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Don't know if this is "floof" or not......gender roles
Comments (27)I agree that late 20's into 30's is more common in a lot of areas outside of the South and Midwest, which tend to skew younger. 21 seems VERY young to me to get married. I was a completely different person at 21 than I was at 31, when I did get married. Though plenty of people have married young and made it last, I think it's less common these days. My grandparents married at 18 and they are still together, but I think back then divorce was a much less viable option, especially for women with children, so there weren't many options if there were regrets or if one or both spouses had negative changes as they aged. I'm watching a lovely little Netflix series set in the 50's and the married woman had a husband who cheated on her and abandoned her with 2 small children for his mistress, and still divorce was such a stigma for a woman in those days that all of her family and friends are encouraging her to do everything to win him back home where he belongs. That wouldn't fly these days with most people. I only know a couple of people who were married before 30 (counting marriages in the last 10 years)....See MoreSemi Floof Post ---Breaking Bread
Comments (58)I guess I must be some kind of dinosaur :-) I was raised in an age where social decorum and learning proper table manners was just as much a part of one's education as was learning your times tables and spelling!! Young women of a certain age often went to charm school or took a course in social etiquette that instructed one in how to properly navigate social interaction on various levels. Knowing how to dress for various occasions, what was accepted dinnertime conversation, what fork to use when, how to set a table correctly, how to break (NEVER cut!!) and butter a dinner roll according to the accepted procedures of the time, etc. were standard topics that we all learned. And this was a typical urban middle class upbringing.....nothing posh or relegated only to the wealthy upper class. So these "rules" are pretty much ingrained in me. And while our approach to these situations is much more casual these days and with less reliance on what may actually be outdated rules of etiquette, those who do not follow them do stand out, at least in my eyes. Good manners remain good manners, even if times change....See MoreFood Floof! Are you a picky eater?
Comments (81)Yes, it's true. Some people have a native acuity for flavor perception. Often they have more tastebuds and olfactory receptors (which are very important in flavor perception), but some of it is more in the brain, like perfect pitch. That's different from what is conventionally called "supertaster", which is what the coated paper tests--the ability to taste those three compounds. The theory is that the ability to sense bitterness helped people in certain parts of the world avoid certain local, poisonous plants. For each of the three compounds, there's a simple genetic ...is distribution the right word? Unlike complex traits, such as hair color, these are 0, 1 or 2 alleles. If you have zero, you taste paper. If you have 1 allele you can perceive the bitterness, but it's pretty mild. If you perceive it as revolting, you have 2 alleles. About half the population have 1, a quarter have 0 and a quarter have 2. You might have 2 for one compound and 0, 1 or 2, for another. I only dislike tannic red wines--there are some reds that I like--and hate olives, like Annie. We have one of those compound sensors in common. :)...See MoreFood Floof! Making the cut!
Comments (38)Peanut butter and jelly on olive bread! Well, we are not American so my mother had a poor frame of reference when I asked for PB&J in first grade. My step father was German, so we had rye bread at home. He ate peanut butter, jelly did not compute to my mother, so I ate, peanut butter and strawberry jam on seeded, buttered rye. It was OK, but not what I hoped for. I also could not communicate my desire for Oreo cookies to my family when I was in K. I told them I liked the burnt cookies we were served at snack time. As a teenager I bought myself some white bread, grape jelly and peanut butter to make sandwiches for a trip to a water park- delicious! Mind you, strawberry jam on seeded rye is actually awesome, just without the peanut butter :-)...See More
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoIt was too silly to remember, but I do remember that we were both laughing a lot. Here's another photo from the same party:
I remember more of my conversation with Bruce Vilanch. I had given my camera to a friend of a friend to take this photo, and he was so in awe of Bruce that he was fumbling with the camera and had a hard time taking this photo. Bruce said, "Look at him! He's Japanese and doesn't even know how to use the camera!" Bruce was a real riot to talk with and difficult to keep up with in conversation.amylou321 thanked Lars
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