I don't think you read my comment carefully? I didn't say I'd be too uncomfortable to butcher an animal, as a blanket statement. I said the circumstances under which I'd be willing to kill an animal would vary a lot depending on the context.

It doesn't have to be that complicated. It's not about the child 'having' to latch or the mother 'wanting' the child to latch. It's not about food at that point either. It's just comfort and security for the toddler. It's completely harmless and biologically normal (based on molar development and comparisons to…

But that's so circumstance-dependent. If you handed me an assault rifle (not that I know how to use one, but theoretically speaking), pointed another at my head, and said "It's you or the baby cow," hell yeah I could kill the baby cow. On the other hand if you handed me a box cutter and said "Kill the baby cow or…

Mirena actually does have a low rate of causing depressive symptoms in a minority of women. The dose is lower (and progestin-only is different than combined) so you might still be OK, but it's hard to know if you might happen to be in that minority. I think the only way to know for you for sure is to try it out…

Thanks for the support. Pedants unite!

I'm shocked it went this far myself, I agree with you it's total overkill. I assumed that post was just going to languish at the bottom of the unread pile. Who knew so many people cared enough to hate it?

No, it's just the feminine form of pontificator, meaning someone who speaks excessively in a pompous way. Comes through 'pontiff' (the high priest in ancient Rome) from 'pons, pontis' (a bridge, because the clergy were the bridges between god and the laity). Nothing medically related. On that note, have you been…

umida stragulum? supermandy you would probably find my username entertaining if you were to figure out what it meant. You'd have to take out the extra R though.

Yes, that one is awful (but so common I can't work up the rage, I've become too inured). I really try not to be the annoying internet pedant too often though - I'd say I post annoying pedantic corrections about once for every 50-100 times I see annoying errors in grammar, usage etc. This one reeeeeallly bothered me…

Constructing new words from Latin and Greek roots is by definition not 'the vernacular.' If you're going to do it, you might as well do a passable job.

Yes, it's not that I didn't get the joke, it's that the joke was entirely ruined by the sloppy delivery. By the way usually I think your jokes are pretty funny fwiw.

No, it's considered horrible form etymologically speaking. It's typical to stick with either Latin or Greek within a word.

"I just feel like the grass to murder ratio is a little off in your leogarchy."

Editing: Or at least partially. I mean maybe she had underlying Marfan's or something else we don't know about but again, a dissection probably wouldn't have happened at that specific point in time if it weren't for the pregnancy complication.

Yes but an aortic dissection in a healthy 35 y/o woman is vanishingly rare. It sounds like she had pre-eclamptic hypertension which is what caused the dissection. I.e., (based on the information in the article and without knowing more detail of the case of course), odds are it was directly related to the pregnancy.

If you ask them how much they work, the paid work/housework/child care sums tend to come out the same, albeit with different divisions. But if you ask them how much *leisure* time they have, men have 5 h a week more than women, consistently. How the hell does that work if they're really working the same number of…

I'm actually surprised at this. I've always thought it was pretty clear when someone liked me. Their eyes go all big and soft and melty. (It might be pupillary dilation.) When someone is just making polite conversation they may be smiling but their eyes are distant.

Could be possible if she was super obese and they weren't thinking baby? Once you get into the high 30s on BMI the baby is just a tiny bar at the bottom of the ultrasound picture even when you are looking for it.

I think when you don't normally wear makeup, it looks really bizarre and garish to yourself. Almost every time I have ever tried to wear lipstick for a night out I have wiped it off after looking in the mirror. I just can't bring myself to go out of the house like that. I think this is like the converse of people…

Hm. I only have three makeup items (a gel pencil for my eyes, a neutral eyeshadow, and a powder that I no longer wear) and they are all at least six years old. The gel pencil still works great when I use it (a few times a year). It's the only eyeliner I ever used that I was able to make 'go' like the PP said (not…