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10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +14 points

AHHH SO HAPPY NICOLE IS BACK I LOGGED IN TO COMMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS!!!

Also, now that I'm here, I would like to note that Lady Gaga's Sound of Music medley made both my parents tear up so that was adorable to watch (granted, they're very susceptible to being impressed by her because her stylist is a dude I went to high school with but still).I have actually never seen the movie or even the horrible live version on NBC so I had no thoughts other than Julie Andrews is lovely.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Terrifying Screenshots... · 1 reply · +47 points

Oh, man, these ladies bring up some great points. I think I'll mention a few at our M&M since we've had so many postpartum hemorrhages lately. We could probably just start chopping off placenta like it's an especially undercooked brisket and shoving it in women's mouths!

Jesus Christ. I mean, I'm training in a pretty relaxed hospital with direct integration of midwives in labor management, but every single one of these made me want to cry/barf. Women die, y'all.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! And Book... · 1 reply · +4 points

I went to the Show Caves sites and they have a whole section on "Meet the Dinosaurs" and it turns out they are my kind of people. They have created one of the world's largest dinosaur parks! (fingers crossed I meet Ian Malcolm when I visit...)

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! And Book... · 10 replies · +37 points

I love Judge Judy more than I love most things. I went out with an old roommate and her nursing friends, and apparently I talked about Judge Judy so much that night that my number is saved under "Judge Judy" in their phones now.

Also, my husband is really, really into exploring the outdoors in ways that I feel are perhaps unsafe, but luckily his claustrophobia prevents him from getting really into diving/caving. To further encourage this my sister bought him a book about people dying during cave diving excursions last Christmas. She is a treasure.

P.S. Have we already discussed the Texas Monthly article about the bank robbers? Because that was BANANAS. http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/the-family-that...

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup and Trium... · 3 replies · +17 points

So I was actually living in Alpine (the county seat of Brewster County, the county in which Terlingua is located) in February and it was a HUGE deal. Those towns (Marfa, Terlingua, Alpine, Fort Stockton, Presidio) are so intimately intertwined, and everyone really does know almost everyone. Plus, La Kiva (and Starlight Theater) were THE places to go in Terlingua.

It's very hard to understand how incredibly bizarre and incredible Terlingua is until you actually see it, just because it truly is a tiny community that sprung up in the desert around an old mining ghost town. Everyone there has been completely lovely to my husband and me everytime we've gone out there, but there is definitely a "type" of person who chooses to make their home in such a place. For example, a man from Terlingua once described to me his plans to turn his ranch into a home for young girls, so that he could "raise them up right" and train them in "the right kind of skills." He was very adamant that no young men be allowed on his ranch, because they were corrupting influences and might impregnate the young girls before he could. So. It's a weird place.

11 years ago @ The Toast - She Said, She Said: Ad... · 0 replies · +13 points

YES to the "don't use your sucky dad as an excuse to do any work ever" because that is so incredibly selfish and unfair it makes my vision go blurry at the edges from sheer rage.

Also, most of my sister's and my childhood memories from ages 9-15 were sitting around picking up nails or whatever while my parents literally taught themselves how to build our new house. Granted, we all had to get a few extra tetanus shots but overall, it was really fun and there are SO many home improvement/design projects that parents can both teach themselves easily and do with their kids!

UGH this dude just doesn't want to bother to see how he can contribute to make sure SHE isn't a grump/miserable.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +5 points

I'm pretty sure there was a fairly large dust-up regarding morning prayer in schools right before we transferred from the DFW area to my tiny town, and so by the time we got there it was all, "this JUST a moment of silence, pray or don't pray, that's fine, you can read Animorphs during this time too, whatever."

Then again, recent lawsuits involving this school district involve a forced public outing of a girl and her softball teammate and then some desegregation issues so it's not like they are in any way a model of how to run a school district.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 12 replies · +41 points

This exact thing just happened in my hometown (except it was a 16-foot one-eyed python named Muffin) and everyone on that street freaked out and either left or barricaded themselves in their house until it was found.

The best/worst part is that the owner was so distraught and kept reassuring everyone Muffin was totally harmless and to please not shoot it. When they found Muffin the newspaper published a reunion photo and it was obvious the owner was so happy he was near tears.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +28 points

If my 98% Southern Baptist hometown in deep East Texas can manage to keep religion out of its public schools, then no other public school district has any excuse for their blatantly illegal behavior. Pull it together, Utah.

This has nothing to do with public schools, but I noticed the bookstore at Zion National Park only had books about the Mountain Meadows massacre written by active members of the Mormon church, which kind of seems like a conflict of interest.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

Right?! It's nuts. And that's not even counting how basically all of my teammates tore at least one of their ACLs.

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