My mom had a stroke that was caught early, and she was this way in the first couple years afterwards. I had to ask her to stop talking to me so I could read a menu, and she was self-aware about it. She was like “I’m sorry. Just tell me. I just have to speak my thoughts into existence these days.”

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I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s offensive, but I can agree it’s disrespectful. Respect is shown by the lengths someone goes through to demonstrate someone/ something is important and held in high regard.

Examples:

When you are talking to someone you respect, you demonstrate it by making a point to convey that you are listening to them and thinking about what they are saying.

When a tragedy happens, we often show respect by holding a moment of silence where we interrupt whatever we are doing to hold a moment to think about the victims.

Similarly, a traditional way of demonstrating respect for people’s contributions in a given field is through an awards ceremony where attendees both given their attention and dress in formal attire to mark the significance and importance of the event.

But I don’t understand why she didn’t just finish her term without running for reelection? Is it so they hold a special election to get a Republican in there they think can hold the seat in November?

I think you are wrong about how off-putting your tears are.

In my experience, when someone loses someone they care about, it is comforting for them for other people to be sad and feel the loss as well. I think that if instead of focusing on your own tears and your embarrassment when you get emotional, if you still focused on the other person while you were crying, they wouldn’t feel obligated to comfort you. Then they could just continue to share with you and be comforted by the fact that you empathized and were moved.

When my brother and SiL had a stillborn baby, I went to visit them. They genuinely seemed somewhat relieved to see me crying while we visited together.

Sigh. Fair.

17 year olds still tend to be physically less developed… But even if they’re not, if you’re more than a handful of years older than the 17 year old, having a sexual relationship with them is still exploitative since they’re still mentally (both emotionally and reasoning abilities) immature.

When women are stripped of personhood, then the actions of these rapists and sex traffickers haven’t actually hurt any people.

Let’s be real. The right is “protecting kids from trans people” because they think transexuality is socially contagious and they don’t want to fuck trans kids.

This is it. I don’t think they have particular respect for the offspring of other wealthy elites either, they just know there is power and money protecting/ defending the children of the elites if anything happens to them. These people don’t have respect for anything but themselves. They’ve just gotten where they are by having a keen instinct for self-interest and preservation.

TBF, Americans say Loo-ten-unt. I don’t know where the British got the F, but you can’t use the meme from the post for it!

Apparently “coronel” was first borrowed from French. No surprise there I guess, with the superfluous vowel in the middle.

Now try: “Colonel”

As a native speaker, I think it’s orders of magnitude worse.

The whole reason China winning would be bad is because of their surveillance state ensuring no one gets around their curtailment of civil liberties…

Reminds me of this other terrible dystopian idea I saw the other day: https://nz.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-announces-plan-control-182840080.html

Glad billionaires think they can steal the sun and sell it back to us now.

He got cancelled for sexual assault. It just happened to be sexual assault of a man.

If I like the show, I will read the plot of the entire series. I will keep watching it, but my husband still hates it.

I despise watching shows as they come out because I can’t stand being subject to their suspense building.

Maybe? An ex from NC introduced me to putting Sweet Hot Mustard on summer sausage + cheese + Ritz cracker, and damn. It added like, 3 points in tastiness (on a 10 point scale).

Maybe they thought it was like throwing a smoke bomb, and they could ghost while it clears.

Thank you!

Sounds like the centrists are starting to lose their nerve once their constituents start suffering. That is one of my theories of how the shut down ends.