D’oh, apology, for some reason my brain parsed that as a history of prostate and colon cancer! (Not that that inherently is gendered either, so again, sorry, ahaha!)

My story is very similar to yours, except that I am a woman, and I have Crohn’s disease, so mine was a regular diagnostic/preventative/etc one, and requested by my specialist! So never fear, they will rake you over the coals regardless of referral! The phrase “Has there ever been an elective colonoscopy?” was also…

If Breadwinner doesn’t win, I’ll riot.

I just wanted to say that I deeply appreciate the strange slice-of-life stories I get here and on the other blogs. Thank you for improving a stranger’s day with one of them!

Yup. I had to go to the ER last year because, post-colonscopy, I threw up blood. I felt fine, but you know, absolutely gotta take no chances on stuff like that!

Thank you for getting it despite your fears. *squeeze* Needle phobias can be incredibly hard, and I appreciate that you got it, later or not!

That’s a good looking troublesome bunny!

Still a ten percent better chance that a) you won’t get the flu and b) every very young, very old, or immunocompromised person you interact with won’t get the flu! :)

Also useful to differentiate the many varieties of colds that roll around from the flu.

Yup! Even the immunosuppressed (especially us, actually!) should be getting their flu shots and other non-live vaccines.

“It’s actually Earth/It’s actually not Earth” is the twist for at least one out of every ten Rod Serling episodes (with “It’s actually far in the future or the past” as another third).

Thank you for your entirely serious and absolutely not leading at all summaries.

My exact thought process. Can’t rush to conclusions....wait, what the hell is he doing with those reins???

Yeah, it’s honestly...dulled my enthusiasm for the movie, especially considering other, weirder “coincidences” (like how they apparently are both introduced eating boiled/rotten eggs?). I like Del Toro and the movie will doubtless be quite wonderful, but it does feel like Mignola should be getting some serious…

I often bring it up as a point in the discussion of genre versus setting. Like how Alien is very much a horror genre movie with a scifi setting. It’s also something very good to ponder for the people who want very strong distinctions in what is or isn’t scifi—by all the markers of content (aliens, timetravel),…

Weird question: did you ever write a comment in this wonderful style about the future of humankind evolving into softly lit squares and being collected in massive nets for the evening (except for very old white men, for there will never be a future in which there are no very old white men)? It was on...I think an…

As I said to the other guy, an explanation lets a person use the word “groat,” which is pretty well useless anywhere else! Who passes that opportunity up? Oat groat!

But by not explaining, you lose the chance to use the word “groat”, which is always great! The groat of the oat!

I don’t post on Deadspin much, but it’s my happy funtime reading place and you’re all lovely, so I figured here (and on a shampoo thread!) would be a good place to ask.

A one-gallon metal can of soy sauce.