I understand why this was an upsetting experience, but tattoo artists refuse jobs all the time for all sorts of reasons. Many have a no necks, no hands policy - it’s quite common. And, as you discovered, what’s off-limits to one artist is totally okay with another - you were able to get exactly what you wanted in the…

Honestly, I consider this behavior stealing. Consistently trying to force a restaurant to comp you meals is really shady.

Ugh this is like a customer I had once who thanked me for bringing him a to go box and I said “no problem!” and he went off for like 10 minutes about how he hadn’t assumed it was a problem and why would it be a problem and blah blah blah.

Nah, “guys” is just the new “folks.” It’s part of the young people lexicon. I say guys all the damn time, he doesn’t give me crap... he was proving a point about being “above” this person vs. being his friend.

Yeah, while I’d say aggression is atypical for stoners, it’s by no means unheard of. My father, I swear, goes into a full blown manic psychosis on the stuff, and while my sister isn’t that bad, she does get hyper-chatty in a way I’ve always associated with people on blow.

Because that really does not sound like weed. “Violent stoner” is not really a thing

I truly beg to differ. I grew up with some potheads that were truly unpleasant to be around when stoned. Real jackass behaviour that sometimes turned violent.

we are the same!!! i love food. all of it. my boyfriend and i both love to cook. my favorite social outing is to try a new restaurant (side note—last weekend i tried a new place for brunch and got these lettuce wraps on bibb with tempura fried shrimp, vermicelli noodles, and a cilantro sauce with truffle soy sauce for…

Exactly. I work in 911 and people think we have a magic ability to track phones but we do not. Unfortunately phone tracking is extremely inaccurate most of the time. We can get lucky and get good hits sometimes but a lot of times you are looking at ranges of error like 400 meters or more which does not narrow things…

911 operator here. The way phone GPS works is extremely inaccurate. They would have to get a subpoena first to even track it and then it is very hit or miss. Depending on a verity of factors from the model of phone to the phone carry and even the freaking weather the GPS hit can be as accurate as a few meters or as…

Yes indeed I have EDS. I’ve never heard of anything like that happening, though. Pregnancy itself for people with EDS is a very dangerous proposition.

Nope, definitely isn’t sterile. That’s why it’s such a big fucking deal if it’s present in amniotic fluid - it’s a danger to the baby.

“The issue with breastfeeding is whether is beneficial for babies not for mothers, idiot.”

No. Your issue is that. The issue is that, even if there is enough milk, there are two people involved in breastfeeding.

21 days ago, I would have agreed with you, at 41 weeks, 4 days pregnant. Then I went into labor, and unfortunately, despite my midwife and doula being pretty great at what they do, my baby contorted into a weird shape and literally got lodged in my pelvis. Without a wonderful anesthesiologist and obstetrician…

People who are anti c-section need to mind their own business. I was raped as a young teenager, and underwent severe vaginal and emotional trauma. While there was nothing medically stopping me from having a vaginal birth, just the thought of giving birth vaginally would cause me to hyperventilate and have anxiety…

Thank you. People tend to forget how high mortality rates for mothers and babies were prior to modern medical assistance, and how high they remain in countries where women are forced to do it “all natural” because there is no real medical system in place. This is clearly just another uncomfortable/unpleasant thing to…

I remember seeing the doctors pull the placenta, covered in meconium, from my wife after 33_Footsteps was born. I remember thinking, at the time, being in utter disbelief that anyone would want to eat that. And I’m not exactly shy about eating new things.

My version of your Fahrenheit scale:

You’re exactly right. Here in upstate NY, the second the snow melts and we all get excited about our first 70F day, some asshole puts the air at 62 and we live in misery the rest of the summer. You have to dress for winter weather and feel like summer punches you in the face when you leave work at the end of the day.…

It’s easy, just think of Farenheit as follows: on a scale of 1 to 100, how freaking hot is it?