Ohio does, however, get heat waves which ironically enough are the most deadly, and the most frequent natural disaster. And hate to break it to you but marine life craps in lakes, and the northeast is infrequently hit by hurricanes. the more recent ones (irene, sandy) are likely as much due to global warming as they…

I wrote this upthread but I'm reposting this here because I've been where you are.

Not to be *that* person but have you tried going dairy and low glycemic? Tons of actual science suggests both play a role in acne. Early scientific studies (like in the 70s) were incredibly problematic. Turns out sugar can (if you're susceptible - 50% of us are) give you zits. My skin cleared up not after taking…

I was on accutane in the early oughts and they never asked those questions. It also didn't clear up my skin. so there's that.

My point remains the same. Kids don't pick friends in a vacuum and parental influence can extend to whom kid hang out with. It doesn't mean it has to, but to negate the influence of parental (and sibling) influence on peer groups is problematic.

The kids are tall and Ann Taylor has small sizes so it may actually be ann taylor.

I don't have a teenager but I have a teenage sister (I'm in my thirties). In general she grew up with a lot chiller rules than I did because my parents were much older and exhausted (seriously my dad's in his seventies). Also cell phones make a big difference - she got to go out more because my parents could check in…

Kids select their peer groups in part based on parents though. I grew up with pretty strict parents, and the kids I ended up closest to in HS were the ones whose parents were most like mine (broadly speaking). The kids who could just hang out after school, or whose parents had curfews for them were never going to be…

Wait, the subway is high velocity now?

I was almost going to post this on a friend's wall and say he looks better than you do on a tuesday morning (we train martial arts together monday nights)... Side note, I'm black and frequently bruised and one downside is how much less apparent our bruises are. I often don't know I've taken a beating till I feel the…

Gluten is a protein and most allergies are protein triggered. If someone had a wheat allergy they'd go into shock, which is an overreaction of your immune system trying to fight off an invader - it's an extreme reaction to a benign thing that the body's systems normally use to fight off infections. A friend of mine…

In most of the world the sales tax is already included in the price. When people come to the US and realize that 99 cents is really 1.07 they get irritated. Is that a dick move too?

I live in NYC and the legit greek places give you free dessert. When they run out it's tragic. Korean places give you free appetizers.

Johanna doesn't fight because she fails boot camp and goes into a severe PTSd spiral because they threw water at her. She's at the table at the end with the other surviving victors though saying they should recreate a hunger games with the capital.Unless you're referring to the very, very end like when we learn that…

It's helpful to remember that well Katniss was really supposed to be able to sing. Birds stopped to listen to her, and it's what made Peetah notice her. So there's the pressure of singing as a non-singer, and the expectation that it actually has to be good. I think Jennifer's performance was solid, but I understand…

it's too fast.

this can't be good for the environment....

It hasn't come up but I see this in ex-friends more than in guys I've dated, but celeb-hags. I'm not talking loving a band so much it's a given that when they're in town playing you're going to their show whether you can afford it or not. I'm talking about hanging out by the bus afterwards, following them on twitter,…

A couple of things. There's no single standard vax schedule. Like the one used in the US is not the same used everywhere in the 'global north' and it's geared as much towards compliance as it is towards efficacy. Case in point compare Australia's (land of socialized medicine) to the US's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V…

There's a lot of evidence that, that value of a "core of independence" apart from actually being mythical (there all sorts of ways on which we are dependent and interdependent that aren't visible) is also really unhealthy.