That’s a valid and important thing to point out. But it does open up the can of worms of who gets to decide what hate speech is.

The book is

The “natural” obsession is in response to a medical system that turns pregnancy into a disease and tends to over intervene to a degree that actually harms both maternal health and child well bearing. Doctors still commonly do episiotomies (which used to be a routine part of delivery until it was discovered that they’re…

I don’t really have a fight in the placenta eating game because I have no baby and thus no placenta to nom on (though sometimes I used to use a product called Hask Placenta in my hair as a teenager), but the study everyone is harping on is a review study of a mere 10 studies total on this practice. We should be pretty…

I lived in France and know what you mean. I used to go to KFC sometimes (a thing I never did in the states) because it tasted like home (none of the other fast food chains there did). I missed pancakes and maple syrup a lot. I missed having an oven, a full sized fridge and access to a cheap drier.

I don’t disagree with Patrick Stewart either. There was an issue recently in the US where a baker refused to decorate a cake with a homophobic message everyone basically on Jezebel were in support of the bakers. They agreed to make the cake but not write the message, offering the customer an icing bag themselves. The…

like this?

There’s an episode of Angel where they give him a cell phone (way long after cell phones were a thing) that’s entertaining. The truth is about 50-percent of movies and tv shows from the 80’s/early 90s are unwatchable because the plot points rest on lack of communication that could easily be rectified if the characters…

Depending on when you purchased it Best Buy either had a two week or 30 day return policy. They kind of have to be strict because people are assholes. I bought an ipod for them (longish story as to why) and returned it within their window. The guy took it out of the sealed package, booted it and remarked (surprised)…

America is a pretty big country.

great minds! I just pointed out (before reading this) that sun tea is a thing and was super common before AC when nobody wanted to make a hot house even hotter by boiling water.

Sun tea is not really hot and is designed to be served cold. In a lot of the country sun tea was the norm before the advent of AC b/c nobody wants to warm up their home boiling water. You’re expressing a bias based on your own cultural history. Specifying ‘hot tea’ in a place where tea is normally served cold is no…

Were you on hormonal BC before you switched?

This is technically true but only in so far as fares, and scheduling are concerned.

I travel less than this guy but the past year and a half I’ve traveled a lot and you don’t want to be him. It’s hard to maintain a schedule of any sort (especially if you’re dicking with time zones) - forget eating well, sleeping enough, or exercising. You don’t see your friends very much (thank god for gchat and…

I flew from NYC to Paris for 300 dollars ten years ago. Not a typo.

I liked Aer Lingus - they gave me free wine but this was a decade ago. And I liked that they charge by segments which meant my one way wasn’t more expensive than a rountrip. Regardless, they’re not technically a discount airline - they’re the national airline of Ireland. The airline she’s referencing is almost…

I literally wrote that Southwest flights never leave on time. I’m in NYC and their service here is shit. I once had a flight leave FOUR hours late and they blamed storms which was sort of true. But because their flights are SO tightly coordinated, the storms blocked their flight from taking off at the other location…

I’ve flown southwest four times and not once have they left on time. I accept that they work really well in some parts of the country but the late departures (and in a couple of cases I’m talking hours) , and the cattle call seating including on one occasion being told to move by some random person since it’s not an…

I literally just said the same thing... (about avoiding US airlines when flying internationally)