Agreed. It also reminds me of being in a museum looking at an exhibition of nude paintings from the 1800s—a friend of mine was incredibly fascinated with the women's stomach rolls and numerous dimples. They're a normal, beautiful thing, and it makes me sad that today they'd be photoshopped out of that picture.

Look! Realistic but tiny stomach rolls on an iconic picture...and nobody at the time thought they were shocking or obscene. Stomach rolls: (almost) everyone has them—even the super thin!

They once "thought they saw something" in my luggage and proceeded to go through the rest of my stuff by hand. I asked them to change their gloves (because WHAT STUFF HAVE THEY BEEN TOUCHING), and they proceeded to make a big show of "inspecting" my size F bras. You stay classy now, TSA, ya hear?

DO IT.

Ok, this cannot compare with Tay and the Toilet Seat, but here is my own meager offering:

BLEACH. In your CONTACT LENSE CASE?! I had to go get a drink just reading that. I can't even imagine if you hadn't caught her.....!?!?

Ok, so this doesn't really compare to the really bad ones, but one of my worst roommates watched VH1 night and day. She had to have it on constantly!

Yup, I have friends who were nearly in that same situation. Had two small kids, one went back to school, the bottom dropped out of the economy, and boom! needed WIC. They're also super-savvy shoppers who somehow sniff out the best deals on electronics, so they'd each have a nice phone or something, and people would…

So much this. In Europe (where I live), no one considers it to be a moral failing if you're out of work and need public assistance for a few months. C'est normale—it's ordinary—is what they said to me when I moved with my husband to the other side of the country and couldn't find a job.

Yup, and over here in France, if you can get a BMW or other German vehicle, you get one for precisely this reason. They're safe and reliable, and they will run and run and run, whereas French cars, while much cheaper upfront and partly tax-deductible, will generally cost you a lot of money in repairs and upkeep at…

Maybe you're right, but, on the other hand, as a legally convicted felon, she will be prevented from having many, MANY other types of jobs...so why not seize the opportunity?

When I go grocery shopping, I usually pick up a few extra apples or oranges so that I can give them to people in my large, urban town, and I used to see this guy in the same place every Tuesday, so one day I asked him if he preferred oranges or apples, and he said, "Clementines are my favorite," so I'd pick up a few…

NO!!! I'm laughing hysterically right now, and so is the husband, who says that he's going to say, "I wish it was Thanksgiving...and Christmas!" in public now as a code...dying!

Nooooooo...the Gaston gif won't show up! :(

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Dude, yes! My mom's a microbiologist, and she and I scrub the heck out of all fruits and veg, especially those she has to cut through (melons, kiwi, etc.) because of the whole bacteria from the outside being spread on the inside thing. We are the sane ones!

At first I thought this was just a Miss Marple plotline, but then I looked it up and discovered that it was true. That's tragic, and the lengths that people will go to just to satisfy their own selfish whims are disgusting. How many other not-famous pregnant women or people who knew were exposed at the same time that…

I'm friends with a woman who was fully vaccinated but contracted measles while she was pregnant. Consequence? Her son was born with hearing disabilities directly related to measles but thankfully nothing else. She did everything right, but the carelessness of just one person could have killed her child.

defiantly ignorant conspiracy nuts masturbating about government mandates and big pharma

Thanks for sharing your parents' stories; they really do illustrate the heart of this debate: that some religious exemptions can be wrong because they cause harm to non-consenting children. I'm reading a book at the moment called Religious Child Maltreatment which looks at physical, mental, sexual, and emotional abuse…