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Sorry to quote this but it's the easiest way to make a post. Lovely people, I shall be leaving Primetimer. The incessant pop-ups are getting on my last good nerve, so for this and other reasons, I'm out. It's been great fun snarking with all of you!!

Same same. INDOOR cat.

I did that with the Eggo waffles.

When the hubs and I saw that, we were both saying "Holy s***, that's like 4 breakfasts for the two of us!" (As in, breakfast for dinner)

No, this one.

That type of commercial, where the pet grows old, always makes me sad. I want my critters to live forever.

My fave was Snoop and Martha.

The shit-talking ad agency for a company that analyzes shit? All of which reminds me of the Cheech and Chong routine... "It’s Dave. I've got the shit." "Dave's not here."

Eh, kinda different animal. Dance is a skill that has to be learned. The emphasis is on the skill. And while there is theatrical makeup in dance, there are not spray tans, fake teeth, and ridiculous hairstyles. I'm sure that there are skeevy people who get turned on watching little girls do gymnastics, too, but there again, it's an athletic challenge.

The other thing that bugs the shit out of me about these pageants is, what message are we sending our girls? That their value as a human is defined by their appearance? That their sole function is to be pretty? At least cheerleading is athletic! Last night as I was researching whether or not these stupid pageants still exist (sadly the answer is yes), I came across an article about a young girl who committed suicide last year at age 16. Apparently she had been active in the child pageant circuit for years, and appeared on the TLC show "Toddlers and Tiaras." Her name was Kailia Posey. Was her suicide related to pageants? We'll never know.

Me, if I'm watching hockey. Usually scares the bejabbers out of the cat.

Rant mode triggered! Fair warning. Peacheslatour mentioned that the heavy makeup on a child reminded her of the child "beauty queen" crap that TLC(?) used to show a number of years ago. I totally agree! I hated the overt sexualization of the little girls in those "pageants." It wasn't just the makeup. The costumes were frequently inappropriate. I mean, what kind of mother puts her FOUR YEAR OLD in a costume mimicking Julia Roberts' hooker clothes in "Pretty Woman?" And subjecting a child to clip-on teeth because they're a normal kid who's lost their two front teeth is child abuse, in my never-humble opinion. I'm glad those things are no longer televised. I can only HOPE they no longer exist.

Taking my response to small talk because this flipped a switch that had been off for a long time.

OK, this made me hoot. So, what you're saying is that your cat is a normal cat 😄 So's mine, but only a smidgen on the chubby side.

"Ozempic face." Yeah, that's what I have! Never mind that I've never taken that drug and that I'm 75. It's the drug, I say! 😄