I agree - this post is way over the top. Barring some dysfunctional family backstory, the adult child owes the parents polite behavior (returning calls, being nice) just as much as the parents owe the adult child polite behavior. Unless the adult child wants to break away from her parents entirely - including…

I don’t know the situation but I think you are reading a lot into this. It sounds like a frustrated mom dealing with a major transition period in the relationship. The rest is just projection. Eta: and to add, young people also have to learn to have a relationship as an adult with their parents. It’s usually a mutual…

See I hesitate to post this for free of being blasted for not respecting someone's illness yada yada but here goes. My understanding is that “chronic Lyme disease” is a sort of bullshit catch all that people diagnose themselves with. I’ve know two people who have it. Both rich, older white women and it is all they…

I get the “oh don’t buy me anything, make me something instead” speech every Christmas.

Well buried in the paper is a paragraph that seems to indicate that there is a similar effect for mothers of daughters versus mothers of sons, i.e. working moms are more likely to take parental leave if it’s a daughter versus a son:

Are you even serious right now? Something like 60% of people have this. In Canada they don’t even include it in tests. You can only be tested if you have an outbreak. There are tons of people who never get an outbreak and therefore never know they have it. There’s no point in spending the money on the tests because…

Poor partner or life choices? Many people can have and transmit it without ever showing symptoms or in fact even being aware of its presence. Many others have it and conceal it from their partners from fear or shame (although this is not OK). But what’s also not OK is calling out someone’s “choices” for contracting…

Lots of people do not present (get sores). If you do a minimal google search and educate yourself, you’d realize that a) the majority of people who have it don’t know it and b) about 85%+ of the population of the world has one form or the other, usually given to them while still a child (sharing glasses, getting…

You can’t fathom? Try google. Generally just the very occasional discomfort.

He was a gentle loner, though.

I’m the first to rage against people in their 20s whose parents pay for or subsidise their rent/tuition/phone/travel/etc. But every time my in laws helped us put safe tires on the car, or slipped us gas money, was “help.” Having a safe, dependable home base at my mom’s house if I needed counts as help. Hand-me-downs,…

Hell, those tires could save MY life, so thank them for me.

To be fair, Jezebel covered Savita Halappanavar’s death pretty extensively.

When I had appendicitis, they thought I had a secondary infection with a bacteria called gemella. Normally, it lives in your throat and is harmless. But if it gets into your bloodstream, it can grow on your heart valves and kill you. Turned out to be a false alarm, but the dr’s were kinda freaking out.

I hate to break it to you, but pathogenic bacteria are probably ALL OVER your skin. Right now. Always and forever and ever.

Some people even carry MRSA as part of their normal flora and they never develop an infection from it.

I want to get it out there that as a former member of the NRA, as somebody who has had a carry permit, and as the owner of several serious guns, I define both “civilization” and “polite society” as “Places where people don’t have to go armed and be ready to kill at a moments notice.”

I thought my family was one very tall, small-headed man in a trench coat, but it turns out it was a stack of dwarves??? Please advise.

Apparently, female meteorologists generally have to abide by a very strict dress code: only specific sleeve length and styles, colors, and patterns are allowed on air ...

I would imagine that the health assessment given beforehand would cover whether or not the patient is a smoker. The pharmacist could refuse to prescribe based on those responses, same as a medical doctor.