They sure balanced out that social advancement with Fisher Stevens face painted to be an Indian engineer.

They missed ordering two and then saying “these are papas burritos”

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001

One might even say long-expected.

The happiest thought I’ve seen all day, and it’s already been a real good day.

He’s the silver medalist in olympic mixed doubles air pistol shooting.

He’s a memeable badass because he doesn’t wear a faceful of steampunk-looking accessories on his face while shooting like all the other competitors do.

I guess the Talking Heads were on to something. https://youtu.be/PH5JvU19_YQ?si=gqbkXoBWCngdkCpV

Nice job, Hamstray! Homegrown?

Some nascar racer named Brandon won a big race. During the post race interview a chant of “Fuck Joe Biden” went up in the crowd.

The interviewer said they were chanting “Let’s go Brandon”. So dipshits all over started using that phrase as an anti-Biden slogan. This is also why there’s a “Dark Brandon” meme for occasions where Biden trolls the Republicans.

My my my.

For the confused, bells peal. Labels peel.

tldr: It’s a dowsing rod

I love that your concern is the integrity of the brownies, not the sourcing of the blood.

I think so Tasha, but where are we going to find rubber pants in our size at this time of night?

Every time I hear “What I Like About You” I think of Kongas.

So the last time was chloroplasts, right? And that worked out super well for all the other organisms and didn’t do anything catastrophic to the atmosphere, right?

There isn’t near the kind of cultural narrative about stepfathers that there is about stepmothers, especially in media for kids. Kids absorb ideas from the fairy tales they see and hear. Stepmoms have to deal with tropes from “Cinderella” to “My Stepmom is An Alien”. Kids will then carry those notions, amorphous and unexamined, into their new relationship. Kids usually don’t have the capacity to recognize those kind of prejudices in themselves. So now the new stepmom has to deal with the kid’s indignance at a fictional character. But aside from the Dursleys in Harry Potter, I’m hard pressed to recall a wicked stepfather.

Then there’s the puritanical thread, and I’m a dude so I don’t even know what else is lurking in our culture that wants to take a piece out of a stepmom for being the second lady in the family.

Not to reduce what a genuinely good dad has to do, step or otherwise. But if a dad manages to use words to explain something calmly, that’s enough to get kudos from strangers on the street. I don’t think the ladies have the benefit of the same uncomplicated expectations, so they need specialized guidance.

What exactly are you looking for in advice? How to deal with the ex and their branch? How to deal with specific behaviors from the kids? You’ll probably do better to search at the level of those topics than the role of stepdad in general.

I’d suggest going for “How to talk so that kids will listen and listen so kids will talk” series. To be a good step-parent, you need to be a good parent.

The ideas were mostly neat but I just couldn’t abide the plot being driven by absurdly stupid actions over and over.

It was 2010. https://www.npr.org/2010/12/16/132112128/sen-bernie-sanders-eight-hour-soliloquy