I whip my hair back and forth

you're welcome.

you're welcome.

Is that the song my sister tried to convince me was good just because it was by a nine year old? Where have our standards gone?

Happy birthday, Sue!!!

~ma for Perkins. Go, superpowers!! (I was horribly dismayed when I didn't get any superpowers, so I hope you get them!)

Is anyone else familiar with hamburger fold as opposed to hot dog fold?

That's totally how we teach kids to fold the paper. They get it. It's an easy shorthand. It's not folding a hamburger or hot dog. It's the end result looking like a hamburger or hot dog.

Man, I got a gluten-free attitude all up in my face of "What, is it going to KILL you? Just eat a little! Why do you have to be so different all the time?"

This kind of baffles me, because I've never heard of anyone foregoing gluten for non-medical reasons*. And in some cases, the answer to "Is it going to kill you?" would be "YES THAT IS WHY IT'S CALLED AN ALLERGY YOU JACKASS."

*Well, I do know of parents taking their kids off gluten for completely pseudoscientific medical reasons, but it's still not a moral decision, you know?

Although I judge everyone, I judge you harder if you use Random Capitalisation or "quotes" for emphasis.

It's rich text. You have bold and italics at your disposal. You could even underline. Go nuts. But stop with the other stuff.

Man, I got a gluten-free attitude all up in my face of "What, is it going to KILL you? Just eat a little! Why do you have to be so different all the time?"

This kind of baffles me, because I've never heard of anyone foregoing gluten for non-medical reasons*.

Some people try it, because they think it will make them lose weight. Well, if you substitute other starchy carbs for wheat, that ain't happening. (GF bread has more carbs than bread with wheat. It's crazy.)

And in some cases, the answer to "Is it going to kill you?" would be "YES THAT IS WHY IT'S CALLED AN ALLERGY YOU JACKASS."

Right? What if it were peanuts, or fish, or...anything? I mean, DAMN. If you're not a doctor...scratch that -- if you're not MY doctor, you don't get to tell me what I should and shouldn't eat, and if I say a little gluten is going to make me sick, then STFU and stop badgering me to eat your fucking corn bread.

t edit And, not that I need to justify the GF, some days I can eat a little gluten -- say, the amount of pasta in a really vegetable-laden lasagna. Or a biscuit. Or a piece of pizza. But I can't eat all that in one day. So if I had gluten earlier in the day, I'm going to generally forgo it later that same day. And it ain't anyone's business why. If they pester me, I'm going to start describing in detail what happens in the bathroom after I eat too much gluten.

Hey, is what seems like random capitalization to us in writing from, say, the 17th-18th centuries actually some sort of thing passed down from English's Germanic roots?

That's totally how we teach kids to fold the paper. They get it. It's an easy shorthand. It's not folding a hamburger or hot dog. It's the end result looking like a hamburger or hot dog.

Huh, I wonder when that started. I told the trainer, when he said he learned it in elementary school, "Well, I'm old. We had black and white TV and three channels and were happy about it." No one said "Uphill both ways?" But I did get a laugh.

I sometimes like to use Pooh Case (aka Random Capitalization) for irony. But then, I wonder if people don;t realize that.

I heard of the hotdog vs hamburger fold for the first time a few weeks ago, also in the context of elementary school. Maybe it's a newfangled notion.

ita, not just any 9 year-old....Willow Smith! Really annoying song.