no boys allowed in the room!!!!

I explain things because that's how I _learn_. It's, like, _the_ most single effective method of learning.

I totally get this. As in, it's something I do, and it's something a number of my friends do as well. And, being on the receiving end, does make me more self-aware of how I am, and how I can be annoying, maybe?

One of my friends that does this a lot to me, I will sometimes get frustrated because he is very loquacious. And I will ask him, "Does it matter that I am here listening to you?" As in, I am present for this conversation, but it is mostly his monologue and I'm supposedly the audience, but, am I really? Or ... as the audience, do I get some agency here? Can I like, fast forward through some of it?

Need to catch up but I am glad to have been called out because I didn’t see that my comment could be interpreted as non-affirming of Kate’s gender identity. I sincerely did not mean that and really apologize for angst I caused

One of my friends that does this a lot to me, I will sometimes get frustrated because he is very loquacious. And I will ask him, "Does it matter that I am here listening to you?" As in, I am present for this conversation, but it is mostly his monologue and I'm supposedly the audience, but, am I really? Or ... as the audience, do I get some agency here? Can I like, fast forward through some of it?

― sarahell

i mean as long as the other person is clear that they don't actually need me to listen or respond i'm fine with it. my primary calls it "rubber-ducking". i guess it's something programmers do, they try to explain their code to like a rubber duck on their desk and that's how they manage. nobody actually listens with rapt attention to every single thing their partner says, right?

What’s up with Lume deodorant … I feel like I am missing something?

Or am I the only one here who gets lots of ads for this product?

i get them too and i totally dont get it

It’s apparently great at preventing swamp crotch

*sad lols*

https://imgur.com/a/P7cTAlP

Hopefully that link works

My period AND period shits AND chest congestion? Did I inadvertently offend an old Romany woman? And just as the Oscar bait started trickling into my local theaters!

ugh that sucks j.lu

for me the hilarity that i have been grumpy about for a while now is that oh hey guess what my fasting blood sugar jumps 20 points when i get my period because that is apparently “just a common thing that happens”

but how the fuck am i supposed to adjust for it when i’m perimenopausal and have zero chance of predicting when i’ll start anymore. 2 weeks? 4? 8? who knows weee

Maybe I am late to the party so to speak but apparently there is a trendy phrase “girl math” that makes me livid when I am reminded of it

yes hate it

oh my god yes, I get infuriated

I have to google that but I've been putting it off because I am sure it will give me the rage

Is it like "girl dinner" which is also awful unless you are referring to like a 5 year old's chicken tenders

pretty much

Relieved to not come across most of these trendy words unless my students bring it up. Or I see it on Ilx.

Lol … chicken tenders with a place setting for a stuffed toy and the family pet … otherwise ughhh