What you described was two categories of assholes Jake shouldn't have to suffer from.

In America, where measles immunisation is compulsory...

I'm all for this for two reasons:

I TOTALLY forgot about doing this to all of my pants in 1999.

I totally agree with you, and am still all for it being an option. I think it's important to frame it as you did though, "this is for people who want natural child birth, but may need help relaxing" and not, "this is a less expensive, less invasive equivalent to an epidural" as the article gets kind of close to…

I can see how this would be really terrible, but it also sounds kind of awesome. I'm particularly jealous of that dentist story, as gas does zero to dull my pain, but makes it very difficult for me to coordinate a punch to the dentist's face. I always thought that was part of the plan.

One hand: I see absolutely no reason not to offer laughing gas as an option.

My tried and true doesn't work for all situations (like ones in which a real power imbalance exists), but does have a 100% success rate:

Please yes. I have a feeling your cake would be much, much better as I am nowhere near a culinary grad. I make a mean stencil though....(see pic somewhere else in this thread. It looked even better on concrete.)

Bam.

Wow, I hate Penn Station so much more after reading this.

True story: My best friend once rented a 3 bedroom house with a mutual kinda friend who turned out to be a dead beat alcoholic. After we finally kicked her out (after 3 months not paying rent and a lot of other shit), I found a really unflattering picture of her, turned it into a graffiti stencil with the text "Fuck…

As someone who regularly teaches Machiavelli, I'd argue that he would not deem this behavior as "cruelty well-used," but rather as "cruelty abused" and thus not the behavior of a good leader. See: The Prince, Chapter 7

I am so grateful that you are in Heaven with Jesus

The linked article is phenomenal.

I just tried to figure out how this would scenario would play out between my husband and either of his two sisters.

I have a deep-seated fear that I will have a child who will commit some terrible crime against another person, because it seems that parents are totally unable to accept the reality of their children's bad behavior. In this case it seems that the apple likely doesn't fall far from the tree, so the father's defense is…

Remember when conservative Muslim newspapers made Michelle Obama's dress more modest? This is like that...only much worse and much more ironic.

Also, don't put on a helmet and bang your head into walls, "just for fun." Helmets are engineered for a single impact, and minor impacts can seriously degrade the protection a helmet can provide in a real crash.