GraniteM

Oh, I've got fucking Cold urticaria. My body takes it personally if I go swimming in cold water, or don't wear a heavy sweatshirt on a chilly day, or God forbid if my sheets are just a little bit cold and I'm not wearing wrist-to-ankle pajamas. It fucking sucks, and it didn't even develop until I was in my thirties, so it's not as if this something that I learned to live with so early that it's second nature to me now. FUCK my fucking cold-activated histamines.

Treat your taste kindly with KENT, the cigarette with the NEW Micronite filter!

^^Micronite ^^is ^^asbestos.

I shit you not, I once watched a lady talking to the information desk at an art museum about a membership with a toddler. The kid started getting antsy, and didn't listen after she told them to stop trying to run away. She had the kid lay down on their stomach, and she very gently put her foot on the kid's back, so she was in effect halfway standing on them. The kid didn't even seem upset, just "This is what happens when I don't listen." Awe inspiring.

Yeah, not getting what they want might mess up a kid's afternoon. Being taught that throwing tantrums can get them what they want might mess a kid up for their entire life.

Nothing should! Parenting is hard fucking work, and if you're not one hundred percent up for it, then don't do it!

Even in some fantasy ideal world where pregnancy and childbirth are easy, preschool is free, and the future isn't somewhere between bleak and horrifying... being a parent is still an incredibly taxing ordeal, mentally, physically, and emotionally. There are plenty of kids in the world. Nobody should get born to parents that feel even the slightest bit of reluctance at their existence.

Florida 2000 Presidential Election results:

• Bush: 2,912,790 (48.847%)

• Gore: 2,912,253 (48.838%)

• Nader: 97,488 (1.64%)

If just 538 Nader voters had gone to Gore, representing 0.0091% of the total vote, Al Gore would have been president.

Tiny fucking margins can change the world. Ask a bunch of dead Iraqi people if they feel like there would have been no meaningful difference between Bush and Gore.

I know drug real from real real!

Oxbow

Oddly enough, it's three seashells, and everyone knows how they work.

80 percent-scale mock White House

I'm confused about this part. Does that mean it's in basic outline correctly-sized but only has 80% as many rooms...

...or that the layout is exactly the same as the original, but everything is 20% smaller? Because then you've got issues with all the agents feeling like they're seven feet tall.

Don't forget...

• Say that only people born in this country count as Americans

• Refuse to pass legislation supporting maternity / paternity leave, Pre-K childcare, paid school lunches, or aid for first-time home buyers

• Make the act of getting pregnant incredibly dangerous

• Freak the fuck out when the youngest generation of adults starts having fewer children

Isn't Terry Farrell dramatically allergic to direct sunlight? I feel like I read that in the trivia for the episode The Ship, and that was why Dax had to stay inside for the whole episode.

Never being allowed to go out in direct sunlight will have a real positive effect on one's aging process.