Nooooo 😭

Just need Rue to say the word...

Did we argue?

They'll do it anytime they can come up with a vote that will be popular with their constituents and which has no chance of actually being enacted. The only people old enough to remember what year-round DST was like are all those senators and me. It was tried in the '70s and it was a disaster.

I'd way rather have Standard Time year round than DST year round. But darkness at 5 PM is still a horror.

Modern Retail, whoever they r, says people typically keep an artificial tree 5-6 years. share.google/RIDJao1sJcb0.... Apparently a lot of people bought artificial trees during the pandemic, so it might be time to buy again if the prices were right. Me,I push my houseplants together to form a "tree."

Weirdly, I'm remembering an article by a female academic arguing that adults have the right to love who they love, that we shouldn't regulate these relationships out of existence. Don't know where or how I'd have picked up such a piece. Could be a false memory, but it's pretty firmly lodged.

You just need the right jacket

I'm sorry you were hurt.

When I got to college in the early eighties, I remember it being kind of a new idea that professors should not be hooking up or seeing spouses among, or hooking up with, their students. Part of that awful new political correctness thing

3/2 For a little privacy from subway paparazzi, please, it's sunglasses in all seasons. (See Rue's profile)

2/2 For slush puddles the size of Lake Balaton and the salt slicks in front of every doorman building, he'll need chicken skin leggings and booties.

No no no. For protection from fashionista side eye, he needs something like this. 1/2

Or they could just mute you, right? I haven't figured out any etiquette for this site other than that it is extremely gauche to share anything from the NYT unless it's to point out the total utter fascism of the publication and everything in it, and also Jamelle Bouie is God.

Manhattan, Mac. Jasper needs protection from Manhattan.

The headlines are a gift that keeps on giving: sometimes it seems to me that blue sky content is at least 50% NYT headline outrage. (And yes, unlike other commenters on this thread, I agree with you that valuable reporting continues, and that the disjunct between headline and content is a problem.)

Oh, now _that's_ a story. Your poor aunt 😂. And she can't have been the only person it happened to, either, since Hyacinth had to get dressed every week. I'm hoping I don't now wake up in a sweat in the middle of the night thinking I'm dressed like Rose -- or Onslow 😅

She was great. My stepmom met her in the late sixties somehow, and they became close friends for a long time. Pat took me to dinner and a show in the West End once, pre-Hyacinth, just before Candide, I think. No heads turned. I suppose ten years later she would have been mobbed.