TIL In 1837 a British woman named Caroline Newton bit off part of a man's nose when he tried to kiss her without her consent. He took her to court but lost with the judge saying "When a man kisses a woman against her will, she is fully entitled to bite his nose off, if she so pleases."

TIL a convenience store in Pocatello, Idaho has a video rental section called "Christina's Corner" which was created for a woman with Down Syndrome who is mostly nonverbal, so that she could still maintain her routine of renting movies after the video store next door had closed.

TIL in 1947, scientists dumped crushed dry ice into a hurricane just to "see what would happen." The storm then made a 135-degree turn, strengthened, and struck Georgia—sparking public outrage and threats of lawsuits over the experiment.

X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, Techno "Tau" Mechanicus, etc... oh wait these just prove he's a comic book villain.

"You look like a boneless ham.".

My grandfather used a handicap placard because of a heart condition. Outwardly he looked very healthy. One woman saw him get out of his car at the grocery store and told him "you don't look handicapped". He told her "you don't look like a jerk".

How to make a best friend for life! It was 2001 when I was in 5th grade. My dad did my pony tails in the morning & they were not cute. As I was walking away from my classmates I overheard my bully laughing and saying “her hair is messed up in the back” and the new girl in school shouted back to her “well your face is messed up in the front”. God that was awesome. I’ll never forget that as long as I live & we’re still friends to this day.


Edit- I wanted to give an update on my bully; we later became friends. Turns out, she had her own stuff going on at home & that’s why she was horrible to me for all of those years. It was my dad who told me to invite her to my birthday party & talk to her outside of school. My dad rocks. He was so right.

Bald guy to fat guy : look at the state of you,

Fat guy to bald guy : you're one back injury away from leading the x-men.

My cousin was in town for Thanksgiving. He goes up to my 10 year old skinny nephew and jokes "hey, it looks like you are gaining weight." My 10 year old cousin without skipping a beat tells him "Hey, it looks like you have diabetes." My cousin is 300 plus pounds. He hasn't been back to visit since.

Your nan gets bullied at bingo.

FOX5 host: "Don't you think you went a little too far with the Catholic Church jokes?"

Bill Burr: "Don't you think the Catholic Church went a little too far?".

Many years ago when I was twelve, I got into an argument with my mother and father.

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Exasperated, my mother said, "You talk like you think your father and I don't have a brain between us."

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I immediately said, "No, I *do* think you have a brain between you."

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My father burst out laughing -- end of argument.

David Letterman : You know, I'm not as dumb as I look.

Tina Fey: Yeah, but how could you be?

Some very (generic, probably inaccurate term) gothy college friends had a very ‘alt’ wedding, dress code was band tshirts and they walked down the aisle to their favorite screamo band (couldn’t tell you who it was but it fit) and it was really a quite beautiful ceremony.

Except the Bride’s mother who turned up in the dress she wanted to wear as a traditional maid of honor and carrying the wedding dress she wanted her daughter to wear and had to be asked to leave the room because she wouldn’t stop performative wailing about how her daughter had ruined HER day.

The rest of the day was fine, her mother sat in the corner looking for attention that was not granted her, and the couple are still together, some 20 years later and very happy with 3 little goth kids in training. I assume her mother is doing a Miss Havisham routine in the same dress.

She was awful though, the idea that you would turn up purely to disrupt in such a performative manner still makes me shake my head.

I am a guy. My sister got married.

My dad gave a toast at the reception, saying that his daughter, the bride, was like the son he never had.

Cut to all the attendees looking at my brother and me.