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Slightly related: I know theater and arena riggers who wear utili-kilts. The proper Scottish way.

I gotta jump in now because there’s a lot of confusion about this in the comments and it’s infuriating: This isn’t a payout designed for poorer families. It was a payout deliberately bought in and exempt from means testing to encourage upper-middle class women to have babies (during a fertility slump for upper-class

Immunisations don’t cost anything in Australia. For people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, there are family health centres which have vaccination clinics ... actually, everyone can access immunisations for free that way - just, if you’ve got money, you’ll usually arrange to have your own doctor / nurse do it and

It’s not the way I’d wanna go. I’m not really down with the uterus-as-clown-car thing.

What kind of hater/shamer am I if I think this is morally objectionable due to the clear issues with over population? Stop having shit tons of babies. Its bad. I feel a very similar judgement and distaste for this as I do for the Duggar family.

Your self-congratulatoriness should carry you far. Meanwhile, I'll happily judge the shit out of terrible, selfish choices, reproductive or otherwise.

I’m sorry, this is mental illness. I thought it was batshit crazy enough when a family I knew moved from Idaho to Northern Virginia so the mother could receive fertility treatment at age 44 (to conceive kid #7), but this tops it.

If Betsey Johnson can still do perfect cartwheels at 72, age is truly nothing but a number.

So if I think this is highly unethical, I’m an “ageist hater”? So be it

I mean... you COULD be, but so could any parent. Mine was, and he was in his 20s when I was born. It’s always a leap of faith, and 40 is completely reasonable, and whoever said that to you needs to stfu.

Agreed. I give doctors serious sideeye for enabling these decisions.

Yes, let’s see how those four kids fare when their mother needs to be taken care of while they’re barely in their 20s.

Age is just a number? Ageist haters take a seat? That’s sarcasm ,right? Right?

Favorite moment was when I realized WEC is the new pinnacle of motorsport and their beyond-brilliant formula makes F1 seem clueless and irrelevant.

Mark Webber — who came to WEC from an increasingly unpopular spec series

They had to skin, like, twelve Muppets for that interior.

Someday, I will be a beautiful butterfly, and then everything will be better.

That panel looks like it would talk. And it would have this voice: