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13 seconds in. Can’t. Sobbing, NY had commercials of a baby with whooping cough a few years back. WRECKED ME every time.

Remember, it’s always the parents’ choice. Their freedom to choose is tantamount. The government should never control that important right to the plans you have for your family. Your “family planning,” if you will.

“esoteric immunizations”? Is that when they inject you with tellurium so you’re immunized against vampires?

Probably should note that the average age of death approx 20 was due to a 2 yellow fever epidemics and cholera. Life expectancy (an average including child birth deaths) was 40. A average life span was 75 - 120. (same as today) So if you could make it past your childhood and teens you had a pretty good chance of…

Well, if you want to know more about this kind of daily life in ancient Egypt stuff, a good little book about life in Deir el-Medina is <i>Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs</i> by Andrea G. McDowell. Saved my ass in many an essay.

And this is why Egyptology is amazing.

Thank you. Sometimes I think I’m more raconbore than raconteur but I love telling stories and I love hearing them. Mr.r always teases me because when we meet new couples I always make them tell me their origin story.

it’s the moby dick in the gif

Duke has a pretty fantastic archive old adverts.

Wait. Did your friend mug her abductor for weed???

Oh yeah. And I hated it so much that I lobbied for a return to heavy petting. I used to pay my roomie to not leave.

I just remembered another car on the Strip story, but from high school. My dad had a ‘74 vette convertible that he used to let me drive on the weekends (I had a 1980 Dodge Aspen. White with a burgundy landau roof). My bestie and I were cruising down the strip in it. If you remember it could take over an hour to get…

I’m totally with you. I live in Chicago, and when people come here, I recommend that they visit the Hancock Building and the Bean and the Art Institute. But I also think they should grab dinner in the West Loop or Logan Square and go shopping in Wicker Park or Lincoln Park. I think there’s room to be both a tourist…

Same: I work in Egypt for several weeks at a time in the summer, and I always used to studiously avoid the McDonald’s next door to the amazing bookstore in the middle of Luxor, on a kind of slightly sanctimonious well-I-don’t-come-to-Egypt-to-eat-McDonald’s thing. However, there comes a point where it’s exactly what…

Can we list the entire fucking City of New York? Holy shit, a million songs, a million patriotic poems, everyone across the globe sucking its cock, and when I finally go see for the first time at age 26...

MOTHERFUCKERS

I’ve been encountering this a lot lately:

Yes. It’s Officer Ethan Embry.