So, I was just looking through our employee handbook here, and apparently you can only get flex time or work from home is if you have kids. Can that possibly be legal?

...I have no idea. It sounds like it shouldn't be, and yet...I suspect it could.

I agree with meara- unfair, but probably legal. I mean most employers pay out more for health insurance for people on a family plan because they pay a percentage of insurance cost. My uni actually used to give everyone the same $$$ amount, and I got my insurance free, but they decided that that was unfair.

Happy birthday sarameg!

I am going to go against the tide and vote conventionally attractive for that young woman. I think to merit the term "unconventional" she needs to have one feature that might be considered unattractive by at least a solid minority of the population.

I am going to go against the tide and vote conventionally attractive for that young woman. I think to merit the term "unconventional" she needs to have one feature that might be considered unattractive by at least a solid minority of the population.

Seems like there needs to be a generically attractive category.

I'd go with conventionally attractive, too, with the add-on of "very pale and way too skinny". Her eyes nudge her towards unconventional, but I'm hoping it's just the picture that makes them look like corpse eyes.

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Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street's function, or the economic activity taking place within it. Gropecunt, the earliest known use of which is in about 1230, appears to have been derived as a compound of the words "grope" and "cunt". Streets with that name were often in the busiest parts of medieval towns and cities, and at least one appears to have been an important thoroughfare. Variations include Gropecunte, Gropecountelane, Gropecontelane, Groppecountelane, and Gropekuntelane. Although the name was once common throughout England, changes in attitude resulted in it being replaced by more innocuous versions such as Grape Lane.

"appears to have derived"? Ya think?

I shuffled!

The results:

Heavens A Lie - Lacuna Coil

So Cold - Breaking Benjamin

Now Soon Is Now? - The Smiths

Normal Like You - Everclear

Come Sail Away - Styx

I think I hit 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s. One 60s song from shuffling up a straight.

I am going to go against the tide and vote conventionally attractive for that young woman. I think to merit the term "unconventional" she needs to have one feature that might be considered unattractive by at least a solid minority of the population.

Yeah, me too. I think the photograph is odd but that her beauty is fairly standard. (And what's up with her name? I wouldn't be able to say it aloud without adding "de Paul Society")

Seems like there needs to be a generically attractive category.

You mean to indicate 'generally attractive but not at all interesting'?

Seems like there needs to be a generically attractive category.

You mean to indicate 'generally attractive but not at all interesting'?

I was thinking "generically attractive" = "Barbie."

I vote pixie for the woman.

I am in pretty major disagreement territory with mac's therapist. He is not bringing home homework from his summer program and he is lying about it. Now, if I had my way, he would either have gone to a summer program with no academic element, or there would only be classroom and no homeowrk given, but this is the program he INSISTED he attend. But he is there and the other kids do the work and he is lying about it. I feel I should have some reaction to that, she says no let it go, no consequences. How is that not reinforcing the lying? anyone havce lying mcliar toddlers at some point? how did you address it?