My parents would always order ice water as their drink. One wanted lemon, the other DID NOT WANT LEMON VERY MUCH THANK YOU! DO NOT PUT LEMON IN MY DRINK!!!! The order often came confused - mom got dad's lemon and vice versa, and they were always INFURIATED that restaurants could not get this right. I agree an…

When I picked back up and explained to her that she had eaten the ice pack but good news, it's non-toxic, she yelled at me for putting her on hold, because she is very busy and doesn't have time to wait on hold. Busy eating ice packs, I guess."

Reward the good behavior, ignore the bad. Sounds crazy, but it works.

I don't think most parents "let" their kids hit them. Most little kids go through a hitting/biting phase. You're supposed to restrict their movement or ignore or act visibly hurt. But you can't just haul off and smack the kid back, you know?

Oh my god, I desperately want one of these now. They sound magic. I bet I could get away with wearing one to work, even, with like a big necklace and sandals. Where, pray tell, might one find one of these? Like an army/navy surplus place?

Yes, I'm afraid to incur the wrath of a serious croissanteur but I make good use of my snack pockets. Morning flight snuggie usually has croissants in the vented pocket so they don't get soggy, afternoon flight snuggie has a beer and sandwich on the other side, evening flight snuggie snacks start to get weird due to…

Full disclosure: I don't actually wear overalls but I am not ashamed to admit that I regularly wear old, worn in flight suits that I have collected from pilots who are bigger/taller than me. They're so soft, like snuggies but with a hundred zippered pockets for your every need. Plus, they're FREE! And if someone…

Pants unbuttoned? When I get home, the pants just come off.

Samesies. Second I'm home, bra comes off. How the fuck does this woman manage this level of discomfort 23/24ths of her life?

I spend every waking minute when I'm not in public with my pants unbuttoned. I do NOT have the discipline/obsession level for this.

You want to know what to do? Get out of your fucking house. Period. If it's just you. If you are there with others, lock yourselves in a bathroom and call the police. I'm going to tell you right now, as an expert on close-quarters combat, you would die 99 out of 100 if someone like me invaded your home, regardless of…

We made rape illegal, but criminals just keep doing it!

Yeah cause I was the one who brought up suicides and accidental shootings! Oh no I wasn't, that was you... I like riding in the back seat with you.

You don't think gang related targets are an issue? Why is a love triangle between students not a school shooting?

I did read it, I do not agree with your conclusions. My threshold for acceptable levels of violence is lower than yours. There a lots of incidents involving children who accidentally shoot themselves and other kids, don't think that I'm ready to say three year olds are fucking morons who removed their crazy asses from…

So from the article their issue was that a large part of the shootings were on collage campuses as if collage students are somehow less deserving of the pity for being shot, also some of them were not even mass shootings like who cares about 2 people getting shot?

So redefine the terms, leave out some incidents where people don't die or not enough people die, don't count universities, and stop the count before sandy hook.... and you arrive at an acceptable level of in-school violence?

I actually read the link you posted, and I'm just going to put this here:

What's the magic number the death toll must reach before non-idiots like yourself would agree there's a problem?

Ah you are one of those people who thinks getting shot only counts if you die from it, you probably also don't count accidental shootings, because they don't count either and then you say that if you ignore the metropolitan areas with more than 250000 people you don't even have gun crime.