Oh this is so relevant to my life. I was at Target to buy a swimsuit two days ago. Out of all of the shitty options I went for ‘black with lots of strange straps’ because I don’t care about tanning. The alternatives were... Not good.

From the article you posted: “[People] used to raise dogs to guard the house, and when they needed the meat, they ate it,”explained a retired Hanoian man who didn’t want to be quoted by name.

I feel that your question is pointless, morbid navel gazing, and I’m not some kind of moral force to decide exactly how much injury a toddler needs to sustain to make it okay to shoot or not shoot a gorilla.

We are going to have to agree to disagree there. People in China eat dogs, people in France eat horses, people in South America eat guinea pigs. People in India don’t eat cows. People anywhere will eat just about anything if they get hungry enough. What domesticated animals are “okay” to eat is a cultural decision.

They are such amazing animals, what happened was a tragedy.

I’m totally with you on the disgusting immorality of factory farmed meat.

I think I understand what you’re trying to say about the hypocrisy of caring about the death of one animal and not about others, but the example is apples to oranges (or chickens to gorillas?) in addition to the whole endangered thing, chickens are also a domesticated animal bred by humans for thousands of years to…

The key difference is that chickens are not endangered.

Okay, I’m only going to say this once. It really doesn’t matter whether the gorilla was trying to save the kid or not, when you’re talking about a primate who is so strong he could accidentally pop the kids head like a grape or dislocate his shoulders just by picking him up. In this situation the gorillas motives were…

...Is it really that weird? I swear 90% of the time I want to write something down I can’t find a notepad and just grab a piece of paper out of the printer tray.

I can hear one of my neighbors literally shooting a gun as I type this. Your coworkers are truly idiots.

Who is saying this? It is in no way true.

I work at music festivals doing impact reduction (aka cleaning up trash among other things) and this doesn’t surprise me at all. People haul all their crap out, set it up, rage for the weekend and are too fucked up by monday morning to pack anything.

One of the appeals of working in the medical field for me was scrubs. As long as they’re not way tight or see through no one cares. Took all of the guess work out of dressing for work.

Yeah that’s not a prank, that’s assault.

NO I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING!

Often I feel like one of our biggest tasks as parents is to learn from and not repeat the dysfunctional behavior patterns our parents inflicted on us.

Makes sense. I’ve only worked one event that had the chips in the wristband.

West coast. I think the logic behind getting them at the gate is that it gives people less chance to counterfeit them, than if they have one sitting around for a month to go off of.

Huh. Every festival I’ve ever been to (and that is quite a lot, I used to work at them) has always exchanged a ticket for a wrist band at the gate. Is this an east coast/west coast thing, I wonder?