I remember Brio being simultaneously painful and painfully boring. But it didn’t hold a candle to Clubhouse, Focus on the Family’s magazine for elementary students that included things like fictional stories explaining why it’s actually super awesome when white people call black people n***ers because it’s a sign of…

Besides, one would have to be an exceptional idiot to cheat on Mila Kunis.

I love strange perfumes and I love Serge Luten. I should smell this. Perfume is art + science + emotion. Santal Blanc by Serge Luten is the perfume that took me down the niche perfume rabbit hole.

Thanks for the advice, I’ll check out the Ask a Manager archives.

This is the equivalent of writing “I had sex!” on your CV. Seriously, no one should do this.

I’d think this would be even less popular on the coasts, tbh. The thought of putting something like that on my CV in my local coastal job market makes me cringe. Just being a woman of child-bearing age can be seen as a negative, kids or not.

Excuse me. Are you suggesting that people who choose not to have children are lacking in their ability to prioritize their own lives? If so, that’s some straight up sexist biological essentialist bullshit. I hope that’s not what you meant to say.

Mom isn’t official job title so already this turns me off. I never mention the fact I’m a mom at work anymore than I would daughter, sister, wife, cousin, etc. All of those roles also obligate me to personal duties, most of all with my suicidal sister, so motherhood is no different. (My kid will eventually grow up; my…

I remember reading about this on Ask A Manager several weeks back and the general consensus was ‘nope.’

But the problem is, are the parents really doing what’s right for the child? Parents are given deference in questions of child welfare and they should. Parents are certainly MORE LIKELY to know what is best for their child. But they can’t know 100%. But more importantly, parents are human beings and human beings are…

Your last paragraph ignores the fact that there are many, many people who manage to parent while working full time. If your “gold” resume lands in front of one of them, you’ll be laughed at heartily while being denied interviews.

They actually are actively harming him by keeping him alive, because he is suffering, and sending him for a treatment that not only won’t help in any way (were he even to survive the physical stress of the journey) but will increase and prolong his suffering is cruel. Even the doctor who would provide said treatment…

I of course don’t know, and his medical providers can’t say - but I think it’s reasonable to assume that is because doctors have to act in Chatlie’s best interests, not his parents. The poor guy has never really left the hospital - his parents’ house would be the strange new environment, not where he is now. Also, he…

I have all the sympathy in the world for how horrible and difficult and unfair this situation is for these parents but it is unimaginably cruel and selfish to that child for them to keep him alive in his condition.

The replies are pretty sweet.

It’s not like that. Great Ormond Street Hospital has acted entirely appropriately. They concluded that his epileptic encephalopathy was such that his brain damage was severe and irreversible, and that the experimental treatment in the US was potentially painful but incapable of achieving anything positive for him. The…

I agree completely. It’s hard. Terribly hard...but if your body can’t keep you alive due to a terminal non curable or treatable disease, then you should not be alive.  

What pisses me off most about President Dipshit inserting himself in this story is that per his proposed healthcare reform, the children suffering like that here at home would be left to die while their parents are saddled with a copious amount of medical debt.

Just a quick reminder: boring monogamous gays can literally walk into City Hall and and marry their partners whenever they want as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges

Brussel sprouts are so good if prepared properly. I loved them as a kid and apparently they are considered good by kids in Japan too (so much that they changed the brussel sprouts to green peppers in Inside Out for the Japanese dub).