Thanks. Everything turned out ok, but it was a bit frightening during that holiday.

I was almost certainly roofied, or otherwise drugged at a night-before-Thanksgiving hangout, and my friends didn't realize. I woke up in a dude's bedroom (thankfully unharmed) in the middle of the night and had to walk home feeling like shit. Thanksgiving day had me mostly confused and ultra-hungover trying to figure…

Nope, can't participate in the hate parade for Puppy Surprise. I loved the shit out of my Kitty Surprise and I still have it today, even despite the fact that I REALLY wanted puppy surprise but my parents were cat people and weren't about to encourage my puppy-loving ways.

I'd guess New Jersey would be pretty well-represented in state tattoos. Related: My cousin from a rural southern area came up to visit me in Philadelphia and she mentioned noticing a tattoo on some guy's arm. She was convinced it was Italy, and that this man was attractive because he was exotic. She eventually pointed…

The small family farms that I have visited have all "humanely" dispatched their livestock by either shooting the animals in the face or cutting the jugular and letting the animal bleed while the heart remains beating and the animal still moving. Either option seems like it would be violent and jarring to the casual…

My brother and I went to Legoland in San Diego together as adults with no children recently. So it's not true there, anyway. Dunno about in Denmark. Also, it was a BLAST.

This article immediately made me think of this Calvin and Hobbes: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbe… (and the overall story arc). So sorry about the ordeal :/

I've got nothing against whatever people want to do to have a healthy baby born. I do, however, always feel bad for my Mom, who had to have an emergency C-section to have me. The epidural didn't take at first, so she felt the incision, then she had to be totally knocked out, and when she woke up she wasn't allowed to…

That writer wants to improve her life using "ancestral health principles." Hunting-gathering by necessity isn't the same thing as an intentional diet plan based on any kind of principle beyond "feed my empty stomach." No need to try to make it sound fancy. Perhaps she might like to try medieval bloodletting for her…

Lower arches are generally stronger than higher arches, but in ballet, the aesthetics trump all. Irish dance is so different- both the hard and soft shoes help define the look of an arch already. Also the commonly desired Irish dance point holds the foot so much straighter than in ballet, where the "best" pointed feet…

Wow. Your story makes me very sad that you were told so much nonsense and that it kept you from ballet. I have awful feet, but I've been lucky enough to enjoy a lifetime of dancing (and hell yes, men's class jumping, thank you booty power) for my own personal betterment. Of course, I'm no professional, but I still…

Hello classmate :o) I graduated that year too! My favorite part of that whole gradutirement debacle was the "parties" he held in the dorms just before commencement, passing out items with his face all over them. I still have a couple of the SJT temporary tattoos; I think I kept them because no one would believe me…

Fully agreed, as a dark chocolate snob, and when I realized it's made with palm oil I wrote it out of my life entirely.

I had something like the initial instance occur when working as a cashier in a convenience store. I had accidentally accepted one or two counterfeit twenties, and alerted my manager when I fully realized. She told me to try to get rid of them as change. I opted to keep them in my drawer and throw them in the safe when…

I've been buying Men's Mitchum for years, and at the stores I buy at, it is absolutely at least $1.50 less, and the men's stick is a bit larger than the ladies'. What a racket.

My mom is the same way. As soon as she sees whatever pre-planned tricks or bs papers they're going to show her, she just says "I know this is bs. Please give me the figures for what I want, no other persuasion necessary." I think it's hilarious.

I JUST bought my first car and picked it up yesterday. It was just me doing it. I told them this was not my first car purchase. It was ok, I had my research done and got what I wanted out of the car that I was considering (found it on cars.com). They did get me on one thing, though: they offered me a wraparound…

Was dating a guy for a little while, and was over at his house one weekday afternoon. I was looking at the pictures on his fridge (he was an older guy with lots of family all over the country), and I asked if so-and-so was his niece, nephew, or whatever other family member he had described to me, and then got to a…

I have a tattoo on the back of my knee, and the needling over the tendons back there made my leg jump SO MUCH that the artist had clamp down on my leg with another shop employee holding my foot down. Luckily this method resulted in no errors, but I felt bad to chain these guys to my leg to hold back my reflexes. Ouch…

Actually, there is a significant mixup happening here when comparing cutoffs from other organizations: namely, that there are two major steps to confirming a positive drug test, and the cutoffs for each test are different owing to the differing accuracy of the two different tests. The initial screen limit is 50 ng/ml.…