Oh you mean “Irish” in the American sense of having a relative three generations ago who was born in Ireland but not having ever been there or knowing anything about the country you claim to come from? My parents are literal Irish people born in Ireland, but I was born in Australia. Was I raised Irish? I seem to have…

When you have little kids, it stops just being about your physical health though. They don’t really care if their dad is a maudlin alcoholic or a fun drunk, they just know he’s out at the bar instead of hanging with them.

If it had a gusset they’re not pants. I used to work with a girl who wore tights to work as pants and the gusset looked like she a pad stuck to her crotch. Why the fuck would you do this?

They’re not leggings, they’re sheer pantyhose. Leggings remain unscathed!

Debriefing and exposure therapy is not a universal panacea for trauma victims. In fact, it can often exacerbate PTSD symptoms. They did extensive studies on this after 9/11 which concluded that most people cope with trauma just fine in their own time and using their own resources. Forcing people to relive memories…

I call that “babysitting” comment out every single time i hear it. I just can’t let it slide and my god,do people use it a lot.

Even if they aren’t taught household chores, there are YouTube videos for everything. I taught myself to knit complex cabled patterns entirely from YouTube videos. A grown ass man can sure as shit learn how to iron a shirt by himself.

It utterly baffles me why a nation doesn’t prioritise the health of its citizens. Even if you don’t care about the well-being of actual human lives (which clearly, the GOP don’t), how do they not see that it’s crucially important from an economic perspective? You want your workforce to be healthy. You want women, who…

So you think the gay community fought so hard just for a ring and a party? Wow.

The risks are practically nil, but doctors, perhaps rightly, surmised that the average person couldn’t be trusted with guidelines like “x food in moderation, no more than y drinks per week” because people naturally think x+1 really can’t be THAT bad” or “moderation means half of my weekly binge drinking session”. So…

Thanks for parsing this for me. The writing in this article is so confusing, I still don’t know if it was the prisoner or the partner who was beaten.

So you recognise it’s ridiculous but you’re going to fight like hell to defend him? Ugh.

So Amy Poehlers character from Mean Girls, basically?

I refuse to believe he is anything less than the most elaborate performance art the world had ever seen, on par with the pig fucking episode of Black Mirror.

I didn’t realise how funny this was until I looked at the pic of the doctor.

Ugh, I’m in my 30’s and those bitches would get straight up called on that shit if they were in my friend group. Which they wouldn’t be because I’m an adult. You do not have to tolerate that, but your boyfriend needs to step up.

He sounds like an abusive dick who’s isolating her, so even if you aren’t friends it’s great you’re staying in touch. She might need someone on her side one day.

Yep. My friends are all women I’ve known for about 25 years. They’re all married to really great men and are intelligent, emotionally mature people, which is why we’ve been friends for so long. If they had misgivings about a person I was seeing, I would absolutely take that on board, even if it wasn’t easy to hear…

I went to a private religious school and they didn’t even expect us to pay in our weekly mandated church services and there was zero praying or talk of God outside church. But this was Australia so you know, even our minister didn’t really seem that into it.

It is also important to remember that only one of those things actually happened.