Well, someone has to invoke Godwin’s Law so it might as well be me: this is a reasonable approximation of the tone, thematic overtones, and fidelity to grammar and spelling I’d expect if Hitler had had Twitter down in that bunker in spring 1945.

I don’t want to out myself on this forum, but my late father, a relatively well-known author, had a stalker back in the 1980s and early 1990s. My school had a photograph of her in the office; when I was in second grade, she had arrived at school and tried to take me home. Once, when my mom and I were visiting my…

Sounds like you don’t know how abusive relationships work.

Careful there brah. Common sense like that is now known as “victim-blaming”.

This is like saying “diabetes was found in a man who eats McDonalds for lunch and dinner 5 times a week”

This makes me think it was some (assumedly) harmless trinket that someone made from some rocks they found, versus something manufactured like a balance bracelet. And let’s be honest, plenty of parents buy “pretty trinkets” for their baby daughters without thinking. Most people don’t expect the materials to be…

And here I was thinking the county fair was one of the safest places to get clothes, toys, and food for my infant.

Ok I have two issues here.

1.) the report refers to this patient as an “infant”. This is a scientific based account so you can assume some stand unit of measure was applied to deem the poor girl an infant. She was baby!

2.) Regardless of the homeopathic nature behind the bracelet. These idiot parents let their baby…

Title should be “CDC Finds Lead Poisoning in Child Who Wore Contaminated Bracelet.” I get that it’s cool and all to shit on homeopathy, but at least shit on it where it makes sense. The spacer beads were contaminated, not the crystal ones. What shitty reporting.