IntenseDebate - hopelessshade

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 0 replies · +7 points

Facebook's Recommended Groups algorithm has been on a terrifying bender lately. I've gotten all kinds of hideous Meninist style groups, in addition to Trump supporters and I don't understand! What could I possibly have done to them?!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +1 points

A. I cannot find how to add myself
B. I have already found someone I know/knew IRL

9 years ago @ The Toast - Training My Service Do... · 1 reply · +11 points

I gotta tell my cats that they're in training as MS cats. They'll blink at me superciliously but I think this is an important next step for Disability Animals. Right??

9 years ago @ The Toast - Training My Service Do... · 0 replies · +18 points

My grandpa is actually the one with the fake vest pretending his rottweiler is a service dog so he can take her places that would otherwise not allow the "bully breeds." Specifically motels, I suspect--they're on the road a lot. He's stickin it to the maaaan!
But yeah, he probably got the idea from that forward, like a good Fox news grouch.

9 years ago @ The Toast - On Not Being a Mom or ... · 0 replies · +21 points

"But when I met a person whom I trusted would share the work with me, I knew I wanted to do it."

I am not nearly in your position but this had the ring of solid gold truth in my heart and was soothing to hear.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +44 points

The point is not whether white Alonzos exist but more are there any Hispanic characters for young me to see herself in and the answer was no.

Probably didn't help that all my books came from my mother and my unpronounceably Spanish last name came from my father...

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 6 replies · +67 points

When I was young, I assumed Almanzo was Hispanic. After all, a guy at school was Alonzo, and that's not far off, and Alonzo's definitely Hispanic, so why shouldn't Almanzo be? I definitely enjoyed the books more when I imagined that Almanzo and Laura's relationship looked like my parents'. They handwave his odd name in Farmer Boy, don't they, but I ignored it.

I remember being horrified when I stumbled across that photo on the wikipedia page.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Happy Beverly Crusher ... · 0 replies · +11 points

fambly med is important, too many people go into Highfaultin Specialities
i dont know why ive adopted this tone but believe you me

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +6 points

oh gods this was our drunk movie of choice first year of college in my House. I cannot recommend it. I cannot NOT recommend it. Vive le Quebec libre!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 0 replies · +6 points

My grandparents are Gerry and Jeanne, which is confounding to poor interlopers like my husband who had to spend a while memorizing which was the G and which was the J.

Gerry/Jerry? Jean(ne)/Gene?

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