Is there not other options you can explore, to help with this question - like fostering or volunteering with children? You guys could still touch and influence a child's life in a positive way, but you personally would not be on the hook for the entire thing for the rest of your lives.

Or you guys could limit…

I have an idea: I'm going to go home an film a graphic video of me destroying all my cover girl makeup, via punches and stomping, then not buying any more cover girl make up. ever. Who is with me?

That's not necessarily a bad thing :P

I've got a funny dog one.

There are a ton that are.

But the thing is, if they want to catch this guy and make charges stick, they have to catch him properly, with the right (i.e. legally obtained) evidence. They cannot just haul in everyone matching the description, and even then, if ONE victim mis-identifies the suspect in a line-up, the…

"the most recent attack occurred last night at 8:42 PM, and even though police arrived within three minutes of the incident, by that time, the suspect had vanished."

Unless you want to spring for teleporters for the police budget, three minute response time is pretty much instantaneous. And 9 days is very fast for a…

No one disputes that rifles/long guns are good for hunting.

But no one should be allowed to own handguns. If you like target shooting, you should be fine with renting from a range.

I love shooting and I do it every other month. I'm not a gun nut (I don't give two shits about gun models) but I can take apart a handgun…

The most insane thing that happened to us while travelling (at least, to my seven year old mind) was my family getting accidentally separated while travelling from Amsterdam to Delft. It was all of an hour long train ride, but in my traumatized, 7-year-old mind, WE WERE NEVER GOING TO SEE MY DAD, BABY SISTER AND…

That happened to my mom when my younger sister was born. Since I took 27 hours and my younger brother took about 21, NO ONE was expecting my sister to show up in two hours.

Pretty much. With way more enthusiasm and way less cool-as-ice skill. :P

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Most of then can't. They would be fired for speaking out against their department and most other cops would ostracize them for speaking up, even if it was about something they all agree was messed up.

I totally know what you're talking about - we had a Conure in the clinic that would go for people's jugulars. Like, no joke, he put one of my coworkers in hospital, because he would rocket out of the cage and try to tear apart the nearest throat. He was a fucked up little bird.

I was totally the silly dancer of the vet clinic I worked at. Though I was slightly more legit (only slightly, but no less silly) , because it was a bird clinic, and it turns out that cockatoos and macaws are totally into dance parties. Like, if I started playing loud music on my cell phone and bobbing my head, all…

I have a whole bunch, mainly because I've spent about 3 years cumulatively working in either an exotic animal rescue or an avian veterinary clinic.

I remember another person named Royal - Almanzo Wilder's older brother in the "Little House" books :P

It's regional. Kind of like how you'll say "I want a medium double double" when you walk into (usually) a Tim Hortons/fastfood/coffeeshop joint in Canada. Double double usually coffee with two sugars, two creams.

Judging from his behaviour (my cockatoo does the same thing), he can see his own reflection in the camera lens, and he's half enamoured/half territorial :P

An unfortunate truth of drug addictions - people rarely end up meaning more than the drug, even if the part of her brain that isn't addicted loves you dearly (that is why addiction is such a hideous disease) . Unless you've seen 100% evidence that she's clean, then she is probably still banging her dealer and still…

Wrong! It's a hardwired thing, much like sexual orientations and other sexual preferences (like where you fall in the BDSM spectrum). :D It can be influenced by many factors, but even then, there are quite few scientific papers about how humans are not generally meant to be monogamous for longer than two years at a…