I'm glad my unique background of recovered Christian and mid-1990's multi-user text-based dungeon gaming addict has finally paid off.

Sweet Holy Hippogriff, I hope so!

"Why did she use the word manna? Did she accidentally start playing a magic RPG during her research?"

Fingers crossed this is a Snarry fic!!! I bet Harry loves his chest hair, too!

Of course this is real. Do you even fanfiction, bro? I just read one where Draco turns into a catfish. AND IT WAS AWESOME.

Also "We don't believe in organic food." Like it's a myth? It's a conspiracy of farmers? The USDA is having a laugh?

Wasn't this story already posted like last week? And part of the story was that people eating there that night claim the guy lost his sh*t on customers? And then others in the comments were like "yeah, I've eaten there before, the food is terrible, the guy treats people terribly. Overall experience: terrible." I swear…

Except that the bullied girl's quotes seem to be in favor of the scenario. It's quite possible that she is a different person than you are and is happy about all of this. Crazy, I know. But it's just possible that she has a different life experience than you and didn't take this as a show of pity, but of love.

For those of us not involved in sports, you hit the nail on the head. That's it.

I, too, want out of the greys. It really has an effect on my posting. Sometimes I have a long, serious reply to something, and i talk myself out of writing it because, well, no one's going to see it. I'd really love a process. Heck, Metafilter charges $5 to comment. (Just once, forever.) I'd pay that to become…

I'm going to play devil's advocate here. What if....she didn't want kids, married someone who said they didn't want kids, but then he changed his mind and convinced her to try. It happens, and I've seen it happen. You love the person, don't want to get divorced, so you try. So she has a kid for him, hoping that…

Interesting how we read things differently. I honestly cannot think of why a father who does not hit his 1 yo child would ever say " I try not to leave bruises" which he said. Yet now he says he did not ever hit her. One of those two things must be a lie, since they seemingly contradict one another.

"talking to her and saying that's not OK. "

One half. That oughtta teach him.

Even as a kid, I was always confused by spanking. I was like "so....you're teaching me that violence solves problems? Even I know that can't be right, and I'm like 11."

Sadly, I have one friend who probably thinks this is great. Not that she loves christmas so much, but just that its another reason to go shopping. sigh. Shopping as entertainment I just don't get. To me, shopping is a mutherfucking errand.

"Little girls, you can do literally whatever you want and as long as you're the right type of woman, you'll still win the Miss America pageant."

ER....no. She told Todd to take their picture for them. He was getting his phone out and turned on, and started the camera app. Like you do.

You seem very mature and I commend you on that. I'm glad it worked out for all involved.

"Tom Hardy will probably never do another romantic comedy every again."