It's bumper to bumper in the right lane because people think they need to do 25 for that whole uphill stretch to the offramp

If they are pregnant they already experienced one of them! Hey-oh!

(unless of course in vitro fertilization was utilized)

(also I have no idea I have no insurance and am beyond poor so hospitals are not one of my extravagances. I'll be in debt for all of eternity because I had a COVID heart attack and am now obscenely in debt but the good news is I'll likely be dead before they can collect it all)

Fuckin' Missouri

Monkeys are not pets. Kangaroos are not pets. I can't speak entirely to kangaroos because I don't know as much about them, but monkeys are smart, social animals. Spider Monkeys like this one survive in groups of like 15-20, and I seriously doubt the weird dude who owns the monkey has 19 others at home

When they are young (like this one appears to be) they stick with their mothers 100% of the time. As in they cling on and are rarely out of reach. When you get one of them like this it was probably ripped right from the mothers arms as it screamed in terror. Monkeys also have strict social hierarchies and languages that this one almost assuredly has no idea about because it's been raised in captivity. Meaning when it gets older and is tearing his house apart and shitting everywhere and he decides he can't take care of it, it's going to have a hell of a time integrating and likely won't ever be able to be released to the wild

Don't have monkeys as pets. You're basically torturing the animal

Missouri is firmly a red state and not changing anytime soon. The thing is that most of the people here have been conditioned to believe any politician with a (D) next to their name is an evil villain helbent on murdering babies and stealing their guns. Republicans have been pushing that narrative for decades and it firmly took root and will not be easy to eliminate

However on individual issues it's harder to push the Conservative narrative. You can get any Republican candidate elected by just screaming "ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION!" but once you ask an individual voter about anything else, they won't necessarily default to the Republican opinion. People have mentioned the legalized weed initiative and that's a great example

But we also had the campaign stuff come up a few years ago and despite the Republican candidates spending like 15x the money on advertising to get people to oppose it, it still passed

Basically the people of the state are so indoctrinated they will only vote on candidates based on their parry affiliation. If a tall white man ran for Senate here and ran on a campaign of strangling puppies but was Republican, he would defeat the Democrat running on the "$1 million for every Missourian" campaign in a landslide. But once you get to individual mandates the state does still have some sense

Those little bottles have always been a crap shoot. Getting a bad one is not pleasant

Seems like there's enough people who have experienced this that we can confidently say we aren't crazy. Well at least not in this regard anyway

I kind of had my suspicions that it could be labor related. Either the workers at the store not storing things properly or maybe they sit on the trucks too long

If so there's not much I can do about it other than vote like crazy but unfortunately this is Missouri so it's only going to keep getting much worse before something finally snaps and it starts to get better

I've always preferred Red Diamond but not to the point of refusing to drink Milo's. Agree with you though on the prices!

Oh yeah those little ones have universally been like a 50/50 shot at best whether they were awful or not

Nope. Got Covid and had a heart attack from it a year ago. And the tea thing hasn't happened until recently. Oh and it's not every single one. If I go through enough I'll get one that's just fine

No matter what don't run as a Democrat. The mindless droves from here absolutely will not vote for you. You could literally run on the "give everyone a million dollars" platform and they would still just talk about you taking their guns or 'killing babies'

Run as an 'R' and do whatever you want. Then they might listen to your plans and people like me who are looking for the least evil Republican to vote for since no Dem would win will vote for you

Good! I'm the one person whose very much ready for the cold of winter

Park Place Apartments are on the South side of town and close to all sorts of stuff. They are pretty cheap, I think going for maybe $600 for a 1 bedroom and a bit more for 2

The caveat is they aren't exactly the quietest apartments... you'll likely hear every little whisper your neighbor makes and they aren't new by any stretch of the imagination. But I lived there for a few years when I was younger and poor as shit and it was great to have my own place. I have fond memories of there despite any negatives