Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

[url=https://100hourboard.org/questions/91905]BQ#91905[/url] Oh man, I feel for this person. If it were me I'd un-combine our finances, divvy up the bills, and tell her we each needed to contribute X amount of money each month to save for a house, then wait and watch as all her travel expenses and t...

mic0 wrote:We went with the letter b! Already have to explain it all the time, guess we set him up for that. What are parents for if not needlessly making up difficult names?

Letter B! [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmVd9F1fW00[/url]

My mom didn't have a middle name because it was assumed that when she got married her maiden name would become her middle name, and that's what she did. So when my parents had my oldest sister they didn't give her a middle name, and weren't planning on giving any of us future girls middle names eith...

Yup, Tennessee.

I'm taking a two-pronged approach of waiting for the older generation to die out / trying to change my ward as best I can from the inside. After listening to Sharon Eubank's talk this past conference about the importance of friendships within the Church as well as learning to articulate our opinions...

Can I bore you with tidbits about script rules? The rule of thumb with scripts is that one page equals one minute of screen time, which is why scripts for movies aren't supposed to go over 120 pages. When shooting a script each page is divided into eighths (sometimes with a ruler), and you build you...

I was born in '87, so mine's the Waco siege in '93, followed by the whole OJ Simpson thing in '94.

Could you perhaps give us your brother's address so we can send some mail his way? There's something about getting an actual physical letter in the mail telling you you're a jerk that hits a bit harder than an online message.

Taking the career placement test in the Wilk was very helpful for me - it told me possible careers I would be good at and gave me a list of careers to stay away from. If I were this person's roommate I would lure them into taking the 16 personalities test - it's crazy insightful about why certain ca...

I really want to hear more answers to this one, so what's the nicest thing a stranger's done for you? Or even that an anonymous person has done for you, because I can't think of any about strangers. Mine is that someone once anonymously gave our family a piano, and I still wonder who it was, because...

Cognoscente wrote:Wait, if a male seamstress is a seamster, does that make a female teamster a teamstress?

I don't know if there are any teamsteresses. I assume most women lack the necessary combination of "surly and lazy."

Portia wrote:Just saw the head of P.R. at BYU referred to as a "spinsteress" which I think enrages me even more than anything upthread.

That word sounds like she sews dresses for spinsters.

Not knowing still sucks. In my mind there's no good reason why a woman couldn't be a clerk or SS president other than that they're deemed to be priesthood callings with no explanation as to why. Very irritating. It makes men more of a commodity in the church because there are so many positions only ...

I did Ryan North's To Be or Not to Be for book club a few months back, and it's a choose-your-own-adventure book, so we went around in a circle and took turns choosing. Except there's a bit where Ophelia's brother Laertes is blatantly slut-shaming her and she has the choice to either throw him out o...

We never had insurance growing up because my dad is self-employed. I had my shots up through age six, and every other year or so we all went to the dentist. I can't imagine how stressful that must have been for my parents. When my brother was six he broke his arm and years later my mom told me how s...

My siblings range from 5'2" to 6'3", and at 5'6" I'm in a three-way tie for second shortest. My shortest sister's height so mystified an aunt on my dad's side (why are you so short, what's wrong with you?) that she took her out and had her bones measured as a child. Which I have to sa...

Thanks for posting that link, I had a lot of fun figuring it out. (Probably because I'm not being timed or under any pressure.)

I wish I had just skipped ahead to getting a wedding band. As it is I don't wear my ring because it turns out I'm just not a jewelry person (too fidgety). I've considered getting a spinny ring as my wedding band though. What is a spinny ring? It sounds fun. It has a base that's closest to your fing...

I wish I had just skipped ahead to getting a wedding band. As it is I don't wear my ring because it turns out I'm just not a jewelry person (too fidgety). I've considered getting a spinny ring as my wedding band though.

For me it's not so much about not spending more than X on whatever, it's more about how much I put away in savings. I have a simple spreadsheet with columns for all the stuff I want to earmark money for, and if I'm consistently setting money aside for those things, we spend what we spend on the basi...