gdp's Comments

The Toast : Crush Cakes: Spencer Hastings

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:13:29 +0000

I choose to believe that PLL ended at 5b (ok, maybe I'd let them get out of the Dollhouse in 6a), because my heart broke in a million pieces with the transphobic bullshit that is to come. I'm still watching, but kind of out of the corner of my eye, as I scowl furiously. Before that awfulness, I would swear up and down that this was the queerest, most slyly subversive show on television. GOD IM STILL NOT OVER MY HEARTACHE. Anyway, whatever. Excellent choice for last Crush Cake.

The Toast : Hey, You Wanna Buy a Tote Bag? UPDATE: Sold Out

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:33:54 +0000

I AM LIVING YOUR NIGHTMARE JUST ONE MINUTE AFTER YOU BOUGHT YOURS

The Toast : Hey, You Wanna Buy a Tote Bag? UPDATE: Sold Out

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:32:03 +0000

I'm so confused - am I just the first in line after the Take To The Sea tote sold out, or...? It says they're unavailable, though as of 6 minutes ago y'all were buying them fine. DAMN THIS OVERSLEEPING. If I'd just gotten up 10 minutes earlier.... [ETA: Looks like I was, indeed, just four minutes too late, as now everyone else is reporting it's sold out. WHY GOD WHY]

The Toast : "Worse Things": Sandy and Rizzo and Me

Tue, 3 May 2016 19:51:07 +0000

Jan is definitely the most sexually active - she's a "one woman USO" with those soldier boys' pictures exploding from her billfold! (I remember this very vividly because I did the sleepover scene in a drama class my freshman year of high school. I totally did not understand HALF of this movie at the time, despite thinking I was very savvy and worldly.)

The Toast : "I Know What Clean Smells Like": These New Bleach Ads Are Terrifying

Tue, 3 May 2016 19:45:40 +0000

Oh shit, y'all, I let a lace top sit in a combo of hot water, a HUGE scoop of OxyClean, and a HUGE splash of bleach for like, 18 hours the other day. I had no idea! (It survived just fine, although it STILL has the stubborn black stains around the armpits where a black blazer rubbed off on them, wtf.) And yes, I have tried vinegar as well! (But not with bleach, at least I know THAT much.)

The Toast : “Everyone But Cis Men”: Creating Better Safe Spaces for LGBT People

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:17:23 +0000

This is sad, because any queer space closing is sad, but also because I LAUGHED AND LAUGHED AND LAUGHED at the name "Phase One" the first time I heard it. So many hilariously named gay bars, but this MIGHT be the most entertaining? (Maybe not. "Plan B" in Madison, WI is pretty amazing..)

The Toast : Things I Have Mistaken For A Personality Trait Or Love Over The Years, Both In Others And In Myself,

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:07:52 +0000

Yes! Pompadour, that's what I was trying to think of.

The Toast : Things I Have Mistaken For A Personality Trait Or Love Over The Years, Both In Others And In Myself,

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:36:39 +0000

AGREED! Mallory, please help! That Topanga hair bump is NOT 2002, is it?! That's pretty solidly early 90s in origin?! [ETA: Googling "2002 women hair" is no help.]

The Toast : Things I Have Mistaken For A Personality Trait Or Love Over The Years, Both In Others And In Myself,

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:35:09 +0000

I don't know what we're talking about - like, that faux-hawk thing? That sorta rockabilly teased up bump?

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:42:07 +0000

I feel almost CERTAIN I know the boss/wife in the Ask a Manager and worked for them a decade ago! If not, there's MORE THAN ONE of this very specific combination of jerks out there. [Update: it's not them, so WATCH OUT, there's at least another set of these, working in Southern California...] Dang! I'm so chagrined about the garbage thing! I'd turned to it as one alternative to more gendered and ableist insults, how did I miss the class angle?! Also, damn.

The Toast : Friday Bargain Bin

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:28:05 +0000

(They also are lined just thick enough to avoid the A/C nipple problem referenced below! Soma for everyone!)

The Toast : Friday Bargain Bin

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:26:53 +0000

Like the poster above who recommended Soma for underwear, I swear by their bras. A lot of unpadded, smooth, supportive options and in a broader size range than your Victoria's Secrets and Targets of the world! As for the button gap, I tend just safety pin, but that double sided boob tape (Hollywood Secrets is one brand?) is also very clutch.

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:45:14 +0000

I could sorta understand if she didn't have kids, but wanted an authentic kid drawing, thought this was a great one. (SORTA.) (And of course she DOES have a kid, soooooo..... WHAT?) But THEN the element of beating your partner to the tattoo punch is what takes it to serious levels of what-the-fuckery.

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:42:50 +0000

I IMMEDIATELY assumed this is a grad student - didn't even think of the undergrad possibility - but now that I have, I'm fervently hoping the same.

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:42:07 +0000

That was my roommate's assessment, and definitely possible. As someone who has been on the professor side of a student crush a few times, though, I feel like you ALWAYS KNOW. Especially when it's this intense. (Also, I sorta hope the LW isn't a Toast reader and feeling upset by this thread. I hesitated to post anything here, but it just has SO MANY interesting threads, I couldn't not.)

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:58:39 +0000

My roommate explained this Dear Prudence to me over dinner last night, because I hadn't read for myself yet. So at first I was like, ah, I see, this is a question about professionalism and tattoos. Then she brought up the unrequited crush and I was like, oh noooo, weird turn, but whatever. THEN she got to the tattoos and I became "AAAAHHH OMGGGGG". FINALLY I was told that this is her future advisor and I officially lost my mind. THEN THE FACT THAT THE END IS LIKE, "SHOULD I COVER THEM?!?!" sent me into a new mental galaxy.

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:54:30 +0000

This is on the level of that reddit story that was going around yesterday, too. (http://jezebel.com/redditor-wants-to-know-if-we-think-her-fiance-is-doing-1760444524) NOT OKAY

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:53:19 +0000

My roommate and I were trying to guess what exactly the small praise she had tattooed on her could be?!

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:52:32 +0000

This, or maybe they are really insecure as an academic (especially if fairly junior?) and enjoy the adulation as a confirmation of their worth? Or they could be really senior and egotistical and enjoy the confirmation of their self-regard. Either way, it's a big ol' NOPE

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:50:46 +0000

THIS IS A NO GOOD VERY BAD IDEA ON THE PART OF THE ADVISOR, too! If she does have any awareness of the crush, which the writer seems to think she does. As a professor myself, I was pondering over this aspect of the whole thing at length last night.