I’m pretty sure being beaten to within an inch of your life or skinned alive is torture. And yes, that is not how stress hormones work, which is why it is infuriating that people think that they do. Rhino horn won’t cure penis problems either but there’s still millions of people who believe it will.

As a former vegetarian and now a true meat eater, there’s a whole lot of us who will eat meat but make conscious decisions NOT to eat things like foie gras and veal. Also, as mentioned above, these dogs are tortured to make the meat “more tender” from the stress. It’s all sorts of fucked up. My other issue with eating…

And that would be a NO. Not having a debate with someone who doesn’t know wtf they’re talking about.

Did you see the movie?

Well, they obviously get kidnapped so there are some bad guys and they ARE lost in the Amazon so less-developed villages, but the white people tend to be the dumbest ones in the room. I know that some of the stuff in Spanish got the biggest laughs (wish they’d been subtitled!). I’d also look at the cast on imdb - the…

As someone who has actually SEEN the movie (unlike many of the posters here who assume it is terrible, racist, etc), it’s not bad. Is it forgettable? Sure. But it’s also entertaining. There are so few mother/daughter relationships in movies and they are almost never comedies because it’s hard to walk the line between…

I saw it last night at a showing with Paul Feig and Jonathan Levine. No, it is not offensive to any particular country (and they specifically mentioned that they wanted to stay away from this in the Q&A) but they picked Ecuador because 1) they have to get to Bogota (they end up in Colombia fairly early) and 2) more…

I love Kate Spade bag designs but I’ve had to get mine fixed twice in only a couple of years. It’s just not good quality for what you’re paying.

Coach used to be -USED TO BE - amazing when it was made in New York. I have a briefcase bag that I’ve had for over 20 years and it looks fantastic. The new stuff is absolute garbage. Instead of diversifying and acquiring other overpriced-but-cheap-shit brands, they should just go back to making high quality, handmade…

As a person who has experience in the concert industry this deck is all sorts of WTF. It starts out like they’re trying to get funding for some sort of website/technology that will make the talent buying process easier. (This will actually never ever ever happen but at least it’s a legitimate but terrible business…

Also, for those of you who like The Killing (and how could you not??), he directed the series finale. Another strong female role with a female creator/director.

She absolutely did save herself. To be able to sense someone, hear the gun, and react that quickly is 100% skill, not luck.

Well, like most opinions, people have different ones and you and this mom have different ones. And where I’m from (Miami) it’s not at all about white people. This article is old but so am I.

Yes, I understand that, and she is technically wrong.  But that’s how she identifies based on her culture and I don’t think we should give her crap for it. A lot of the commenters seem to be taking WAY more offense to this than seems reasonable. 

I support the death penalty for a few reasons. 1) Some people provide absolutely no value to society. They are untreatable psychopaths/sociopaths. 2) Putting those people in jail alongside people that CAN be rehabilitated makes our jail system worse and puts other prisoners in danger (once someone is in jail for life,…

As a white person who has dealt extensively with people from the Carribbean, the ones that I have had experience with do not consider themselves “black” because “black” equals “African-American” here in the US. And you WILL get yelled at if you call them either of those terms. That’s how they choose to define…

I agree with you that these days, the death penalty is primarily theater. But since I support the death penalty, I’m sure our solutions to that issue would be vastly different.

One thing to watch out for with Vicodin is that it can give you rebound headaches (and then you take some more, etc.). If you get the headache, take a bunch of Excedrin migraine, don’t take more Vicodin - it’s a vicious cycle. For me, it makes me sleepy and itchy (I’m sensitive to opiates) and that’s about it.

Ours was around $15K (SoCal area) but my family paid for it. There were quite a few things I didn’t care about, but they really wanted to do, and since they were paying for it.. eh, sure we can do a breakfast the next morning (and they also paid for some of our family’s hotel rooms). We only had about 60 people, but…

I’ve said this before, but I’ve always wondered, why not morphine OD? That’s what they do on the battlefield. And as someone who has had some morphine, holy shit, if I die, that’s how I want to go. Smiling and happy and peaceful and pain free.