Do not do it with a hetero couple. Every couple I ever tried it with treated me more like a sex toy they were bringing to bed than a person, and one of them was usually participating reluctantly, to boot. Love yourself and steer clear.

My only personal rule about threesomes (gained from experience) is that the other two people both have to be the same gender. I don’t care about which gender it is, but they both have to be it. All the worst sex I’ve ever had in my life has been with another woman and a man, because there’s just a thousand ways it can…

The Saudification of Islam in Muslim countries is a very interesting topic that I wish more academic work would be written about. Having lived in a Muslim country (Sudan) in which (in the cities at least) about a third of the women, mostly the young, wear regular Western dress adapted for the culture, a third, mostly…

I just wish Popeye’s would branch out to other countries more quickly. I’ve never eaten KFC in America, but I’ve eaten it a bunch when I was overseas and had few other options. There was a weird time in Prague where for almost half a year it seemed like all the grocery stores, of all the different companies, simply…

I haven’t had the toolbar button since I had to reboot my computer from a backup more than a year ago, and reaching out to Pocket support staff was ignored. As for there being other apps for the other stuff, I am aware, as the main content of my comment was telling you about one of them.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned growing up is that actually, no one else has anything I want.

I’m going to name my future son after a friend who has a very cool name, but who I’m not close enough to that he could ever actually disappoint me. That’s the plan so far, at least.

I actually think it’ll be tough through grade school and nothing at all after that. Teddy Roosevelt had a son called Kermit! He’s in good company! Basically he just has to wait for his peers to age out of knee-jerk cruelty and it’ll be fine.

I got fed up with Pocket when they got rid of the toolbar button that let you access your bookmarks list and added new bookmarks with one click, and I had to start dedicating a tab to having their dumb website open all the time, as well as having to copy/paste URLs to save. I’ve since gone over to Evernote, which…

That does kind of make the “stripper name” argument not make sense, doesn’t it? I remember reading somewhere (probably on Jezebel, years ago) that if you plot the characteristics of all porn stars, the “average” porn star is like 5'6", has brown hair, and is named Nikki. Ever since I read that, Nikki is the only porn…

To be fair, the mistake there was not yours, but your father’s, either for keeping the story secret or for sticking with the name. He could have done one of those things, or the other, but he fucked up by trying to do both.

and the -kensies. At least 25% of children are called some variant spelling of Mackensie these days.

I’ve always been glad my adoptive parents chose not to change my birth name, which is both serviceable and suitable, mostly because my mother’s choices to change it were either Rachel (so I could have been one of twenty thousand Rachels in every group) or Aurora, which is so princessy and saccharine it makes me gag.

Your dad’s lucky. I know a girl whose mother almost died giving birth to her, like she was in a literal coma for days, so it fell to her father to fill out all the birth forms. And so the girl became Erinn-with-two-n’s, a name that the parents had never discussed and which was either a momentary whim of the husband’s…

Lol, a friend’s mom started work at a daycare a few years ago, and the other teachers almost immediately pointed out this one boy as an absolute hellraiser. Friend’s mom figured out why he was such a terror pretty quickly, when she heard one of the teachers yelling at “Seen.”

It’s one of those weird things that makes you realize you’re not actually unique, you’re just tapped into the zeitgeist, and so is everyone else. At least twice now, I’ve thought of names that I would love to name my kids, specifically a daughter, only to have that same name become popular to the point of Jessica…

I’m gonna go ahead and call it that the only intelligent thing to say on this issue was already said, yesterday, during a FiveThirtyEight chat in which Nate Silver said “Anything he says carries no substantive weight because he’s already taken every available position on the issue.” Now that that’s been said, there is…

And I... never said it did? This is a shocking enough response that I have to imagine you’re replying to someone else.

You’re not wrong. There’s a lot of good reasons why Congressional positions are voted on every 2 years, but in the modern era it basically means that Congresspeople have to campaign literally constantly - which means they have to be back in their home districts constantly.

Also, the person she “left” her child with was that child’s other parent. If it was a succession of hired nannies I might be willing to entertain some speculation (although being raised primarily by paid help has worked well enough for enough people for long enough that I’m not even really ready to raise an eyebrow)…