Yes. I don't even particularly like dogs, and stories of heroic pups still get me teary.

Indeed - it's a combination of so many things that I would want for a kid.

True - although I think that tea was at the forefront of global capitalism (opium wars etc.), being cultivated by impoverished/enslaved/indebted people before coffee was even on the radar as a cash-crop. :( indeed!

I think that lemon lyman was referring to a post that appeared on Jezebel a week ago, using the term "cancer of the butt" and making fun of the idea of colon cancer (so the comment may have been more specifically about attitudes expressed by Jezebel writers).

I'm also overtaken by the shiny. As a woman who doesn't shave her legs, has never touched a contact in her life, and can't be bothered with bling of any kind, I'm definitely not the intended audience, but I still find the overall effect beautiful.

Just posted the same question - I'm a lot more discreet about it than I was when I first discovered them, but they are still pretty awesome.

So... is it actually uncommon for adults to give and get hickeys?

I think that it often shows up around proper names in order to clarify where the original speaker used pronouns instead:

I think that some of them have a clearer understanding though (children with older siblings who are in the midst of it, and children who are undergoing early puberty, which is common enough at this point). I was definitely very aware of puberty at that point in my life, because it was the reason that I was beginning…

For me at least, it's not an inherent beef with the idea that people have the right, theoretically, to kill themselves, as much as it is with the practical dimension of the act: the majority of people who try to kill themselves are seriously mentally ill. I'm not sure how you would draw the line in practice, and…

At the same time, a person who tries to kill themselves is probably not, in the moment, mentally competent to think through those risks in a rational way.

I'm betting that many of those men actually do think that the idea is preposterous, because they probably don't think of what they do as 'forcing' (since they are "only getting what they deserve", or "seducing reluctant women", or whatever other horrible justification they used in the first place).

I had never thought of it that way, but you are right - even just in financial terms, on some months I "made" more money from the TA insurance than from the TA salary. I'll have to keep that in mind the next time that I'm grumpy and marking bad papers :)!

Cats have mastered this particualr form of trolling. When I go to bed, mine can't be bothered to sleep (too busy scampering around and toppling freestanding objects); after a long night of cat-partying, though, they feel the need to sneak into my bed thirty minutes before my alarm rings, purr the place up, and make me…

True. Plus, the shorter life-span is only a draw-back if your next life after that isn't also as a pampered cat.

Jumping in here and falkie's story could be different, but I think that many schools have separate insurance plans for grad and undergrad students. As a grad student, the only reason that I have insurance at all is that I am also an employee (I do a few hours of marking a week). It doesn't make much sense to deny the…

I was on a different pill, but had similar issues. It can take a short while for your body to readjust to the absence of hormones, so the first few weeks can be bizarre (I had it happen once where I just bled for weeks, and once where I just didn't get my period for a while). Both times that this happened to me, my…

chocolate shavings?

Most of the recent tweets seem to be by people decrying the trend.

.