This. If I have change, I give it to someone if they ask. I get the "they'll just buy booze or drugs you know" all the time, and I reply "If I was sleeping on the street with no end in sight, I'd want to have a drink too".
This. If I have change, I give it to someone if they ask. I get the "they'll just buy booze or drugs you know" all the time, and I reply "If I was sleeping on the street with no end in sight, I'd want to have a drink too".
So I frequently give money to homeless people. Not even small amounts - if all I have is a $20, they will get that. People tell me 'no, don't do that, they'll just use it to buy alcohol.'
I'm well aware of it.
Alcohol withdrawal kills people. KILLS. In the city where I live in California, we only recently set up a…
"How often should I delete my internet search history? You strike me as a good person to ask."
Are we just supposed to accept that these people can literally get away with anything?
Diplomatic immunity exists for the sake of reciprocity and due to the fact that no government anywhere fully trusts any other government.
I thought Kish was joking/parodying therapy sessions. It made me smile.
Maybe this says more about my own relationship to alcohol, but am I wrong in thinking the most embarrassing thing about this is throwing up with a BAC of .07? That's like, 3 drinks. I suppose if he had actually been asleep in his car for a few hours, it could have metabolized, but that's still a ridiculously low…
What an opportunity for Lohan's understudy.
Charlotte from Charlotte's Web was a total Warrior Nanny.
This is a weird argument. By definition, anything she does on the quiet would not be publicized, so we have no way of knowing what she's doing, or has done, 'on the quiet'.
He could just say he'd put you in the book. That second part is kind of a given.
To be honest, I didn't even consider that there was a possibility that Arya and The Hound weren't BFFs IRL.
Just because gender is a social construct doesn't mean it isn't real. Plenty of things are social constructs, fully recognized as such, and yet people participate in them freely.
Yeah - one of them told me the definition of a woman is someone who can have a baby. Because that's not a sexist view of women... (not to mention pretty damn insulting to women who cannot have children, or don't want them).
Maybe this is me taking it too personally because I lived in an inner city food desert where produce was limited to either canned corn or mealy apples, but it didn't make me laugh to hear that a dude who grew up in poverty in a similar food desert-y area until he was like 25 wasn't super familiar with a grapefruit.…