WHAT? WHAT!? My cat — my giant black cat is named Behemoth! Because she is enormous. I had no idea that there was a famous Behemoth the cat.

Good fucking lord. What did she have to do to impress you, give the dude a kidney?

Wait. WAIT. There's a place in London called Tooting Bec?

Nope, you had it right.

I would also say that my grandfather and his 7 siblings were raised by their aunt, which was notable in the family history in that she was, as they used to say, "deaf and dumb", meaning that she could neither hear nor speak, not that she was of low intelligence. Because any non-hearing/non-verbal lady who can raise 8…

I will admit to not understanding what the big fucking deal here is. Dumb is an archaic term for someone who cannot verbalize. Used in the context of the phrase "deaf and dumb" it definitely means someone who cannot verbalize and is not a comment on intelligence.

Yep. It is. Dumb is an antiquated term for someone who can't speak. That's why I don't get the total incandescent outrage here. Deaf and dumb may be an old term that is no longer used for good reason. The word "dumb" certainly means things today that it didn't 100 years ago, and if deaf people or people with hearing…

I do not understand why you think it's an option for this lady to drop her kids off at a church. The churches I have attended don't have a "drop your kids off whenever" policy, even if they do provide childcare sometimes. If she'd tried to drop the kids off at a church, she probably would have been politely but firmly…

Excellent! Let's murder her kids then, not with heat, but with neglect and starvation. Because, uh, they haven't done anything to merit our help? For fuck's sake, you fucking nutjob.

Whoa there, let's dial down the crazy. 1) I agree that it's not OK for this lady to have left her kids in the car. 2) But are you saying that we should give social services to people without kids at the same rate that we give them to the kids? Because the point of those services isn't to reward people for having…

"The Sharting has come to my mom" made me laugh so hard. And then fart. And then be concerned that I had sharted (I had not).

So much better than Intentional Bowel Leakage.

Yep. That is what I said at the end of my first paragraph, no?

China is modernizing, but not evenly. So there are tons of educated ladies out there. In fact, they might be more educated than the average dude. This is a problem, because dudes in China don't want to marry someone who's more educated than them, who would then make more money and have more power in the relationship.…

Well said. I think a lot of people on here confuse "women exploiting men for fun and profit" with "women not wanting to bang dudes they're friends with". This was clearly a case of the former.

Correct. But deleting it immediately is evidence that you didn't intend to possess it in the first place. Intention is all-important here.

Legally, it depends on what you do with it. If you're like, OH HELL NO and immediately delete it and tell the sender not to send you anymore of that stuff, then you might be OK. But if you get it, view it, and keep it on your phone for longer then a few minutes, that might be enough to get you on possession.

Except ... what if the male acquaintances she's sending child porn to are also teens? What if they're 15? 16? 17? Even 18? Should they still be charged and prosecuted? I'd say absolutely not.

Ditto. I thought it was the weirdest part of the whole thing. How did she know she was going into the hospital for the last time? Or maybe she was heading to hospice? But usually folks who are at that stage aren't able to tweet so wryly. But I know nothing about this disease, so perhaps I'm wrong.

Uh. Did she ask for a do-over? Because, unlike in the old days when editing a film meant literally cutting and pasting film together, in The Modern Era everything is digital, which means that the original footage of her video should be available. Can't the company just make another video? They should be able to.