Honestly, I’m probably a terrible parent because I can’t help cracking up when one of my kids starts crying or raging or rage-crying for ridiculous reasons.

Totally the opposite of when we took our kids to the GP’s office for their early tests (3 months, maybe? It was a while back) one of the tests is the ‘drop test’ to test their falling reflex. They hold the baby in one hand then rapidly bring their hand down to see if the kid spreads his arms.

In Bruges:

Posting on forums is hardly obsession. I suppose this very website hasn’t had articles on the state of, for example, women’s rights in other parts of the world?

It’s disturbing because it’s true. I’m not saying he should have died. I’m saying deaths like his will continue to happen. And I’m saying that as long as the American people value the right to own firearms over the current level of firearm related deaths then it’s a choice willingly made by the American people.

Yes, I’m sure many here are for gun control, but America in general isn’t.

That’s why I said (plural). You, as a society, are happy with the status quo, or at least not concerned enough to actually do anything meaningful about it. As others here have mentioned before, 20 children were shot dead and there was still not enough support for meaningful gun control.

I have no contact with guns beyond the occasional trip to the airport where the police have MP5s so it’s more of a curiosity thing for me.

Speaking as a person from a country which does not have to deal with this shit, no it’s not the world we live in, it’s the society you (plural) chose.

Found it now: Fetal bovine serum is harvested from unborn cows. During the slaughter of the pregnant mother, blood is drawn from the fetus, commonly by puncturing the heart. The blood is put through a centrifuge to separate the blood cells from the serum, which is then filtered further. The final product is low in…

Also acceptable: horseradish.

However, 1 Chicken = 1 meal, 1 cow = about 30 meals.

What, like a flan?

Best documentary of a typical Australian road trip ever.

A tornado doesn’t even make it into the top 20 ‘Things that want to kill you in Australia’ list.

There *are* other ways of doing it that other cultures adopt, such as communal raising of children eg. maybe only one or two parents drop out of work to look after 6 or 8 kids.

You’re not missing much

I’ve had Mannish Water before now, otherwise known as Goat’s Head Soup (exactly as it sounds) and that was alright.

“completely soaked in oil.”

Minted goat burgers are delicious. Kinda like mutton. More people should eat mutton.