What does “close your plate” mean?

There are plenty of atheists who act like judgemental, more-enlightened-then-thou asshats & make the rest of us look bad.

 As others have said, it depends. I do high impact activities & wear a D or DD, so I do have some that have a sort of underwire (though I think it’s more of a plastic band than an actual metal wire).

Yeah, the dog we had when I was kid liked eating grass, paper, & bugs. He also ate normal dog food, because my parents were reasonable people.

Spirit is the absolute worst airline in the US. I wouldn’t take them again if they paid me. I have no idea how they’re even still in business.

Yeah, but it could be used by other types of athletes.

That’s true. But people should still be able to follow it how they like and dress how they like, so long as they respect that others are free to do things differently.

That really depends on her cultural background etc? I’ve known a number of Muslim women and girls who wear standard (Western) workout clothes. But this is in the US. In somewhere like Saudi Arabia, a woman who exercised in a co-ed environment in a leotard would probably get arrested.

When I was in elementary school, kids at lunch would take a cup, fill it up with random bits of smushed up food and milk, and dare each other to eat it. This looks just like that.

I’m sure it is fun. My partner used to do the watermelon thing a lot as part of a martial arts demonstration, and it’s a fun trick that looks super cool.

It doesn’t take a very sharp blade to cut a watermelon.

Its definitely a cardboard tube, like you mail a poster in.

I’m on a couple Facebook groups for martial arts teachers, and I see hilariously bad stuff in this vein every week. Usually some obese middle-aged white guy working as a front end supervisor at AutoZone, who dresses up like an A-Team villain to teach “the secret ninja arts” in his garage on the weekend. The guy, of…

Yes, that’s what I’m saying. Pedophilia is sexual attraction to children; child molestation refers to actively engaging the activity. Not all pedophiles actually molest children, and apparently not all child molesters are “true” pedophiles (that is, apparently for some it’s a crime of convenience, rather than their…

If you’re immortal, *why on earth* would you want to spend eternity looking like a child? Nobody would listen to you, hire you, or serve you alcohol, and nobody who’s not a sicko would fuck you.

Not a “thought crime”, a psychiatric diagnosis. Pedophilia literally means a sexual attraction to children. That doesn’t require a person to be an active child molester, though obviously there’s a big overlap there.

I think we must, at least, not dismiss victims. Believing victims doesn’t mean that we must reflexively assume that 100% of allegations are 100% true, but it does means that we must be open to them being true and can’t go “well, George always seems like a great guy, no way he did that”.

I read that Russia recently made “insulting the church” a jailable criminal offense.

I got the value there from a govt study showing there’s a estimated X acres of land in the US, worth an estimated total of $Y. Of course, the value of any specific 40 acres would vary enormously based on location and use. 

Or, instead of fussing with all that, we could just use an equation like this: