I recommend doing a shit ton of research on the various weight loss surgeries. There’s quite a few, and each can have serious side effects, including death. There’s also just quality of life type of effects that aren’t as well publicized. I just went to the funeral of a gastric bypass patient. She had the surgery…

I can't stop giggling at the guy who's yelling so hard his hair piece is flying off.

I’m not begrudging anybody anything, as long as they don’t treat me like some uncultured swine because I’m not into what they are. That’s all I’m saying. Don’t be a snob about wine or anything you have a wealth of knowledge about. Whether it’s wine, comics, movies, whatever, don’t look down on me because I don’t…

My mum never got on me about red nail polish or shaving above the knees, but in her mind only “older” (read: Slutty McSluttersons) could wear black or red bras. That was really fun for dark-skinned me wearing a white bra under a light or white shirt. Thanks, Mum. >:|

I mean, when I really want to get into wine I’ll probably do something like that, but right now I have no real desire (or income, really). I’ll just continue to drink my scotch and ginger ale and hard ciders. My bf’s friends keep gifting him bottles of Cutty Sark so I’ll never run out of the stuff. P:

But then we can feel smug and better about our lives if we aren’t putting people down for some arbitrary thing!

Also his hair is stupid. And because of his stupid lazy name, I initially read Martian Manhunter’s line as “Is that a guy on the floor?” As if there was just some rando knocked out on the Watchtower’s floor.

Guy Gardner is just the worst.

Clearly this woman just finished watching the new Daredevil series and took parenting cues from SPOILERS AHEAD Wilson Fisk's father.

I've never shaken my head so furiously. ALL THE NOPES. Poor kid, hope he has a decent recovery.

Jesus I am so sorry that happened to you.

That is a really good point, too. I think the people cheering this on are forgetting that not every parent is a good parent and prone to human follies. They can't imagine a parent doing something this extreme without the kid being completely awful, when this could be an example of an unreasonable or abusive or just…

I disagree. I've had it happen to me. I don't remember what I supposedly did that was so awful, but I sure do remember how humiliating and worthless I felt when my mum did that. But like I said, it depends on the kid and the circumstances. I just don't feel like taking them with you is a useful part of the lesson.…

Thanks. I'm just really confused how people can say something like being present for returning Christmas gifts isn't cruel. Return the gifts if the kids are so awful, sure, but don't take them with you. It adds nothing useful.

Depends on the kid, but being there while you return it is pretty scarring. I feel like it's just to be mean, not to learn a lesson. Take it back or take it away and they have to earn it back makes a little more sense to me. Then again, we don't know what this kid did, but I still feel like taking him there is too…

Oh, he will. Because my mum pulled that shit on me and I'm sure as hell gonna remember that (among other awful shit).

My mother took our Christmas presents back one year. She took us with her. I think we only had like 2 presents in the first place, because we were dead broke. In hindsight, I figured out she took the presents back because we needed the money, but she blamed it on us and said we were bad.

Eh, I was just letting you know that there are way worse Christmases to be had. I actually applaud what these parents are doing, minus the religious stuff. I'm sure they'll probably keep up with the lessons of being grateful and whatnot beyond Christmas. If your kids are entitled, gotta change the behavior somehow.…

You know what's an atrocity to childhood? Getting the gifts, then having them taken back because you were bad, AND being drug to the store to return them. These kids seem to be having fun and embracing the charity they're doing. I don't think they're having a bad Christmas.

No worries. It was only slightly rhetorical. More like have rhetorical, half incredulous that certain media would be irresponsible enough to call this a massacre.