IIRC, this one is looks like a vagina while it is actually a symbolic father figure. I am not even kidding.

Ah, of course. I thought you were randomly implying that Phillip Garrido forced her to have an abortion when she wasn't actually pregnant or something bizarre like that.

What does Jaycee DuGard have to do with it? I am clearly missing something.

I think it's absolutely a problem for men, too. Men are taught that they are supposed to be assertive (if not outright aggressive), that they are supposed to pursue women and convince them to have sex. We need to change that, but it's such a huge cultural shift to make. I think men are the one's who have to do it,…

It's called nonvoluntary intercourse, and it happens all the time, and even though it's not quite rape, it's still absolutely shitty and can do emotional damage. Lots of women think that because they technically consented, even if they didn't actually want to have sex, then they aren't allowed to be upset about it, or…

They showed Hook in the promo for next week's episode; he's played by Colin O'Donaghue. No idea who he is, but a quick Google makes it appear that he is super delicious. I'm going to go ahead and start wishing for Hook-Rumplestiltskin sexytimes.

That would be a horrible idea. They would clearly take over the world and eat all of us. They are obviously the superior lifeform.

Wouldn't it have been cheaper and easier to just buy a coffee machine?

I'm an RN too, and I am fairly sure I could be accused of malpractice and risk having my license taken away if I lied or knowingly gave wrong information to a patient and they were harmed by it. However, I'm not sure that counselors have similar rules; not all of them are licensed (although most are). I think the…

HOLY SHIT. I read the Wiki too, and I deeply regret it. The bit about some male insects evolving spiny, barbed penises in order to shred their mate's reproductive canal on the way in nearly made me puke.

I looked at it. DO NOT CLICK. It is indeed horrifying. Think fishhook shaped, but attached to an actual fish.

I mostly only read on mobile, but I can't comment myself that way, just read other people's comments. Can you actually comment from your phone?

"I'm a runner who doesn't look like a runner. I am a six-foot-tall woman who has hips and broad shoulders. In fact, I look more like a basketball player or a swimmer."

"There's nothing stopping you from daisy chaining another power bar on the end when you run out"

I would have gone exactly the other way around on that.

If you're smart enough not to add extra clothes now that you have extra free space. My husband, in a brainless moment, hung half his hangers on the other hangers' loops (essentially the same thing, but without the soda tabs), and with all his new free space, hung up all his winter clothes that had been in a box. A few…

I imagine it doesn't come up that much. Most gibbons probably don't ever get the opportunity to see if they would enjoy eating a housecat.

The best epistolary novel I ever read was called "H," by Elizabeth Shepard. It is about a mentally ill young boy (roughly age 8, IIRC) whose best friend is a stuffed letter H. It's told through letters among his parents, his psychiatrist, his counselor at a summer camp he attends one year, his only real-life friend,…

I love everyone on this thread. And I miss James Doohan.

HOLY SHIT. Please make that go away. :sobs