Obligatory Mitchell and Webb reference:

Didn’t Beth have a heart thing (at least in the beginning, I can buy lower imunity afterwards)? I remember something with a weak heart.

Well... I kinda agree that it is infantilising, at the same time, smoking is just bad all around, for pregnant people, fetuses and non-pregnant people alike. So I’m kinda ambivalent. Several things, this is a study, not a government program, it’s an incentive to not smoke not a penalty for those who do. There were…

No, that’s what I’m saying, the link is often added in once the video it links to, is online, but it’s way easier to make a thumbnail and add the link later. So until the video is actually up, there is a link-less thumbnail. This happens all the time. So for a while there is no link, until there is a video, at which…

Many youtubers add a picture or thumbnail at the end of their videos where a link has yet to be posted. Links can be added easily. Extra footage to put in a thumbnail not so much. It’s not a trick or something, although it can be confusing. Usually they add text over the thumbnail with something like “coming tuesday…

My personal gripe is that Shakespeare “invented” words. No he didn’t. His audience wouldn’t be able to understand any of it if he did. He may have used some words in a new way, or used new and upcoming words that weren’t entrenched in the language yet, but invented all of them? No. Just because his works are the first…

Since I can’t actually find any data that supports (or disproves) your stance that I feel us most often followed by offended rather than I feel X is bad type of statements I’m going to wait until there’s an actual study that has data before I say your observations are wrong, I just want to point out that in ESL…

Thank you! All these people condemning language use. *sigh*People do what they’ve been doing for for ever, speaking and being social. Perhaps a mandatory intro to linguistics needs to be added to the curriculum.

But why is hedging so bad? It is part of something social beings do. All the time. I hold in my fucks and shits when in company of children and olds so they still talk to me/their parents let them talk to me. I don’t call some BS someone is saying in a meeting BS. Instead I say they might want to research that thing…

It also sounds like “the language is changing and since my version is obviously the only correct version, anything that’s different is wrong.” *sigh* Maybe he could take a seminar at the linguistics department?

“I feel blablabla” IS in fact giving an opinion. “I feel this is a bad idea” “I think this is a bad idea” “In my opinion this is a bad idea”. All these statements mean more or less the same. You could argue one is more formal that the other, but that’s about it.

Yeah me too. All of the showers for me. (also ditto on the not knowing due to second language etc)

I’m not saying that slaughterhouses are A-okay. I’malso not saying animals aren’t smart, or intuitive. I’m saying your argument doesn’t hold water. Cows and plants are not comparable in many ways, sure, but when we’re talking knowing they’re alive, they are. Both animals and plants try to preserve themselves in many…

Cows have no sense of their own mortality either. So...

Yeah, and not just backpain, but having huge boobs while growing affects your spine. Mine is crooked in my neck. Sort of a permanent mini hunch. And other fun stuff like muscle tension headaches because my back and shoulders are permanently tensed to hold the weight. It’s fun all around. I have nothing but respect for…

I couldn’t find recent news from other countries because I don’t understand all languages, but as far as I could find in the Netherlands that law was changed. It was explained as a mostly conservative and/or christian fear of pregnant men (as if that’s such a huge problem, but whatever) but it has been changed in…

You’re welcome. It’s not an uncommon mutation, but my dad found that not many doctors know a lot about it (lots of huhs and wrong medication that he thankfully caught on time), so it may be your doctor is simply unfamiliar.

Yeah same here. The whole measuring thing hurt the most. It was by no means the worst pain I ever felt (which someone else in the comments describes it as), just below my worst periods.

Shitty healthcare stories are shitty. :( As for clotting in a young person, my family has a genetic thing: Factor V Leiden. It has caused my dad to have had three seperate cases of tromboses in his left leg, so hormonal is off the table. Thank goodness I got a copper IUD pretty much as soon as I asked for one. Is…

All that is really depending on the person, my periods actually became lighter and less painful with a copper IUD. So I was pretty happy, since the hormonal version wasn’t an option for me at the time.