Oats still don't contain gluten, it's just that normally, crops are rotated, meaning one growing season they grow one crop in that field, and the next they grow something else. It's better for the soil, because different plants take out different nutrients, and release back still others when the unused parts get…

My son is gluten-intolerant AND allergic to wheat. He has two distinct reactions; we know the gluten intolerance is there because he reacts to rye and barley with the same intestinal reaction he has to wheat, and the allergic reaction is a skin rash that he doesn't get when he eats rye or barley. The two things are…

Really? Those poor, poor kids, denied their yummy deliciousness, because somebody could DIE from it. This continues to baffle the fuck out of me. How the hell can it even cross your mind to counter "He could die from this." with " But it's so yummy!"

People find those show interesting in the "freak show" kind of way, not in the way that would involve actually having relationships with those people. It's the same with the whole "Be yourself and people will like you!" bs. Normal people do NOT want direct honesty—they do not know how to deal with it. Either they…

I agree both about Tintin and the article.

My ignorant family knew about the whole stick a yellow flower under your chin, but we didn't know it was supposed to be buttercups. We had dandelions... =( I've never even seen a real buttercup.

Ha!

I concur. I've bought two from them now, and they are...delicate...at best. =( And one of them is Doctor Hoo, which I love sooo much, and will be so sad when it dies its premature death.

That's pair-bonding in the same way that making that lousy bum who ran out on his kids pay child support is. How is it a bond if they do nothing together—and they don't even have any evidence that they breed together again? *shrug*

Perfect! I was going to make my recommendations in general, but it seems apropos to respond to your request, being as most of mine are for younger readers. I am NOT a comic fan, and all but the one by Jeff Smith do not seem even remotely appealing to me, though I have recently discovered that I can enjoy graphic…

NO.

Oh, yeah!

Ha!

Horrifying?? Creepy? My god what is wrong with you people?? It's so cute I could die!!! Look at the little whiskers! And the sweet little beady eyes!! I LOVE IT!!! I want it!

Um, except the king of the Nordic gods was hung upside down from a tree...not much more dignified than being nailed to a cross...

Well, unfortunately, some of us who frequent Io9 have kids. I will be seeing this movie, like it or not.

No matter how good a ps it may be, there's no way that's the body of a cheetah. Cheetahs have huge ribcages and lean, long legs. That's clearly a lion's body—stocky and powerful, not a runner's body.