Heh, that’s pretty cute. Personally I’m a fan of museum quality toy animals (you know, the ones that are pretty expensive but have really high quality, detail, and accuracy. Companies like Safari Ltd. and Schleich) and I found a couple of websites for people who collect them. People really like to take nice photos of…

Most of the people who talk like this, in my experience, are older people. They’ve done what they wanted and they know they probably don’t have much more time, so they accept death more readily.

You can even see Mabel next to Dipper, ha ha. XD

Nice. Pregnancy is one reason insurance companies hike up rates for women, so you’d think more of them would be more than happy to pay for tubal.

Lots of shit costs more for chicks, even if there’s not a good reason. It’s dumb.

Apparently companies justify higher rates for women by pointing out that women tend to go to the doctor more frequently than men. Of course, this also means that women are more likely to catch a health problem earlier before it gets serious.

For real, Bug’s Life is one of their weaker movies.

I can’t really enjoy the movie much either, since my little sister had a habit of playing a movie over and over again. Finding Nemo is one of the films she ruined for me. That said, from a quality standpoint, it is a very good movie. I just have a hard time enjoying it cause of my sister.

A lot of articles like these come off as really judgy to me. Camps can be expensive, and not everyone lives in a place where kids can go out and have lots of stuff to do. My middle and high school summers were pretty sucky cause we lived in a suburb that didn’t have much in walking distance, and the neighborhood had…

Not to mention that there often aren’t many activity options for young teens. My middle and high school summers were pretty shitty cause I didn’t have anything to do. My mom wouldn’t let me get a job because “you should enjoy your youth!”, but you can’t do that if you have no money and there’s nothing fun and free in…

It’s gonna be different for every kid, but yeah, when screentime is heavily restricted, I think it causes a lot of kids to get crazy over it. My sisters and I were like that. We didn’t have cable growing up, so whenever we did get the chance to watch cable TV, we really went nuts over it. My dad used it as evidence…

The new episodes are terrible. And I don’t mean “terrible compared to the old episodes”, I mean just terrible by normal standards. You probably bitch about bad shows all the time.

Things like English and history classes weren’t ever obsessed with “hands on learning”, though. Even if boys did fine in metal shop, they would still suck at English class because it’s not how they’re “supposed to learn”. And what about other countries? Many countries do better than the US in academics with a strict…

I’ve been wondering about this. And on the girl side, you don’t see a lot of female underachiever heroes. In high school, I would always see boys bragging about how low their grades were, but I didn’t see that for girls. Not considered cool for girls to be lazy.

I think you’re onto something here, because these days, it’s a lot easier for kids to misbehave in school and I think that reinforces that idea to boys who are allowed to get away with shit at home. Lots of teachers have very little power to dole out punishments or even just bad grades because parents often call the…

I’ve seen this a lot too, both in college and pre-college. I think a lot of girls get the message that “things will be harder for you cause you’re a chick” so they’re more likely to become over-achievers. Plus, academic performance isn’t always valued as heavily in boys, if anything, being an underachiever is…

Did they teach wood and metal shop in elementary schools? Besides, the loss of extracurriculars has more to do with budget cuts and focusing on teaching to standardized tests, not to get girls more interested. A lot of schools have also taken out home economics courses, classes that tend to be dominated by girls.…

I was thinking the same thing. I mean, schools have been “sit down, shut up, and pay attention” for several decades, it’s not some new thing. If male academic performance has been dropping, there’s probably another reason.

I bet they justify it to themselves by saying they’re doing the employees a favor by giving them a job.

I imagine a lot of your friends would like having an excuse for a child-free night.