Pro tip from a former Jared’s salesperson: You want a sparkly white rock that will look like a diamond to the untrained eye and will literally cost the price of a nice dinner for two? Created white sapphire. They’re lab grown and cost *pennies* to make, so you can get a 1 or 2 carat white sapphire for like… $30-80 probably. You can get one as huge as you like, perfectly clear, perfectly flawless. And no one will ever be able to tell the difference except a professional appraiser. Also, sapphires are the second-hardest gemstone (right after diamonds) so they are very durable! Very unlikely that they’ll chip or crack. Get that bitch set in sterling silver and you are GOOD TO GO. Whole thing should cost you less than $200 unless you get a fancy band with a lot of extra stones. Of course, created sapphires come in every color of the rainbow, so if you want something more exciting than plain white, you TOTALLY CAN.
Created sapphires and silver: The poor Millennial’s engagement ring.
You’re sitting at a cafe with your friend when suddenly a woman walks in with a toy poodle in her purse. The manager at the counter informs her “I’m sorry, but we do not allow dogs”. She replies with a heavy sigh and a “She’s a service dog. She can come with me”. Not knowing much about service dog law, and worrying about getting sued for asking further questions, he sits this woman down at a booth. There, she promptly unzips her purse and places the dog on the booth seat next to her. When the woman’s food comes out, the little dog begs and she feeds her bits off her plate. This dog is not public access trained, and proceeds to bark at those who walk by. This dog is a nuisance and causes many in the restaurant to complain. The manager cannot do anything but inform the unhappy customers that this is a service dog, so he can’t ask her to leave. In the end, it’s the customers who end up leaving.
Now I walk in with my highly trained service dog pressed against my leg in a perfect heel position, and I’m quickly bombarded by the manager telling me “No dogs! No dogs! We ALL know what happened last time”. Confused, I tell him “This is my medical alert and medical response service dog. Her right to accompany me is protected under federal law.” With a sigh, he seats me at a table far away from others where my dog promptly tucks under my feet, out of sight. When my food arrives my dog is still tucked tightly under the table because she knows she’s not supposed to eat when she’s on duty. She stays there ignoring those who walk past for the remainder of my meal. When we leave, a woman by the door exclaims “Woah, I didn’t know there was a dog here!”
See the difference?
Scenario number two occurs at a local grocery store when a man decides to bring his certified emotional support animal into the store with him. Upon entering he flashes a fancy ID card and certification papers. This dog is not as unruly as the first, but he still forges ahead of his handler, sniffs the food on display, and may seek attention from those who walk past. You find this dog adorable, and when he and his owner walk past you ask to pet him. The owner says yes and explains how all he had to do was go online, register his dog, and a few weeks later they sent him a vest, ID card, and certification papers.
Now I pull into the same grocery store. I’m in a rush to get an ingredient for a dish I’m making so I hurry into the store with my service dog next to me. I’m quickly stopped by a manager who demands to see my service dog’s certification card. Remember, this is NOT required by law, and most real service dog teams don’t have them. After 15 minutes of trying to educate, pulling up the ADA website on my phone, back and forth bickering, and drawing more of a crowd than I want to describe… I’m finally allowed in. I grab my ingredient, stand in line (where my service dog obediently moves between my legs to make space for those around me), and I get bombarded by people asking to pet my dog. I explain that she’s working, she has a very important job to do, and she’s not allowed to be pet while on duty. People walk away grumbling and complaining about how rude I was when other handlers like the man they met earlier allow their dog to be pet.
Moral of the story? Fake service dogs create real problems. The ones who are impacted the most are the true service dog handlers who rely on their dogs every day to help mitigate their disability. How would you feel if everywhere you went, you couldn’t make it 10 feet in the door because people were asking you questions? Imagine how much time that would take out of your already hectic day. Businesses lose customers because word gets out that there are unruly dogs in their store, customers become misinformed and start thinking some of these behaviors are okay, some people even start to believe the lies that anyone can just register their dog online and make him a service dog. The result? MORE fake service dogs. MORE real problems.
Fucking preach
I blame people’s parents for not teaching them a shred of common decency. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know that bugging service dogs was Not Done. Every piece of information there was out there made it very clear that you didn’t distract a working animal, no matter what they were doing.
Btw, this included any animal competing for something, or doing a non-disability related job.
So they added a new “digital adult content” drop-down item to select in your Paypal business options but when you choose it your account will immediately be closed down. Just letting everyone know so they don’t get tricked! Even though this is a selectable item IT IS STILL ILLEGAL AND AGAINST PAYPAL POLICY TO SELL “SEXUALLY ORIENTED MATERIALS OR SERVICES”
Speaker Ryan had the livefeed cut off. So the House went to periscope, and CNN picked it up.
Okay, but the announcer just said that using the periscope cams is against the rules. Isn’t outing the rep taking the feed going to get him in trouble?
a) “against the rules” when you’re already participating in civil disobedience is kind of… well, yeah, they can scold them. It’s hard to scold someone who is a hero to their constituents, though. That just raises fundraising goals/makes them more of a hero (”they tried to shut us down. they failed. let’s raise money.”).
b) considering how many feeds they’ve run through at this point, from however many representatives, good luck with that.
c) According to the official House rules, no device may be used for still photography or for audio or video recording. Is that only when the House is in session, or any time? Is a livestream recording? Here’s a hair, let’s have fun splitting it.
Specifically, electronic devices are permitted
on the House floor so long as they do not “impair decorum.“ Unless you consider a lot of older people trying to get up off the floor after sitting there for several hours when it’s their time to speak indecorous, they haven’t specifically broken rules, only procedure.
d) I strongly suspect everyone doing the periscoping considers the risk worth it.
The fact that something historically groundbreaking is happening in the House which is normally covered “gavel to gavel” by C-Span and broadcast nationally every single day for the last 37 years, yet suddenly someone with the power to pull the plug on that broadcast doesn’t like what’s happening and doesn’t want the American public to be aware of what’s happening within our own House of Representatives that we elected to be OUR VOICE in government, I 100% support the representatives who are trying to keep the coverage alive in whatever way they have available to them.
Three cats died after their owners used an anti-inflammatory cream used to treat arthritis. The Food and Drug Administration warns to keep drugs away from pets; a tiny bit can be toxic.
Important for spoonies with cats!
Creams with Flurbiprofen are fatal to cats.
Brands that use this chemical (Not a complete list):
Myoflex Traumeel Capzasin
If you have cats, check your pain relieving cream for this, and keep them from ingesting it, please!
I just learned that some websites use cookies to adjust prices. That is, if you visit a certain website a lot the price will increase.
You can tell if that’s the case by checking the same web page on a different browser if you have a different number of stored cookies for that site. I checked something on Chegg and it was $14.95 on Chrome, $19.95 on Firefox, and $16.95 on Safari.
The fix? Clear your cookies for that website.
Reblog, save a wallet.
Plane tickets almost always do this!
PLANE TICKETS DO THIS ALL THE DAMN TIME
When you’re looking for plane tickets and waiting for prices to drop, ALWAYS clear your cookies beforehand and switch between browsers. A friend of mine was looking for a flight and getting prices that were the CHEAPEST at $800-1000, I sent her a link for a round trip that was like $495, and it read as $900 on her computer because she had been hounding the airline site.
Three years ago, my dog went viral on Imgur and Reddit, thanks to this picture I took right after she’d yanked down a post from the front of our house with her bare strength.
But like the image above says, this is not a good post.
That dog above, the one that made so many people laugh, her name is Eva, and she’s my 7-year-old lab. She was just diagnosed with canine lymphoma.
Without chemo, she only has 3 months left with us. But her oncologist has given her a good prognosis with chemotherapy. She could live to see her 9th, 10th, and even 11th birthday.
Which means more years of this happy, ridiculous puppy.
The price to extend her life? $8500.
I nearly died when I saw the number. I’m paying off 4 student loans right now, and my parents are in insurmountable debt. I thought, this is it, we’re screwed. In between crying spells and anxiety attacks, I realized what my choices were: give up and let Eva go in the next 3 months, or crowdfund my ass off.
Internet: you’ve done it before, now I’m begging you, do it again. Spread Eva like wildfire. She deserves a second chance. She deserves the extra time, and all the fun and happiness she’ll have in that time.
Any amount you can donate will help tremendously. Please, help Eva.
Eva has raised over $3,000 in one week!!! Part of that is because of many tumblr users who have donated, thanks to so many of you reblogging this. Please keep sharing. Tag people you know who have lots of followers. Post it on your facebook. On reddit. On twitter. Everywhere!! I have 17 weeks to come up with $5,000 more for this fantastic pupper.
New tactic for week 2: anyone who reblogs this post will get an automatic follow from me. You don’t have to follow me back! If it gets more people to reblog this post, I’ll do whatever it takes.
SAVE MEME DOGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I saw this for the first time this morning it only had around ~2000 notes, and now it has almost 8000!!! IN A DAY!!!
Do it for Eva!
eva, who is now in remission after her 3rd treatment thanks to tumblr, says that everyone who reblogs her post this week deserves the frenchiest of fries!!
Hillary Clinton is falling in the polls. She’s tied with Donald Trump in some, and in others, he tops her. She’s losing. Bernie Sanders leads by double digits over Trump nationally. We need to let those know who are in California that there is some fishy business going on.
Signal Boost this, please, just to spread awareness. Do NOT get discouraged.
The situation has gone from bad to worse. On May 19, four people in the SPN fandom received Cease & Desist letters from Travis Aaron Wade’s lawyers. It’s ExorcisingEmily, Lua, Ash and a minor who he previously groomed and harassed. (Unlike the other three, she hasn’t tweeted about it, and also she’s a minor, so because I have a shred of decency, unlike Travis Aaron Wade, I want to keep her name out of this as far as possible.) He’s demanding that they take down every post about him, on all social media platforms, in 10 days or he’s threatening lawsuits and damages.
To spell this out: Travis Aaron Wade groomed and sexually harassed girls and women, bullied them, harassed and cyberstalked them, somehow found out their home addresses, and is now trying to scare them into silence.
Travis Aaron Wade keeps escalating and he seems pathologically unable to stop. This is a time when the fandom needs to come together. Please sign this petition to have him banned from cons and stop his access to young women in the fandom. Have people who care about your safety sign it too. Sign it even if you don’t go to cons but worry about the fans who do. Let’s show how we feel about this specimen. Let’s show him he messed with the wrong fandom.
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