Furthermore, it's an awfully puritanical over reaction. The idea that there's "one person in the whole world and having a relationship with anyone else degrades us in some way" is extremely unhealthy and unrealistic.

I don't know. I was very in love with someone six years ago and thought I'd do anything for him. Now I'm with someone else and I can't believe what a better fit we are. If I had stay with person A, I would have been happy, but I'm even happier with person B. And it's not a small difference. Person B, for instance, argues with me, whereas person A was non-confrontational. For someone as contentious and opinionated as myself, that's very important. Having a partner who merely clammed up when I started in on a rant, even when we agreed on the subject, made me feel incredibly isolated.

I wouldn't call it slutting around, for one thing, since what the Truth is describing is the kind of shopping around for a partner that most people do.

This story is interesting and neat, so I disagree that it's sad, but I don't understand the extreme counter-reaction to what sounds to me like a pretty commonly understood practice.

Haha, when I saw this on DA, I knew it was just a matter of time before it appeared here.

Did some math... that's about 1,817,200 calories, give or take.

Also, people are animals. *surprise*

I don't really get why people freak out over dressing up animals. We eat cows and chickens. I don't think dogs mind that they get away with wearing the occasional pair of aviator sunglasses. =/

Dootflotchie said what I was going to. This kind of surgery is extremely expensive, and I know a lot of people who would turn to their kids and say,"I'm sorry kids, it was just his time." and ask the vet to give him the needle. Lots of people who could afford it would do that simply because they don't value the animal's life as much as their digital television and internet.

This guy had a million opportunities to give up and bury the dog between the incident and the trip to the vet. If he had done it on purpose, he would have taken the first one.

Also, this is neat in the same way that story about a guy with railroad spike in his skull was neat. THEY LIVED.

I guess there are enough bobcats to hunt them for sport there. Which I suppose is a good thing. Cute little creatures, by they are a little scary when they get big. O_O

Had a friend who worked at a vet clinic and some other friends and I joined him one night to check on the animals. There was a bobcat in one of the cages. Big claws and teeth. NOT friendly.

He's kind of my hero. I might change my name for him.

It's interesting to come on here and so often see things that I saw several years ago on DA.

Not to be a smartass, because I know I'm not the only person in the world, but did you guys just discover that site?

Try again? Why don't you try re-reading my comment, Chesthair? I wasn't suggesting people who eat 5,000 calories a day are eating ten big macs. I only said it's difficult to count calories when caloric value remains undisclosed. As someone who thinks about calories, I know just how hard it can be to determine if, say, you have a big lunch at a thai place. Who knows how many calories are in that tasty beef curry, fried wontons, and fried banana with thai iced tea? Many people have such lunches and then go home to equally big dinners. Most people are obviously not consuming 5,000 calories a day, but consider this: when you gain a significant amount of weight, you REQUIRE more calories and crave more food to maintain your weight, making it that much easier to over eat. In a country where empty calories are everywhere, is it any wonder that our bodies crave so much food?

Try again.

As a professional line sitter at such events as PAX (probably only PAX) I can see how this would be useful. Those cement floors really do a number on you.

Just for you Charles.

Alex, those jokes are only funny if you're invested in the idea that men and women are fundamentally different in ways tied to sexist stereotypes. My boyfriend finds your joke as lame and unfunny as I do.

I would find your joke funny if it were ironic, in a way that showed you understood that women do not find being belittled in such a way funny at all.

Oh come on guy who isn't Max Power. I hope the guy with your name isn't so petty.