True. My current orange tabby lets me wear him like a necklace around my neck, hold him upside down, put him in "human doll" positions to receive tubby rubs, and is just generally what we call around here a "doughapuss." (Like dough. Malleable and sweet.) Past orange tabbies we've owned have also been this way;…

You should see all the Fifty Shades of Grey knockoffs, often using slight variations of that title, making shit tons of money for some erotica Kindle writers. I don't think readers have been too busy to complain about receiving knockoff versions because they're, um, too busy doing other things (one would guess) after…

You are an officially ordained piece of shit, Esme. Thank you for playing the blame game!

So......your "not believing" in what my family members experienced, what, makes what they actually went through okay?

The emotional bullying my aunt went through, the bizarrely clueless aggressive pressure my own elderly primary care doc exerted on me, and the incredibly sneaky, subversive, and quite frankly, illegal giving of my 90 year old mother-in-law (without her permission, knowledge, or clear understanding of what medication…

That's so frightening, CeltyQueeny! The "diseasification" of common emotional states, or the pseudo-medical "classification" of the broader spectrum of TEENAGEHOOD (i.e., hating your mother at times, wanting to die at times, feeling like you're the center of the universe at other times and nothing will ever go…

I think the worst is the extremely aggressive pushing of antidepressants; they really do often take a simple question like "Do you ever feel sad?" and exert a lot of undue influence sometimes in pressuring people who DON'T need antidepressants into taking them. I could see where a mopey teen could get conditioned by a…

Not to mention the STD cocktail they were most likely sharing between them. Poor girls.

Let alone the STD's this girl might have "just from the one time" with her boyfriend.......oldest story in the world, so sad. But kudos to the warrior educators on the front line, like you! :)

Yes, her daughter will be pregnant before she finishes high school the way this clueless mom is going in raising her daughter. And will be afraid to get checked for STD's, which could endanger the health of any children she has, too.

And if you're a parent, you are not qualified to critique/"enlighten"/or comment upon a childfree by free person's life, because you are not childfree by choice. (And we get hammered mercilessly by know it all parents convinced we're all demon spawn. Some of us might be, but we can't all choose our parents. :) )

Yes; don't forget the info that emerged a year or two ago that shared the sad info that the Catholic Church in Spain stole over 300,000 babies from their parents and sold them to adoptive couples over about fifty years - up through the 1990's. Many of the mothers were told their babies had died and they were refused…

Somewhat related rant from the customer side of things:

Update: Rocky's owner was able to lure Rocky out of the woods when everybody was looking for him by bringing his "housemate" cat along to meow out to him; Rocky recognized his friend and came out. Now the zoo that is holding him has said that if the owners build a new pen for him at their home they can take him back.…

Update: Rocky has been found and by court order taken to a zoo.

SO sorry you went through that. Unfortunately, loads of women do, and we're all pretty much fucked from Monday through Sunday for decades later; good luck eliciting sympathy; the college grads at Jez are often the worst for "shut up" "that would never have happened at my school, you went to the wrong school" and/or…

And the blaming the victim thing NEVER stops. 20 years later. It's loads of fun!

Yeah, it starts being a "You're being too nosy/bitter/loud/outspoken/etc. about the violence on college campuses" meme pretty damned quickly.

Possibly relevant, although, admittedly, I am an OLD compared to many posters here:

So what backup do you want?