We do this all the time at home. There is raspberry and ginger water sitting in my fridge, and I’m drinking cucumber, lime, and mint water right now. But you have to let it sit for a while (overnight), and we slightly crush fruits and bruise herbs before adding the water, and it still doesn’t taste like MUCH. Just…

The public key is used to encrypt messages. It takes the private key to decrypt them.

I am an only child and I will second that. Our pets’ names weren’t even a normal human name, like Sophie is—apparently my mother’s brain sometimes decided she had called her child “Muffin” or “Patches.”

They have health coverage because Jim-Bob was in the Arkansas state legislature (for one term, I think). At least, they do until the kids are too old to be covered by his health care.

No, she’s not called Nicole. She’s called Jinger (pronounced like “Ginger”), poor thing.

Yeah, neither have any of the ob-gyns I’ve seen. They send you somewhere else for them. I mean, in one case it was in the same building, but that’s because she rented office space in the same building as the local hospital.

Yeah, it’s a disgusting little portmanteau.

Well, the W is for “White,” so you can probably figure out what the rest of it came from.

It was not the only beef available, though. And it was explained to her several times.

It’s not as sweet here in Canada (where I live now) as it is in the southern US (where I’m from), but it is frequently instant. Which is utterly revolting. (Or it’s brewed tea, but from a bottle or a can, rather than brewed in the restaurant, which isn’t much better.) At least most places back home in Georgia I could…

Yup. I tolerate the word “curate” from exactly one person in my life: my sister-in-law, who works in a museum. And even she would get crap from me if she talked about curating her Tumblr.

If you’re short on cats in heat, unneutered tomcats have some really, really vile pee, too.

I think the over 50% reduction in zinc oxide is at least partly to blame here.

If you don’t want them, consider donating them to a homeless shelter. Even if they really aren’t great diapers, they are better than no diapers.

Like we had a pregnant dog. It was not 100% impossible that she could be pregnant (she was unspayed , she had recently been in heat, we were 99.99% sure she had not been around a male dog but there’s still that 0.01%, etc.), and she had all the signs of pregnancy. Keep in mind that this was the early 80s in a small…

It happens in other species. The dog we had when I was a kid had a false pregnancy.

Some people are outraged about it. I’m not; the people I know who have deer heads mounted on their walls also have freezers full of venison, which is their primary purpose in hunting. (I’m not really a fan of the deer heads on the wall, but I do like venison.)

Definitely very urban. My western, white, rural (Southern and Midwestern) friends and family generally either hunt, or have friends/family members who do. My wife’s grandfather was an avid hunter (rural Quebec) until his vision got too bad and he got too frail. I don’t have a problem with hunting. I have a problem…

The guys (and women) I know who hunt—and I know a lot of them—are the ones who are talking the most about this on Facebook, and none of them are happy with this guy. They see a big difference between hunting deer (with a hunting license, staying in the legal limits, etc., eating the venison, etc.) and this.

Exactly. I grew up in the rural South, then spent over a decade in rural Minnesota. I have a lot of Facebook friends who hunt (or their spouses, or parents, or siblings hunt, and they reap the benefits). They still think that what this guy did was horrible.