Monday, December 9, 2019

Time, Once Again, For The Traditional Princess Rap Battle: Mary Poppins v. Mrs. Claus (plus the FT's Izabella Kaminska stops by)

Via Tastefully Offensive:
Actress and comedian Whitney Avalon is back with another "Princess Rap Battle" and this time around it's holiday-themed with Mrs. Claus (Alyssa Preston) squaring off against Mary Poppins (Whitney Avalon). Both women break out the claws and show no mercy, and they even brought along their jolly men, Santa (Parks and Rec's Jim O’Heir) and Bert (Kevin Allen), to back them up....MORE
There is also a "making of..." video.

And from one of the honchos at the FT, who seems to have a soft spot for the toilers in Alphaville Towers:

Mr.Tassell is Deputy News Editor of the Financial Times.
And from the paper:

Hiring a nanny: what I wish I’d known 
Recruiting and employing a carer for your children is more costly and complex than many imagine

I always knew that having children would introduce me to new experiences. A lack of sleep. Prams. An inability to achieve a work-life balance. But I never expected it would force me to become a human resources expert or to be forced to adopt the skills of a microbusiness manager. At the time of my pregnancy and later during maternity leave, I rationalised that career-focused women have kids all the time. They all somehow managed to organise and pay for childcare. It couldn’t possibly be that difficult.

But this, it turns out, was wishful thinking....
...MUCH MORE

Things were apparently more straightforward for Mr. and Mrs. Banks in 1910 London.

I say park the little 'uns with a pack of wolves.
It might be traumatic for the wolves as the cherubs get all the 2-year-old "I'm the boss" mentality out of their wee systems but learning to howl seems a fair trade for their favorite word, the dreaded "No"
There, problem solved.
(pity the poor wolfies)
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