Every time I hear that I think, “What time of the month? The time in which I’m appropriately enraged by bullshit? Nah, that’s pretty much just the entire month.”

Margarine tastes like sadness and regret.

Eh, the Eminem song still wins because it also contains the strikingly bad line, “Stare into my eyeball” (dude, no, that sounds gross).

I’ve never seen the first movie. Out of curiousity, could someone who has tell me how they address the fact that shocking someone in asystole (who is “flatlining”) doesn’t restart their heart?

Ooof. I started waiting tables at age 12 (lenient/exploitative boss). I haven’t had to wait tables in years, but experiencing the disgusting shit some men toss at you, even prior to being an actual teenager? I am so, so sorry for what you are going through. Castration fantasies are 100% normal, but make sure you have…

$50,000 per violation.

This is hilarious, and true. Every time my husband wanders by and sees me typing a reply to anything, he just shakes his head and sighs. This is why I comment maybe twice a week, and only on things I feverently hope won’t start a flame war. Kittens are soft? I 100% agree! Anything political? I’ll just mutter harshly…

Ironically my mother automatically takes these. I swear to God, every picture she’s taken of me in the last decade is me kissing my husband, my butt, or my butt while I kiss my husband. I have no idea how or why this happens. I’m overweight and definitely don’t have the kind of butt people seek out, and my (petit)…

I did, but I work ED so it mostly provoked professional curiosity - “Huh, wondering what they said to explain that?” “Would twisting clockwise help with removal?” Everyone who works ED for any period of time has at least one butt stuff removal story.

I think it’s pretty complicated; it’s a matter of resistance of change in doctors, fear of litigation, and systems issues. So, a study shows that x treatment is as effective as y and is less invasive. However, the first study is small, so it has to be replicated over a wider population. This takes a few years. Now…

Glad to hear you got a good one! 100% agree on the egos. I’m an Emergency Medicine doctor, and I swear 25% of my job is soothing the egos of specialists so they will do their fucking jobs (think listening to a neurologist sob about how he has too many patients and everyone expects too much of him for 10 minutes when…

Agreed. However, besides representing the medical field poorly on a moral front, I’d also like to point out that the physicians in congress also represent them poorly demographically. As of 2010 >30% of physicians were female, and that number has only increased over time. There are little to no female physicians in…

Too true (hides head in shame). Should’ve read:

I got into ANTM while on medical school rotations. I was personally experiencing the daily joys of being repeatedly being told I was stupid in oh so many different ways, being sleep deprived, being denied use of the bathroom and time to eat, having my clothing choices critiqued daily, and trying to suck up to insane…

I think they know:

Not in my experience, and we had a lot of stuff thrown at us our first year: snake bite with subsequent catastrophic medical bills, me in med school, his fathers cancer diagnosis, our dogs death... There was a “we’re all in it together and isn’t it awesome to be a team feeling though.” The 5th year is kind of kicking…

Except that inflation hasn’t really increased in any of the years that the minimum wage was increased previously. I’m always wary of “because that’s just the way it works” statements based on theory, however widely accepted - they are often historical proved not only wrong, but frankly laughable (see phlogiston). In…

Why, precisely, do you keep stating that increasing the minimum wage increases inflation? Could you provide citations?

Amen! I love my dad, but he constantly brought up during my undergrad how he’d paid for his public college outright using only money from his summer job with the railroad, and had no loans or parental help (the latter is kind of a fib because he was getting his deceased dad’s social security as my mom pointed out). I…

Gardening naked, like cooking naked, sounds horrible beyond belief. All I can think of is dirt in my butt crack, raspberry bush and other thorny things scratches on sensitive areas, and bugs being able to bite/crawl on even more of my body then they already do. What kind of gardening is she doing?