We've been watching Girlbands Forever and I tried to apply this paradigm to girl groups but it doesn't work at all. All girl groups are innately doomed by the vagaries of the industry, regardless of coolness.

Ok, I have one dork (Tim) and one cool person (St Vincent), let's workshop the rest...

Work once sent two of my colleagues, both women, there for a work thing and one stayed on for an extra week as a holiday and the other came home first flight possible: guess which one was straight and which one a lesbian?

An extremely fair assessment! 😂

It's one of the most interesting differences between American and British English(es) to me. The subtle difference in how a band/team are conceptualised and how that shows in language, two logical but opposite reasons.

I code switch between "data are" (work) and "data is" (IRL) too, I feel that!

We use "is" in the context of multiple ppl even less than Americans do (we refer to bands & sports teams as plural - "Coldplay are playing a show tonight" or "Arsenal are winning" - whereas I've seen some Americans use the singular there - "Coldplay is playing a show", etc) so prob not one if us(?).

Yeah, it's a weird loophole where the marriage never happened but the kids are still legitimate. Truly, the motto of Catholicism is 'Don't think about it too hard' (source: Irish Catholic background, my v pious gran didn't believe in transubstantiation & didn't realise that was Massive Blasphemy 😅)

Having kids is no barrier to annulment if you can get the right combination of bishop and excuse. Ask Louis VII or Ted Kennedy.

Good point! Cos these weak ppl won't just complain about adverts but kids TV and other, more edifying, media too!

A podcast for people who don't know very much about Warhammer 40k *BY* some people who don't know very much about Warhammer 40k but are learning?

Then you need @fortythousandhurts.bsky.social

Enjoy a new battle nun & a new Tau ragging on a new Emperor's Child for how much trim they must paint.

Friends of Zack everywhere these days.

Everyone else should stop feebly signalling and do some exquisite lying down.

I will forgive A this only because she was a teacher for several years and that profession gives people a truly rotten relationship with health and work ethic. She's unlearning the rancid lies they force into teachers to avoid staffing schools properly (I have OPINIONS!!).