Open Thread for Personal Stuff: October 2014 Dog Walk Dog Edition

… is it weird that I (as a kid in my 20s) find two middle-aged ladies covertly sharing links to fanfic under the guise of “from my friend to your friend” kind of adorable?

Awww

::shuffles feet::

😉

So, yes please, kittehserf, I would like your email. I’m going to assume that you have access to mine, by virtue of being a mod?

Yee-haaaa! Yes, I do, I’ll send you a message!

WWTH, ALL the good luck! ::hugs::

PoM, French toast for dinner, yum!

French anything for dinner, yum … *cough*

I really wish I could get a pic of my cat with her tail puffed out for you, Kim. I call it her mischievous tail, because she only puffs it when she’s up to no good. She had it out a few minutes ago but I failed to get a pic.

Signed and forwarded!

Every fuckwit out there wants to destroy the Reef, it’s mind-boggling.

Or really early breakfast … ::blanch:: no, let’s call it dinner.

You’re stronger than me, I can’t manage anything but cereal for breakfast! 😀

😀

Lol, guess somebody wants a couch dress, kittehserf!

They’re a bit confused about where the potential illegitimacy comes in and who it affects in that article. Henry V’s line died out with Henry VI; they have no descendants at all. There’s a serious question about whether Edward IV was legitimate, as the records show the Duke of York was on campaign at the time he’d have been conceived. That means Elizabeth of York, Edward’s daughter from whom the current royal family is descended, had no claim to the throne. But it’s a moot point anyway; Henry VII was descended from the Beauforts, John of Gaunt’s illegitimate children with Katherine Swynford. When they were legitimised by Richard II, it was with the very specific restriction that they and their descendants had no claim whatever to the throne. On Henry VII’s paternal side, well, he was descended from Katherine de Valois (Henry V’s widow) and Owen Tudor, and I don’t know if there’s any record of them marrying. Henry knew all this, of course, and he claimed the throne by right of conquest, not by blood. Hell, the only reason the Lancastrian supporters turned to Mr-Watered-Down-Royal-Descent was that they’d nobody better left.

We had an earthquake centred around my suburb and felt across Melbourne this morning – just a teeny one by CA or NZ standards, 3.3, but enough for people to notice here.

I slept through it, as through one last Wednesday. (Well, if they will insist on coming at 6am, what do they expect?)

My thoughts exactly! 😀

Internet hugs, if you want them, weirwoodtreehugger.

Also, jerks stink!

That kitty really has some intimidating and adorable mind control laser eyes.

Okay, this little exchange I just had on a Jezebel sub blog is too delightfully hilarious not to share. It was on a post about toxic masculinity and how it hurts men and how that relates to feminism.

Agreed. Expecting women to sacrifice time and energy we very much need for ourselves to fix men’s problems for them is toxic masculinity. I’m happy to be supportive and be an ally to men who recognize patriarchy as harmful to them and are working to change it, but they’re going to have *gasp!* actually do the work themselves. I refuse to accept the notion that women should take a backseat to men in every aspect of life including feminism.

That was my comment. This was the reply.

fuck you. enjoy doing nothing to advance women’s rights

fixing toxic masculinity is the answer to most feminist issues but you dont want a fix

you just want attention

fuck off and die

Because nothing says the belief that fixing toxic masculinity is an important issue like telling a woman to fuck off and die for expecting men to their share of the work!

Sorry. I’m sure no one cares but I thought it was hilarious.