When I was seventeen and had my first serious boyfriend, my mother sat me down and said, and I quote: "It's not my business if you're having sex. It is my business if you're not being safe about it."

This was my thought. I have pet rats. It's definitely my experience that when one rat gets upset enough to start shrieking, other rats will become very agitated. I could've told you that rats gets upset by the sound of other rats being hurt or fighting amongst each other.

This, I believe. Or a very similar model. A Tandy 1000 of some variety, probably an HX? It was 1986ish, I was about three, and it was the greatest thing ever.

No, that would be pretty legitimately terrifying. He has a knife! And an axe! And possibly he's a skeleton!

We had a Tandy from Radio Shack, too. Slightly later than that model, I'd say. Would've been about 1985 or 86. I was three, I'd say. The story goes that my mother's typewriter broke, and she wanted a new one, and my dad said, hey let's just get a computer and you can use a word processor!

Besides the risk of resistant bacteria, use of antibacterials kills the bacteria and other microorganisms that naturally live on and in us. These are strains that have evolved along with us, get along with us, and affect our health, often for the better. These are species that are capable of making antibacterial…

Fuck you, man, my mutant power is lactase persistence. I'm going to have all the milk and all the cheese with none of the diarrhea and you can have none.

There's an open game in my family of "if you could be 'buried' any way you wanted, legality, practicality, and cost aside, what would it be?" My grandfather favours being thrown into the lion enclosure at the zoo. After reading this story and learning it was a thing, burial by air has definitely been my choice.

This was exactly my thought. Bacteria is made with one strain of lactobacillus; a different strain of lactobacillus is known to live in vaginas. This isn't "eating bodily fluids," (the semen comparison is way off base here) it's culturing food using bacteria found on the body.

The robot wished to understand pizza.

I like ear cuffs because I can pretend I'm bajoran.

Seriously, is Jezebel this ignorant about things just for the sake of clickbait headlines? I sincerely hope not. I want to rewrite all these articles myself. This is a great thing, so let's not ruin it by alarmist ignorance, okay?

Man, I'm sorry. I just don't understand this mentality: "My parent/spouse is dead, time to make sure I get my share." I'm hoping that, if nothing else, if my aunt and uncle do make the attempt to be greedy assholes, my dad's brothers will wake up and realise that it wasn't my dad "tearing the family apart" when he…

My dad's younger sister sounds like yours. With both of my paternal grandparents well into their eighties, and my grandfather's health slowly failing, the eldest daughter and her husband are making plans to take care of my grandmother after he dies, proposing moving out of their too-big house and in with grandma to…

Maybe I will do this after I get tired of my nails being painted vaguely like the abdomens of drosophilia melanogaster.

Lush is great. Also once I gave a bath to a rat using Lush shampoo so that, at least, was tested on animals. She was the best-smelling rat ever.

I... can't get over how incredibly real this looks. There are veins in this foot. It's perfect. The artistry is amazing.

I think I watched that one too. That was great.

Actually, I would think that the sorceress is probably intended to be Snegurochka, the granddaughter and helper of Ded Moroz.

I have met more small, pampered, vicious little dogs than I can count. Aggressive dogs that don't get trained properly because "oh, isn't it cute." Years ago, I had a coworker nearly lose his nose to a nasty little poodle mix that snarled and lunged at everyone when his owner brought him into a dog-friendly store. …