Absolutely. I had two sets of friends who both planned on having two or more children. In one couple, after having their first child, the dad discovered he absolutely, head-over-heels loved parenting, it was his life. The mom hated it - like cut her maternity leave short and delegated all parenting responsibilities to…

I don’t intentionally bump into people on sidewalks, but I move over as far as I possibly can and if it’s clear they’re going to bang into me anyway (like groups of assholes who take up the entire width of the sidewalk and expect you to jump out of the way into the street or onto the grass to make way), I just brace…

I think in a lot of cases these traffickers pick really young-looking women and try to sell them off as “virgins.” If she ended up having a c-section scar that shit wasn’t going to fly.

This is part of the reason my partner and I have never married. We really hate being ripped off, and getting married is just asking people to rip you off. I mean, obviously getting married is also just not that important to us or we would have gone to the courthouse, but it makes people all kinds of uncomfortable that…

The couple seem like the sort of people who:

I went to a Canadian university where courses were offered teaching the local indigenous language, but they were only open to indigenous students. It was disappointing, particularly since it is a smaller nation, and one of the languages that is definitely dying out.

This reminds me a lot of my sister. She’s had a string of pets with weird behavioral issues who, after being dumped on me or my parents, end up coming in line and behaving totally normally. She seemingly still hasn’t realized that the problem is not, and never was, the animals.

Honestly, Patton Oswalt reminds me a lot of my husband, personality-wise, and if I unexpectedly dropped dead, my greatest hope would be that he found himself happy and in love a year later. He’s prone to depression and does not do well living on his own. Best way to honor my memory would be to live a fulfilling, happy…

This is a really good point, I hadn’t thought of, despite the fact that one of the people I know who work hardest to be “quirky” is desperately boring.

Candace Cameron’s husband also made like 2.5 million a year playing hockey before retiring, so if they were at all smart they don’t actually need sad nostalgic reboot money, and she’s just doing it for the sad nostalgia.

As a semi-old person, I’m fascinated by the fetishization of “weirdness” and “quirkiness” among younger people now. When I was growing up, I was considered weird, but it was definitely not considered to be a good thing. Weird people were tormented and excluded. We were considered to be alienating and off-putting. I…

Why are these people all lining up to humiliate themselves at the throne of a clown? Why is Sean Spicer still in his job? Is Trump a hypnotist? Has he stumbled across some sort of idiot-proof mind control technique that causes people to lose all dignity and self-respect when around him? It’s just so embarrassing to…

It’s also possible we don’t all mean the same thing by “mom jeans.” Because I get the struggle of silly low-rise jeans not covering an ample butt, and making it look weird, but in my definition there is a lot of geography in between pants that accommodate and flatter a very large butt, and mom jeans. What I consider…

Man, I grew up with hoarder parents, never learning to clean properly, and have dealt with severe depression and PTSD and I’ve managed to never have maggots in my house. I get that cleaning is really hard sometimes, but I still can’t imagine how you get to the point of maggots.

As someone who lived through the first mom jeans era, I’m not mad that people are wearing them again, just utterly perplexed. I’ve adopted more of an old person “let them make their own mistakes, it’s harmless” stance.

Thanks. I totally feel you on the fight-or-flight triggers just being around a person with whom you have a history like that. It’s taken a lot of work to get to this point, and it’s still an issue. The better I get, actually, the more I realize just how much physical impact seeing my sister still has.

My parents mostly did chalk it up to normal sibling rivalry, although they always clearly knew her behaviour was a bit off. And it didn’t take my sister very long to realize that she could get away with a hell of a lot more if she waited until we were home alone, or at least alone in a room together, to dish out the…

I don’t know about the guys, but it was my understanding that the high level pro women wear their shoes out in a day or two anyway.

I can appreciate how that would happen if she still feels that she needs to maintain a relationship with her parents, but also for her own mental health. I grew up with a violent and abusive sibling (I could seriously write a whole book about it, too), and ended up needing to be treated for PTSD as a result. As a…

Unpopular opinion, but based on what looks like voluminous expert judgment that this child will never recover, this is a good indication of one of the problems with the for-profit medical system in the US. As long as you’re willing to give people money, it seems in the US you can find a doctor who will do pretty much…