Exactly! You sound like a great parent, and your comment really made me happy after reading the horrible stuff that parents did in this article. That part from your daughter sounds a bit like my cat haha, except he just lays himself down on the entire keyboard on top of my hands while I'm typing. He's not even…

Okay, here we go :)

Grrr! Why won't this darn picture work!

Exactly! And part of the reason why babies are so frustrating is because they can't be "trained" or reasoned with, and any responsible or even half-alive parent realizes that. Frustration at crying babies is, of course, totally normal for caretakers, but the way to deal with that is to put the baby in his/her crib and…

My cat is an adorable little monster, and he gets sprayed with water when he's being bad (attacking my ankles to no end) and gets treats when he's good. I'd never dream of hitting him or smacking him or anything like that, but when he wants to attack my ankles, he does it, and I have to shake him off or spray him to…

Haha, what movie was that? I don't think I remember that scene, but I've seen most of his stuff. Anyways, yeah! This whole practice just opens the door to tons of sexual harassment for female employees. Plus, if there were any male salespeople, it's especially unfair because they're specifically singling out the…

I really appreciate your insight on the issue. That's why I didn't want to say that bipolar is necessarily less dangerous or scary than schizophrenia, because I know that manic episodes can be extremely serious and grave. The scariest part about mental illness for me is the cases where therapy and meds just don't work…

You're right, it's an evil act, and I messed that up in my original post. I meant that it upsets me when people say that he's an evil person, when, as I just wrote in my above response, he wasn't anywhere near lucid enough at the time of the murder to make that judgment of him as a person. I don't think it's fair,…

Agreed—you're right that it's an act of evil and/or wrongdoing, and I should've clarified. I meant more that the act itself wasn't necessarily a result of him being an "evil" person, because he wasn't anywhere near lucid enough to make that judgment. I really hope he gets help.

I get what you're saying, but bipolar disorder is very different from severe untreated schizophrenia. That's not to say that bipolar can't be just as debilitating or legitimate of a mental illness, but it manifests itself in different ways and the majority of time doesn't lead to complete delusions and psychosis. I…

Hearted, and agreed completely.

I've never seen a bra that doesn't have the tag on the label. I'm sure that at least 99.5% of them do, so yeah. You're completely right—it's just weird. And even if a man wasn't sure of his wife's/girlfriend's bra size and forgot to look at the tag, that just makes this whole debacle worse. Like that means it's…

Haha yeah. Agreed, I'm glad that someone else has this issue—not like I would wish that problem on anyone, but it's refreshing just to not feel like I'm the only one! I'm pretty sure it's always gonna happen to me no matter what occurrence of the infection it is. I think certain people just perpetually test negative…

I could see why it might occur to someone as a "fun" idea, but this practice is just straight-up creepy, especially considering that it was practically mandatory. And even if it was optional, it's not like it's any more comforting for employees to have all of their coworkers wearing name tags and be the one person…

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Ha! Are you a partial-stepfamily? Because I had the same issue with all the different last names growing up. My mom and stepdad are divorced now, but when they were married and we were traveling or something, the airport people would get confused because I have my dad's last name, my mom has her maiden name, and my…

I have a habit of speaking the same way (i.e. I have my dad's last name, my dad has "his own" last name), but I've thought about that point before and I completely agree with you. I'll try to drop that habit—I have my own last name, damn it! :)

Depending on what my possible-future-husband's last name is, I'll probably just hyphenate and then use whichever last name I feel like using at the moment. I'm totally fine with women doing whatever they want to do in regards to this issue—take their husband's last name, keep theirs, hyphenate, whatever. But…

YESSSSS! I always test negative. But with my first UTI, I tried to cranberry-power it out of my system, and I ended up with a kidney infection. My doctor at the urgent care center realized that I was probably correct in my estimation that it was a kidney infection (based on my doctor-mother's guess and the fact that…

Seconded 100%.