When I was definitely old enough to know better, I was utterly convinced that my parents switched off with exact doubles (possibly evil, possibly vampires) every other time they picked me up from somewhere. It was clear in my mind that or town must have two sides with a copy of my house and neighborhood for my real…

We don't have control over whether we get some awful disease or not but we do have control over how long we allow people to suffer once it is clear that no recovery is possible.

The wine that pinkens your teeth!

Those opposed to assisted suicide don't understand the concept of mercy. It was a selfless thing your brother-in-law offered even if your father wasn't able to do it. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Nothing more hideous than a Christian who has forgotten some of the most important teachings of his own Christ.

Aww, they're adorbs together! I love love love her killer attitude and his boots!

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I'm like 99% certain you were saved by an angel dressed as a cowboy. He sounds unreal.

I was at a chocolate shop once as a customer stuck in line behind a woman making up one of those fill your own assortments. She kept repeatedly asking to sample the chocolates and, without fail, the worker kept telling her that samples were not available but that she was welcome to purchase a single chocolate if she…

He was a vegetarian and a Catholic.

My reply was more to the point that parents seem to think their children won't/can't/should never learn about sex. Just an anecdote that still makes me laugh. :)

When I was in high school, we read The French Lieutenants Woman. One mother absolutely refused to let her seventeen year old son read it due to the "pornographic" sex scene. She insisted that he had no idea about sex and she would be damned - damned! - if he would be learning from school.

I think it is an American thing. This wiki article sums up the general feelings that Americans have against atheists. In addition to that, I live in the Southern Bible Belt. A common "getting to know you" question around here is, "what church do you go to?" The company I work for is a "Christian Company" though it has…

Lucky for me my older brother was the indiscreet one when he left for college. He made a big point to my parents that he didn't "have to" go to church anymore now that he was out of the house and so on. My mom cried to me about it. I just can't break her heart like that.

None of my family knows that I'm an atheist. I'd rather they find out I'm bi or that I've been hiding a mental illness from them for the past ten or so years. I even had a Christian wedding to marry my also-atheist husband.

It *shouldn't* take 20+ women to equal the word of a man but, unfortunately, it seems like it might take more than that.

Brilliant! I never thought of this solution. What a great way to rid the world of those pesky cocks.

I mean... baby boys are a plague, right? An easily accessed late term abortion seems like the reasonable answer. I mean, the no-questions-asked abortion parlors are on every corner for a reason. Don't you ladies go in to de-male your uterus at least a few times a year, too?

Eesh. I was once cornered by a hipster type who, swayed by my admittedly hipster-like fashion sense, decided that I would agree with him that it is actually *more racist* that white people are "not allowed" to use the n-word. My only response was blinking dumbly at him and finally sighing out, "No. Just... no," before…

Sadly, yes. The Oompa Loompa-like pallor is indicative of advanced afluenza. He'll need emergency subcutaneous reality checks along with a heavy round of being utterly ignored if he ever hopes to defeat the disease. It's going to be a long uphill battle.