Purebreeding dogs is really sad stuff. My parents fostered a bunch of dogs through a collie rescue and I think like 75% of them were collie mutts. They wound up adopting three of them (or “failing,” as they jokingly call unwillingness to part with the dogs you foster), two mutts, one purebred. The poor purebred…

Or you could do what a friend does: offers to take the fretful baby and walk it up and down the aisle to give the parents a break.

Yep. My mother has MS, and even with her disabled placard for her car, she still got dirty looks for parking in handicapped spots, and on one occasion got to listen to a woman tell her daughters that she was probably drunk when she lost her balance and fell. The vast majority of people are courteous and accommodating,…

Wasn’t all that long ago that I was chemo-bald and taking Toronto transit on the regular. I didn’t usually look sick because my skin stayed nice, and I drew on eyebrows and wore a headwrap.

Scarcity models work for certain things that are designed to buy resalable (collectors’s items, like Beanie Babies), or are viewed as status symbols (such as Lululemon).

Thing is, scarcity models only work if you have access to the capital (in the economic, not financial, definition of the word) to deal with a sudden…

This kills me- when teachers ask for very specific items from families that are never used. The notebook thing happens a lot.

That was me. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to clarify what poverty is. “No, we weren’t don’t-have-an-Atari-poor. We were choosing-between-food-and-electricity-poor.”

you are a good friend and a conscientious person. doctors like that are preying on people’s insecurities and it’s so wrong and totally medically unethical.

Jesus christ. Once I went to a gyno when I was 16 because I was worried about having long labia (they are pretty long, TBH). The doctor said that “they are a bit on the long side, but nothing abnormal” and advised me against the surgery as it could scar and make sex more painful. I’m not sure if this is true, but she…

You were right when you said something in essence of how doctors should be encouraging body positivity.

Re: unequal length labia. Just about every dude has one testicle that dangles a little lower than the other. Since the scrotum and labia are analogous tissues (because male and female bodies are made from the same basic plan, with just a tiny bit of remodeling in utero) having non-summetric labia/testes is in fact the…

Jesus Christ what a pair of jerks. You are not deformed, you are perfectly normal. And your body is wonderful and strong and awesome.

Other people have been saying that everybody’s asymmetrical, and they’re right. Don’t feel so bad, please! My right boob is noticeably larger than my left, and I have polled all of my friends on this subject. All the girls have one bigger tit, and the guys have one ball that hangs lower/is larger than the other. My…

Let me try and redress the balance a little. I went to the doctor for an ear infection in my teens. At the time I (felt I) was struggling with acne. Terrible, terrible pizza face, just unprecedentedly huge outbreaks of pustulent gross pimples.

I know, right? All my sympathies, by the way. I’m just greatful that my biggest sex problem/insecurity was solved by childbirth. I have to wonder why women aren’t given better counselling on non-penetration based satisfaction.

I think the go to for “loosening” is progressive use of dilators (as someone with the condition for being “super tight”). Of course, that hurts like hell and I can’t masturbate either so they’ve been having me wait on the dilators until the vestibular pain goes down. Basically, I find the idea of “tight” being good or…

Quoted in a hacked email. And that particular charity, perhaps. He did play for free for PSG while is salary, to the tune of $250k/week was donated to a children’s hospital in Paris. Four million bucks is cash. I’d be surprised if most UNICEF ‘goodwill ambassadors’ give their own cash to it. Becks is worth more to…

I already donate my body to science (by walking it to the lab) for like 8 hours a day. You people ask so much ;)

We’re going to need you to donate your body to science so we may find and extract what you have the rest of the world doesn’t. You may be mankind’s only hope, but don’t let that pressure you or anything.

She didn’t just come here to compete symbolically, either. She competed on beam, and has 3 ultra-difficult vaults- one for preliminaries, one for finals, one for both- including a Podunova.