Reminds me of using my own suction power to start the siphon when draining the fish tank...

I don't want to be one of those parents, but I can't seem to stop myself. You clearly don't have kids. They are disgusting, and yet their tiny clothes rarely make up enough for a full load of laundry and I also don't want to be doing any more laundry than I have to, so their spit-up/snot/dirt/WTF is that?/poop -…

I do this! I would rather be spoiled and be able to watch the damn movie than miss out on watching it entirely, even if that means knowing when to hide behind my scardy blanket!

I AM READY.

It is EXACTLY what he said. It's a thing in a bag in the basement. I am not even sure that there is any other description I can give you. But if that scares you in the slightest then FOR THE LOVE OF DOG DO NOT CLICK ON IT. I had to learn the hard way.

The anniversary of my dad's death is coming up, and you asked for stories of "slight hauntings," so I think I'll share this story again:

Maybe I've watched too many SVU reruns, but the first thing I thought was, "Serial Killer."

Whoooaaaa not cool IMO. You should always call or send a thank you letter for gifts when people celebrate your choices in life. It is not a requirement that they do that. Even when you have two newborns.

Just about 9 months pregnant now and I work in a pediatric hospital but have minimal patient contact. We had our flu blitz back in September, meaning just about everyone walking in to work got their flu shot all in one day. There was a separate shot for anyone that was pregnant, we got a special version of the vaccine…

There is medical evidence to suggest that pregnant women who get the flu are more likely to have very severe cases that can lead to pregnancy complications - which can include early labor and even maternal death. There is no medical evidence to suggest that the flu vaccine causes issues in a pregnancy or with the…

Virtually every medication has the same vague warning about effects in pregnant women because drug companies virtually never include pregnant woman in trials. (If you were pregnant, would you volunteer for a drug trial?). I appreciate the paranoia that comes with multiple miscarriages, but her employer is right, she…

just another blow in the WAR ON CHRISTMAS.

I think, in part, Americans are culturally trained to be this way: we love the story of the person who "challenges authority and wins."

My uncle was recently lecturing us on how "all classrooms should just be based on Youtube now, for every single field". I died.

I think this contempt for professionals is a disease of the Internet age. Every asshole who can read a Wikipedia page thinks they're an expert. I'm a teacher, and that attitude is permeating the profession at the legislative level, with lawmakers and businessmen pushing for teacherless classrooms where kids educate…

Don't carefully what during mealtime?

I am going to ignore the fact that several people have brought up that WestJet does what you want them to do. They did a good thing, but you don't like it because it's not the exact way you would have liked them to be charitable. You don't know that some of these people may have saved all year for that flight and…

I think there's an issue of definitions here, where you may be conflating "evidence" with "proof." Because, yes, absolutely, there is not proof. But evidence doesn't have to be completely unproblematic to function as evidence. So Josephus writing less than 30 years after James' death (not 150), is evidence. There's…

Well that's not strictly true, there is some evidence that he existed and was executed by the Romans. Primarily that Josephus in writing for a Roman audience refers to James the Just as, "James, the brother of Jesus, who is called Christ," which indicates that at the time of James' death, Jesus was famous enough in…

This comment is very helpful and totally gets the point. Thanks!