A device that tracks the amount of times your steering wheel is turned vs blinker activation. If the ratio is greater than 3:1 no reversal.

All the stars. Adopting is an enormous amount of work where you have to prove you are a capable parent and can support the child. I think people who want to have kids should have to go through at least some of that. Maybe not an operation, because that has some icky connotations, but if they follow through with taking…

There should be some kind of operation that people get when being born that makes people unable to reproduce, then when they are old and want to have kids that operation can be reversed, but only after passing a series of test that prove you are not a douchebag.

Thanks for the info! These are all facts I have read before, but I am not a spatially-minded person so this doesn’t really register in my brain. I’m a language arts teacher so having a verbal comparison based in someone’s personal experience was really what drove it home for me.

I hope this doesn’t come off as…

agreed on all points. i worked at the Great Italian Bread Stick Emporium for awhile in college - half the kitchen staff was stoned most of the time. I’m still fairly certain one of the dishwashers/break stick butter glazers was dealing out of one of the walk-ins. if all of them were to be arrested for smoking then we…

We don’t need to guess. The proof is in the pudding. She turned her life around and is now a productive member of society. Had entered the correctional system she would likely still be caught in it. Your idea that getting thrown into prison rehabilitates people is demonstably false and naive. It does the opposite. It…

Actually, the best way to turn a normal teenager who sometimes smokes weed into a criminal is putting them in jail. Your education gets disrupted, you have troubles finding a job with your record after and you meet lots of real criminals in jail. Jail basically is crime school.

I am made unreasonably happy about the shake story. Though I don’t personally work there, there’s a small, local ice cream shop down the road I get coffee at (weird, I know, but it’s cheap and pretty good) and there are just so many entitled kids there whose parents don’t do anything about. TThe worst one of these…

They always take the SIM out too ;)

Well, in Victorious, she kind of played a dumb/cutesy/naive character, so she’s not really portraying the way she is in real life. Just putting it out there, haha.

Glad someone else “went there”. I’d be fighting the urge.

I’m intrigued by the juxtaposition of this essay (which was great) and her media persona. I can’t be the only one that’s slightly disturbed by her Lolita aesthetic. If you told me she was 12 instead of 21, I would believe you. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t criticism directed at her. I’m sure her team is mostly…

I’ve liked Ariana Grande since she played Cat on Victorious on Nickelodeon (yep, I was like 19-21 when that show aired). I’m not really into her music, but I like her voice. So I feel some sort of validation right now.

I know what I say next will probably make no difference and I’ll just sit in the greys anyway but the consequences are fresh right now so: COPD is one horrible disease (as stated by another commenter). My mother-in-law died at 62. We took care of her for the last 8 years of her life. Watching someone slowly and…

And the skin! A good look at my Mom’s skin and the fear of emphysema helped me quit. Dragging one of those O2 canisters around would suck.

Of course there is no evidence. Food goes through an acid bath in the stomach and gets broken down into the major macro and micro nutrients along with water. Human’s don’t have a special slow-release magical placenta reservoir to carry you through an invigorating pregnancy healing period. Jesus fuck. Get it together…

Daddy had dibs?

Oh, as long as you use it to spread your message, and don’t allow yourself to be corrupted by it, it’s fine! These are the same people who, at some point, had their own TV show, but apparently didn’t have a TV that their own children were allowed to watch.

Here’s one gigantic point everyone in team-Duggar seems to be missing: this whole business amounts to heinous child abuse both because of the abuse itself AND the cover-up.