It can be. Most of the really dangerous symptoms come from chronic exposure (destruction of the intestinal lining leading to malnutrition), but coming into contact with it, even in small quantities, can cause some pretty gnarly abdominal cramping/diarrhea. It won’t kill you, but it won’t be a good day either.

I am comfortable with the conclusion that this man could (and perhaps should) have led a life without ever having sex. He is permanently a small child. Small children should not be having sex.

It just means that they cannot legally consent to sex. However, there is a whole big group of people who have sex with each other all the time without legally being able to consent AND without being raped: minors. I’m not saying that the mentally handicapped should just pair off with actual children, but there are…

It’s actually really tasty. Avocado (esp when ice cold) is such a mild flavor you can easily mask it with other ingredients, and the creamy texture is very much like actual ice cream. Bananas do the same thing if you freeze them and whip them up in the food processor.

I am incredulous, yet intrigued. I can’t begin to imagine how this could be edible, and yet one of my favorite menu items of all time came from jam in an expected culinary environment. It’s titled the Jammy Davis Jr., a quesadilla with black beans, sweet potato, jalapeno and raspberry jam, served with a chipotle…

Eldritch Horror is my favorite, though (like Pandemic) winning is not the most likely outcome. But to me it’s one of those games where losing can be just as fun.

Not according to Pixar...

Another mind blower? A greyhound is vodka and grapefruit juice. It is delicious, made everywhere, and isn’t the first hard liquor drink you had in high school.

Oh, I love telling people to have a nice day, or in my industry, I hope you feel better. I work in an ER, where it is not unusual to have half a dozen of people bitch at me about their wait times over the course of my three hour stint at the front desk every shift (pro tip: if you’re waiting, you’re not dying—at least…

My thought exactly. This seems a lot like someone on a small budget trying to get food for the week. Or he’s secretly a bird and he flies back to the nest to puke it up for his babies.

My first thought is that he’s squirreling it away somewhere and is trying to get a week’s worth of food on the cheap. I mean, was someone really watching him eat it all? I could see this being a viable way to survive for someone on a very small budget. I know that is ‘against the rules’ for an AYCE scenario, but if…

Obligatory ‘there’s an app for that.’

If everyone’s shitty friends and relatives start ‘having strokes’ eventually the restaurants will catch on. It’s a clever solution for someone who is willing to endure (and pay for) that kind of behavior from others, but I’d definitely be in the “no, I will not be joining you” camp.

And the longer it had gone on without anyone saying anything the more ridiculously awkward that conversation would be. At some point, all those people with questions are just tacitly endorsing her crazy pants because it would be CRAZY WEIRD for her to be lying all this time and SOMEONE REALLY SHOULD HAVE FIGURED IT…

Also, thanks for the reply to your 3 year old post!

Lucky! Not that my parents didn’t help while I was in college, because they absolutely did (thanks, guys!), but my formal allowance disappeared when I started working in high school.

My take-away: You were still getting an allowance when you were old enough to vote???

Shrimp tempura is amazing. Not a vegetable. But amazing.

And everything else is decent (okra, eggplant) to great (broccoli, green beans, asparagus, mushrooms), excepting onions, which are a toxic abomination in all their forms.

A coffee shop with no pastries? I am trying to think of a place where this could possibly be. Granted, it would take years of excessive coffee consumption to visit every coffee shop in Portland, but I like to think I’ve got a decent sample size.

Yeah... I’ve never been pregnant (THAT I KNOW OF) but I imagine I’d figure it out pretty quickly. That said, denial is a crazy thing. I’ve worked in a number of ERs, and had one young girl (17/18ish) check in with back and abdominal pain. The nurse went to complete a pelvic exam and found a crowning baby. As they…