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  1. Paisley

    The Gender Thread, vive la difference!

    I'd like to see an end to women (really, everybody) taking offense at every lapse in decorum, as if being offended was an accomplishment.
  2. Paisley

    The Gender Thread, vive la difference!

    Coming back with a technical question, the kind where you have to have some technical knowledge to even ask it, is how I let such people know I'm not some dippy blonde. And the look on their face is priceless.
  3. Paisley

    Embarrassment Of Using The Restroom When With Men

    The only bathroom in my last house was right off the dining room. It wasn't quite as bad as the bathroom in the Poo-Pourri ad, but close.
  4. Paisley

    Long time no see! Hope you're doing well. I see you're a mom now--congratulations!

    Long time no see! Hope you're doing well. I see you're a mom now--congratulations!
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  5. Paisley

    Canning

    Gluten-free food from the 90s used a lot of rice flour, making the products taste like cardboard. Store-bought goodies are a lot better now, and now that fat-phobia is waning and real foods are in, ingredients like nut flour, coconut milk, and eggs make the home-made goodies really tasty. Butter...
  7. Paisley

    Canning

    I know I complained in another thread about some fussy canning recipes, but the pickled onions and cabbage was wonderful with roast beef tonight.
  8. Paisley

    Canning

    I have a recipe for low-carb, non-dairy, crustless pumpkin pie (which is better than it sounds), but I'm not in the mood for it when it's 80s degrees. I also like pumpkin-sausage soup, but it's also a cold-weather dish. Maybe I'll just put the pumpkin in the fridge (my basement is 70 degrees).
  9. Paisley

    Canning

    I've been canning and freezing this year--pickles, tomatoes, marinara, eggplant, green beans, collards, and cabbage. I'll probably freeze the cantaloupe that sprung up on its own by the sidewalk. And even though it's barely September, I already have a ripe pumpkin I need to figure out a use for.
  10. Paisley

    Manhattan 1939 -- in Kodachrome!

    The men's hats would have blown off on the rooftop!
  11. Paisley

    Democracy

    When my mother became unable to take care of her finances, she had me take care of them. I got scam charges off her credit cards, switched a high interest rate credit card to a 0% interest one, recommended she have an estate sale after Dad died, and tried to protect her from predatory relatives...
  13. Paisley

    Democracy

    My boss at Adidas was from a family who'd been in Massachusetts since their ancestors got off the Mayflower. He moved because because of the price of housing--$300,000 for a very average house. I moved because of the cost of housing, too, but I think we're the exceptions. Everybody thought I was...
  14. Paisley

    Democracy

    Companies certainly seem more willing to move today. I wouldn't say they're more able than individuals or families, who for the most part don't have to worry about anything but themselves. Yet I read recently that Americans move far less than they did a few generations ago. My ancestors didn't...
  15. Paisley

    Democracy

    There's no lack of skilled workers; college STEM programs turn out two to three times as many graduates as the market can absorb. The problem is that employers don't want to train (and STEM degree programs don't train for specific jobs). Many companies only want to poach each others' employees...
  16. Paisley

    Democracy

    I once heard a stand-up comic from Detroit say that UAW stands for "you ain't workin.'"
  17. Paisley

    Democracy

    Some of the things I mentioned are no different. In the horse massage case, the state demanded a veterinary license (i.e., you had to be a veterinarian to massage a horse). Hair braiding required a cosmetology license, requiring hundred of hours of training at a cosmetology school, even though...
  19. Paisley

    Democracy

    Machines don't just come into being--people (presumably working for a wage, or looking to get a profitable patent) design them, manufacture them, sell or rent them, repair them, and run them. Remember how computers and machines were supposed to give us so much leisure time, but really didn't?
  20. Paisley

    Democracy

    There's also the issue of occupational licensing. Some states require licensing for African hair braiding, horse massage, flower arranging, interior decorating, giving tours, teeth whitening (using whitening kits from a drug store), and other things whose licensing was put in place by rent...
  21. Paisley

    Democracy

    I'm a college-educated middle-class white woman, and I don't even understand what present-day feminists are talking about. Most articles I read about the problems of women of my socio-economic background make me wonder where they find these people. Liberal-arts educated trust-fund babies in New...
  22. Paisley

    Democracy

    My grandmother bought her own homestead in Wyoming--must have been in the 1920s. I agree the interior West is more libertarian than the rest of the US.
  23. Paisley

    Hipsters, tourists, and "artisinal" devil crabs...

    Julia Child's videos taught me how to make hollandaise sauce and scrambled eggs. She was large, not very good-looking, and had a strange voice, but she had a nice show that taught people how to cook. It would never get on the air today.

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