I’ve nevertheless actually been drunk, so I dunno. And not in the Hemingway way either, I have just never tried to go past tipsy.

Sorry to hear about your pneumonia. I hope you get better soon.

Sorry to hear about your pneumonia. I hope you get better soon.

In her book, Red China Blues, Jan Wong tells the horrific story of a young boy who was injured by dogs while squatting to defecate in rural China.

In her book, Red China Blues, Jan Wong tells the horrific story of a young boy who was injured by dogs while…

At first I thought the OP was treating squatting as standing to defecate. Depending on how deeply one squats, I could see how one might describe it as standing, which is why I used “stands/squats”. But then he elaborated, and yeah, he poops in an unusual way.

At first I thought the OP was treating squatting as standing to defecate. Depending on how deeply one squats, I…

You do realize that large numbers of people throughout the world stand/squat to defecate, right?

You do realize that large numbers of people throughout the world stand/squat to defecate, right?

I was coming here to say “Has to be staged, because how would that get inside the placenta for the baby to grab?”

The Queen’s first great-grandchildren were Peter Phillips’s daughters, Savannah and Isla.

And in his younger days he was the manager of the farm at one of the Royal estates, Windsor Park IIRC and drew a lot of satisfaction from the role. Apparently it was not uncommon to see him out driving the tractor in the fields.

Prince Charles and Diana were fully divorced by the time of her death. After the divorce, Diana lost her title of her royal highness.

Except any male line descendant of Philip and Elizabeth who is not part of the line of succession has the last name Mountbatten-Windsor, which was also part of the deal.

Queen Mother isn’t even a title set in stone. I don’t think there is such a title as “King Father”.

Thanks for the links. These look interesting.

Sure, diagnosis would be an issue, but given that genetics play a strong role in autism, you would think people would recognize behaviours in their children that they had seen in older relatives.

You need to keep in mind though, that in the case of this particular population, their country of origin has been in poliyltical upheavel since the 1970s, many of the adults in the community may have had disrupted education, and are dealing with the trauma caused by civil war, on top of struggling to make their way in…

Not just an immigrant population but in many cases a refugee population from a country that has seen one upheaval after another since the 1970s. People dealing with a lot of trauma to start with, who are suddenly seeing children with a condition they say they have no name for in their own language (I personally wonder…

My nephew was born two months premature, in the US. My parents who are Canadian, went down to help out. While they were sitting in the NNICU, they were horrifying ed to overhear a parent saying that she was so grateful her son wasn’t a few ounces heavier when he was born, because if he had been, her insurance…

They weren’t buying used brushes, they were buying new brushes contaminated with anthrax from the source.

I’m confused. You say World War One, but then talk about the 20's?

I dunno, I think turning into the Eric Roberts Master messed things up for him first...

My FiL was once a hippy and he just loves Anne Coulter. People can and do turn like that.