Approaching damned near “absolutely positive,” I’d say. And he probably railed on Reddit about how women only date douchebags and don’t appreciate a proper gentleman once he got home.

YES PLEASE. ALL OF THE YES PLEASE.

I’d... I’d watch the hell out of this.

Mr. Also has pointed out that you might want to contact the local ASPCA in your area and describe this situation to them, in case you haven’t already done so. What she’s doing may well be illegal.

You’re allowed. That’s shocking to hear. I can’t even imagine living next to it. Mr. Also’s whole extended family is farmers and ranchers and I have never heard them say anything that insouciant about suffering animals. His mom has to shoot what she affectionately calls “varmints” that threaten her fruit trees, but…

That’s awful... people chirp “OH IT’S SO NACHURL” and don’t realize what unnecessary suffering they’re causing. I fostered a barn kitten for a while who’d been orphaned at 4 weeks by large dogs; that cat was damaged goods from day one but I still think of her and miss her. It’s hard to imagine people deliberately not…

I stop everything if I get scratched by one of my two evil bastard cats. They don’t scratch on purpose—they’re so charmingly reticent about that. If the smaller one does accidentally land a claw while we’re playing with a toy, she pulls back with this embarrassed look like “oh my gosh, I’m so sorry, I just got a…

This was good advice.

Oh yeah, totally feeling you, not stupid at all. I don’t let my cats in the kitchen at all. It’s a small kitchen anyway so they’d be risking death to be in there while I’m working, and cat feet are probably about the most filthy things on the planet.

Did anybody else see “Lie to Me”, that episode where the military woman is getting diddled by her superior officer? Everybody was all SHE SEEMS SO HAPPY, DUH, but the Lie to Me dude said no, she isn’t happy at all; don’t look at the mouth—look at the eyes. When I cover up the lower half of her face, those eyes do not…

I know you’re probably kidding, but yeah, they’re taught to make that look from childhood. Look at group photos of any seriously Quiverfull family, and you’ll see rows of identical beaming, adoring, submissive “smiles” plastered on every girl and woman’s face. They come off as hopelessly insincere to us, but to the…

God, this was wonderful to read today. <3 you forever, Pinkham. More plz kthnx.

The giggling might have been her reaction to severe emotional discomfort. She was stiffing you; she knew she was stiffing you; you were standing right there staring at her and that probably had her feeling hugely ashamed of herself. When I ran into customers like that doing tech support, it was usually because they…

Most of my antique cookbooks require people (oh, who are we fooling; they require women) to boil all vegetables for at least an hour.

Please out these assholes in whatever quiet way you can.

Part of me wants to suggest a consultation anyway with a lawyer like “littlelawyer” suggested. The DoL might not be giving you firm legal advice here.

Forced-birth is my general description as well. What they want is to force a woman to give birth whether she consents to pregnancy or not. If they don’t like how pejorative that sounds, then the solution’s on them, not me.

... you’re saying that about a show whose main character stole the identity of a dead man but whose true identity got discovered fairly early on by an improbable third party. I’d say that it’s not totally outside the bounds for that kid to have become known to someone. The authors of the show recognize that it was a…

GOD DAMN IT, I really wanted to know about what happened to Peggy’s goddamned baby.

I have heard that Ben Affleck has THE WORST breath ever and doesn’t do a hell of a lot to fix it before smooching his onscreen love interests. Between that and Daredevil, he doesn’t get a lot of sympathy from me.