Man about town

While my cat is over here convinced that any reflective surface has strange and scary cats living in them and refuses to walk past them.

Yes, but also, for anyone unsure, you are supposed to fill the raised beds with soil, so they are raised. Usually the kind that comes in bags marked “raised bed soil” or you get it by the truckload and have it dumped in your driveway.

Not sure whats going on with these garden corrals. Do they think the vegetables are going to escape, or do they have a problem with turtles munching the greens?

“Please talk to me like I’m your grandmother. I’m tired of asking what you mean.”

Yeah, bmi is a terrible measure of health. If you’re at all muscular it’s just going to say you’re fat.

A friend of mine, who is just at the border of “normal” and “overweight” on the BMI scale, had a doctor refuse to remove a shard of glass from her hand until she lost 20 pounds. He said the surgery was too dangerous at her weight. There could be complications.

She ended up cutting her hand open and doing it herself.

I had a female doctor, when told my joints hurt so much I couldn’t use my hands for basic tasks, say to me “Well what do you want ME to do about it??”

If I’m in the car I sing loudly, Disney Princess style, without concern for rhyming- “That was a very weird thing you said back there! Everyone thinks you’re very weird now! You did your best, but it was strange! But it’s ok! It’s fine. It’s going to be fine! Is going to be ok! “

Gonna shit in some shoes later.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be male hormonal birth control, it’s just that after 40 years of the same story over and over, it seems the effort should be redirected. Vasalgel has been “in development” since the 70s. It’s not getting any closer.

Meanwhile, the US still only has one size of non hormonal IUD available, and two sizes of hormonal. They don’t fit most nulliparous women comfortably. This is a very fixable problem. 50 years of R&D could have solved this.

Calexico is the name of the merger.

Nether method is more complicated or more natural or “easier.” It’s fiddling with hormones to decrease fertility.

Your personal perception is that because when women are pregnant they can’t get pregnant, they should be the ones to have their hormones fiddled with, despite the risk of death, that has, thus far not been shown in male hormonal birth control. That’s got nothing to do with science.

It is a bit callous. I’m old enough to have seen this pop up a dozen or so times.

Every time the depression, weight gain, acne and libido changes are deemed too severe for approval and women are sitting here like… yeah, it’s all that plus increased occurrence of stroke and heart attack for us, but ok.

Female birth control has to be safer and have fewer side effects than pregnancy.

Male birth control has to be safer and have fewer side effects than letting women carry the burden of birth control.

There will not be a male birth control pill. We would be better off putting these resources toward improving the safety of female birth control.

I mean, she knows I’m much better than her at opening wet food cans.

Wouldn’t that bruise/smash the back of it? Put on an oven mitt of your aim is that bad.

Because he didn’t get to drink beers with Obama?

A friend used to be known for his extra potent canna-olive oil which made excellent pesto.

What about the claw penis?

They died for months apart, but Gene Wilder died four months after Prince.