Protip: send your parents a picture message of a pile of bottled water, dried and canned food, blankets, and lots of Benadryl (adjust which medication as necessary). After they text you back saying they are glad you are prepared and "good luck," distribute items back to your neighbors and roommates as necessary.

Most shops can't weld aluminum. Also, the aluminum on this truck is especially high grade, so its doubtful they will be able to just chop, weld, and paint this. It's probably a whole new bed.

Why can't they sell any? Because it is $47k!!! The G8 was available for $30k when it came out. A $17k increase for the very same car? Same chassis, same engine, etc? Sure this engine is setup like the Corvettes, so it has 60 more hp, but $17k for 60 hp is absolutely weak.

Steve taught himself to surf, owns his own business, and while he'll never be your real dad, he seems to make your mom happy.

That is how most sexism works though. You weren't promoted just because you were a woman, but it certainly helped. Likewise in other jobs, you won't be denied a promotion just because you were a woman, but it certainly entered into the calculus.

I imagine that, as they are bartenders, their pay is all minimum wage. At a few of the bars I frequent, even the male bartenders who have worked there 20 years get minimum wage (the minimum wage for tipped workers even). Most of a bartenders pay comes in tips.

It's not just "upwards to money and glory and management" either. I wanted to be a nurse back in high school, my grandmother was a nurse and I didn't want to go deal with med school so I thought this would be great. My school councilor (a woman!) talked me out of it. We would do career days with booths and speakers,…

Yep. From ihatepickingnames thread:

True. While the lead in was a bit weak though, the article is just talking about declining male sperm counts. Used to be unprotected sex = baby most of the time. Now, guys can actually just depend on their partner's birth control a lot of the time. It can still happen but its just unlikely.

Actually, in men who have it reversed only 50% will be able to conceive. And if it is reversed after 10 years, that number drops to 1 in 10.

Wait since when did Hilary Crosley become Hilary Crosley Coker? Were there nuptials that all of us were unaware of or has it been this way for months and I am just blind?

Ok for reals. Is Anna actually in trouble with Emma and that is why she is on this beat? I keep hearing talks of Emma putting Anna "in the basement" (which, honestly, sounds more like the lead in to a porno than a punishment).

Yes. Yes it is. You can use "heavenly host" to stand in for waffles any time. In conversations with friends, family, etc.

In times of war? No. In times of peace? Its much easier to justify attacking a warship than a civilian ship. What is more, other than the Lusitania (see below), the experience of civilian ships during wartime is generally capture, not sinking.

You forget that Russia is big. The Soviets could of easily, though time consumingly, moved some of its 12 million troops in Europe to the East.

I kind of have the same fear in my post up above. By turning USNS ships into combat ships, not only are they just as valid a target as a Destroyer, but there are also political challenges, right? I mean, a civilian ship carrying military goods doesn't cause an international incident if it accidentally crosses…

"Yet Another." Because Iraq and Afghanistan mean the US is just haphazardly dropping into places now.

Seeing as modern warfare is more about the weapons that a platform carries than the performance of the platform itself, outfitting a fleet oiler with an arsenal of standoff missiles and data-links to use off-board sensors for targeting and situational awareness, seems like a fantastically economical and tactically…

Arizona used to be México, you dorks.

Not true at all. Toxic Masculinity comes from a range of places. My own mother was heavy on the "man up" and "you need to quit being a little bitch" when I was a kid and getting beat up at school. Being a single mother is tough, sure, but PARENTS are teaching boys this. To pretend that this is solely just the fathers…