Please tell me someone else noticed the Psychiatrist studying false pregnancies is named Dr. Mary Seeman. Dr. Seeman, whose life's work is the study of false pregnancy.

Seconded- Lafayette guy here (born/raised), my parents are Floridian. All of my family lives in Florida, so I felt some ownership of the Bugs Bunny gif, "Oh Florida", etc, and ribbing on Texas is good-natured camaraderie- I mean, we're both in the bottom 5 of every health and equality census, right?

Thank you! I'm from Lafayette and all my Sacred Heart/Brother Martin/Jesuit friends say NewORlins (almost all one word), the "r" is very much pronounced. The more Brooklyn-ese the accent, the older the money/better-educated, as a rule.

Lafayette native here, and crawfish-boiled lobster is... good-but-not-noteworthy, but totally not worth the extra work. I wish there was a tool that would allow me to yank out the tail and crack the first two or three plates off, crawfish style.

My dad went to LSU law school and I'm from Lafayette, you are gloriously, gloriously accurate. Except I call my DUI a "dee-dub", just to cute-ify it.

RIGHT? I went to LSU for a year and was so jealous of the sorority girls who could wear jersey dresses (which are literally spaghetti-strap t-shirt dresses) and pearls, while the frat guys had to wear long-sleeve shirts and slacks. I would gladly trade some male privilege for comfortable formalwear.

"(There is additional Columbusing at work here, of course. Thinking of basic in this way necessarily erases all the people [of color] who continue to use the word correctly, in terms of slang, and instead suggests that the way all these panicked white girls are using it is the true definition.)"

Well, to be honest, the bride in the first story did too- "not eating all day" isn't an excuse for not monitoring alcohol intake. They did basically the same thing, he just waited until after the ceremony.

We're not in agreement- you asked a question with no answer. Not "one" answer, no answer. And vapid's not the word you're looking for- it's "compassionate". It's truly vapid, and also glib, to confuse the two. Callousness is no badge of honor- it's usually a sign of childhood/early adulthood trauma.

Try to imagine a scenario where you are telling someone on a gurney, for whatever reason, "you deserve it", and you not looking like an asshole.

Your arrogant dismissal of hip-hop culture tells all of us all we need to know re: your desire to maintain a racially inequitable status quo and where you sit in said hierarchy.

Since that's a literal impossibility, here are examples of people who forgave the murders of their children-

...And what are the white guys doing? "Dressing hood", aka appropriating black culture.

Yeah- "ghetto-ass gang banger wannabe" definitely has racially-motivated undertones.

Did I say it was ever okay for her to endanger others? No, I said it's important to treat her with empathy because she is in pain and is literally suffering the consequences of her actions. Adding insult to injury with "she deserved it" is a morally inferior position.

Go to an ER or ICU, ask to see a patient who was at fault in a collision, and tell it to their face. And their parents, and their kids. How else are they gonna learn, amirite?

High school bathroom during a final... I really needed to clear my head.

Yeah, that's the textbook definition of vindictive- "having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge". Have you never heard of foregiveness?

There is always a reason to have compassion... It's called being a decent human being.

Uhh, is a ticket a car wreck? Was the party at fault grievously injured? Tickets=serves her right, literally- she got served with a summons to pay a debt to society. We're on the same page here :)