There was a disgruntled employee where I work who was taking shits and leaving them in gallon sized zip lock bags inside the women’s locker room. The culprit was never caught, though we stopped finding bags after someone who was a pain in the ass was fired. Coincidence?

to which she countered, “Give me an airplane.”

I went into a Tim Hortons a couple years back and the kid behind the counter was Maverick. He was new, so his name tag read “Maverick in Training” and I thought that alone justified naming your kid Maverick.

We had total freedom here in Brazil, but after a mom named her daughter “Photocopy”, we decided to switch to semi-freedom. So now there are “no unnecessary letters” (so your kid has to be Kayla, not Khayllah), and “no embarrassing names” (so Photocopy and Facebookson are not acceptable. And yes, someone did try to…

Sadly, I think not only most men don’t parent - especially with infants. Some will later throw a ball with an older kid... - but they just create more dirty dishes and more laundry for the woman. My husband does about 40% of the housework cause I work shorter hours, but that is not the norm. And our kids are old…

Someone should have told Dauphina’s parents that the female version of a dauphin is dauphine. That wouldn’t make it any less weird, but it would at least be correct French.

Irishbeth sounds like the nickname of your fun red-headed bestie who gets totally blasted at every occasion and ironically dresses like a leprechaun during Halloween.  

Lots of countries use approved names. It’s actually kind of common, I was surprised to find out.

Thank you! What’s up with the rash of Instagram photos of “mommy’s glass of wine?” It stopped being cute/funny... no wait, it was never cute or funny. My cousin posts these on a regular basis.... She also has a severely developmentally delayed child.... .... Well that just came full circle.

I was speaking to the idea that women would rather have a drink than tell their husband to wash the dishes, and how overly simplistic that is, whereas a consistently unequal relationship leading to resentment could lead to escapism and coping strategies.

Maybe y’all shouldn’t be trying to explain someones disorder so casually like that? As an addict in recovery I gotta say it’s

I’ve come to the conclusion that most husbands are probably bullshit. Three weeks ago my husband and I were buying new appliances washer/dryer/dishwasher and the sales lady was SOOOO impressed when my husband mentioned a feature he was looking forward to using. She said ‘dishes and laundry! You’ve got a good one’…

Except that they tell you that pasteurized cheese is fine, and indeed a good thing to eat for your calcium and protein intake. And then you get something like this (a listeriosis outbreak in purportedly pasteurized cheese) that shows you it isn’t. The point is, as a pregnant woman you can’t zero out risk. You just…

this is my question about the survey too. I know they’re using a recognized diagnostic rubric, but I wonder how many kids with relatively minor “neurological symptoms” are being diagnosed just because their mothers had a few drinks during pregnancy and, conversely, how many kids had fetal alcohol exposure but no…

(1) it was a joke, playing on how poorly defined the symptoms of fetal alcohol neurological disorders are, and

I’m still waiting for the CDC to issue warnings to all men over 40 who are sexually active on the dangers of producing a child with autism or other health problems.

Still mad about the CDC’s warning to child-bearing aged women. The warning should be to all women trying to conceive. It should not be a given that we’re going to have children. It should be a given that no one will have an unplanned pregnancy in this day and age when it should be so easy for most women to obtain…

There’s a strangely pervasive, albeit older and (I think?) dying, mentality that continental European sexuality means that you’re down for anything whenever and wherever, and that age/race/sex/gender/current weather have no standing on that. The belief of the true libertine society to an extreme conclusion.

Shit. I’m sorry.