Yep. It’s from The Outsiders, which I am totally too young to remember.

You have to remember what they were working with. All things considered, they did a good job, for the time. The one on the left could be his natural tooth. The front two could be replaced now, admittedly.

And dangerous. If I were a bereaved parent, I’d be tempted to throw knives and be all “GOD’S PLAN, BITCH!!!!”

Not at all. :)

I’d also want to ask God: why bother? You already know exactly how this goes, and how it ends. You should have rested on all seven days, instead of just one.

We agree on something at last.

I can understand and partly sympathize with you’re saying, but “...after what she’s been through” sticks in the craw at this time.

The religious can hold the ideas of free will (see: problem of evil) and God’s plan in their heads simultaneously, without seeing a contradiction.

And that Richard Armitage bracelet...not that I don’t sympathize, but it is, to say the least, forward. One does not wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve.

That’s the eternal question: where does personality stop and mental illness begin? I’ve known several assholes from childhood who were eventually diagnosed with mental illnesses. Where does it all start? If you removed their asshole-dom, you would remove most of their personality.

Smart...and sexy, too.

Yes, it is surprising. I assume those who think people from the past would be totally impressed by our world of votes and internet and “FUCKING MEDICINE” are extremely young and not thinking from someone else’s perspective.

I can’t help noticing your upper map (of Europe only; yes, I know it was in Asia,and parts of Africa as well) shows that the Great Plague had petered out by 1351. There were waves of black death and other epidemics afterwards, but nothing came close to killing one-third of humanity.

Aside from everyone you loved being dead, and everything you knew being irrevocably changed, oh, I don’t know.

Probably, but someone from the past might not think so. Would someone from 1856 think the world is better now? In some ways yes, but in others no.

I presume you live in a country where you elect your queen (i.e. head of state)?

You said it. My father, who was a young navy recruit, was involved in rounding up Japanese Canadian internees. However, the “fear and hysteria” can be exaggerated. At the time, it seemed like a prudent precaution. The Japanese had been waging aggressive war in Asia for many years, and there had been (mostly racist)…

Unfortunately, you can’t vote against someone or something (in this case, common sense) without voting for something else. Jill Stein, Susan? Really, that’s who your conscience went to? I’d respect you more if you had written in Bernie, or Pussy Riot. At least they would be closer to what I always thought you believed.

There’s a precedent for this precedent: British concentration camps for Boers were a model for concentration camps built by the Nazis.

Eh, you may have made an ill-judged comment, but it’s possible they’re overly-earnest internet commenters who dig piling on, and not reading too much. To me, it’s a wash.