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Mrs Whiggins

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  1. Not here, but I do have empathy for those who found it a source of anxiety and angst. I grew up in a multi-generational home and it was considered by those elders as one of the marks of a good student, ergo, it was done.
  2. It's not my area of study, but there was research that suggested that handwriting did assist children with sensorimotor skils and memory. Arts integrated curricula were included with this as well. Perhaps one can find other newer methods that would perform likewise, but handing children a piece of paper and a pencil is a lot cheaper so I have no objections to it. Plus, when the power grid fails and our infrastructure collapses, we'll all be educating the children in tents and encampments anyway.
  3. This is Surly and I'm pretty sure based on the dietary habits of most members, y'all don't have to worry about landing the plane--you're going to die of dysentery. The pilot in California crashed because he was in a hurry to get the cinchoa to the Inca king.
  4. Rep for the rec. We watched it last night, and it was worth it.
  5. I have tip #8 to add to your seven listed above: Make sure you teach them how to do the team shuffle around the vomit on the field (The Replacements) because too much red Gatorade in a young stomach on a hot day is a thing.
  6. If I ate one of those mass produced extruded cheese balls every time these guys (it's almost always the 'red-pilled *guns-eagle-freedom-Jesus-mansplaining' males that do this) tossed around the word "Marx" or "marxist," I would be as orange as the current leader of our country. It's such a tell, and I highly doubt they could truly connect the dots between economic and government (political) systems and the differences, histories, and nuances of each. But damn, they sure do know how to projectile vomit the talking points. *unashamedly stolen from @Brisketexan
  7. She's so good. One of my favorite films she was in later in her career is Shall We Dance (2004), starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. It was a remake of a Japanese film and while some of the reviews compare it as not as good as the original, there's plenty to enjoy with it if you haven't seen it. Spoiler comment about her character:
  8. In light of the regime discussing costs for pharma/drugs, perhaps this is RFK Jr's answer to that. If one contracts E.coli or cryptosporidium, weight loss will happen and one won't need that 'Fat Guy' shot.
  9. We've been eyeing the trailer for that flick as it keeps appearing via the algorithm and hadn't made up our minds (I'm one of those who doesn't like to quit a movie once I've started even if it's bad) so we may give it a shot. On a completely different track--I don't know if they're still in their rotation, but for a while the Dune movies were on Netflix and we watched them again and once more the cinematography was just so stunning.
  10. I miss Lobo too. I was taking a Surly sabbatical and returned to discover he had passed and it was just heart breaking news as he was such a annoyingly lovable rascal. In our family, the buttermilk may never be substituted with regular milk (the 'sour milk' type pancake). My youngest is a purist and as the mama, if I don't spoil 'em who will? As each child leaves the house, they always take the recipe with them. It's nothing special, that recipe, but for them, it's a reminder of home.
  11. My older brother lived in Chicago for a while when he was going to school and we went up to see him a couple of times and did the usual tourist things. Perhaps call her O'Leary. It's not sports related though. I'd suggest Mrs. O'Leary's first name, Catherine, but then you'd likely be surrounded by a buncha Grandmas at the playground.
  12. I'm living vicariously through y'alls food crops this season. We had and will have a number of things going on that made growing anything other than flowers problematic. I sowed some herb seeds among the flowers to have basil, dill, etc but bypassed the usual favorites of tomatoes, cukes, etc. Given that the temps are rising pretty high this week, good luck with your plots and throw some shade cloth on them if the plants are tiny.
  13. FIFY. But in this simulation, it's still not great.
  14. I agree. I mean when you think about it, even serial killers tend to be good at one thing. If DJT actually does have a narcissistic personality disorder, then his self-centeredness, lack of empathy, and boundaries leads to a facade wherein people who view him from their own lens ascribe traits to him that may or may not be in his possession. @ChiTownDoc referring to the way he communicates as a 'skill' is also apt.
  15. I thought Toobin's book was really good even though I read it long after it was published.
  16. A cultural norm that harms no one doesn't phase me, but now aren't you all wondering if early Americans went around at the barn raising meal grabbing cutlery from their neighbors hands if they held the fork in their left hand Continental Style?
  17. We saw Past Lives right after it won the Oscar and really liked it. The two leads are quite good and after we saw it, I started keeping an eye out for future projects they'd landed. It was mentioned on an earlier page that Teo Yoo had a role in the second season of The Recruit, (and he's been in some other works, too) but he's filming this summer in Vancouver for the upcoming Lionsgate big budget film, Karoshi , which includes Cynthia Erivo of Wicked fame and Isabel May. Greta Lee, who plays Nora, has been in quite a few tv & film projects since Past Lives debuted and secured the role of Eve Kim in Tron: Ares; scheduled for an October release. I think you captured the emotional impact of the film quite succinctly and the film deserved its Academy Award.
  18. The Mark Twain Prize award show honoring Conan O'Brien was surprisingly funny for the most part. We thought there might be some good stretches and there were. I won't spoil the punchlines, but some of the speakers were: Adam Sandler, Bill Burr, Stephen Colbert, Sarah Silverman, Kumail Nanjiani, Nikki Glaser, Will Ferrell, Andy Richter, John Mulaney, Reggie Watts, and David Letterman. We didn't see the original, so it was nice to catch it on Netflix.
  19. For the most part, I'm going to take this for the usual half performative-half market manipulation for which this regime is known, but I would like to register my grievance with the White House that I'm going to have a little 't' tomorrow and not a Tomorrow because it's Monday and nothing good comes of a Monday when you start adding random capital letters to words.
  20. It's pretty much open season now and it's escalating right as we head into summer....bookmark these comments below and return in September to see where we are.
  21. Perhaps this could go in the tariff thread but unemployment works fits here too. I'm with the wtf does *this even mean other than it's piss? *I understand that the "truthed" refers to his social media platform's name, but hearing that Bessant is in Geneva talking with China is supposed to make the unemployed feel optimistic?
  22. FIFY. Heard that NSF laid off another round of employees. Academia is facing some very real very bleak problems given that most states have reduced their portions of higher ed support. An MD-Phd scholar cannot rely on NIH funding for mental health as that was one of the areas with cuts. In the state of Texas, it is the teaching portion of the trifecta (teaching, academic research, and service) that brings in dollars and one of the reasons why tuition grew so high when the state cut out its support. However, what the *research grants fund are not insignificant and not meant to imply that there is no economic benefit to the universities, the local communities, the states, and the nation (not to mention the world at large). *Salaries (for post-doctoral positions, lab managers, PhD candidates, etc), supplies, equipment (this is often a pooled shared resource to save start-up funds), and doesn't include the cut off the top that the institution takes for utilities, maintenance, staff support, and so on.
  23. When an extremely destructive F5 tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma in 2013, the city received about $13 million from FEMA and another $52 million from HUD for a total of $65 million. The charity, Americares, was able to donate about $3 million. Since it's likely that HUD will be joining FEMA in the 'new phone who dis' category, and the state would have to pick up the tab were something so catastrophic were to recur, Oklahoma and every other state (pretty much all of them) had better start manufacturing bootstraps because they're going to need them.
  24. Someone going to tell ChubbsPeterson that his posting and arguing about a lost baseball game on a message board is....emotional? It's okay to admit it, Chubbs.
  25. Apparently the shooter told the lost driver to leave and the driver complied so yeah, firing a weapon is astoundingly stupid.
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