Yes. I actually think there might there might be something to this but I hope people don’t start doing this on their own. The participants in the study were thoroughly checked for a variety of virus’s prior to participating such as hep, strep-B, herpes etc.

Yup. 12 times. If an officer here pulls out his gun 3 times it triggers an ‘alert’ and his conduct/responses are supposed to be reviewed. He was waaaay above average as far as how often police draw their weapons here. Some officers go their entire career pulling their gun out only a couple of times. To further put…

Lololol! I know!! It was a pivotal moment. I’m sure our faces were morphing all sorts of emotions as we processed the info and went from ‘what’s-your-problem-new-girl-at-the-table’ to ‘ohhhh-myyyy -god’. Ha! Over the course of about a minute or two our entire childhood suddenly made sense.

I can totally see how you’d think that without knowing her. I was just saying to STelizabeth I just don’t think that’s the case with her. It’s not her personality. She really tried to not to poison us once she learned what was happening. Sadly now that she’s 80 and having memory issues and is disabled I’m afraid she's…

You’ve given me good for thought. ;-) I’m thinking bout this possibility but I just don’t think that’s the case. We all had a ‘food-handling learning curve’ to go through because she’d modeled bad habits but as we learned we started teaching her about proper food handling. She really tried and got heaps better. She…

Lololol! Once we realized it was food poisoning we pretty much stopped eating her food also particularly poultry or mayo based food. We talked to her constantly about food handling and she did get better for the most part. There were still lapses like the story we call “the birthing -ham” or the time she brought body…

I know it sounds strange in hindsight. It didn’t just happen on Thanksgiving though. I remember being sick sometimes at Easter and Christmas too. We alsooccassionally got sick random times throughout the years to varying degrees so we just never made the connection. (She was terrible at food handling all year round.)…

I’ll never forget the first Thanksgiving that my oldest brothers girlfriend (now his wife) came for dinner. She said some words that changed my life forever.

I mentioned this in another thread but here goes. It’s not an insect story but it does fall into the creepy, crawly, slimy, smelly category. I’m in the greys and late to the party but here we go anyway.

Lolol! Nice visual. My son was a lizard king as a child so we had a variety of pet lizards. This also meant we always had containers of insects around. We had crickets, maggots, mealworms and things I can’t identify. Often they were harvested from the wild because my son was pretty sure free-range bugs were much…

If this video was taken in Africa then more then likely you’re correct.

The people who supply cats for the trophy hunting industry don’t care for the animals and have no compassion. I had the opportunity to work alongside two young women who had inadvertently ended up at one of those places. Once they understood what was going on they stayed until the end of their contract because they…

I just came back from volunteering with big cats in Africa. As others have said they want the animals docile and habituated to people. The places that supply animals for canned hunting and ‘driven’ hunts (another sick fucking practice that isn’t talked about enough) make money throughout the whole process. When the…

Check Free Tours by Foot NYC. They have some great food tours.

I’m sorry you had that happen. I share your pain. When I was 17 I got pregnant. After the pregnancy was confirmed at a clinic I had to make a tough decision. I was deciding whether to have an abortion or what I should do. I was leaning towards an abortion and booked an appointment at the Morgantaler clinic. The night…

Try not to dip into the college fund but “Being open to uncertain outcomes and taking risks creates opportunities for unexpected discoveries.”

I’m sepearating after 30+ yrs. We started dating when we were 16 yrs old. I’m scared and optimistic. Sometimes I wish we could both go back in time and change history. We decided to seperate last August after seeing a marriage counsellor so we’ve been living together for a yr. I took off on an epic trip this summer…

Well said. I’d love to see this study in reverse. What happens when two different women hit on a freshly rejected man?

I’m ashamed to say I’ve used this to my advantage. If I need a day off and plan to call in sick I don’t wear make-up the day before. Everyone makes the ‘Are you ok?’ ‘You don’t look well’ comments. The next day when I call in ‘sick’ no one’s surprised and they don’t suspect anything. Also I’m not really ashamed…

Sloths do this too! It’s a little known fact.