I always liked the video game "Lemmings" since I first found it. The little lemming characters are pretty cute. However, a real lemming is extremely cute!

I wonder if anybody can help me.

For the past 6 years Ive been with one partner. He is my only ever partner and we are now engaged and looking to the future and maybe some time soon are wanting to start a family. I just have one concern, for the past 3-4 years we've never used contraception. I know its silly, but we only use the pull-out method. Now, I know there's always a chance of becoming pregnant using this method, but the thought has never crossed my mind until now. Because I've not had a pregnancy scare during this time, could this mean I may be infertile? I know that nothing can be certain and it may just be one of those things, but I've been thinking about it lately.

Last year whilst trying to avoid eating a Phillipa's mince pie every single day I worked in Armadale pre-christmas (best overpriced bakeries and cafes, dangerous, dangeous place to work) I stumbled across their cranberry shortbread and fell in love. I'm planning on making little bags of them as christmas gifts this year so I did a test run with this recipe and I think I'm in love. Next time I'll chill the dough and roll it so I can cut some simple christmas shapes but otherwise it was perfect - the melt in your mouth shortbread was really lifted by the chewy cranberry pieces - plus it makes them look pretty!



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So, I just recently broke up with my boyfriend. Not that I know if it'll be permanent or anything, we might get back together someday in the future, I don't know. All I know is I needed sometime away from him, and frankly cannot pinpoint a date where we might get back together, if it ever even happens. Anyway, I've been on the pill for about 1 year. Is it a problem if I keep on taking my pills? I mean, healthwise, is there anything to be concerned with if I keep on taking my pills for, like, forever? I definitely will not be sleeping with anybody within the next 2 months at least (I have never even slept with my ex, the pills were just for my piece of mind...)

I don't want to put my body through any kind of stress, like going on the pill, off the pill, on the pill, off the pill... It just seems to me that it would probably be much more stable for my body if I just keep on going with the pills until I decide to conceive. So, in a nutshell... Basically, it there a time limit for taking pills? I take one called Adoless (I'm from Brazil, I don't think this one is available in the US), and has 60 mcg gestodeno and 15mcg of etinilestradiol (if that is of any importance).

Thanks in advance!

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A new exhibit at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo celebrates the intersection of art and science in the human body - featuring works from Leonardo da Vinci to Damien Hirst.

This is a total wtf. So I work audit again. I've seen the bizarre of the bizarre through out the 90's and a lot of the same stuff since I came back to it. I mean cross-dressers, drunks, people trying to sell me their first born to get a fix, and so on and so fourth.

But last night still has me scratching my head. It was about 4 in the morning and a guy comes in wearing track pants and a very thin sweat shirt. He looks very cold his noise was very red, and he came to the desk told me he wasn't staying and if he could use the restroom. I said sure pointed it out to him he went and left. Not a thing strange about it.

I decided to go out and smoke, I get out there and I see him kind of wandering around near the entrance to the hotel. He starts to walk back into the lot. Well he gets down to the first row of cars and starts to look inside the windows of the cars. So at this point I'm like oh great he's a smash & grabber just what I need. So I go back inside call the PD and head back out. Now I was only inside for like a minute at most to make the call. The PD arrived maybe at most 3 mins later. The way our property is laid out he was walking directly towards the lake the only place to go was the boat dock. The cops drove the entire property I checked all the outside doors all locked. The guy just flat out vanished into thin air in 4 mins.

I still have no clue were he could have went.

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So I work in an emergency veterinary clinic, which means that not only do I get to avoid Black Friday Sucks, I get to work overnight shifts which are awesome. But on the soul-crushing side, if I had a dollar for every animal that came in with something horrible that could have been prevented with a $15 vaccine and the owners wait until the last minute and now we have to give them a $1000 estimate... I'd have an extra 20 bucks a week, at least.

Anyways, sometimes we get wtfs like crazy. Take this for example:
Critical points: The owner of the clinic is an orthopedic surgeon who only comes in during the day. He did, at one time, work as a horse vet, but hasn't for a lot of years. This is pretty common knowledge.

3am, Friday night. Phone rings and it's some guy (SG). Coworker J answers phone, and I am sitting next to her.

SG: Yeah, is the owner there? (during this entire conversation, he only says 'the owner' instead of (Owner's Name).
Coworker J: ...No, the owner of the clinic isn't in right now. Can I help you?
SG: The owner used to take care of my horses a year or two ago. And now my mom's sick. (expectant pause)
J: I'm very sorry to hear that.
SG: I need some money to get down to (far away town). Could the owner help me?
J: ...I'm sorry, but I don't know. He will be in on Monday, if you'd like to call him then.
SG: I need money now. How much will you give me?
J: I'm sorry sir, but I can't give you any money.
SG: But my mom's sick! I know the owner!
J: Sir, I am sorry to hear about your mother, but I can't give you any money. Is there anything else I can help you with?
SG: *hangs up*


WTF? We are going to give you some of OUR hard-earned money because you claim to know "the owner"? Thanks to our caller ID, we could also tell this guy was calling from a local gas station. Srsly?

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Tatsuya Ishida

So I lurk here all the time and post few and far between. But I know how smart all of you are and I wanted to ask you (mostly ladies, but guys if you know the answer go for it!) a question.

I'm 23 years old, 5'10 and I would guess about 260 pounds. I have lost two (almost three) pant sizes over the last few months, which is great but I can't help but keep putting myself down. My friends tell me how much thinner I look, and how great and gorgeous, but I am nowhere near where I want to be. I know I want instant gratification, which isn't realistic, but sometimes it makes me lose focus.

But that's isn't my question.

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