CrossFit
Being vegan
Having autism and/or an autistic child

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Anonymous wrote:Rescue dogs


Why mention you have rescue dog or get a bumper sticker? The only purpose is so others think well of you.

No, that's not the only purpose. I am actually in dog rescue (as in I volunteer for a dog rescue in a variety of ways), and I don't talk about it and don't put a sticker on my car. But I am always glad to to hear someone adopted rather than shopped for their dog--it's generally a good thing. The one thing I find annoying is when people use the verb "rescued" in relation to how they got their dog. Unless you stopped your car at the side of the rode to grab a stray dog, you didn't "rescue" your dog--you adopted it.

This. It helps normalize adoption. Not a single person where I live adopted a dog. Every single dog is an expensive designer dog from a breeder.

How do you know this? We adopted both a poodle and a doodle from a rescue. Don’t make assumptions.

+1

I adopted my toy poodle from the rescue I foster dogs with. She spent the first four years of life suffering in a puppy mill cranking out maltipoos. Poor thing was a mess and needed a lot of rehabilitation. She is very fancy looking now what with all of the poofy grooming and bedazzled sweaters (she was a matted dirty mess when rescued), and people assume I bought her and make nasty comments to me about how I should have rescued. Got a comment like this last week when we stopped for a pup cup on the way to pick up my latest foster dog.

I’ll take this opportunity….

There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing research and buying from a responsible breeder. (I know that responsible breeder has become somewhat cliché, but they are usually found by word of mouth because they don't often advertise on sites.)

I have two breeder dogs, and I find the adopt-don't-shop folks to often be ignorant and insufferable (and often hypocritical). It’s fantastic that you are taking on suffering dogs, but it’s perfectly fine to prefer a well-bred puppy.

So, back off the superiority complex, peeps, and get your dog into some behavior training please.

Especially if the criticism comes from the pro pitbull crowd. Those dogs should not be allowed, and while I do not have a dog at all currently, I know that my next dog will not be a rescue pitbull mix that could kill someone.

Most people do not have the skill or patience necessary to rehabilitate a pitbull or other dog that has been through trauma. Is it fair to the dog who did not choose to be born? No. But at the end of the day, I am always going to prioritize what is fair and safest for HUMANS over dogs. The people who adopt these dogs and shame others for having dogs from breeders are almost always the ones who can't control their "lab mix" that is really a pitbull and expect everyone to just accept their dangerous pet because the dog had a bad life. If only these dogs would ONLY bite their dumb owners, I would not care, but they are a menace to society.

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Anonymous wrote:Rescue dogs


Why mention you have rescue dog or get a bumper sticker? The only purpose is so others think well of you.

No, that's not the only purpose. I am actually in dog rescue (as in I volunteer for a dog rescue in a variety of ways), and I don't talk about it and don't put a sticker on my car. But I am always glad to to hear someone adopted rather than shopped for their dog--it's generally a good thing. The one thing I find annoying is when people use the verb "rescued" in relation to how they got their dog. Unless you stopped your car at the side of the rode to grab a stray dog, you didn't "rescue" your dog--you adopted it.

This. It helps normalize adoption. Not a single person where I live adopted a dog. Every single dog is an expensive designer dog from a breeder.

How do you know this? We adopted both a poodle and a doodle from a rescue. Don’t make assumptions.

+1

I adopted my toy poodle from the rescue I foster dogs with. She spent the first four years of life suffering in a puppy mill cranking out maltipoos. Poor thing was a mess and needed a lot of rehabilitation. She is very fancy looking now what with all of the poofy grooming and bedazzled sweaters (she was a matted dirty mess when rescued), and people assume I bought her and make nasty comments to me about how I should have rescued. Got a comment like this last week when we stopped for a pup cup on the way to pick up my latest foster dog.

I’ll take this opportunity….

There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing research and buying from a responsible breeder. (I know that responsible breeder has become somewhat cliché, but they are usually found by word of mouth because they don't often advertise on sites.)

I have two breeder dogs, and I find the adopt-don't-shop folks to often be ignorant and insufferable (and often hypocritical). It’s fantastic that you are taking on suffering dogs, but it’s perfectly fine to prefer a well-bred puppy.

So, back off the superiority complex, peeps, and get your dog into some behavior training please.

Anonymous wrote:veterans who served a few years in their 20s, but it's their defining life event until and after they die.

we get it. we can never give you enough benefits to compensate for your choice to join the military when you were 22 because you had jack else going on in your life.

Ope! The savage truth here. 👆🏽👆🏽

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Anonymous wrote:People who only talk about podcasts

People who think they’re edgy because they smoke weed

People who don’t vote

People who can discuss everything on Netflix but not one book they recently finished

Don't even get me started on those people! They make me so mad!

Same, PP. Big effing same.

I’m still annoyed by someone in 2016 who proclaimed that they weren’t going to vote for HRC because she wasn’t pErFeCt (or bErNiE) or something.

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Anonymous wrote:Cancer Survivor

You are evil.

No, they’re not. They’re not talking about the vast majority of cancer survivors, but the ones who broadcast it on a movie theater sized screen at every opportunity even decades later. The people I know who fit this profile had A. a precancerous mole removed, B. Stage I of an incredibly treatable cancer which never required surgery, chemo or radiation and which never recurred, and, in one case, C. a tumor that was BENIGN 30 years ago, but still works being a “cancer survivor” into conversation on a laughably regular basis.

- cancer survivor

Student loaner forgiveness and health care for all being more important than a possible Trump reelect.

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Anonymous wrote:People whose spiritual journeys are their personality. Those ayahuasca, yoga retreat, crystal, law of attraction people that meditate on their past lives while the rest of us pick up their slack at work.

Oh my god, I think I might be this person? Am I annoying?

Yes, but now that you know, it’s not too late.

Anonymous wrote:Single moms who make Fathers’ Day all about them because “iM a moThEr aNd a fAtHeR!!”

No, you’re just a mother (so to speak). Sit down.

+1,000,000. So needy and gross.

Anonymous wrote:(Inspired by another thread on here!) People who are aggressively outspoken about how they do not - and will NEVER - do the elf on the shelf

Oh I support these people. The more people who fight against the madness of proliferating "traditions" that you must do or Christmas is ruined are doing a service for everyone, whether you do EotS or not. It's ultimately good for parents generally if at least some parents say "absolutely not" to some of this stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:People who have "travel" as their only personality trait.

“I’ve been to 10 continents and 72 countries soooo you could say I like to travel. I’m just not one for a basic life. I feel bad because like my whole Instagram is like all pictures of me traveling. Lmao. I’ve actually been to 10 continents and 72 countries which is pretty crazy”

You realize that there are only seven continents right?

You realize that was the joke, right?

DP

(Inspired by another thread on here!) People who are aggressively outspoken about how they do not - and will NEVER - do the elf on the shelf

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Anonymous wrote:Women who think being a doctor's wife makes THEM a doctor/expert on healthcare/how hospitals operate.

Similarly women who gave up biglaw as an associate bc they couldn't handle it and their biglaw boyfriend proposed and then when biglaw husband makes partner, THEY feel they made partner; uh sweetie congrats to your man, but YOU are not a partner at this firm, so we don't need YOUR opinion on how things should be done.

Wow that one sounds personal, Susan.

Truth hurts, Becky.

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There are a lot of people who make an old trauma their whole personality. I know a woman who had a premie her a decade ago, and went on to have two more kids, and it's still her "thing." As her kid gets older I feel like it gets more and more awkward -- this child is healthy and fine and has no memory of any of this, but her mom brings it up all the time.

OMG. This is my parents, except my sister (the “preemie”) is 44 years old!

This is a mean post.. you are just spent time back biting people.. sick