A mini skirt, hell, if you show a little calf or ankle, wear pants or wear someithing with a scoop or vneck or even 3/4 sleeves, you’re immodest. I’m pretty sure I would have a difficult time putting together an outfit they’d consider modest out of my closet if I tried, and I’m not exactly daring in my fashion choices.

Yeah what privileged 16 year old who could do just about anything she wanted wouldn’t want to settle down right away with a much older stranger who pays her parents for her in cows and goats? Plus, he’s been into her since she was 9, so it’s totally true love.

I worked in radiology in a veterinary referral hospital while I was in school. I spent 90% of my time in ultrasound assisting, and most ultrasounds of anything are like Rorschach blots for anyone without training. You can tell people they are seeing whatever, and if you sound convincing, they will believe you. Like,…

I honestly can’t understand why this is even an issue. Most aren’t doctors or nurses and aren’t subject to the same regulations with regard to practice or privacy, but they often wear scrubs, give tests and ultrasounds (which they are no qualified to read) and present themselves as medical professionals. If I did…

One of my most cherished memories started with me trying to politely deal with a crazy lady who thought I was the devil because I assigned oral presentations to high school sophomores and gave tests without word banks and was railing at me during back to school night between sessions in front of milling parents. The…

I got called in for a talk with a principal because I remarked that a kid’s name sounded familiar and asked if he was signed up for a student government committee (I was a moderator and thought maybe that’s why the name sounded familiar but I couldn’t place the face). Apparently, he and his mom decided that this meant…

I have many thoughts, but I’m saying right now if they don’t release some kind of mini compilation of drinking songs of Westeros as sung by Sir Bronn of the Blackwater, maybe for a charity thing, they are missing a golden opportunity. I could happily listen to Jerome Flynn sing Rains of Castamere and The Dornishman’s…

That is useful benefit, but the main rationale is that they work on different pathways, so you can blunt pain from two angles and take advantage of the overlap of maximum efficacy without overdosing. You can’t switch off ibuprofen with naproxen, or even aspirin because those are all NSAIDs, but Acetaminophen is the…

Yes, NSAIDs have significant kidney and heart risks. The liver risks of Acetomiphen are appalling. pseudeoephederine can do all sorts of nasty things especially if you have blood pressure issues, and a number of other OTC drugs cause serious interactions. In an ideal world, you’d consult a doctor before doing…

Yes, it boggles my mind that this is even an issue. I still don’t quite understand how some of what they do is not practicing medicine without a license.

Actually way more torture than murder. They had to take the poor thing to be put down by a vet.

How could her husband let her do such things?

Other than the fact that my friend calls it Eastern Pennsylvania instead of Northern Maryland, you and he have the same idea.

I’m right there with you. I grew up on the borderlands between the sticks the overgrown Philadelphia suburbs.

No kidding, though this seems to be shared by more than a few people from the northern part of state. I have friends who think Trenton and Princeton are in extreme South Jersey and consider the parts of the state south of that to be a mix of some sort of overgrown suburb of Philadelphia, a few shore towns and the…

When you start with an philosophy that being desired is your fault for tempting others due to some lack of modesty, you create a toxic environment that sadly, leads to just the situation you describe.

That is fucking appalling. I can’t even.... I thought it was bad when a lady I know, who spent about 3 years overseas away from her family, had a hard time even getting through the initial check in because every time she goes in they ask her where her husband is and act like it’s the weirdest thing ever that she’s the…

Certainly not a” gentle pop.”

If they’d hired her, you know people would talk about how refreshing it was to see an “age-appropriate pairing.” I feel like in Hollywood once you’re a woman much over 35, they consider you “age appropriate” for anyone under 80.

Yup. I’ve always wondered if they somehow thought not covering or letting anyone cover birth control would just stop people from using it because if not, where do they think the money to buy the birth control is coming from? Unless, they are going to somehow electronically tag the money they pay to their employees and…