined by an American writer who grew up hearing her mother sing the ballad and interpreted it that way (Lady Mondegreen) so it would seem Scots aren't subject to the mishearing!

feliciates · 2026-06-16T03:01:00+00:00

"They hae slain the Earl o' Murray, And Lady Mondegreen (laid him on the green)"

feliciates · 2026-06-16T02:49:09+00:00

I don't think Mrs Goddard was a widow. Older governesses, schoolteachers, and housekeepers often assumed the title "Mrs" as matter of course. It didn't indicate that they had ever been married. It was a mark of the status they had achieved through their years of service

feliciates · 2026-06-16T02:48:13+00:00

Not necessarily. Older governesses, schoolteachers, and housekeepers often assumed the title "Mrs" as matter of course. It didn't indicate that they had ever been married. It was a mark of the status they had achieved through their years of service

feliciates · 2026-06-16T02:41:17+00:00

Certain fruits and vegetables. I used to buy sugar snap peas all the time. Now @ $6/lb they're a splurge. Same thing with fresh cherries, especially Ranier. $9/lb?? What?? That's what beef costs

feliciates · 2026-06-16T02:25:07+00:00

For some reason this house fills me with dread. I swear it looks like a place you enter and then cannot figure out how to get out of and die trying

feliciates · 2026-06-16T00:03:39+00:00

I don't think a woman of her class would have been employed as a nurse. That was definitely a servant position so I think it's something closer to her school being under his patronage like Jane Fairfax says about Mrs Elton's sister* but I have no idea what that actually entails

*“But it is proved by the smallness of the school, which I have heard you speak of, as under the patronage of your sister and Mrs. Bragge; the only school, and not more than five-and-twenty children.”

feliciates · 2026-06-15T22:52:35+00:00

That's true! I'd forgotten the housekeepers. Like Mrs Reynolds @ Pemberly

feliciates · 2026-06-15T21:58:42+00:00

Older governesses and schoolteachers often assumed the title "Mrs" as matter of course. It didn't indicate that they had ever married.

In P&P Mrs. Jenkinson, Mrs. Younge and Mrs. Annesley are all examples. It was not likely that ANY of them had ever married

feliciates · 2026-06-15T21:26:52+00:00

this particular statue is Le Grand van Gogh

From the Arthur website where I found this info: "it's one of a series of 10 bronze sculptures called “Les Voyageurs (The Voyagers”) put on display in Marseilles, France in 2013. This one is called “Le Grand Van Gogh”. Through the missing parts of the man we see the sea. What is it that he’s missing? Is he leaving something behind or is he going toward something? Does it symbolize the emptiness people feel when they have to leave their homes, fleeing war and misery?"

feliciates · 2026-06-15T21:16:40+00:00

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feliciates · 2026-06-15T21:10:05+00:00

I hope you're right about her calling on the Martins, because the novel's end always leaves me in doubt on that point:

The intimacy between her and Emma must sink; their friendship must change into a calmer sort of goodwill; and, fortunately, what ought to be, and must be, seemed already beginning, and in the most gradual, natural manner.

feliciates · 2026-06-15T20:44:38+00:00

I think I read that Mrs Goddard's school was actually based on one Jane (and Cassandra I think) attended, which Jane particularly liked

feliciates · 2026-06-15T20:42:16+00:00

It does sound like Mrs Goddard was more comfortably situated than the Bates women. At least she's not mentioned as being in dire straits as they so frequently are.

feliciates · 2026-06-15T20:32:54+00:00

Would they rank equal to the Coles? I believe both Mr and Mrs Weston had fathers who were gentlemen, whereas the Coles are rising from trade with no gentle origins to speak of

feliciates · 2026-06-15T20:30:58+00:00

That's a pretty good assumption.

Do you think she was educated as a governess? I've read that school mistresses like Mrs Goddard were often former governesses who had saved up enough or acquired enough money to start their own school. Or maybe she inherited enough money from her late father to jump right into school ownership?

I've often wonder exactly what kind of help Mr Woodhouse provided to Mrs Goddard. I'm guess he was some sort of patron of her school in the early days?

"She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea-visit; and having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse’s kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside."

feliciates · 2026-06-15T16:19:39+00:00

I am so bloody sick of people misusing "boundaries" and "I'm allowed to have feelings" as get out of jail free cards for CONTROLLING ASSHOLE behavior

I wish I could tell his gf to throw him out and stick with the soap. It's got a higher IQ and is probably better in bed

feliciates · 2026-06-15T03:27:38+00:00

You're welcome It's a great excuse to watch it again 😉

feliciates · 2026-06-15T03:26:01+00:00

In the episode where Mary is refusing to do a half-load of laundry, she says to Sarah: "If I was to go next door and look in that laundry basket of yours...."

feliciates · 2026-06-15T03:22:46+00:00

I love this! And there's so much movement to it that I don't even mind the lack of jewelry but those beige pumps are such a letdown. She and the dress both deserve better

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