So it was celebrating her accomplishments! See, THAT’s how you do it!

I once went to a second cousin’s senior-year cheerleading awards thing because that’s what was happening the day we were passing through town. I don’t remember the name of her award, but it was in honor of her housing an entire large pizza by herself in one sitting.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

Hey, that’s because our sister site io9 was doing an excellent (and now published) report of their own.

Yes, their comment literally read, “Kinja user fleshsword is a rapist”

No, it didn’t, and stop taking it so personally when the word “men” is used. You’re male and NOT a rapist? Great, then you shouldn’t be bothered one bit by that comment.

let’s not mince words: it’s a men’s issue.

Counter-counter-point, sometimes doctors & nurses know a smidgen more about this sort of thing than other folks. The whole idea of “the birthing experience” being a thing that people want to--enjoy?--is something I don’t really understand. But like you said, if you want that alternative option, there are midwives &…

Mrs Whirly and I are also expecting our first in a couple of months. One thing that has astounded me is how strangers (usually women) see my wife’s belly and instantly think it is OK to tell her their horrific birth stories. Have you experienced that?

Circumcision is becoming less and less common (IIRC it’s less than 50% now), but people still get hung up on it for some reason. The funniest thing people always asked us about not circumcising our boys is “don’t you think he’ll be confused that his dick doesn’t look like his dad’s”. No shit, we got asked that several…

My wife and I are having our first in a couple months. Anytime someone says anything close to “do you think you’re ready”, I tell them that we have a dog, so we have a pretty good idea of what we’re doing. Literally as I was typing this, my uncle just asked me if I was prepared to change diapers. Told him that we’re…

We went to a class for our first one, and they went around the room asking each couple about their birth plan. Most of them were “We’re going to try to go natural” with a few “We’re using a midwife in home and going natural”.

Folks about to have kids are so adorable. In addition to the birth plan (“hey doc & nurses, I know you’ve delivered hundreds of babies, but here’s how me & my wife want things to go based on our internet research”) bet Brandon and his wife have discussed how Junior can have a pacifier, but only until 3 months, how the…

I imagine there was a degree of envy too. Can’t be easy retiring before you broke the record you really wanted to... while knowing someone else will probably crush that same record without even making it a main focus. 

“She could have won everything,” Lindsey Vonn told reporters. “I’m a racer and I want to race in every single race that I possibly can. I respect her decision. It’s obviously her decision. But she has the potential and 100 percent the capability of getting a medal in all five disciplines. So I don’t personally…

I’m trying to wrap my head around the idea that “exercise is the most underutilized antidepressant” is “worrisome.” There are reams and reams of data and studies indicating that exercise’s positive effects are more than just physical, and speaking empirically, I don’t feel the same if I don’t exercise most days. I’m…

I'm so sorry but this made me actually choke on my soda due to a surprise-laugh. Oh, jeeze.

He reportedly told his mother that if she had a problem, she could meet him in Temecula 

I don’t know if I want the FBI deciding they can investigate people based on the names of songs they write.

Or maybe it would be just as wrong to lock someone up had the music been Arabic? Maybe lets stop violating the rights of Arab citizens instead of advocating for violating the rights of more citizens?

My understanding was that the salt lamps emitted negative ions when heated (by a tealight, for example), which neutralised harmful free radicals. It always sounded plausible to me!