Well Emmylou wrote the lyrics to it. And OMG it is a tearjerker so full of emotion.

I personally wouldn’t argue the main point (men are way more into the trappings of “romance” than women are) because that’s been my experience too. But there have been historical barriers to entry for women in the arts.

Kacey Muskgraves writes some sweet love songs (also more country like the other 2) .

Maybe cultural too, Spanish chanteuses sing a lot about love, more than I hear in other American pop music.

Jonie Mitchell Case of You

Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham

In music this tracks. There is the meta, the stadium shows and radio plays. Some good but I can’t tell how they are any better than other bands, some worse in some hard to define way, I think maybe in appealing to so many people, while it must have some quality, it also has to lack some quality though? Art shouldn’t be able to please everyone, I guess. If I can’t hate it while someone else loves it, is it art?

I remember telling my boss I would be on vacation, and when. He said I was supposed to request vacation time. I said ok, I’d like to request vacation time for these days I will be on the other side of the state, and not at work.

Absolutely not. I was doing Spanish learning on an app and laughed at the guy who moved from “una casa oscura en las afueras” to “un apartmento soleado en el centro” (from the dark and gloomy house in the outskirts to the sunny apartment in the center of town) and raised his spirits because that is also the way I feel about living.

I answered higher up, but sunscreen (I use mineral sunblock but the Korean chemical sunscreens are really good too) in the morning, and Retin-A (prescription 0.1%) at night are for sure the two best things you can do to keep your skin in good shape. Consistency really pays off. Even if you sometimes forget the sunscreen - putting it on day after day with a few misses is better than using it only when you think you need it.

Men’s face skin is slightly thicker than women’s but otherwise the same, and superficially the same.

Yeah guys get Botox.

I’m older lady and get seen as younger, but it’s years of Retin-A and sunscreen and fitness. Occasional peels, micro needling, hotshot skincare but I don’t love what Botox does to faces. If I was swimming in money I’d eventually get a facelift, but still would never want to do fillers or botox. Maybe the “biostimulatory” fillers that improve skin without adding volume if we ever get them here. Basically - I’m not opposed to interventions but specifically don’t like the Botox look.

To myself I look my age but good for my age, not younger. But others seem to interpret that as younger.

Pamela Anderson has had plenty of work done, just better work.

Bosnia would like to have a word.

By that standard, I ought not be able to use the card to buy booze (might give it to a minor or use for a Molotov Cocktail) a gun (obviously could use for crime) , and probably a million other things they let people buy with cards.

The sharpeners like that do a worse job than a good sharpening with a stone, but a better job than a half-assed sharpening with a stone (and really, which is more likely to happen on a weeknight?). I have knives from the restaurant, we used to get new ones weekly and send off last week’s to be sharpened, used a company Cozzini Knife Service - they aren’t designed to hold an edge as much as they are designed to be sharpenable. Have had one of them for almost 40 years now and I do run it through one of those pictured sharpeners pretty often if it’s not sharp sharp. Then wipe the edge, and hone, it works fine.

My parents had a big height gap, mom 163 in cm, dad 193. So the average is 178. My sister is 178cm, I am 175. I guess that’s why I expected my daughters to be the average of our heights. My brothers are 188 cm. So all of us are in between the heights of the parents but there’s a lot of “in between”.

My mom’s parents were actually both quite tall though, her mom my height, which for back then was really tall, she (my mom) told me she kept expecting to get taller than her mom like the rest of her friends and it never happened.

And my dad’s parents were both quite short, about 165cm and all their kids as tall as my dad, so obviously there are other factors. I have no idea why my dad and his brothers were so tall. Like nearly a whole foot taller than both their parents.

An anecdote. My kid was injured, and we had neither health insurance or money. Got x-rays done at a chiropractor who did them for us for $25, to take to the emergency room, so that they didn’t do them there, because that would have cost 10x as much.

And yes comic is only funny here, I’m sure. But is pretty funny.

I was complaining that I thought my kids would all be my height or a little taller because my ex was a little bit taller than me, so should they not be the average of our heights?

My kid who did genetics in school says no, the average result is add mom and dads heights, divide by 2 but then add 10cm for boys, subtract 10cm for girls. So if I wanted girls my height I would need a man taller than me. And boy children would likely end up taller than either of us.

Obviously it’s not an unbreakable rule, but a likely result.

Ha! I am probably old enough to be your mom and unfortunately for you my two straight daughters have partners. But worry not, medium height man of numbers. The benefit of being able to kiss without throwing my neck out, never having to move the seat in the car, I’m sure you can sell the benefits of same-height relationships to someone.

I am a 5’9" woman and prefer guys around my height, anecdotally all the women I know who want tall guys are themselves short.

It’s a weak preference but yeah I think since I go through life being around the same height as most guys I meet I don’t have such a strong association with height as a sex difference, if that makes sense.

That’s a funny comment, but yeah - I’m the average height of men in my area, and like to be outmassed. I do like guys to be bigger than me in some dimension, and it hasn’t ever been height (tall guys here all seem to date short women). I have been about the same height as the guys of all my 3 serious relationships (not unusual since that’s the most common guy height) but have been the more slender of us always.

Not just couples. I was aghast to learn that my fellow parents at work track the location of their teenage kids. All of them, except me. What the fuck? If I want to know where they are I text and ask.

What’s more - half of them also have it turned on in the other direction.

This is crazy to me. I want my kids to grow into adults and I’m not going to surveil them all the time. I think a kid of teen age has some reasonable expectation of privacy. We are close, I have a good relationship with my kids but not THAT close, I don’t need to know if you stopped at Wawa on your way home.

I met a guy when I was that age, adult but not old. Friends, hung out with other people. The minute I turned 16 he asked me out. I declined and it was no big deal but who does that?