I've done 75, and found it depends on the race, the size of it and their budget. I've seen some that had them only at half and full, others that had them in places that would make strategic 'cheating' points. At the end of out-and-backs and the like.

The only way you'd run a sub-3 with a 17-minute negative split is if you got stuck behind a train for the first half.

Negative splits are plausible. 55 minute 1/2 marathon is not.

There is zero chance an amateur runner ran the 2nd half of a sub-3 hour marathon 17 minutes faster than the first. ZERO.

On the other hand, Satan was absolutely correct in thinking that a home birth was adding unnecessary risk for absolutely zero good reason.

You and your fleet of yes-persons must be a hoot at parties.

"Carrie Murphy is a poet, freelance writer, and certified birth doula."

Okay, suddenly the smug sanctimony of the article makes a lot more sense.

Yeah, what about that lady that was going to have her baby in a river in front of a bunch of television cameras? Can we have an opinion on THAT?

My sister-in-law, let's call her Satan, has not spoken to her sister for 9 years because she didn't take Satan's advice about how to have her baby. Satan had a very difficult birth and could not believe that her sister would dare have a home birth. The sister dared and Satan has never met her now 9-year-old nephew. On…

Yeah, I'm going to say that my biology and public health degrees make me better qualified than those who insist that having your birth orchestrated by a yoga instructor is a perfect replacement for vaccines.

Nope, sorry, I reserve my right to roll my eyes at the stupid, hippy-dippy things some people do.

You don't know how opinions work. I can have one. You just don't have to give a shit about it.

I definitely get to have an opinion about a friend who would post pics on Facebook of her baby crowning in her vagina. But of course, my opinion centers around her poor social media skills, not her birth.

Mmmph? This isn't a jungle gym though, with zero of interest to adults in it; it's a self-proclaimed "adventure park," and I agree with Grandpa that stuff like falcons will appeal to people of all sorts of age groups.

I saw Insane Masturbatory Rampage open for Slayer in '92.

Billy, I hate to nitpick, but I have a problem with the headline. The phrase "insane, masturbatory rampage" should be "insane masturbatory rampage." You shouldn't use a comma when the last adjective outranks its predecessor and is an integral part of the noun phrase. In this case, the rampage is not both insane…

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Hold the phone, I know that throttle!!! That's the throttle component of a Saitek X52 Flight System!

Nope, not at all. Unrealism and action are just fine. These are just stupid decisions. Even in the world established by the movie they're stupid — the elaborate plan they concocted there is so full of ways to fail horribly I wouldn't trust this crew to plan a birthday party.

Who needs scissors to get out of a cast? Just flex your way out.