It may have said something like “butter substitute” on the label, but it was trying to be butter. And it failed. I don’t even know what it was. I only know that I dabbled in the others, but I refused to taste that tub of whateveritwas.

Let me tell you a tale of fat-free. I was pregnant. I was borderline gestational diabetic, so my doctor recommended that I follow the diabetic diet to stave off full blown GD. I did good, following a full-fat, high protein, high veggie, lower carb diet. My blood sugars were great. I felt confident.

We once took my grandparents out to a restaurant for their anniversary. It was an authentic German restaurant, at least as authentic as someone can get in the United States, and my grandparents were both born and raised Germans. For the meal, there were no complaints. It was good food. But my grandpa kept this look on…

I know I’ve read somewhere that there’s a biological thing with growing old and a person’s tastebuds/hot and cold sensors going completely nuts. It explained that that’s why elderly people complain of cold coffee and food tasting weird unless soaked in salt. That doesn’t make anything better for servers, but at least…

I still have yet to come across this kind of Liberal Professor. Yes, I’ve had Professors that are probably liberal. This is usually from either before-class discussions or an off-handed comment. One of my Linguistic Professors used Sarah Palin and Chuck Norris for all of his examples, none of which were political. My…

The ones I know aren’t smooth at all. They’re almost stereotypically what you’d think internet creeps are like in real life.

No, they do exist in the wild. I know of three that I not only know in the offline world, but have also “lectured” me on how wrong I am about GG. They are also just as creepy offline as they are online.

We had been living together for a few months, dating for forever. One morning, I said, “My dad called me yesterday and reminded me that I lose my health insurance next year. We should probably get married soon”. He said, “Okay, we can do ring shopping this weekend”. So we went ring shopping and then he pretended that…

I agree with you, the lack of information on the baby plus her small size plus her running away raises huge red flags in this case. Just saying that the small size alone doesn’t make a strong case in my mind.

I looked almost exactly like that when I was 3 or 4 weeks away from my due date, especially in a flowy, roomy top. I never looked pregnant until the very end.

That’s pretty close to my story. I had my IUD for three years, decided it was time for baby, had baby, and then got my second IUD. Instead of my periods getting lighter, like the first one, they gradually got heavier. I actually ended up partially expelling two IUDs after birth (both nine months after insertion). By…

This wasn’t my regular OB. My regular (super awesome) OB had passed away, and I didn’t know about it until I made my yearly appointment. Since the office was a doctor short, and I’ve never had any problems with any of the other doctors there, I figured this guy couldn’t be terrible and just took the appointment.…

My old OB was excellent (a guy, but absolutely excellent), but he passed away, which was why I was seeing this associate guy. Doesn’t matter anymore though- our insurance changed and I need to find a new doctor anyway.

Wait, wait, wait. Do fibroids make periods heavier? Is this a thing? Because if it is, everything makes sense now. (I’m not a dumb person, but I went to my OB because of cramping/pain, and he did that whole “eh, you’re probably fine, but since you actually think you have pain, I’ll give you an ultrasound to show you…

Not only that, they’d need to get to that point to begin with. Being taught from birth that the “others” live a life that would send them straight to hell is a powerful, powerful mental bondage. And being so sheltered means they have no way to compare. So as bad as things might be, they very well might believe that…

Apparently that’s what you can do with parts of people’s lives you find unsavoury: just write them out.

I’ve seen a lot of facebook people (friends of friends, not my friends) doing “soft” defenses, such as, “The family already took care of this problem, leave them alone,” “kids play like this all the time,” “it was a long time ago”, and quite a few saying, “this is just the liberal media trying to oppress Christians…

Oh? He just wasn’t mature enough? Now what do you think would have happened if one of the daughters had sex outside of marriage or became pregnant? Heck, what would’ve happened if one of the Duggar teens had been caught making out before marriage?

He’s a boy. Boys just do boy things*. Everyone forgave him though, so it’s all good and Jesus-like. Obviously, the girls were acting inappropriate and he was just tempted. They should have resisted more or been less tempting or something. I mean, it’s not like one of their daughters made out before getting married.…

Less than a week ago, I witnessed a facebook argument where someone defended the Duggars life with the saying, “The Duggar children aren’t in jail or drug addicts, so they’re obviously better parents then most!” While I didn’t want to get into it, my first thought was, “Like addicts and jail are the only outcomes of…