Who lives in a pineapple under the sea /“Cucumber Animals”

If she signed the surrogacy contract, she would be held responsible. Paying someone to have a baby for you and then saying, “Nah, never mind, don’t want it,” leaves the surrogate in a very awkward position.

That is always the threat I use for restaurants. There used to be a deli near my college, and it had one of those 42-page menus—but they only ever had about six things to eat. Anything you ordered, the response was, “sorry, we don’t have that today.” Coupla times, drunk, I said, “as soon as I get rich I’m going to buy…

Probably all the world’s problems could be solved if everyone spent an hour a day playing in a dirt pile with dogs. I also took my mother’s kitchen utensils out there—loose dirt and an egg beater can really take up an afternoon. WHY DID I EVER STOP?

I thought second cousins were ok. Fuck ’em, marry ’em, whatever. It’s legal, isn’t it?

Once your life is that complicated I think you should just sleep with whoever you want and let the chips fall. Because as soon as you dump your bio-father, you’ll end up hooking up with some sibling (child of bio-father) you never knew you had, and from there it’s either swear eternal celibacy or just shut your eyes…

Or date people no more than 10 years younger than your parents. Worst you’ll get is an aunt or uncle, probably.

Yes. This is being willing to put your health at risk so he can be “right,” because evidently he feels that him not being made to feel in the wrong is to be valued above you not having to be violently ill due to his behavior. To me that seems like rabid narcissism or a touch of sociopathy, or a level of delusion that…

Merriam-Webster gives as a third definition, “to cause to have feelings of wry or tolerant amusement <seems truly bemused that people beyond his circle in Seattle would be interested in his ruminations— Ruth B. Smith>”

At the absolute minimum, anyone living with another person (I might even expand that to another mammal) should wash his/her hands after pooping and before preparing food. That is, like, a basic foundation of civilization. And I am in no way a clean freak. I grew up playing in a dirt pile outside with the dogs so my…

I’m glad you included the picture, because just based on the behavior of always knocking everything into the tub I was going to break it to you that what you really have is a cat. Is it possible that you just accidentally shaved your cat and put baby clothes on it?

I would like to see her go up against this feral tomcat, without her bow and arrow.

I was afraid of that. After the most cursory research, I didn’t understand why the original post was so dismissive of the disease being real. I mean I saw some tin-foil-hat stuff, for sure, e.g., aliens have implanted their fibers in us or whatever, and then I saw all this stuff from legitimate research universities…

But is he a crazy asshole who regularly kills prisoners by denying medical care, putting them in illegal chokeholds, and generally neglecting and persecuting them? ’Cause Sheriff Joe has a very very nasty reputation and his department has been sued by the survivors too many times to count. And Arizona just keeps on…

I’m guess it’s also a fraction of the quality and work(wo)manship? Maybe I missed the good stuff but the few articles of clothing I’ve bought at Target have fallen apart, faded and/or stretched after a few washes.

Yes. Hell, take that $200 and go to a consignment shop and buy some $400 dress that some other rich girl got tired of or never even wore.

Yeah, that puzzled the hell out of me too. As far as the Internet is concerned, better to blow up a preschool or something than hurt and kill an animal—and how would a vet not know that? Truly, she will be lucky if some kind but unbalanced soul doesn’t buy a crossbow and start shooting at her whenever she leaves the…

This is the only time ever I have wished Arizona’s batshi psycho sheriff Joe Arpaio could mete out his form of justice. He is completely indifferent and cruel to humans, but for some reason he likes animals and is hard on animal abusers.

And why would someone who doesn’t love animals choose such a career? There are easier jobs for sociopaths.

Anyone in the veterinary world should know that there are many feral rescue groups. I work with a woman who is part of one. She carries cat carriers in her car and has rescued several injured ferals who have been hit by cars or whatever. These groups pay to spay and neuter, give shots, and either release the cats back…