Good luck Dana, that is a lot to consider.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Aug 07, 2019 8:11:42 am PDT #10261 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
shrift - Aug 07, 2019 8:23:15 am PDT #10262 of 30019
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
The person I spoke to with the full-time job yesterday did warn me that the culture is "debative", and it's hard to know if that means healthy debate or just people being assholes.
I don't know if I can do any Silicon Valley recon for you, but let me know if I can help. I could see if I can find any colleagues who work(ed) there.
Holy crap, today's Ask Polly
Holy crap those batshit, straight-up murderous relatives, but also, someone else out there who has a weird mushroom allergy! Since it's not a common allergy, most menus don't bother to mention the presence of 'shrooms, and it can be maddening when you're trying to avoid them and squinting at ingredients lists.
My Aer Lingus Dubin to San Francisco flight had mushrooms in both meal options, so I had to ask for a spare vegetarian meal that luckily wasn't using mushrooms as a meat replacement.
Steph L. - Aug 07, 2019 8:25:39 am PDT #10263 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Holy crap, today's Ask Polly
It is shocking how often that kind of question shows up in advice columns, but that is far above and beyond! (Except for the grandmother who kept giving the allergic kid peanut candy...)
Yeah, this is one of the more persistently malevolent ones. Great way to never, ever know your grandchildren (because why would any parent think it would be safe to allow their children around them).
While I realize that emotions and relationships are more complex than what I'm about to say, this is a case for burning it all down and salting the earth. (I know the letter writer said they've cut off their family, but she feels guilty about it. BURN DOWN THE GUILT.)
meara - Aug 07, 2019 8:27:57 am PDT #10264 of 30019
Yeah, wow, that is cuckoo!
msbelle - Aug 07, 2019 8:30:33 am PDT #10265 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I hope the letter writer's husband just sends them the column.
Connie Neil - Aug 07, 2019 8:31:01 am PDT #10266 of 30019
brillig
I just subscribed to the Ask Polly column. I'm not at a common stage in life with most of the letters, but bluntness is comforting.
Tom Scola - Aug 07, 2019 8:34:04 am PDT #10267 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
That's Polly Esther, going all the way back to suck.com in 1996.
Jesse - Aug 07, 2019 8:51:46 am PDT #10268 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Suck.com was one of my first favorite websites! I'm pretty sure I made my first internet friends on girlson.com, though.
Calli - Aug 07, 2019 8:56:46 am PDT #10269 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
someone else out there who has a weird mushroom allergy!
One of my high school friends had a mushroom allergy. Not as common as nut or shellfish allergies, but not unheard of. Lord, those in-laws sounded toxic. (Literally.)
Amy - Aug 07, 2019 9:27:44 am PDT #10270 of 30019
Because books.
I feel bad for the couple (especially the mushroom-allergic wife, of course), but I have to wonder why her husband/their son can't just come and tell his parents that they're crazy. Or, like msbelle said, send them the column.
Is anyone else having a hard time with b.org on your phone? It won't load for me today.