Lol, yikes.

What if I told you that someone can love and respect their parents while also criticising the attitudes many older folks hold about young people?

He was Italian, and since he legitimately misheard the instructions his dish was judged as brisket and gravy instead. He made it to the next round.

It's a defense mechanism called displacement. When you can't act out your urges on the actual object of your aggression/desire/etc. you substitute someone/something else that won't have repercussions for you.

There are two kinds of English people:
1) Slap both hands on both knees simultaneously OR
2) Half stand up and slap/pat thighs as if checking pockets to make sure you're ready to leave
In both cases you must say "Right" or "Right, then" otherwise it's invalid.

It's great that you're better but "changing your life" isn't possible for everyone. Medications, counseling, exercise, and meditation can all be extremely helpful for some and ineffective for others, but it's dangerous to say that pills make depression worse.

You're absolutely right, and it's playing into the "useless husband/shrill wife" narrative that's perpetuated in straight couples in countless sitcoms and movies. Most people using this type of language don't even realise it because it's so ingrained.

Off the top of my head: neither parent was a match, health problems that made their livers less viable, health conditions that could make surgery too risky, might've donated part of their liver already, etc. I think any of these are more likely than a parent not doing everything they can to save their sick child.

Sometimes people sign a word differently than you expect and they have to spell it out but mostly you can get the gist because grammar is set up differently from spoken languages. Unless they speak a different sign language, in which case you're screwed!

African American Vernacular English is a recognised dialect that follows specific grammatical rules and has been around for a long time. It's not slang or broken English.

I'd say a forearm tattoo would hurt but be tolerable for most people. What's more disconcerting than the pain is the sensation of needles vibrating and dragging across your skin. It's hard to compare it to anything else. The pain gets better after about 10 minutes so as long as you can stick that out you'll be fine.

Pretty much any female complaint that wasn't immediately physical (i.e. a broken arm) was labeled hysteria until Freud started actually talking to women and taking their problems seriously.

"False advertisement" - women aren't products. It's fine if you prefer not to be with a trans person, but they're not "traps." There's not a secret cabal of trans women plotting to trick men into relationships. Most people disclose that they are trans at an appropriate point in the relationship. You'd probably all be happier if you focused more on who people are rather than what genitals they have.

I can't believe in the course of my getting a PhD in clinical psychology they never told me about this "you can only be diagnosed with mental health problems if you've spent a year going outside and still feel shitty." Seems like a glaring oversight in my education.

Cars are dangerous - that's why there's requirements for who can have a license and it can be taken away from those driving recklessly. If cars aren't a necessity then neither are guns because there are plenty of alternatives to deter wildlife or home invaders. But people should be allowed to own guns just like we own cars. However, I've never heard of a situation so bad that someone needed an automatic or semi-automatic weapon to hunt an animal or defend themselves.

The bottom of the post literally says "Title is in my name."

This might be a wild thought but…don't poison a dog? Even if you don't like them?