Definitely. I was at a big festival in Denmark when I was 27 and was there with a big mixed group, so I never felt as though I was in any danger - but I definitely saw some extreme drunken/drug-fuelled antics that could have led to stupid or even illegal behaviours... You’re basically camping in a field/forest with…

Mine too, and otherwise she doesn’t go near poop beyond a quick sniff - I obviously don’t encourage it and pull her away, but figure it’s basically fermented grass, there are worse things she could be getting into...

I actually shouldn’t complain much, I haven’t experienced a second of nausea with either pregnancy, but I do hate the tireds!

It was boring, but by the time I started pre-natal I was well into my 5th month of utter exhaustion (it turned out my Graves-diseased hyper-thyroid went hypo during my pregnancy and I never realized that my energy slow down was due to that until near the end, yeesh). This time around everything is in much better…

I played setter in mixed competitive volleyball til I was about 4-12 months along the first time... and then my hips broke :) This time I’m planning to keep biking as long as possible, but I can feel myself getting slower and slower and I’m only at 12 weeks. This is going to be a loooong summer...

I dunno, I`ve read up on Bengals before because I was curious about my cat, he fits a lot of the description of a Bengal, including his personality (nutso, chatty, loooooves his family and his dog, haaaates other cats), size and markings (black and silver stripes and swirls and mix of dark spots on a snow white…

WHAT? (googling)

That reminds me of a storyline in one of Sherri Tepper’s books, where an inbred FLDS-like community was coming to its inevitable genetic end... pretty horrifying, and that was fiction, ugh.

Lol - I’m a policy wonk, it’s built into our DNA to be that person :)

I was a kid for Tootsie, that’s the one I really remember, but I’ve always loved her - and was ecstatic to see her on Friends as Phoebe’s mom, she was great. I don’t actually give a shit about celebrities beyond entertainment value (and knowing who to write off for assholishness), but it tickles me that she’s a cool…

I think I only ever read the Weirdstone and the sequel, the Moon of Gomrath... I just found out though that he wrote a final book (now it’s a trilogy!) in 2012, I may have to reread the whole thing now!

That’s weird, I’m a fed and have never heard it called First Nations anything - under Harper it was Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, and before that there were variations on Dept. of Indian Affairs (not trying to be pedantic though realize it’s coming across that way, but the nomentclature of this…

Nuh-uh, never ever gonna happen...

YES! I even had a moment last night in bed (of course), where I briefly thought of this and went... Alan something...? No...that doesn’t sound right?

Thanks, that’d be great, I’m starting up a collection of my favourites for my kids when they’re old enough, so fingers crossed :)

Ha, no, that’s not it, but it looks like there’s some similar action. These books had more of a British Susan Cooper vibe...

Future first “team” winners of the Darwin awards...

Insert all the “NOPE” gifs ever created!!

The generally accepted “catch-all” term is Indigenous peoples, but from the government`s perspective they’re split into First Nations, Inuit and Métis (and from there further split by nation/band, as per I’d eat a spider below).

Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) (it covers First Nations, Inuit and Métis, hence “Indigenous” as the catch-all)