SRSLY. I knew I wanted a black cat, but my dude looks SO MUCH CUTER in person than he does in photos.

I think the photography aspect is increasingly important, since many shelters/rescues post adoptions online. Wiggly excited animals are already difficult to photograph, add in a black coat and it's nearly impossible for the average person to get a "competitive" photo that stands out from the hundreds of other photos.…

I volunteered in an animal control facility and we found the same thing to be true. Black labs are ubiquitous around here, and while they have a good reputation as a "family dog" you can only place so many and lots of people are either looking for a specific breed or a unique looking animal. Once you've placed your…

The shelter I volunteer with actually ran some studies on this and found that black dogs in our shelter definitely stay longer on average, even though we actually don't even have that many of them (due to the region and typical breeds we get in as strays, tan/light brown tends to be the most common coloring). One…

I purposefully adopted a black dog to combat this - he had been waiting 7 months to be adopted. I love him soooooo much

I'm cool with her selling the tickets. Personally I think that was a really light punishment and it should have been worse, and I say that as someone who regularly ran off like a trollop to a guy's house to dry hump and make out.

If you say anything racist, homophobic ect you can get a warning but most of the time they kick them out of the house.

Has anyone noticed that "Aaryn" is an anagram of "Aryan"?

That "I'm Italian" excuse is the worst. I hate when people blame racism, or sexism, or terrible personality traits on their heritage. Don't drag Italians into this! You're just an awful person!

This has nothing to do with the story, but these are my favorite Oreo flavor. Now I have a craving for oreos.

College of Dupage: "C's equal COD" as my high school classmates use to say.

Well no kidding if they could go to a doctor they'd get better care. But they can't. That's the point.

She plainly said that she is not a doctor. Be worried that our ridiculous, hypocritically puritanical, anti-woman country makes her existence necessary.

This.

That's kind if interesting. What are the criteria by which destructive patterns of behaviour are classified as mental disorders? One might argue that a man who compulsively engages in a pattern of abuse is mentally ill — these men have deep-seated rage issues and problems with women, don't they? And we'll happily slap…

Why not both? Munchausen's Syndrome By Proxy is a mental disorder AND a form of child abuse. The same way Pedophilic Disorder is a mental disorder, and molesting children is a form of child abuse. (It's not a completely parallel comparison, but I think it fits.) Just because something is a mental disorder doesn't mean…

Yep—no worries about jr being good enough to be special if junior can be sympathetic enough to be special.

I think its the mentality that there's something so wrong with you that in turn it makes you special. It reminds me of friends of my mother's who would sit around and comment on how they were SUCH neat freaks that they could not relax at the simple suggestion of dust. This would lead to hours of the most aggressive…

Yes, I was an early developer and when I really started sprouting boobs and hips (around age 12) my mom started policing what I wore out of the house. And "slut shaming" had nothing to do with it - she was responding to seeing grown men ogling my body. She knew the world was unsafe enough for young girls and she…

Nobody murder me for saying this, but Hitler was an excellent public speaker. Also, the experiments performed on Jewish people, and the scientists who performed them, yielded much information that was utilized by both the US and the Soviet Union. None of these excuses Hitler, these scientists, or Nazi Germany as a…