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Gif time! Including a bonus Sam gif.

As a Jamie stan, this week was a bit tough for me. But I loved Claire and Jenny getting their badass on. And hearing the story behind the bracelets Claire got last week. I wondered if something was up with Murtagh and Jamie’s mom when he talked about Claire having the same eyes as Jamie’s mom in “The Wedding”. Read more

As much as I loved the Thelma and Louise road trip and hearing Murtagh’s back-story, I thought this episode was kind of boring. Then you have that bastard Dougal who has never had Jaime’s best interest in mind trying to to take advantage of Claire. Dougal probably only had Jamie marry Claire because he thought she… Read more

I actually loved this episode. I loved the woman were ballsy, loved that they were like MILKING YOURSELF IS A THING. I even loved the absurd traveling show. Read more

I just found out that one of my friends, a new daddy, has to go back to work after 5 weeks in paid paternity leave. I was puzzled. I thought FMLA gives you the right to 12 weeks unpaid, why don’t you take them? I asked him. He said in his firm everyone gets 5 weeks paid and he could ask for the other 7 unpaid but then… Read more

::the cries of a thousand whiny MRA man babies come together in unison:: Read more

Not only is it the right thing to do for employers to offer maternal leave, but it’s also good business sense. What’s easier? Losing an experienced employee after she has a baby and having to train a new employee up from scratch, or giving an experienced employee time to recover before she can come back and be 100%. Read more

Just want to state this. "People should not have children if they cannot afford them!" Well, as a small business owner-"Business should not have EMPLOYEES if they cannot afford them." That means you should provide a decent salary, health benefits and paid time off, especially for family/medical related issues.
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About 15 years ago my Japanese friend took her visiting mother to Hooters for Mother’s Day. Apparently they really liked the wings. The waitress brought them a free pie.
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Seriously, Livinia, if you ask me one more time if I want to get sloppy on sherry and trawl for stevadores....

For those unfamiliar, McAllister’s response to his district’s absolutely awful drug addiction problem (heroin use is staggering in Franklin) was to introduce legislation that would mandate drug testing for those on public assistance. Read more

I’ve driven by this place many times when it was still standing. I always planned on stopping to check it out and take pictures, then before I knew it, it was gone. My ex-bf had been inside a few times and one of my friends took several videos of the interior at night. It was a foreboding place even when it was… Read more

Freeman was the inventor of the “ice pick lobotomy,” where a tool is inserted through the tear-duct, destroying the prefrontal cortex of a patient’s brain by scraping or cutting most of the connections away, ostensibly to cure the patient of mental illness. Dr. Freeman, a white man, performed between 150 to over 200… Read more

I FINALLY figured out what bugs me about 1840s fashion plates! (yes, I look at 19thc fashion plates often enough that this is an ongoing issue.) Nobody has a goddamn CHIN! Like, yes, the 1830s were bonkers (the sleeves really were that big, and the hairstyles really were that ridiculous) but at least they had… Read more

Enormous doobie spotting.

Is that neck broken ?

Why does this woman have such a tiny head?