Nah, all you need to do is drink a glass of apple cider vinegar and rub some essential oils on the baby’s feet, that cures everything. Right?

A few years ago I was seeing a chiropractor for treatment after a nasty car accident, and I regularly saw entire families coming into the office, including preschoolers. From what I overheard from them, I’m guessing that the Venn diagram of people who take babies to chiropractors and people who think vaccines are…

Yeah, sometimes a group isn’t right for a player or a player isn’t right for a group, and it’s best when people recognize that and move on peacefully (actually had that happen recently in my current group). The horror stories usually happen when people don’t want to admit to a bad fit. :/

Too long for you, maybe, but we loved it. So did the husband who’d originally been invited to the group, who knew full well how long the sessions would be expected to last before they joined.

Except she wasn’t. The DM specifically asked if she was using a spell to do it and she said no, it was something she was born being able to do.

This wasn’t fun, this was her deliberately trying to sabotage the group because she didn’t want to be there. There were a lot of other things she did as well that made it really clear. She just wanted to be The Special instead of being part of a team and got mad whenever other members of the party stole what she…

Exactly this. She wasn’t trying to do something cute, she was trying to screw with us because she didn’t actually want to be there. The DM would let us get away with some of the weirdest stuff in games because Rule of Cool, but when a player was deliberately being an idiot to sabotage what the rest of us were doing,…

I used to have a regular D&D group. We invited a new player in, and he asked if his wife could play as well. Of course, we were very welcoming of new players, we were happy to welcome her.

I actually found one V.C. Andrews novel while I was staying at my aunt’s house when I was about eleven (If There Be Thorns, I think) and boy was that an eye opener....

....okay so men’s slacks often come with the pockets basted, so I’ll give you a little credit for that. But in my nearly forty years of life I have owned exactly ONE pair of pants that came with the pockets basted, and it sure wasn’t a pair of jeans.

I had not! I’ll look into that one, thanks!

I hated Sebell because he was such a bland nonentity of a character who existed only to be Masterharper in Menolly’s place. I mean, her whole first story arc was about how women could be Harpers, and then once she married and had kids all of her ambition fell out of her.

Yeah, as I recall she said something along the lines of, if a guy ever has sex with another man he’s instantly gay forever after, or something like that. So any man who Impresses a green dragon will “become gay” even if he started out completely heterosexual.

Don’t forget the fact that they’re never really fulfilled unless they have children.

McCaffrey isn’t NEARLY as bad as Anthony, but the whole “it’s not really rape if you’re linked to your dragon and THEY like it” bit is skeevy as hell. And then there’s her perspectives on gay men, which she was expressing in the 90s, not the 60s, so she doesn’t really have an excuse there.

Eeeeeexactly. I finally got disgusted with Xanth and dropped it (good job, fifteen-year-old me) and wow do some of the relationships in the books I loved as a teenager scare me now. Like, say, David Eddings and his really weird views of married life - not quite scary rapey McCaffrey but, uh.

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I grew up in a very conservative household and my parents were very against having any sex ed taught in schools - but they never taught me anything at home, either, other than “don’t have sex until you’re married” (at which point I guess they expected the Magical Sex Fairy would show up and tell me all about how it…

About ten years ago they used to have a cookie that was, as I recall, a cinnamon shortbread-ish sandwich cookie with lemon filling, and that would take the #2 spot for me if it still existed. Lemonades are sort of kind of reminiscent of it, but just not good enough. :(

There really is something police can do about it, or at least try to do about it - it would probably take going above the heads of patrol officers to police administration, though, and showing just how many times police have been called. Of course, that depends on how sympathetic the adminstration of that particular…