I have a couple of no food friends. They probably run no food houses, but I don't go to them very often because ... I'm assuming no food. They run all day and "forget to eat." I can't tell you how many times I've met them at some restaurant for dinner and they announce, "this is the first chance I've had to eat all day - just too busy running around."
I've never forgotten to eat. The concept is foreign to me.
I have lovely friends who invite us for dinner, and serve each person 4 ounces of grilled salmon and a green salad. We've learned to eat before we go over.
I got in an argument on Reddit once a long time ago with someone who was just baffled at how much extra food there always was at dinner parties, so much that the hosts would send leftovers home with guests, just horrified by how inefficient that was and why don't people just make the right amount of food.... I did my best to explain, I really did
That is so awful. I don't eat huge amounts of food myself, but I do love food, and I would be mortified to learn that guests did not have enough food when they came to my home for a meal! Like if you personally want to eat less, that's fine, but you need to give others abundant options.
When Husband and I stay at my in-laws’ house, I’m always self-conscious about how much I eat. They are petite and they literally eat half as much as I do and say “wow, that was a good meal, I’m really full” and such. I don’t want to appear like a greedy pig, so my go-to solution is to eat what I’m offered and snack on a bag of trail mix I’ve got stashed in my luggage when nobody’s looking.
Good Gawd, NYT is beclowning themselves. “Jackie Kennedy and Cherie Blair didn’t display their bumps like this” – yeah, well, that was literally in a previous millennium. (RIP to Jackie’s “bump,” Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, who died less than two days after birth.) I’m pretty sure that in the early 1960s, teachers were still expected to quit teaching before they “showed” because people thought it was inappropriate for kids to have a visibly pregnant teacher.
What’s so weird is that it’s not like these kids hadn’t seen pregnant women before! These were the kids of the baby boom – pregnant women were all over the place.
My late grandmother, a teacher who had six of her own children, wouldn’t even say that a woman was pregnant. She’d say “PG,” as in, “I saw Mrs. Bauer with the kids outside the Tasti-Freez – looks like she’s PG again.”
Did your neighborhood have the thing where there were a sizable percentage of women 40-45 who were pregnant? Both sides of my family are Catholic, I went to Catholic school, and now my kids go to a different Catholic school, and I feel like I’ve met so many people who were born to forty-something mothers “before it was cool.” My mom had an aunt who didn’t get married until she was 40, and even *she* managed to have two babies.
I don’t think any Brit has used ‘crumpet’ in that sense without verbal quotation marks around it since about 1976. Also I’ve always had it in my head as a mass rather than a countable noun, i.e. an attractive woman could be ‘crumpet’ or ‘a bit of crumpet’ but not ‘a crumpet’. I think this is right. I don’t think I can be making it up.
I (upper middle class, middle-aged white male) am continually amazed by the number of white men who seem to genuinely believe that it’s harder for white men to succeed in business than it is for women or people of color. It’s baffling. I’m pretty successful, I’m looking around at the office, and… I’m seeing a lot of other white dudes. Like wtf are people talking about
I’d expect dudes with that mentality to be 20somethings who never get out of the house - actual grownups with actual life experience have even fewer excuses for being like this.
I will say this; JP Morgan probably would not have hired someone of her body type historically. They probably fired her because dumping trash on the ground while looking that slovenly is *not* the “look” they want.
I like food, but I naturally have a small appetite so I don’t get hungry often and fill up quickly when I eat. Recently I’ve been pregnant and not only do I think about food all the time, I can eat a meal AND have room for dessert AND most desserts no longer taste “too sweet.” I can sit here and randomly fantasize about eating a brownie. It’s a revelation. Very fun experience
(However I recently have been diagnosed with minor gestational diabetes so now I have to want sweets all the time but NOT eat them… much less of a fun experience)
At the risk of being judged, it's not that it's an annoying inconvenience, it's that I enjoy food too much to waste calories on snacks. My natural appetite is one really big indulgent meal per day. It doesn't matter if that meal is breakfast lunch or dinner, but it can't be all three or I'd be 350 lbs.
If I were to eat three regular size meals a day, it would feel like being on a diet, because I'd never get to eat a single full size meal. It would be like masturbating three times a day but never to completion.
All maternity clothing is horrendously ugly and is only sold online so you can't try anything on and you wear it for like 6 months tops. $9 is an appropriate amount of money to spend on a dress you'll wear literally once.
Also very funny to see someone who doesn't understand what maternity sizing is. I was a XXS in most maternity clothes even though I'd gained 45 lbs. It's all spandex!
I was gunna say…maternity clothing, by definition, you only wear for a few months max, even if you repurpose it during another pregnancy. Why would anyone want to drop big bucks on something they will wear maybe twice?
Is there such a thing as “Rent the Runway” but for maternity clothes? Because I’m sure “rent a maternity outfit” would be good business. Especially evening wear. Hell, *not pregnant* women rent evening dresses because, again, why drop money on something you won’t wear often unless it’s the Met Gala?
And even then you might not be pregnant in the same season. I have a late winter baby and an early fall baby so there wasn't a lot of overlap.
I rented a lot of my nicer maternity clothes from nuuly! I had several weddings and was back in the office for my second baby so it was nice not to drop a ton of money on maternity gowns and dress pants.
So there IS a maternity clothes rental service! I don’t have kids so I am out of the loop. I am sure it was nice to not have to spend too much on clothes you were only going to wear a few times. (Usha might have gotten some mileage out of saying “I rented this maternity dress because who wears an evening maternity dress more than once?”)
My local Target has a small selection of maternity clothes – IIRC, all their maternity was only online when I was pregnant with my first baby in 2014. God, that’s so long ago now that I remember trying on maternity shorts at Sears.
The no food house will come back with the age of Ozempic, I also noticed it’s more of an issue when I’m bringing small children with me who need to eat. It is no one’s responsibility to feed someone else, but it is very awkward to be somewhere with no food and then you have to bring your own and then you were the only one eating.
I'm going through this with my dad right now. He has retired recently and been constantly anxious about having too much food leftover, but also still wants to host events where he invites family.
My brother and I basically had to have an intervention after Easter, when two people didn't get to eat anything because he didn't make enough food. It's odd because he always has snack around and is very generous about sharing them but if he's hosting a meal where he's cooking it becomes more like rationing than providing like a good host.
I'll say it: I would hang out with Usha Vance. I loathe her husband and his politics. She seems like a nice regular person and is probably interesting to talk to, and he probably was more normal when she married him. The dress looks pretty, it's a lovely color on her!
I’ve noticed this in a few articles: “Part of a data partnership with Polymarket.” Does it mean that you’re paid directly by Polymarket for advertisements? Or is it a broader Substack partnership? Not to be the friend that’s too woke but they’re an incredibly scummy company.
I would be interested in the overlap between "no food house" and "Scandi / Northern Europeans won't feed guests" (and does that one apply to their descendants in Minnesota etc.?)
As an above commentator put it, a normal Minnesota family would die before they let you go hungry. They'll fight to send you home with leftovers. It's a whole thing.
I'm from a no food for guests culture, and we'd still find no food houses weird. Bc there's still plenty of food in all houses, but ppl are expected to go to their own house to eat it (yes, it's weird, whatever, we're terrified of being linked to people via generosity and compensate by giving a lot to charities so there's no personal bond or feelings of OWING (i.e. death))
I think grandparents have an obligation to buy food when relatives visit, especially if it's an extended visit. Even with friends, it's a nice thing to do. My buddy doesn't drink any caffeine but has a box of red bulls for when i visit (I am slowly depleting the box).
I have a couple of no food friends. They probably run no food houses, but I don't go to them very often because ... I'm assuming no food. They run all day and "forget to eat." I can't tell you how many times I've met them at some restaurant for dinner and they announce, "this is the first chance I've had to eat all day - just too busy running around."
I've never forgotten to eat. The concept is foreign to me.
I have lovely friends who invite us for dinner, and serve each person 4 ounces of grilled salmon and a green salad. We've learned to eat before we go over.
I got in an argument on Reddit once a long time ago with someone who was just baffled at how much extra food there always was at dinner parties, so much that the hosts would send leftovers home with guests, just horrified by how inefficient that was and why don't people just make the right amount of food.... I did my best to explain, I really did
That is so awful. I don't eat huge amounts of food myself, but I do love food, and I would be mortified to learn that guests did not have enough food when they came to my home for a meal! Like if you personally want to eat less, that's fine, but you need to give others abundant options.
"You got a tip on a famine or something" - my father in law upon seeing our pantry. Nope just little kids who seem hungry every 23 minutes
That’s like forgetting to use the bathroom.
When Husband and I stay at my in-laws’ house, I’m always self-conscious about how much I eat. They are petite and they literally eat half as much as I do and say “wow, that was a good meal, I’m really full” and such. I don’t want to appear like a greedy pig, so my go-to solution is to eat what I’m offered and snack on a bag of trail mix I’ve got stashed in my luggage when nobody’s looking.
They're eating until they're full. You should feel free to eat until you're full, too.
Good Gawd, NYT is beclowning themselves. “Jackie Kennedy and Cherie Blair didn’t display their bumps like this” – yeah, well, that was literally in a previous millennium. (RIP to Jackie’s “bump,” Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, who died less than two days after birth.) I’m pretty sure that in the early 1960s, teachers were still expected to quit teaching before they “showed” because people thought it was inappropriate for kids to have a visibly pregnant teacher.
Even if you are a major feminist it’s a step in the right direction that it’s not taboo to show off your bump!
The word "display" makes me snort laugh - as if there is any choice but to display your pregnant self after a few months.
Sometimes you forget how weird the past was. I just can't imagine which group or code of moraliity was offended by a baby bump.
What’s so weird is that it’s not like these kids hadn’t seen pregnant women before! These were the kids of the baby boom – pregnant women were all over the place.
My late grandmother, a teacher who had six of her own children, wouldn’t even say that a woman was pregnant. She’d say “PG,” as in, “I saw Mrs. Bauer with the kids outside the Tasti-Freez – looks like she’s PG again.”
Honestly, most of us thought any mom under 40 was always pregnant (very Catholic neighborhood in the sixties).
Did your neighborhood have the thing where there were a sizable percentage of women 40-45 who were pregnant? Both sides of my family are Catholic, I went to Catholic school, and now my kids go to a different Catholic school, and I feel like I’ve met so many people who were born to forty-something mothers “before it was cool.” My mom had an aunt who didn’t get married until she was 40, and even *she* managed to have two babies.
Yes, plenty of number #4, 5, 6 or above were born when mom and dad were north of 40.
In Polish, the old-fashioned euphemism for “pregnant” literally translates as “in a blessed state.” (False advertising imo!)
Even Lucille Ball had to make sure it was ok to be visibly pregnant on tv and for that they invented the term "expecting" to avoid saying "pregnant".
The people who believe that babies are dropped off at their parents’ doorstep by a stork?
Wait, what is the word that is being censored in that post? The one that’s not crumpet, apparently.
"creampie" lol
oh my god ive finally found an internet thing im not too always-online porn-brained enough to get! its a 4th of july miracle
Hahaha well in that case I kind of agree with them!
I know the term well, but the way it was censored made me have to think for about 30 seconds to figure it out.
Thanks for asking, I had no freaking idea either! It’s like porn Wordle or something.
Gurl I was BAFFLED
I spent too long and too many brain cells on this.
I was really hoping someone had asked
Is Crumpet as a way to describe an attractive person just British slang?
I don’t think any Brit has used ‘crumpet’ in that sense without verbal quotation marks around it since about 1976. Also I’ve always had it in my head as a mass rather than a countable noun, i.e. an attractive woman could be ‘crumpet’ or ‘a bit of crumpet’ but not ‘a crumpet’. I think this is right. I don’t think I can be making it up.
Since I asked Google before I looked in the comments and stumbled across the answer....
It turns out that crumpet was less "an attractive person" in British slang than apparently rhyming slang for "strumpet," aka whore.
Ah, the Cockney slang!
I giggled a ridiculous amount at the bird family. Perfect use of slang.
And the baby. I'm sorry to say, does look EXTREMELY chopped
High cortisol looking baby
I (upper middle class, middle-aged white male) am continually amazed by the number of white men who seem to genuinely believe that it’s harder for white men to succeed in business than it is for women or people of color. It’s baffling. I’m pretty successful, I’m looking around at the office, and… I’m seeing a lot of other white dudes. Like wtf are people talking about
I’d expect dudes with that mentality to be 20somethings who never get out of the house - actual grownups with actual life experience have even fewer excuses for being like this.
It's a very weirdly-specific thing where people worry about who gets to be the worst employee in the workplace. Total loser mentality.
Equality looks like oppression if you're expecting privilege.
Right, but we have nothing like “equality”. In my experience, it remains *vastly* easier for white men to get ahead in business than for others.
Agreed. Should have said any step towards equality looks like oppression.
It's a generational thing.
I will say this; JP Morgan probably would not have hired someone of her body type historically. They probably fired her because dumping trash on the ground while looking that slovenly is *not* the “look” they want.
Here I go being judgmental again, but I don’t trust anyone who treats food like an annoying inconvenience.
I like food, but I naturally have a small appetite so I don’t get hungry often and fill up quickly when I eat. Recently I’ve been pregnant and not only do I think about food all the time, I can eat a meal AND have room for dessert AND most desserts no longer taste “too sweet.” I can sit here and randomly fantasize about eating a brownie. It’s a revelation. Very fun experience
(However I recently have been diagnosed with minor gestational diabetes so now I have to want sweets all the time but NOT eat them… much less of a fun experience)
At the risk of being judged, it's not that it's an annoying inconvenience, it's that I enjoy food too much to waste calories on snacks. My natural appetite is one really big indulgent meal per day. It doesn't matter if that meal is breakfast lunch or dinner, but it can't be all three or I'd be 350 lbs.
If I were to eat three regular size meals a day, it would feel like being on a diet, because I'd never get to eat a single full size meal. It would be like masturbating three times a day but never to completion.
Then you are deemed to be actively enjoying food and merely having unusual eating habits - no judgment! *unslams gavel*
All maternity clothing is horrendously ugly and is only sold online so you can't try anything on and you wear it for like 6 months tops. $9 is an appropriate amount of money to spend on a dress you'll wear literally once.
Also very funny to see someone who doesn't understand what maternity sizing is. I was a XXS in most maternity clothes even though I'd gained 45 lbs. It's all spandex!
I was gunna say…maternity clothing, by definition, you only wear for a few months max, even if you repurpose it during another pregnancy. Why would anyone want to drop big bucks on something they will wear maybe twice?
Is there such a thing as “Rent the Runway” but for maternity clothes? Because I’m sure “rent a maternity outfit” would be good business. Especially evening wear. Hell, *not pregnant* women rent evening dresses because, again, why drop money on something you won’t wear often unless it’s the Met Gala?
And even then you might not be pregnant in the same season. I have a late winter baby and an early fall baby so there wasn't a lot of overlap.
I rented a lot of my nicer maternity clothes from nuuly! I had several weddings and was back in the office for my second baby so it was nice not to drop a ton of money on maternity gowns and dress pants.
So there IS a maternity clothes rental service! I don’t have kids so I am out of the loop. I am sure it was nice to not have to spend too much on clothes you were only going to wear a few times. (Usha might have gotten some mileage out of saying “I rented this maternity dress because who wears an evening maternity dress more than once?”)
My town has a store that specializes in used maternity clothes + early baby stuff.
My local Target has a small selection of maternity clothes – IIRC, all their maternity was only online when I was pregnant with my first baby in 2014. God, that’s so long ago now that I remember trying on maternity shorts at Sears.
The no food house will come back with the age of Ozempic, I also noticed it’s more of an issue when I’m bringing small children with me who need to eat. It is no one’s responsibility to feed someone else, but it is very awkward to be somewhere with no food and then you have to bring your own and then you were the only one eating.
>> is no one’s responsibility to feed someone else
News to me. My family would die before letting a guest go hungry.
I'm going through this with my dad right now. He has retired recently and been constantly anxious about having too much food leftover, but also still wants to host events where he invites family.
My brother and I basically had to have an intervention after Easter, when two people didn't get to eat anything because he didn't make enough food. It's odd because he always has snack around and is very generous about sharing them but if he's hosting a meal where he's cooking it becomes more like rationing than providing like a good host.
The Baywatch woman in her current photo looks great for any age!
Please tell me we haven't forgotten her name??
I remember the brief period when her name was Pamela Anderson Lee!
Did he really post a photo in that wig omggg 😭
one of the only thing he's done that I like
“Tootsie” but with 50% more ax murderer
When you manage to be creepier than Dustin Hoffman.
I'll say it: I would hang out with Usha Vance. I loathe her husband and his politics. She seems like a nice regular person and is probably interesting to talk to, and he probably was more normal when she married him. The dress looks pretty, it's a lovely color on her!
I’ve noticed this in a few articles: “Part of a data partnership with Polymarket.” Does it mean that you’re paid directly by Polymarket for advertisements? Or is it a broader Substack partnership? Not to be the friend that’s too woke but they’re an incredibly scummy company.
She has said in the past it is a paid sponsorship
I would be interested in the overlap between "no food house" and "Scandi / Northern Europeans won't feed guests" (and does that one apply to their descendants in Minnesota etc.?)
As an above commentator put it, a normal Minnesota family would die before they let you go hungry. They'll fight to send you home with leftovers. It's a whole thing.
I'm from a no food for guests culture, and we'd still find no food houses weird. Bc there's still plenty of food in all houses, but ppl are expected to go to their own house to eat it (yes, it's weird, whatever, we're terrified of being linked to people via generosity and compensate by giving a lot to charities so there's no personal bond or feelings of OWING (i.e. death))
Pam Anderson at 70 is a would for everyone over 30 and anyone who sys otherwise is lying.
If that's "the wall" I'm gonna hit when I'm 60 I'm over here doing cartwheels.
Right? I am in her age bracket and I would be insanely happy to look like that without makeup - and so would most of my friends.
She looks good for her age but that swings a liiiiiitttle far in the opposite direction lol.
I think grandparents have an obligation to buy food when relatives visit, especially if it's an extended visit. Even with friends, it's a nice thing to do. My buddy doesn't drink any caffeine but has a box of red bulls for when i visit (I am slowly depleting the box).
I can not see the fish head wife cannons guy without thinking, “of course this guy did that shit”