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Me? I’d be the muggliest of muggles except for certain knowledge a witch implanted in my brain. And it’s since transpired that she was the one who should not be named all along.

No, see, here ounces compare to millimetres. If height and weight fluctuate over centimetres and pounds, and they do, lesser units should be disregarded, right?

Do North Americans really give their weight in lb? You’d think they’d short hand it like to like 15 stone or whatever since weight is one of those things that doesn’t really need to be exact and will change by a lb or so based on the time of day and what you’ve eaten.

“People” are not a learned wizard who really ought to know better.

C’mon now, the full name of a writing quill is “quill pen” because it’s the shaft (quill part) of a feather, Latin penna. Dumbledingus really ought to be able to connect the dots here.

There are plenty of other factors at play. A common one is a desire for a partner of the same or similar age.

A family unit that stays together - thus the parents ageing together - has an on-average better outcome for offspring. Thus this is also an evolved response.

There are obviously other, non-evolved reasons, such as having a common upbringing and generational vibe.

The desire to protect and not harm children is also an evolved response, which, I’m glad to say, manifests in most of us at a fundamental enough level that it kills off any desire that might arise.

But shave the hair off an adult and well, it’s still an adult, but it might be enough to fool our animal hind brain.

Lack of body hair implies youth, often to a disturbing degree.

Why youth? Well we could look at the human as an animal and, like animals conclude that a younger co-parent implies they’re healthy, less likely to die any time soon and will create, and be able to help raise, strong offspring.

And then there’s the fact that, in our species at least, fertility starts just before hair starts appearing.

This is one of those self-perpetuating evolved responses which extends way back into pre-history. Nature doesn’t give a damn whether someone’s brain is ready for sex or children; their body is.

And it’s happened enough times that the desire is still in the gene pool.

Please note that I do not advocate for having sex with children. Only why making the body of a person over the age of consent look like the body of a person under that age might be a turn-on for some people. It’s hard-wired.

They might not even know that’s why they like it.

I mean, there might be other reasons too, foot fetishes can’t easily be explained this way, for example, so there might be equally weird alternative reasons for liking hairlessness, but the “youth” angle is a safe, yet deeply troubling bet.

When your ego is the size of the universe, seeing your physical size relative to that of the Earth will not alter you.

At least they haven’t removed the web address.

Unfortunately I don’t remember his name. And looking into it again, it seems like the NHS have decided that they don’t want to do those operations at all now, so maybe I was right the first time. That is, the deliberate inflexibility was a stall until they could make “No” an official policy.

Seems like every person in this situation - and there’s a decent number of them - loses all the weight under medical advice but the NHS won’t go that extra step at the end, making the patients wonder if the whole thing was worth it.

Most of those that make it to the press are crowdfunding and/or end up going abroad where the price of the operation is cheaper.

Can’t really blame the NHS either. They’re chronically underfunded and there’s an obligation not to show it.

“Sir why did you drop trou-” “Oh no. Oh God no.”

Whenever this comes up I think of that one guy who was told to lose more weight in order to qualify for the operation to have the excess skin removed. Except he had already reached the ideal weight underneath all of that excess.

Unfortunately, he could not make the hospital understand that if he lost that amount of extra weight, he would actually be severely underweight to the point of being in danger of his life.

Something they would apparently only be able to comprehend once he’d lost the dangerous amount of weight and had the surgery.

He couldn’t even sue for malpractice because they hadn’t actually done anything.

Caveat: This was in the UK, and he wanted the operation on the NHS which would have been cost free. It’s possible the hospital were being incompetent on purpose because they didn’t want to do the operation and were hoping he’d go private - read “give money” - either there or elsewhere.

But it’s more likely that the incompetence stemmed from inflexible (mis)application of guidelines about patients’ weight before operations.

at least rehost on imgur or something. grumble grumble

Oh. That sounds like fun. Going round collapsing all the unoccupied chairs, that is.

Probably knew it wasn’t his kid. People in these comments seem to be about “mammals protect their young, dammit”, but if it’s someone else’s young, and that someone else isn’t around (even if that someone else is the same species) …

Ah, so you admit that what Russia is doing is wrong, it’s just that the US is being hypocritical about it. Thanks for the clarification.

Just because you don’t sing in tune doesn’t mean you can’t call out other people for singing out of tune.

Pretty sure the other guy would be kissing Israel’s behind too. But you know this. You’re anti-US whoever’s in charge, right?

“If we don’t kill 'em now, they’re bound to grow up to be terrorists.”

Supes’ face is all “We just jumped off a 20-story building. Do they think they’re not gonna break their legs when we land?”

Bats is grinning because he’s done something to the pavement down there already so that doesn’t happen.

Robin is grinning because he’s hanging out with Superman and has not another thought in his empty little head. Wheeeee