Did you go before or after the renovation (about 15 years ago)? The outdoor beluga exhibit isn't just the one tank - it's three tanks, spread out over an acre and all interconnected. It's one of the largest beluga exhibits in the country.

If you're a member of Goodreads, you can try this group.

They're a 501(c)(3), which means any contribution should be tax-deductible. With the amount of overhead, though, I'd hesitate to donate. They're an awareness charity, from the sounds of it, not an action-based one.

It just clicked as to who she reminds me of. I will now refer to her as "Miss Trunchbull."

I'm taking it as a code. Rearranging the capital letters in that video blurb gives me "anarchoindividualist reorchestrate engorger" (from an anagram site). I'm pretty sure it has something to do with his penis.

I think that's something of a meme, actually. I see it a lot on certain non-Reddit sites.

It's the 'carmelized' that really gets to me. Even if you pronounce it that way, the word is still spelled 'caramelized.'

There's a part of me that, upon hearing this kind of shit, wants to run down the street screaming like John Merrick: "I am not a woman! I...am a HUMAN BEING!"

Oh, absolutely. There are much better ways to handle it. But it's unfortunately realistic to think that some people wouldn't know how to go about it. Approaching a sales clerk with a bloody swimsuit bottom that they couldn't pay for could easily send some people into a panic attack.

That's assuming that the person is able to pay for it, though. I can absolutely see someone trying on a bathing suit because that's what her friends are shopping for, messing up the bottoms, and panicking because she can't even offer to pay for it. Especially in a VS, which, at least around here, are notorious for…

Ugh. I hate the "boys will be boys" bullshit that people like this keep peddling. Not all boys rape, especially when you've taught them both that women are actual people worth respecting and that there are consequences for hurting other human beings.

That's probably the reasoning, but wouldn't it have the opposite effect for some people? If someone knew that her every reproductive decision was being logged in a publicly-searchable database, she'd probably have more incentive to seek alternate means.

There is (or was) something similar for Accutane, too, but that's because Accutane has some serious health risks and can cause horrible birth defects. At the time I was looking at the drug, they even had a way to report someone that was both taking Accutane and possibly pregnant.

Just a word of warning: this is really close to some of the "tips" found in pro-ana and pro-mia communities. It obviously doesn't mean that you have an eating disorder if this helps you, but it unnerves me a bit when diet tips and eating disorder symptoms cross paths.

I think it started when both Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes and Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie were expecting kids. The celebrity baby thing became something of a fever and just hasn't really died down.

...did the anti-choice side just introduce a law that could theoretically financially incentivize abortion?

The bloomin' onion is pretty good, but I've never had an awesome blossom to compare it to.

For some reason, I almost-remember Ben & Jerry's doing this about a decade ago, then abruptly pulling the line for absolutely no reason. That chocolate-hazelnut one looks fantastic.

I subscribed to CC specifically because it was the only way to get Fireworks, which was a requirement for a course I took last year. They don't seem to have updated it in forever, but it is still available.

I believe she had a stalker that was able to place cameras in the hotel rooms she stayed in. A bunch of the videos he took wound up on the internet for awhile. She handled the whole thing incredibly well, from what I remember.