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northland10 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 4:06 pm When I was a kid, mismatched socks would cause others to make fun of you. Of course, now, you see black athletic socks. In my day, black socks with shorts were a no-no, and even getting kids to wear dark socks with blue or black slacks, on stage, was like pulling teeth.

Times have changed.

Officials have now identified a beaver as the cause of a June 7 outage which left many residents of northwestern B.C. without internet, landline and cellular service for more than eight hours.
The beaver gnawed its way through an aspen tree which then fell on both BC Hydro lines and a Telus fibre-optic cable line strung along BC Hydro poles between Topley and Houston.

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 12:47 pm I have had two kinds of socks. White socks and black socks. And I quit wearing black socks when I retired from the military. I got rid of all my black socks and all of my white socks except for a particular brand, and that's all I wear now (when I wear socks). Now I have a sock drawer full of single white socks, but it doesn't matter because they all match.

Lizzo Changes Lyric In New Song After Criticism Over Ableist Slur
"Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language," the "Grrrls" singer said.

Lizzo has changed a lyric in her new song, “Grrrls,” after listeners pointed out it was an ableist slur.

“It’s been brought to my attention that there is a harmful word in my new song,” the Grammy-winning singer wrote Monday on Instagram. “Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language. As a fat black woman in America, I’ve had many hurtful words used against me so I understand the power words can have (whether intentionally or in my case, unintentionally).”

In the opening verse of the new single, Lizzo sings: “Do you see this shit? I’ma spaz.”

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Hannah Diviney
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Hey
@lizzo
my disability Cerebral Palsy is literally classified as Spastic Diplegia (where spasticity refers to unending painful tightness in my legs) your new song makes me pretty angry + sad. ‘Spaz’ doesn’t mean freaked out or crazy. It’s an ableist slur. It’s 2022. Do better.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:10 am A black and a brown shoe is worser.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:10 am A black and a brown shoe is worser.

Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan wrote: A Louisiana woman who was impregnated as a teenager by a grown man who offered her a ride home and then raped her has lost custody of the resulting daughter, now a teen herself, to her rapist. The woman has been ordered to pay her rapist child support.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:07 pm I have no words.

Mrich wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 4:24 pm

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:10 am A black and a brown shoe is worser.

I was visiting a plant in Mexico and I walked in with one brown and one black shoe. I didn’t even notice; after lunch someone finally asked me about it. It happened to be Epiphany so I tried to tell them it was a custom in the US, but they didn’t buy it. They thought it was hilarious and took a picture for their monthly newsletter.

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:32 pm

Mrich wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 4:24 pm

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:10 am A black and a brown shoe is worser.

I was visiting a plant in Mexico and I walked in with one brown and one black shoe. I didn’t even notice; after lunch someone finally asked me about it. It happened to be Epiphany so I tried to tell them it was a custom in the US, but they didn’t buy it. They thought it was hilarious and took a picture for their monthly newsletter.

keith wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:43 pm I got dressed in the dark a few weeks back...

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 6:04 pm

Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan wrote: A Louisiana woman who was impregnated as a teenager by a grown man who offered her a ride home and then raped her has lost custody of the resulting daughter, now a teen herself, to her rapist. The woman has been ordered to pay her rapist child support.

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:50 pm Last week I saw a jeep with big flags flying off the back driving down the main drag near my place. I was about to start the obligatory eye roll when I noticed one flag was, a Pride flag (I couldn't see the other one).

That was a nice surprise.

keith wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:43 pm

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:32 pm

Mrich wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 4:24 pm

I was visiting a plant in Mexico and I walked in with one brown and one black shoe. I didn’t even notice; after lunch someone finally asked me about it. It happened to be Epiphany so I tried to tell them it was a custom in the US, but they didn’t buy it. They thought it was hilarious and took a picture for their monthly newsletter.

I got dressed in the dark a few weeks back and went to croquet with two different grey shoes on. I told 'em I had another pair just like these at home.