Animals eat the placenta to prevent predators from smelling a potential meal of new mother, babies and afterbirth.

I’m on the road so I don’t have access to my yearbook, but my senior portrait is neither good nor bad. It’s just an okay picture. The rest of my senior photo shoot turned out HORRIBLE though. I was so excited to have a bunch of pictures taken that I went with the fanciest shoot- like 30 different poses and 3 outfits…

When I was 16 my family went to Wildwood Crest/ Cape May. I was kinda getting sick of everyone so I went mischief making. I met 2 girls who were 17 & 18. For no reason I can adequately explain I decided to pretend to be an irish teenager visiting in the states. Half my family is Hungarian immigrants in real life, the…

Nah, that’s actually pretty cool. I had a “bar name” all during my wilder youth, and sometimes made up personas to go along with it. I regret nothing. Also, I’m quite positive that Chris Elliott hit on me in a bar one night and convinced me he was the reptile specialist at the NC Museum of Natural Science. Frankly, it…

Selling vintage dresses to dames on a beer run is what I DO lady!!!!

You’d look like a country song, getting out of a pick-up wearing one of these, and I’ll bet if you came back out with that beer the song would spontaneously write itself, and it would be a summer hit :)

Hah! After THREE DAYS of being the “Bride & Groom” and the “Center of Attention” at my wedding - the husband and I have given our right legs for someone else to upstage us with a proposal, or even a food fight. We had a traditional indian shindig with smoke belching fires, monotonous chanting, 500 guests, enough…

+10 for “chickadude”

You sound like someone I would like to share a box of good Franzia with. And you could introduce me to the magical fungi of which you speak, which despite my share of illegal substance use I have never tried. Only fantasized about.

Not that I’m defending poop filled beards.... but I think a lot of people are far too freaked out by dirt nowadays.

My new husband and I stayed in a cute little cabin on the Olympic Peninsula and cooked for ourselves the whole week while exploring the rain forest and local beaches. The very last night, we decided to splurge on a nice dinner out. We got all dolled up and had a drink or two and had a lovely evening. Driving along the…

Disagree. Ultimatums *can* be controlling and manipulative. If all you're doing is trying to get someone to do what you want, that's controlling and manipulative. But if they are honest reflections of your feelings—"I need you to stop drinking or I'm going to leave"—then they are fair.

I've been in a bunch of situations where I'm that friend, and it sucks! I think a good strategy is to try to cultivate a relationship between your female friend and your girlfriend (or your male friend and your boyfriend, or your friend of any gender and your partner of any gender if you're bi.) Invite them to stuff…

1. Re: "Seeing as neither hawks nor ducks are endangered species in IDAHO, where this story originated, I totally fail to see why this is news?" and "I've shot hawks that I couldn't chase off of my chickens." I strongly recommend you look at the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act which makes it illegal to kill (or…

I'm not even kidding, people here have been DEMANDING that this woman's name be released. It was in the news for months before they just recently released it. I honestly thought that the woman had cruelly beat this bird for no reason, only to find out that she thought she was saving a duck. The amount of interest this…

And that's how the MOH do.

You are joking, right? I live in a city and we have fucktons of awful raccoons! In parks they are not even nocturnal anymore, just scrounging in the trash midday, looking for sammiches and juice boxes! They took my laundry off my drying rack in the backyard, using their tiny HANDS to undo the clothespins! Then they…

Gawd, I knew I would find this in the comments. The fact that it's feminists who are criticizing him the most proves that, once again, feminists are feminism's worst enemies. We say we want allies but I guess by "allies", we mean "silent masochistic punching bags". It's kinda sad when you're just as disgusted by the…

The timing couldn't have been better. Damn. I have a gifted nine year old girl, and I just got back from her school, after a miscommunication about the progress report meeting. In short, the child just hasn't given either her mother or myself (we're divorced; week on/week off parenting, Friday to Friday) the three…

YES! My dad wasn't really a spanker (although he would in extreme circumstances) but what he lacked there, he made up for with sheer punishment ingenuity. He did everything from take doors off hinges, to make us do gardening work and help with projects around the house instead of hanging with friends in the summer.