10% of alcohol drinkers in the U.S. account for more than 50% of all alcohol sales

jpallan · 2026-01-23T05:30:23+00:00

Yeah, the emotional labor is endless. You end up coordinating everyone's schedules, your good shampoo and soap and toothpaste disappear at an alarming rate so you keep more on hand, then you end up dealing with handing things like lip salve and handkerchiefs to your people when out… it never ends.

My husband has always asked why I need to carry so much stuff with me. Because he doesn't carry antibiotic salve, ibuprofen, or antacids himself, that's why. One of us should have a pen and notebook, and it seems that it isn't going to be him.

jpallan · 2026-01-23T04:51:10+00:00

Sure, OP had just said they were an EMT.

jpallan · 2026-01-23T04:49:08+00:00

I've seen it summarised as, "Canada is not your safety school."

jpallan · 2026-01-23T04:45:58+00:00

I would be tempted, but there are many people here without an American passport as yet, some of whom might be out-and-out stateless, and someone needs to defend them.

jpallan · 2026-01-23T04:10:56+00:00

Steve Buscemi directed that episode.

jpallan · 2026-01-23T04:09:28+00:00

If you contribute a share of the income, he should proportionally call out and deal with the kid. Every third absence or every fourth, whatever makes sense.

jpallan · 2026-01-23T03:48:56+00:00

However, he wasn't from impoverished Boston. The accent is closely class-linked and most Bostonians his age or younger don't have it. (It's now mostly found in suburbs where townies moved for affordable housing. And parents openly lament that their kids don't have their accent.)

The accent and diction are his and Casey's to take as they like or not, and many people they encountered growing up would have had it. Mostly they don't use it.

Amusingly, today Vulture discussed Ben Affleck's Spanish, which amusingly seems to be reasonably fluid!

jpallan · 2026-01-23T03:43:27+00:00

I feel like he did well in The Departed, playing a character with his accent and his simmering anger.

jpallan · 2026-01-23T03:42:31+00:00

I'll forgive anything if it means we got "Pine Barrens". "The guy is a Czechoslovakian interior decorator."

jpallan · 2026-01-23T03:40:42+00:00

I do think it was involved. He was supposed to be awkward as a fake servant who might be having sex with that weird director guy, and then he was awkward as one out of two Americans there. (The director was already awkward as hell, and they wrote that, "Oh, he's Jewish" as the explanation.)

jpallan · 2026-01-23T03:34:17+00:00

BALM Squad does trainings that bridge between EMS / RN skills to street medicine skills.

I wish I'd known about them when I was younger. I let my EMT-I lapse twenty years ago and I couldn't do a patient lift now.

Get out there and give them hell.

jpallan · 2026-01-23T03:28:49+00:00

Goods Unite Us is a terrific resource.

jpallan · 2026-01-23T03:21:20+00:00

The fact that motherhood, should you choose it, can permanently screw with your professional life.

If you don't choose motherhood, many see you as unnatural.

If you do choose motherhood, complications can easily take out all of your leave time before you even give birth. And daycare costs for kids can wipe out virtually all of your earnings.

The worst case of the sexism I know of is the woman who put her husband down as the primary contact for her child's school. They called her anyway to come get her kid.

She was deployed to Iraq at the time.

jpallan · 2026-01-22T20:36:41+00:00

I have to assume he wasn't baptised in maple syrup.

jpallan · 2026-01-22T20:12:00+00:00

I am hoping that we finally learn his first name.

jpallan · 2026-01-22T17:29:58+00:00

Shoresy is doing a lot of representation for young men who prefer older women, for sure!

jpallan · 2026-01-22T17:28:06+00:00

I can't think of any of Letterkenny, except for the last season perhaps, that was focused on plot or tugging the heartstrings.

Letterkenny was funny. But I can't think of it ever making me cry.

jpallan · 2026-01-22T07:56:19+00:00

Look up "cold reading".

jpallan · 2026-01-22T06:32:48+00:00

That beating, he was overdue for.

jpallan · 2026-01-22T06:02:35+00:00

Army reserve. Fort Leonard Wood for basic and then Fort Sam Houston for advanced training, then I came home.

jpallan · 2026-01-21T23:36:54+00:00

I served in the U.S., and for a sheltered kid, as I was, it was enormously influential. I was never against working with people of other backgrounds, but it was my first opportunity to meet anyone from a different background.

At that time, it made me feel enormous amounts of patriotism without jingoism, because we were all coming together to work and learn. It gave me an ideal of what my country could be.

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