How can you be sure about the Russian spy thing? Just asking, because I wonder about my cats all the damn time.

How can you be sure about the Russian spy thing? Just asking, because I wonder about my cats all the damn time.

Thank you! Geez. It took looking at the image on multiple sites, various sizes, etc to find those fucking dolphins. Frankly, I can’t think of an age where I was so unaware of the concept that people had sensual contact that I would squint reaaallly, reaaaallly hard to see those “dolphins” instead of just seeing the…

Eh, I’m biased because my husband was bitten by a copperhead, and no, there was no alcohol involved - we were on a fairly busy hiking path. All of the rattlers I’ve seen have seemed pretty afraid of me, but I’ve encountered quite a number of copperheads that stand their ground.

How about copperheads - very prevalent, fairly aggressive?

Many, many years ago some fratbro got his friend’s number mixed up with mine. I got a few questionable texts, but ignored them hoping they would work things out amongst themselves. However, that Spring I got the best voicemail ever:

Eh, my dog is alarmingly into the concept of separate but equal, as evinced by his tragic eye rolling at the situation above. It’s still better than my Republican cats though, who believe what’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is mine (thus why those fuckers are in his damn den).

“You can’t honestly believe I’d do atrocious, violent homophobic things, because frankly the people here are so violent and homophobic that they would have done those things before I’d even have to, amiright?”

Yup. Went to private boarding school on a full-ride scholarship. I can’t say I loved it, because frankly I was a miserable, depressed teenager, but I do think in many ways it saved my life. At home sometimes my mother was the most fun, awesome person ever, and sometimes she was a paranoid abusive mess (my sister told…

Thank you, that response was actually super-helpful (seriously, no sarcasm, I really enjoyed a balanced look at the reasons why advocates could be less than helpful in victims <12).

And this is how privilege works! You can be 8 billion in the hole, but because of your name, you still have housing, clothing, food, kids in a good school, plus people will have enough faith in you (despite the fact that you lost billions of dollars!) to give you start up money to try again. That homeless man may not…

I find it distracting, but no more than people eating popcorn, whispering to their friends, getting up to go the bathroom, etc... Movie theatre movies are meant to be a public experience, i.e. with other people with other needs there. I would think closed captioning should be fine.

And this isn’t a rich girl Trump tower problem - this is a kid in a big city problem. Many NYC kids both cannot have a lemonade stand, AND cannot have food security, reliable housing, healthcare...

Goodness, I have no idea, but that’s an interesting conjecture! I’m definitely not an expert - research period was very brief, but it was kind of fascinating to see what strong feelings long-term researchers have about various species.

Frankly, I’ve done some research with macaques (not vivisection research, behavioral genetics, where mostly you just follow them around watching what they do and occasionally take a blood sample which involves drugging them with nicer meds then family members have gotten post-root-canal, then rewarding them afterwards…

Doctor here - it generally works fine. I did it on a family member (long story), and it worked like a charm. It’s definitely worth a try. If it fails, frankly, you’re headed for a cricothyorotomy or death, and very few people can perform the former in the field. Heimlich is always worth a try.

An inexplicably evil cartoon turtle?

My name leads to a lot of pictures of McMansion interiors decorated with mid-priced furniture and decor? Very strange. For context, my name has nothing to do with any kind of furnishing (you know, like Kathy Sofa or something), also I live in a shitbox house in a crappy neighborhood, and I’m way too indifferent to do…

Absolutely nothing. Like many uncomplicated infections (ear infections in kids, small skin infections), unless you are immunocompromised your body will likely clear it on your own and the risk/benefit ratio of antibiotics versus waiting definitely favors waiting.

I’ve always wondered if it might provide a nice way to separate part of the PR/public appearance/tabloid part of government from the actual, you know, governing part? That way newspapers can run a jillion pictures of Prince George, obsess over Kate Middleton’s hair, and generally have some well-dressed, well-mannered…