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That's hilarious - and totally unfair.

Cats using each other as pillows Source

How I prefer my cats to greet me https://mobile.twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/825021859557232642

Take this as a Gallery for cute animals. Uplifting, happy stories only, please. This the kind of thing I use on Twitter as my barricade against despair and a reminder that life goes on and there is joy to be found in it. There are three more photos in the set that I'm unable to copy here. https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/824855728691122178?s=02 I also follow @CuteEmergency, which features mostly dogs and which I believe is run by the same person as @EmrgencyKittens. Let me bring a little happiness onto your timeline. For the other three photos, see https://twitter.com/CuteEmergency/status/824850683450912769 Please, add your own photos, links and videos!

This is easier for me to find and faster to put up than images, but here's Taeyang of BigBang singing,"Eyes, Nose, Lips" shirtless. That's pretty much the whole video. Jason Momoa is even more built in the pecs and shoulders, but I couldn't easily find a decent photo of his Aquaman physique.

Noting cultural differences is not racist, but all too often "Asian" is used to mean "East Asian." You are spot on regarding the importance of education to East Asians, particularly Han Chinese and Koreans. But the importance of family, not shaming them, and marrying and having children is probably paramount. It's also a culture that places less emphasis on individual fulfillment, more on achievement and conformity to social norms.

How Do Court Reporters Keep Straight Faces? These are from a book called Disorder in the Courts and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while the exchanges were taking place. ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth? WITNESS: July 18th. ATTORNEY: What year? WITNESS: Every year. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you? WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you? WITNESS: Forty-five years. _________________________________ ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory? WITNESS: I forget. ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot? ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning? WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam? ____________________________________ ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he? WITNESS: He's 20, much like your IQ. ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken? WITNESS: Are you shitting me? _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time? WITNESS: Getting laid ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated? WITNESS: By death. ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated? WITNESS: Take a guess. ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual? WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female? WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work. ______________________________________ ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people? WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight. _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? WITNESS: Oral... _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time? WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question?

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Better late than never: a fun holiday dish: phallic banana-based salad with creamy white pineapple sauce. Yum! source

The poor puppy!

Thanks! These are fun. There's even one advertising the product of a company near where I grew up.

*groan*

It's funny as long as you're not the one using that toilet.

+1 You can only be sure that you still love him. That he loves you may be an assumption. From here, it's impossible to tell if his threats are bluster or not, but they don't seem very loving. Please don't take what you did as tantamount to destroying one another over this. From what you're saying, he's the one proposing that, not you. It is also possible to walk away without seeking to destroy each other; don't rule it out on the basis of a false equivalence. Agreed. You need to know how to protect yourself from threats and what you reasonably might expect if you do wind up apart despite your wishes otherwise.

Is this really the kind of person you want to live with the rest of your life? However you feel about your relationship and its importance, it is not meant to be all the other person's way. His threats are mostly just that, threats. Put me down as another yes for counseling for yourself. That he is opposed to couples counseling makes him seem even more unreasonable to me. Yes, you kept something from him. But he kept something from you, too: why the lack of sexual engagement. Either it's a dealbreaker for you or it's not. Figuring out which it is is part of why seeing a trained third-party can be useful.

Where did you find this?

https://twitter.com/EJStevensAuthor/status/805428089320861697/photo/1

I have great calves too, none of it acquired by walking on the balls of my feet or wearing high heels. Go figure.

*smh*

Some of us don't bother to do it either. I used to be able to manage heels over two inches but only if they were wedges. They probably will make one's calves shapelier, if that's a concern, but it comes with such agony to the feet that I'm not sure it's worth it. Then again, I have a terrible sense of balance, weak ankles and terrific calves, so I've never felt much incentive to wear high heels.

Uber is not some technological miracle. It's competing by not charging its full costs. (Only 41% of its costs on average.) That's not competition. That's anti-competitive. source: https://mobile.twitter.com/nickfountain/status/804411439855403008 and https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/12/01/2180647/the-taxi-unicorns-new-clothes/ (Financial Times)

Another great example. Exactly! Also to be as inaudible as possible. I'm thankful for closed captioning; otherwise I would have not understood some of Giles' lines on Buffy because Tony Head deliberately used a posh Oxbridge accent for him.

Even the French, about whose spelling and pronunciation I have complained, don't reduce what should be five syllables to two.

Not to speak of swallowing final syllables, like the way they pronounce "Worcestershire" (woo-stuh-shir, approximately).

It's not an Apple product. You really don't want me to bore you with my opinion of the cult of Apple, Apple's corporate citizenship, Steve Jobs and value for money, but suffice it to say at this time an inexpensive MP3 player is the only Apple product I would consider owning. Thank you for the suggestion. That would work; now I just have to convince myself to take the time to do it.