Can we have Washington? It seems like it would be a good playmate for British Columbia. Or Maine for Nova Scotia (they could bond over fishing and seafood). The furthest provinces really are the most lonely.

You're right. That's what I meant. Further to @Lucide's point about education. With the right support system and with the tool of knowledge, everyone should have the right to escape these situations.

I meant my point to further @Lucide's point. Education is paramount. No situation is ever hopeless.

as hopeless as the situation seems, there is always always a way out. No one should have to deal with this sort of ongoing physical, mental, emotional abuse.

If it means anything, it's a statistic from 2001 referencing the 90s. (I have a habit of trying to track down sources of outrageous facts: Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim 1993-9, October 2001)

He was in Toronto and NOBODY told me!?!? How am I going to have his Viking babies if he keeps playing Polkaroo with me?!?

also, you should have your own advice column. I would read that!

LOL... yeah, I gotta believe there's something more creating all this guilt (srsly, who holds on to that much??). Maybe he longs to cheat again? I'm sure the woman had long forgotten about it, he should too!

there _might_ have been more profanity.

The Internet is a big scary place. Not all websites are owned by American companies that are intent on protecting their reputation. So duty of care = non-existent. I think they have a good case against the care facility; they're probably just dragging Facebook into this to generate some publicity.

"Rubbish, etc." is just British for "Lorem Ipsum"

I really want to know what that sign says. "Abortion makes you the mother of a death eater" is really all I've got #roevvoldemort

I had to double check to make sure I wasn't on Gawker.

I understand the article was written as a joke. But the punchline is "all you dummies hating on kids in your public places need to take a chill pill" instead of addressing the fact that idiot parents and their failure to keep their kids in line are why people "hate children". Also the condescending "my child is more…

Quite possibly the most bitter article I've ever read on this site (maybe I'm misinterpreting the tone?)

Yeah exactly. It's like this article is complaining about something we, as a general population, cannot control. There are always going to be assholes. Everywhere (um especially on the Internet). And while we cannot control the dirty-looks, the eye-rolling and the snide remarks, parents can (and should) control their…

"have had a toxic friend"... as in their entire lives? I don't think that makes us all crazy competitive bitches. But instead society sometimes puts us in situations where we are forced to socialize with people who probably should just stay home and look at themselves in the mirror. 99.9% of the people I've…

When ever I game, I end up with impossibly thin/short characters. The dice are out to get me.

OH BOY! You just made my day.

like covered in graveyard dirt style!!