The unicorn is also the national animal of Scotland.

2) A healthy population of snakes means you won’t have a mouse or rat problem.

As usual, the facts change when the elderly are involved. Both the very young and the elderly are much more at risk with snake venom.

It’s not just the venom, though. It is also infection. I know someone who was bitten by a copperhead. She sought medical help right away but still had complications due to both the venom and infection. She was in her 40's at the time and very healthy and fit. Also, only one fang penetrated (her ankle).

Um, I love animals. I love all animals. But if you’ve got copperheads under your house, animals you love start dying unless they die first. Nature is a brutal thing. 99% of snakes I wouldn’t touch - lots of snakes take care of rats and such and do so without harm to most things. But copperheads in your yard/home need…

This is a 72 year old woman and these are very venomous snakes infesting her house. If she accidentally stepped on one or got too close and spooked one to the point where it bit her, she could easily die. Copperheads are not threatened or endangered, in fact they’re classified under “Least Concern.”

Copperheads are exceedingly dangerous, and a nest of them under a residence is a situation that more than justifies their extermination. That’s all there is to that.

Seriously, I advocate against killing and paid some guy a couple of hundred dollars to “relocate” 6 or 7 skunks, moving them from under my cabin to somewhere out in the nearby forest. But I would kill a pack of poisonous snakes that had taken up residence under the house, just like this brave old lady. Aren’t…

When she invites you. She’s a grown-ass woman; let her decide what’s best for her.

I have. That episode of my life is “The One Where Fox’s Perfect Mother Engages In Hours of Gaslighting Fun.”

It may be a distraction to you, but TERFs were instrumental in the late 80s and early 90s in getting coverage for trans-related medical care removed from most insurance plans. Trust me, trans folks don’t need your guidance to know what’s a legit threat and what isn’t.

Yeah, it’s really one of those things that you don’t notice unless you pay pretty close attention to LGBT sites that post trans-related stories. Thankfully, places like Autostraddle have taken a very proactive approach in weeding out commenters who are there just to spew their hatred of trans folks. But it’s the…

Trans-exclusionary radical feminism. It’s a subset of second-wave feminism that defines womanhood and a few other things in a carefully constructed way in order to exclude trans women. Basically, imagine someone took the tools and vocabulary of radical feminism and used them to justify their own anti-trans biases.

Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Basically, self-described “feminists” who use their brand of feminism to hate on trans people.

Also in certain subsets of the crossover between lesbians and feminists. Lots of radical feminists who seem hellbent on stripping trans women of their womanhood, and labelling trans men as “gender traitors”.

An acquaintance of mine who lost an infant after a pre-term birth just did a balloon launch to celebrate the number of days the child lived. And all I could think when I saw the post she made was how those balloons might go on to kill some wildlife. But mentioning it would make *me* the asshole, so I’ll mention it…

That’s my take also. The VF description made it sound like they set a trap with a stack of 100's as the bait, then confronted the little thieves.

What is it with guys doing “romantic” gestures that are really just horrible inconveniences for people? I mean, I’m sure some women do it too, but every time I’ve made a huge wince and gone “did you really stop to think for 3 seconds about who you could be harming/bothering with this” it seems to be a guy.

50 women picked up gargabe out of a river, read the romantic note attached, and thought, “Yeah this doesn’t sound like it’s gonna get me murdered, let’s go for it!”

Right?! Romantic would be 1 bottle. 2000 is law of mass action. Just ask out every person you meet then, someone will say yes.