Thing is, there are a lot of usable eggs floating around in living people-who are able to give consent-that aren’t necessary to anyone’s survival. We don’t harvest dead womens’ eggs because we don’t need to. We harvest dead womens’ organs because we need them to help other people live.

Yeah, but organ donor is opt-in still, at least in my country. I’d say it should be the same thing with your eggs.

What you’re hearing isn’t wrong. It’s right. Oh, so very right.

Sounds like they expected a lot of ‘regrets’ to come in, but since everyone loves them, everyone invited rsvp’d that they’d attend.

It seems to be a pretty common thing in this city. I’ve talked to people at other gyms, and unless the patron is doing something really dangerous, they’re not supposed to say anything. It bugs my friend (who loves being able to correct me!), but it’s policy.

Well, not entirely accurate (but then to be entirely accurate you’ll need about 10 pages, single spaced, double sided). So, we don’t really have privacy laws across Canada that protect employee rights in this regard, so you *can* drug test non-union employees in pre-employment, random, return from rehab, and…

I love my fitness classes but, at my gym at least, instructors are discouraged from correcting bad form. They can yell out what proper form is generally, but they can’t say “hey Louis, straighten your back when you’re doing those deadlifts” because they don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or intimidate them. Stupid,…

You might have to pay $25 or more to check luggage now. Even your first piece.

A couple weeks after my break-up, I was at a wedding when they announced the bouquet toss. I was already on the dance floor so I couldn’t retreat. For a long time, I was the only person there, and they sent people searching for another single woman to do the toss with me. They had to go grab a severely developmentally…

Eh, you mentioned Canada, and I figured I’d take the opportunity to educate the rest of the commentariat about our maternity/parental leave system. Everyone says Canada has 52 weeks of paid leave, but it’s not the whole truth. So I latched on to your comment to provide further context.

In Canada, you have to accrue vacation. Generally at the rate of 4%. So you work for a year, and you “accrue” 2 weeks worth of vacation, to be taken in your second year of employment. A lot of employers offer more generous vacation policies, but generally (every province is different), that’s what the law requires as…

Canada grants up to 52 weeks of unpaid parental leave per parent. The Federal Government’s Employment Insurance program (EI) steps in and offers each couple a combined 35 weeks of parental benefits (parents can split it mom- 34, dad- 1 week or 18/17 or whatever they want). The amount of benefits offered is not 100% of…

As a Canadian who’s lived in a couple of cities and had almost no cat-calling, despite not owning a car and relying on walking and public transportation, I’ve basically chalked it up to pure, dumb luck.

The one thing I really want for my wedding is a POPCORN BUFFET. One of those mall popcorn places that does all the different flavours will show up with giant buckets of popcorn and people can fill up bags to take home. POPCORN man, POPCORN.

I read on another site that they were there to support their daughter Zoe, who’s appearing in Mad Max. But they walked the carpet together, and not with Zoe, so they didn’t steal her spotlight when she walked the carpet.

Try posting your profile to /r/okcupid on reddit and see what kind of critique you get. That may be helpful. Also, don’t worry too much about your rejection rate. It’s in line with the average male OKCupid user. It’s like when you go to the bar. You’ll strike out with 9 out of the 10 women you talk to, but that…

Examine.com tells me that BMI is more likely to tell an overweight or obese person that they’re just normal or overweight than it is to tell a normal weighted person that they’re overweight. Why does this notion persist that because Arnold Scwharzenegger is technically overweight that Joe Regular can discount…

I’m not familiar with the American system, but in my system, you actually have to set out the grounds for your case in the application (or the statement of claim, complaint or whatever it’s called in the forum you’re in), so you have to set out the reasons you believe pregnancy was the cause (or part of the cause) of…

Yeah, this is a terrible idea. Don’t go suing/filing complaints against people for violations unless you have a modicum (all I’m asking for is a crumb!) of evidence that there is some merit to your complaint. I don’t know if pregnancy raises a rebuttable presumption at the EEOC, but even if it does, if there’s not a…

Hey, thanks for the comment! But it was a 2 hour wait, I went out for dinner! But that brings up a related point. I don’t know what is up with my nails. No matter how long the wait, no matter the brand of polish, no matter the level of professional doing my nails, no matter the amount of quick dry topper, my nails…