God. That must have been what was involved in a funeral I attended. The deceased had killed himself by diving off a 6th floor interior railing in a shopping mall, and his family also wanted an open casket. Compared with the photos, his face and head looked like a vaguely misshapen version of what it should have been.…

Because pets don’t always survive the trip when being transported like cargo, and can get “lost” like standard baggage.

Indeed, I wrongly glossed over that in my summary of what can influence prenatal development; chromosomal mutations definitely have an impact.

Biological sex is defined by chromosomes, but prenatal development can influence how that is expressed and how your brain develops. The concept of gender equaling more than your chromosomes has been around at least since John Money’s work in the 1950s. Do try to keep up, troll.

I thought Chuck-E-Cheese served alcohol so the parents could stand to be there? Or is/was that Showbiz Pizza?

This. I joined a gym at work, put my headphones on, and get in my own little zone. I thought I hated the gym, but turns out, not really.

She definitely should! With very on-and-off training I’ve worked up to squatting with a 50 lb dumbbell in each hand, and don’t look even as good as the “What actually happens” comparison picture that was posted.

Yeah, I’d worry that I would get a bit of glue on the nail, and then when I peeled off the glue, it’d tear the polish on the nail.

Useful exercise and it definitely has a point, but note that this excludes anything “seasonal” that you may sorely wish you had in another month or three.

Did you not own a baseball bat as a child?

He wasn’t revealing the breaking of laws to authorities with jurisdiction. He was gossiping. Don’t even try to compare this to being a whistleblower; that’s utter nonsense.

Basically no, but the police may decline to pursue the case if they do not have a cooperative victim.

She might have been up for something on the way there then changed her mind, and he decided to not take no for an answer.

Yeah but apparently that’s different because those people did it willingly/it’s God’s will that they received those blessings, while “welfare”/social programs are the gub’mint stealing from honest people to support those who aren’t popular enough to fund-raise their lifestyles - I mean, who are heathen slackers.

Beat me to this - especially since they inflicted “Jinger” on one of those poor girls first. :(

Sometimes people like these subscription services to try out new things they wouldn’t have thought of checking out before. I used to subscribe to a CSA (community-supported agriculture) share where I got a big box of veggies each week from a local CSA farm; I got to help out a mostly organic locally-owned farm, and in…

Except when even halfway decent ones don't want to (as far as you can tell) and you feel even worse.

If it makes you feel any better - women feel the same way about their own bodies. Between porn, women’s magazines, cosmetics ads, Disney princess stuff, etc., we’re trained from day one to be super-critical of our faces, bodies, hair, clothing, even our own sexual desires and interests. Remember when you see those…

I think kids have a gravitational pull to big people. My very tall and broad husband has observed small children just not... seeing legs, or something, and running at something that’s behind him but veering right into his legs. Then they bounce off, look startled, and then cry like the mean man hip-checked them or…

88 is neo-Nazi code for “Heil Hitler” because H is the 8th letter of the (Roman) alphabet. Dunno about 14 but I’m sure it’s similar code.