I will never, ever forget reading deposition transcripts for one of those cases where the woman was seriously mentally ill in addition to hoarding. Her illness cost her career and home. The most disturbing part of the transcripts was her rationalizing the hoard. “Yes I bought 62 pairs of Calvin Klein pantyhose. They…

It’s called gallows humor. Not appropriate for him to share with the public, but it’s a normal part of the business. It’s quite a leap from someone making a shitty comment and “brutalizing black kids”.

Honestly, it wouldn’t help. Because they’re not like those hoarders. They would know if someone died in their home.

Eh, it’s very easy to say that you would allow yourself to be treated poorly by someone because they have a disability, but that’s ... ridiculous. Blind people can be fucking dicks. (All people can.) You don’t become a hoarder because you’re a normal, healthy person.

Eh, you never know in these situations. If you met my mother now, you’d rail on me for “abandoning” my mentally-ill mother, and how sweet and caring she was, or whatever. She was always able to hide her reign of terror from the outside.

I’m guessing that the smell of a dead body is something that you wouldn’t recognize unless you knew what it was. I know what a dead mouse smells like because one died in the walls when I was a kid, but I don’t think I’d recognize a body.

I don’t really think that one is better than the other. The impact on the kids is the same.

Eh I don’t really agree with you. I think it’s largely a class issue. The only eps I saw with hoarders who lost their kids were low-income white people. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an episode with a black family that had children. Some older black women, yes, but never young mothers.

People who say that have no idea what it’s like to deal with this issue. Or to deal with abusive, mentally ill parents. My MIL is a lovely person, but she has hoarding tendencies. Her house is full of crap. If you try and get rid of anything from your house, and she’s around, she wants to search the bag to see if…

I saw the ep with the bags of feces. The man’s hoard was so out of control that he could no longer reach the toilet. He had mobility issues. His solution was to shit in bags, which he then threw into the bathroom.

I found my dad’s thongs and porn. :(

Honestly, I would have told a friend, too. I would do that now! Absolve yourself of this guilt.

My parents used to leave their porn everywhere, including the VCR.

I really disagree with this. She deserves to know what happened to her.

I will concede to being the Reverse Flash to your Flash.

I can’t find the link now, but he was a total sexist shit to a female comic at a stand-up show. I think it was Chelsea Peretti?

I hate Girl Meets World, and seriously loved every minute of Fuller House. You must be Bizarro Temperance.

Mark Cooper is an assbag though. Hard pass.

Okay, but it’s *never* the year to vote third party. At least be honest.

It’s not about “free shit”, but more like a candidate who was promising to put our tax dollars to work for us. I like his social liberal policies, love that he was looking into ways to get us out of the student debt nightmare. I’m voting Clinton, but it was really nice when the candidate was actually offering me someth…