Eventually I just said, I’m going to give myself an afternoon a week, just to do whatever the fuck I want without my baby. A friend of mine said, ‘Really? Don’t you feel bad?’

This is the most compelling argument I’ve seen in favor of early voting...

Some fans have suggested Dylan should refuse the title of Nobel laureate...because the Nobel prize’s founder, Alfred Nobel, was an armaments manufacturer.

I knew I wasn’t going to get that right!

Just realizing now how much Ruby Gillis looks like Amy Schumer.

Were two of the teeth removed the pointy fangs, on either the top or bottom? (Technically canines but it seems wrong to refer to a cat’s teeth as such.) One of ours had her two bottom fangs removed over the summer and it does make her face seem a little more angular like your cat’s. I think the fangs give their mouths…

Big hunk of something.

Yeah, midwives get a bad rap because in some states (like Oregon) those lay midwives are allowed to deliver babies and they have a much higher rate of negative outcome. But many states only allow CNMs to deliver babies and they are comparable to OBs in ability to handle low-risk births (and you’re less likely to have…

Also, not everyone is low-risk enough to start with a midwife. There are plenty of medical reasons for needing a planned c-section.

I remember when my friend was having her second baby it was super-desirable to be admitted in the evening because that meant she would get to spend two nights in the hospital. America!

Women were routinely anesthetized for childbirth in those days.

Ugh, that reminds me of a particularly heinous bathroom in Greece, which is an EU country with third-world plumbing. Every toilet has a little can next to it that you have to put your used toilet paper into, even in the fanciest hotels and restaurants. Sometimes the cans don’t have lids. One time the can was HUGE,…

Oh, dear.

I won’t tolerate this kind of negative talk about buttered noodles.

Like Bill Clinton with the balloons...

William looks more like Diana now, but when he was younger he looked a lot like Elizabeth, I think.

Yep, they both look exactly like him as a baby, and he looks like his grandmother. Harry looks more like Diana, and whoever his father is supposed to be. (Thankfully none of them look like Charles.)

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Totally. We spent 4 years, I had 6 miscarriages, we did regular IVF and donor egg, and at the end I was just DONE. I wasn’t even sure I still wanted a kid any more by the last round. But you definitely encounter people like this who are just willing to do anything and take as long as it takes, which sometimes means…

I thought you said Tara Reid was SHARTING AN EGG SANDWICH and that is a perfectly legit reason to miss a flight IMO.