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8 years ago @ The Toast - If You Knew Emily ... · 0 replies · +3 points

This thread has made me feel like I'm coming home. You guys are the best.

As for whether or not Barney & Valancy were doing it, have any of you ever read The Ladies of Missalonghi? It's by Colleen McCullough and is so much a copy of The Blue Castle that it's actually a little weird... it's like McCullough decided to write Barney/Valancy fanfic but set it in the Australian outback because she'd never been to PEI.

Anyway, Missy & John Smith have LOTS of sex, so that could be an acceptable substitute if you're into that. (Spoiler alert: my 6th grade self was totally into that.)

9 years ago @ The Toast - Children's Stories Mad... · 1 reply · +2 points

This is quite soothing. Thank you.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Children's Stories Mad... · 7 replies · +69 points

I'm going to go re-read about my boyfriend Idris Elba again, because now I am so mournful and kind of want to find a little red hen to hug.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Watership Up · 0 replies · +2 points

If only I'd connected these dots 10 years ago... so much therapy I'd have saved myself. Robin Hood as Fox -> Han Solo ->Justin from NIMH = HOLY SHIT.

10 years ago @ inprogress - I Am Not Lucky · 0 replies · +1 points

YES. I have three boys and like you, we've spent their young lives teaching them how to behave nicely, both at home and out in the world. And we hear All. The. Time. about how 'lucky' we are. Same with food - none of them are picky eaters, and if I had a nickel for every person who marveled at my luck I could take them all on a nice vacation.

It's not luck. It's years of patient (usually, ha ha) effort. It's setting limits and insisting they abide by them. It's deciding which battles to fight and then not backing down.

I loved this post.

12 years ago @ http://ctmofo.com/ - Ask The Mofo: \"My Dog... · 1 reply · +1 points

I may edit out the swears and give this to friends of ours - a very nice retired couple who have an 18 month old standard poodle that barks, constantly, all the time. The couple means well but after spending two days with them, I totally know why the dog barks as much as it does - they obviously read a book or perhaps took a couple of classes on clicker training, because they have all the accoutrements (clicker, treats, plastic bottle full of pennies) - but they use them all wrong. Or sometimes all at once with a 60 second time period, which confuses ME. And I'm not a poodle.

12 years ago @ http://ctmofo.com/ - Bark Off: Rip Off · 1 reply · +1 points

That... is quietly brilliant. "Here is a sound-making device. It makes a sound you can't hear, ever. It doesn't have any way to indicate that it is, in fact, making a sound. Please give me $10".

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - A price must be paid�... · 11 replies · +275 points

I love this - and not necessarily because of your ultimate decision. I love this because of the care & attention you've obviously paid to this.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Men Watch TV Like This... · 0 replies · +1 points

Wow, I hadn't seen the original review... now I'm all spluttering and annoyed. To suggest that I should be off watching Sex & the City instead of reading Martin's complex series of books... bah. Faux-literati elitist snobbery of the most baffling kind. And you're quite right, her "defense" is no defense at all. I'm not even sure why she bothered writing it.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Long may she run? · 1 reply · +4 points

I was heavily involved in the campaign to elect the Green candidate in my riding last time, and I can tell you that the wide-eyed protestations of Ms. May to the effect that "we weren't trying to elect the leader" are utter hogwash. Yes, the party was trying to make sure she got her seat. Every other candidate in NS was lobbied continuously to abandon campaign efforts in their own ridings in order to travel to Central Nova and try to get her elected. The campaigns of individual candidates across the country were not well-supported. And when things were looking reasonably promising, Ms. May advocated strategic voting with barely a week to go until the election, throwing everyone under the bus.

Needless to say, I'm not voting Green this time around - or again in the foreseeable future. The party & Ms. May's inner circle have systematically discouraged all moderate voters from getting involved - and their newly-released campaign platform advocates cutting defense spending in half to pay for a laundry list of initiatives. They are losing relevance at a rapid rate and I can only hope that when she *does* lose her riding, the party finally wises up and tosses her out.

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