I remember when I was young my grandma would always say ‘ you’ll never meet a man and have kids if you do (insert terrible thing I did to offend her sensibilities)‘ and I would always say ‘So, I don’t care about that!’ And she would tell me I would all wise and knowing.

Can we stop with the whole “ur doin it to urself” thing please? Sure, there are probably upwards of several hundred couples in Manhattan who are both employed, with young children, who have attempted to craft a Halloween costume out of mason jars and pallets, but that really isn’t life for most of us (admittedly…

I’ll be gray, but I am a woman, married 17 years, whose husband is financially abusing me into his compliance. Well, trying to do so. I work part-time as a church secretary and he is in law enforcement. He has been working away from home since December 2014, because of issues with his sergeant here, staying with his…

messages on tinder i’ve gotten in the last 24 hrs:

Sure. There are dozens of things to sue the Sperm Bank for that don’t involve telling you daughter that her skin color is making your life hell.

It came out too dark! Breakfast is RUINED!

Religion gave ​slaves a sense of self worth and a hope for ​salvation in this life and the next

I still can’t get my head around the degree that some people salivate over the idea of executing people. They can talk about “justice” as much as they like, but we all know they’re just getting off to it. It serves no practical purpose.

Actually, the guillotine is likely a much more humane method than lethal injection. But it’s more gross to observers, and making state killings more palatable to the public is really what lethal injection is all about, not about it actually causing a quicker or more painless death. A well-administered guillotine does…

i pray for the day when executions are completely outlawed.

Typical mail behavior.

We’re gonna need more than one day.

Not remotely a restaurant story, but 35 years ago when I was a kid, we had a new American kid come to our school. We hit it off and he came round to my house one night. My mother being the perfect host offered him dinner, but he flatly refused saying his mum didn’t like him eating ‘foreign’ food (this United Kingdom,…

There’s a drive/walk up burger chain in Seattle that explicitly says they don’t do special orders.

I had a customer once that told me, upon sitting down, that she was vegan. No problem, it was California and I was used to that. The thing was, our pizza dough used honey (probably because the sweeter dough when combined with the metric ton of sugar used in the marinara created a pizza more like candy than food). We…

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Back when I was a kid we knew a family like that. The mother was just insane and convinced that her husband and kids had various allergies and sicknesses. I have no idea how much was true and how much was BS, but after a while it was plain that she used her freak outs over food and illness to control the family. It…

“My husband and I are vegan. My daughter is vegetarian and both of them are allergic to gluten, lactose, shellfish, soya, onions, peppers and GM foods.” I’m assuming the kids survive on eating air, then. Assuming it’s not red air, cause they’d probably be allergic to that too.

BMI is a system used to evaluate health not physical appearance. Overweight on BMI is overweight medically. Suggesting your dietary and lifestyle choices are negatively affecting your health. If you feel physically attractive then that’s fine. But if your BMI indicates a classification of “overweight” it suggests a…