Point of fact, the two dose efficacy rate of the MMR booster against mumps is 80-90%. The overwhelming majority of individuals who have been vaccinated are seroimmune against mumps. You are emphatically incorrect and appear to lack any formal education in epidemiology, immunology, or infectious disease.

I don't think anyone should have the right to opt out, except for like you said, legit medical reasons why I child can't be vaccinated. It's just medical neglect. If your child actually had polio or whooping cough and you refused to take them to the doctor you could be prosecuted for abuse and neglect, so why the fuck…

I am so fucking done with the idiot antivax crowd.

How about responding with, "We don't employ people of science who don't actually believe in it. Now get out of our house so we can hire birth assistants who aren't morons." Instead of writing to an advice columnist?

I guess this guy knows her well enough to know that she would think this was cute...I mean it looked like she thought it was sweet. This is why that guy and I would never have been a good match because I would have gone WWE on his face with that chair. You just have to know your audience.

Why can't people just fucking have an adult conversation about marriage instead of making into an ordeal of publicly humiliating your girlfriend in an attempt to make a viral video? If you are worried she might say 'no' unless you coerce her in a public forum, you shouldn't get married (to anyone, ever). If you find…

/random Shaved crotches make me want to scratch. It just seems itchy.

Sadly, working in Toronto has only increased my ire and desire to taunt Leaf's fans at every turn:

Well, I'm off to write personalized thank you notes to every guy I've ever dated, because, sure, some of them were selfish or stupid or controlling or still in love with their exes, but at least not a single one of them was a sisterfucker. And, for that, I am grateful.

It doesn't matter, all of you are gross. YOU ARE GROSS.

I'm sitting here thinking "I'm a smaller size but she definitely is skinnier...what does this mean!"

Even better, Les Nordiques. That's a slow burn that will get even more Quebecers angry.

Link, please? I can't see that article. Also, as a Torontonian who is not a Leafs fan, I feel much the same about Leafs fans. Though Canucks fans are very much on notice, because fuck Vancouver.

Honestly you're just jealous that Montreal is way cooler than the rest of Canada.
This is why the Quebecois don't like anyone, because of this random discrimination based on what exactly ? Hockey ?? Whatever I'm French so I'll always defend my retarded cousins.

I worked (for a short time) in an emergency vet clinic and shadowed my supervisor while walking pet owners through the paperwork prior to euthanization. There are so many people of average-or-less means who make their pets' lives very happy while they are around, will go to great lengths and pull every social…

I think it's really dependent on the medical treatment and the quality of life it provides the pet if it's really worth the money. I know my personal money cap and what I consider reasonable lengths to go to for my pet, and I do not consider anyone a bad pet owner for not wanting to pay thousands of dollars for…

The problem is, by that measure, very few homes in this country can actually sustain a pet. The vast majority of households don't have thousands in savings to pay for their own unexpected medical bills, let alone their pets'. So, you're suggesting we cut the number of households who can/should help save shelter…

I just don't think it's as simple as that. Millions of dogs and cats (and rabbits and horses and others) enter the shelter system every year; should they only be adopted out to families with "up to thousands if not tens of thousands" of dollars in reserve? Should a prospective adopter pass by an animal on the…

you think pet owners should have tens of thousands saved up for their animals' health problems? Really? Gobsmacking. Pets only for the rich, says this person.

Of course, that would result in most pets never being adopted in the first place, and a whole lot of younger and healthier animals getting euthanized as a result.

From my point of view - better that I adopted my cat from the county shelter and gave him several years of a happy and healthy life. If I can't afford…