~You can't chop your Papa up in Massachusetts!~

If your toilet is clean, the water is clean. It's the same water as what comes out your kitchen faucet.

Glad to see someone acting upon something suspicious, even if it weren't correct. There are good people.

If it were me, I'd have been amused to learn it was for wasps. I don't like them either.

Life tip: to significantly decrease wasps, fill paper bags with plastic bags, tie off the opening, then hang/mount it (or multiple) in problem areas upside down early in the spring. They look like hives, and it deters wasps from building "too close" to another hive. I have these commercial bags with varied grey lines for this purpose as they're a tad more sturdy against weather and look even more realistic.

It won't completely stop it, but in an eve that got ~6 nests a year, setting it out early knocked it down to 1-2. They liked to go around corners out of sight of the bag, so more bags around corners.

Her mother can take her comments elsewhere. The fact that she laid into you for "encouraging" her to get out and not thanks for at least finding her should tell you enough.

You gave her the tools to get out. The woods felt safer than at home. I repeat, the woods felt safer than at home. And again, her mother's reaction is a very clear red flag of abuse. Her kid (her victim) got away because you (inadvertently) gave her the knowledge.

Generally when you have church parents and a kid who is not about that life, a kid that is anything but straight, a kid that is interested in anything even slightly niche, they're going to get looked down upon by their parents.

Just because it's a church doesn't mean the kid isn't called a bitch or whore, isn't told to be normal, isn't getting hit, isn't being actively disallowed to participate in anything, isn't being neglected...

Perhaps her father beats her with a belt. You certainly don't know that. And you can't say he doesn't because even if you were living there, a true abuser would find a way. (Burning girls with cigarettes where their bra strap would hide the scar...). There's a lot of evidence of church parents being very abusive towards their kids that don't fit in their pretty little mold. And you always hear, "I never thought [he'd] do that!"

It comes from home.

You gave her the ability to get out of there.

By God, report them to CPS, especially if she returns. Something is going on at home.

Same! My old dog was also a judge of character. They know.

I remember those old "what X are you" quizzes I did in highschool. It was so easy to get the result you wanted. I'm going to use Hogwarts houses for example. I could run the test and consistently get a particular house, they were obvious.

When I got on Pottermore (I got one of the early access accounts), the test for determining your house is actually nuanced. The answers are not at all clear to which house they were meant for; in fact most answers fit multiple houses. I'm sure that behind the scenes, answers had a score/rank per the house's ideal. One house might score 3 points, another 2, while another 1 point all in the same answer. It made for an actual test you'd have a harder time cheating.

I actually didn't know which house I'd be sorted into. I should go and see if I can find the test again.

(I did sort Gryffindor.)

One reason I know about is that the lice developed the hooks on their legs for the specific type of hair on certain animals. Even in humans, we have three types of lice that infest specific areas! Head lice, body lice, and pubic lice are very different.

The pubic lice have (relatively speaking) huge hooks/claws for gripping coarse hair. The hair on your head is too thin for them, they wouldn't be able to grip effectively. Head lice have finer hooks, much too small to get a grip on coarser pubic hair! Their bodies are also shaped differently.

I got head lice a lot as a child. To the point I needed prescription stuff as they got resistant to normal treatment. I wondered how they never got into other hair, and researched it!

This here! Also simply looking at modern relatives; things like deinosuchus probably looked really similar if not basically identical (outside of being much bigger) to modern crocodilians.

Still some interpretation to be had, sure, but we can apply what current birds look like to smaller raptors (microraptor, velociraptor, etc) given they were getting close to modern avians along with cues from the fossils as mentioned above.

I see a picture floating around sometimes of a swan shrink wrapped with no feathers and using its featherless wing as a stabbing implement and people believe it. And some other animals given similar treatment. No. Just, no. We aren't as off as we were, where we had tons of dinos standing upright...

Jesus, the bee/wasp thing drives me up the wall. When someone complains about being chased by a bee I stop them and ask if they actually mean a bee, or a wasp or hornet. Those are very different things. One is curious, one will basically chill if you do, one will sting if it thinks you looked at it funny.

And then go on to tell them about beneficial wasps and harmless ones.

Ramble-

One coworker was saying about bees in her yard, like four big ones. Bee or wasp, actually wasp. Okay, how big- an inch or so. Colors- black and off yellow half stripes. Okay, that's a cicada killer, I'm surprised you have four hanging around your yard. It's not cicada season or even year. They're chill and can be handled gently if they get inside. They can sting but would rather not, their venom is specialized to incompacitate cicadas.

I really liked it though, and I'm betting that took more than five minutes to write! =P

I don't follow Dr Who, but I know enough through people that do. It's amusing to think that this could happen, and well... why not? That'd be an amusing Christmas episode!

Close!

Synapsid are a bit different, they're one of the earlier evolutionary animals from basal ones. Synapsids go on into early mammals. (And most everything more closely related to them than sauropsids, like later crocodilians)

I think you were going for sauropsid, which go on into the dinosaurs and birds.

Cotylorhynchus is one of the most unfortunately hilarious synapsids, it's got such a small head!

(I'm a buff over here, and love telling/sharing. I hope I don't come across as trying to correct you, I just have a love for this subject! )

"This is normal" all the way though, hah.

Though as a dino nerd, a rex is a theropod! Sauropod is the long-necked ones, like brachiosaurus and dreadnaughtus.

Buzz off, bucky, you've already made a clown of yourself.

If you check his comments you can still see it at least on mobile.

I find it amusing he was basically going "bring up on!" But still deleted his comment.