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Feline customer at butcher's shop:

Doggy gym workout: https://mobile.twitter.com/CuteEmergency/status/987713875058544640?s=09

When your drawing comes to life (dog): https://mobile.twitter.com/CuteEmergency/status/987756902900797440?s=09

Stop, drop and roll (corgi): https://mobile.twitter.com/CuteEmergency/status/987864838515970049?s=09

Check out these subwoofers (yes, it's a doggy video/gif): https://mobile.twitter.com/CuteEmergency/status/988038002697007104?s=09

Another tweet (not mine), two moms edition: My child's bff [best friend forever] has two moms. We talked about it. My daughter feels bad for her. I ask why. Child: Life must be REALLY HARD for her w/ 2moms. She probably has NO fun EVER and all her meals are veggies. Now, if she had two dads her life would be ALL THE FUN. I'm feeling a way. https://mobile.twitter.com/msshanitarenee/status/987825699124805632?s=09 Do you think the daughter is right that dads - even two of them - are more indulgent and easygoing?

This is not a euphemism. Anyone else heard of this? This was definitely the most bizarre thing I saw today. (I noped out of watching the video early on.)

Doesn't that limit the activities you can engage in?

Otherwise we might as well prohibit high schools from putting on any musicals, or limit them to musicals created prior to some arbitrary date. That's limiting and a little ridiculous. Are kids interested in musical theater going to have to wait until college to participate in it, or hope they're lucky enough to have a children's theater group in town like the one my daughter participated in? (She got to do Big, The King and I, The Sound of Music and High School Musical.) If they charge money for performances, they have to have rights clearances from Samuel French or whomever. What that gets you in terms of cuts I don't know, but I'm sure the rights administrator is aware that they happen.

Thanks for letting us know and for the new/more prominent link.

Other people quote stuff without quotation marks all the time. Also the heading and link weren't clues? Sometimes I don't have the spoons to put in the usual amount of effort into being perfectly clear. In that regard, I guess I did take a non-female approach to posting. *waits for tomatoes*

Try hitting "report" to ask the question if you haven't already. It's the surest and quickest way to reach the mods. As originator of the thread, it would be too self-aggrandizing for me to ask the mods to pin it, even on someone else's suggestion.

Oh yah, that's the spot (yes, it's another cat) https://mobile.twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/986631772527124480?s=09

Demanding cat. https://mobile.twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/986677044942659589?s=09

Cat leaps into snowbank, thinks better of it. https://mobile.twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/987134302549938176?s=09

I was left cold by the touring production of Les Miz and loved a local high school's production. And in terms of staging and performance, that high school production (with maybe one exception) was as good or better than the professional one. The set wasn't as elaborate, but that was an advantage; I found the touring company's rotating set alienating rather than helpful. My daughter's high school put on a production of Rent about 8 years ago. It may have been shorter, but the gay aspects of the show weren't cut, and couldn't have been.

Yesterday I asked my 12-year-old son what other kids at school think about him having 2 dads. His response: They don’t care but they don’t like how I’m immune to “Yo Mama” jokes.

All the best to you, Funguy. I don't know whether having had a long-term run-in with chronic pain helps or hurts (or a little of both), but at least being a doctor should help in understanding and following your treatment protocol.

There are good reasons to let straight people monopolize pickup lines. They're embarrassing. What's wrong with the relatively direct approach, like "come sit with me" or "wanna leave?" (then you can discuss specifics) Perhaps the funniest pickup line I've heard lately is "do you know [name of band]?" from a member of that band, but it's silly - anyone who knows the band would almost certainly recognize him.

That freedom includes not having to balance family and work obligations in the same manner. Sure, gay men have other family - parents, aunts and the like - but they generally require less time and less intensive time. Caring for ill and elderly relatives is an exception, but that still has more choice baked into it than parenting, which has certain minimum expectations that are subject to government enforcement.

I was also referring to her choice to have a family and be a stay-at-home parent. Sure, economic privilege feeds in, but plenty of working-class and middle-class families without nannies, etc. cobble together childcare arrangements with family and friends in order to work part-time or get respite, and from what I know Barbara did the child-rearing herself. She was at the side of her only daughter Robin who was hospitalized and died of leukemia at a young age. While gay men aren't foreclosed from having families, it's more effort and many don't bother or aren't interested, including, based on responses to a thread posted by @FreshFluff, a number of forum members. (Responses could be skewed, but the vast majority evinced no interest in having or adopting children.) That's what I meant by not walking in her shoes. If one isn't interested in having a family, an exhortation to make time for family is irrelevant.

Wait, you listen to NPR, Kippy? I thought NPR was the devil as far as people of your political persuasion are concerned.

I was a Bob Edwards fan and dislike Steve Inskeep both as an announcer and reporter, so the switch wasn't an improvement.

She's a complicated person, like most of us are. I appreciated her gumption and didn't appreciate her cluelessness. Stacked up against her insensitivity about Katrina is her personal kindness to and interest in the domestic staff at the White House. She came from a class and era that believed rich people had a duty to give back to the wider community, that while they earned or were entitled to their privilege, they also had a responsibility to make the world a better place. With a few exceptions, like Warren Buffett and Bill and Malinda Gates, that's pretty much gone. But all this talk of accomplishments and what not are giving me hives. I actually agree with her and with those who interpret her words as advocating balance, where work doesn't preempt family time or seeing one's children grow up and attending their games or plays. And the denigration of relationships over career and personal accomplishments comes across as a lowkey dig against women, against whom the deck is stacked at work and if they are mothers are encouraged to put family first and act as unpaid child care worker, chauffeur, coach, etc. It's a little ridiculous to be criticizing someone else's life and words when you haven't, and aren't interested in, walking in her shoes.

I liked the original. After Barr became a Trumpista, there's no attraction there. Other than a payday, why?