Thank you for saying this!
I was an internationally competitive athlete, and I know that 1) it takes some serious shit for athletes to complain to the press and now just smile and then gripe about it privately, and 2) this shit is dangerous. When you're traveling at such high speeds, executing precise movements, and…

It didn't happen at a fur farm, but they did source their foxes from there, and post USSR collapse they did have to sell some of the foxes to fur farms when their funding fell apart.

FWIW the fox has all the traits of the pups sold to support the ongoing work of this study: https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/issue.a…

This fox is almost certainly from the Russian domestication process. There is a study underway (and has been since the 70s) attempting to decipher the genes linked to successful domestication. They artificially selected at each generation for the foxes that were most able to read human visual cues, and the result was…

They 100% do - my dad has a bunch of it.

Oh, I know. France has been surprisingly good about changes in the past few years. A 5 or 10 minute smoke break every hour and a half really adds up in terms of lost time, and in and of itself is an incentive to start smoking.
I'm sorry you're stuck with this!

I spent a year of middle school in France, and I was SHOCKED that we got smoke breaks during class. It made it hard to socialize if you didn't smoke, and I can totally understand rising levels in countries where that sort of thing is still going on.

I think I rolled my eyes so hard that they fell out of my head when she was saying that she saved up her money from showing 4h animals at fairs to go to college.
OH YEAH, THAT HUNDRED BUCKS IS GOING TO MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE. I'M SET NOW.

Eh, we had -42(F) with windchill last year (woohoo Canada) where I am and haven't had a snowday/cold-day yet. Granted, a few kids did get frostbite waiting for the night buses after class...

FWIW Macklemore has openly stated that he thinks the Grammy should go to Kendrick Lamar, and that Lamar had the more important album.

There's also the issue that they were being required to pay for their uniforms, equipment and mandatory treatments out of pocket, which I believe violates California law.

I think the problem is that the working terms violate state law? I don't care if you chose to have a job, you boss still can't compensate and fine you illegally.

I read somewhere that he was super obese when they got him. He's lost a lot of weight but now he's got a floppy belly.

The zebra episode was the only one I saw, and it immediately put me off. It was so obviously faked. I work with horses, and it was really clear that this was an animal that was a) pretty tame, b) stressed out and unhappy and c) drugged up to his eyeballs.

Apparently her father has a 6th grade education, and her mother has a 9th grade education. Sounds like a simple mix up, either on her end or the original reporter's.

I had the same experience with Bell when my grandfather died. They called out house over and over again asking for him, and when we insisted that he was dead and that the account was cancelled, they actually said "well he's going to need to call in and cancel it himself."
We ended up getting lucky when the small town…

Bell did the same thing (though obviously on a smaller scale) to my family when my grandfather died. They refused to cancel his plan even though he was dead, because he was the only one who could cancel his plan EVEN THOUGH HE WAS DEAD. We sent in a death certificate and everything, and they kept calling for him to…

You know who generally aren't funny? Men who aggressively believe (and openly state) that they are super funny.

I think it is, but there is also the pervasive sense among certain demographics of men that they are owed a conventionally hot partner (and will only accept a conventionally hot partner) who will adore them because they are "good guys." This is regardless of where they fall on the spectrum of conventional…

*man grinds the woman down, she caves through a combination of emotional exhaustion and societal pressure, accepts what she doesn't really want and lives a life of quiet, guilt laden discontent.
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