Not a medical professional here, but I think it’s the same as being constantly pregnant or nursing which is what the female part of humanity would do for millennia. They’d have the first kid really young, nurse it for a few years, get pregnant with the next one as soon as their body was able to again. Summa summarum…

Precisely! I’d rather nurse three broken bones and a head ache without pain killers if I could chose between that and period cramps.

I’m lucky in the sense that ibuprofen works for me (at least a few brands* do). That being said my monthly cramps are the only reason I take pain killers. When I break a bone or after surgery I prefer to hang in there until the pain goes away. I’m the kind of person who actually reads the leaflet and the possible side…

Germany has opened its doors to an unlimited number of refugees; the United States keeps proposing laws to keep them out.

as David recalled on a German TV program

That line once earned me an “As long as you’re not married, you’re still single.”

He’s Norwegian.

Was he allowed to live with you, though, while the paperwork and everything was taken care of? I don’t know how old your nephew was at the time, but I can’t imagine how hard it would be for a child if they have to go live with strangers immediately after losing their parents.

Fixed that for you. Example: Germany spent the last 20 years waiting for the men’s national soccer team to win a major tournament again. Meanwhile the women’s team won pretty much all of them in the same time period, but no one gave a fuck.

Someone on Jezebel or Groupthink got me into Tinykittens months ago, when Eve had just had her babies and Sloaney was about to. Might have been you. If yes, thanks. I lost so many hours to kitten live streams and updates on the graduates. Too much cute.

In a world where bullets are medical procedures, yes that would be legal. In this one? Nope, but thank you for playing, dear troll.

I think about this whenever gun control is discussed, because the words used are always guns and arms, never ammunition. The NRA/Republicans/your average nuts don’t want background checks for gun owners, they are against mental health checks for gun buyers, they don’t want restrictions on what kinds of weapons the…

I was waiting for this.

Edit: In a non-judgemental way, just to be clear. If you hadn’t posted it, I would have. It sums up my reaction perfectly.

I want this skirt. I’ve been looking for a denim skirt like this for weeks now.

She travelled with him because she’d been to the moon and wanted more of that. Rose did quite a number of things out of love for the Doctor, too, but her actions don’t seem pitiful to us, because the Doctor was in love with her. That’s not something she accomplished, though, it’s merely happy circumstance. She was…

I didn’t like Martha at first, but she grew on me during the second rewatch. I discovered that the main reason I hadn’t liked her was her clearly not reciprocated romantic interest in the Doctor. I found that annoying, but I realized that it wasn’t her fault that Rose had been there first and that it’s hard to be…

I need a new hair style.

“and it is definitely true that children do better with their own parents”

I have finally figured out why I’m still sticking with Grey’s, even though so many characters I liked left and every one else gets the most insane story lines. There are episodes like this one that give me warm fluffy feelings, that are surprisingly hard to come by elsewhere.

So it’s true? I read about Anne Perry being the pen name of one of the Heavenly Creatures girl many, many years ago in a snippet about the movie in a tv schedule magazine. I had no way of verifying it at the point (the internet hadn’t come to my neck of the woods yet).