I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.

Angel ,'Chosen'


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 - Jun 04, 2019 11:14:53 am PDT #8415 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Yes because sexualized messaging on infants' clothing is creepy not cute. #HumorlessBitch #ButReally

(And to be clear, I mean we should get rid of the existing onesies that assume all babies are heterosexual horndogs. Because EW.)

SOOOO EW! I have a similar rant about dog clothes. Oddly gendered and often sexualized which is so BIZARRE.


Toddson - Jun 04, 2019 11:28:48 am PDT #8416 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

A number of people in town were a little confused when some bars had signs up saying, "No Onesies" ... until someone announced a "Onesie Bar Crawl". ew


juliana - Jun 04, 2019 11:58:48 am PDT #8417 of 30019
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I also thought target was moving away from boy vs girl clothes.

I fucking wish. Peanut needs new clothes, and she's already in size 6/7, and she refuses to try on anything that's in the "boy's" department, and I refuse to buy her any shorts from the "girls" department, because the "girl's" shorts are a full 2 inches shorter in the inseam.

(I mean, I know they were moving away from gendered clothing only in babies, but I wish we could just do away with all of the gender split & have clothes listed by style and measurement.)


Jesse - Jun 04, 2019 12:02:01 pm PDT #8418 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

A number of people in town were a little confused when some bars had signs up saying, "No Onesies" ... until someone announced a "Onesie Bar Crawl". ew

At least I assume that means these [link] not baby t-shirts.


sj - Jun 04, 2019 12:05:27 pm PDT #8419 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Don't even get me started on gendered onesies. I was enraged about this through most of my pregnancy, and I went off on the Disney Store recently when they marketed their Endgame kids pjs as for boys. I've given into the short shorts, but I buy most of ltc's clothes and online. So she has no clue if they come from the boys or girls department. I can't imagine having to shop for clothes with her.


Beverly - Jun 04, 2019 12:07:04 pm PDT #8420 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I have had an informal diagnosis of ADHD (inattentive) for many years. It was actually a relief, as was the more recent one of ASD (and apparently, dyslexia!). It means there's an organic *reason* for behavior that got me labeled "doesn't live up to potential" "distracted and clumsy" and "gifted but lazy" all my life. Having those letters meant I wasn't willfully stupid--and that was a relief. Behaviors I'd been trying to either mimic or correct all my life and feeling inadequate about had an explanation that had nothing to do with deliberate shortcomings. It was a tremendous relief.

As were the realizations that I'm not weird and "wrong," I'm ace and bi. All those are valid ways to be, and I'm not alone in any of them.


Jesse - Jun 04, 2019 12:15:55 pm PDT #8421 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm glad to hear you feel that way, Beverly! That all sounds right to me.

And I apologize for stirring up all of the baby and kids' clothing rage for people who have to do this all the fucking time, from my very occasional attempt to buy baby clothes!


Dana - Jun 04, 2019 12:50:12 pm PDT #8422 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I am going to bed in clean pajamas!


Theodosia - Jun 04, 2019 1:00:00 pm PDT #8423 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I know how I felt when I found out about Sensory Processing Disorder, which explained so much about my being bothered by stuff -- for instance, the carbonation in soda, which will never stop being nasty to me. But at least I knew it wasn't just me being silly.


Sheryl - Jun 04, 2019 1:12:31 pm PDT #8424 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Yay, luggage!

Boo, pneumonia.