As another with ten years' experience, cash or card made no difference to me. Cash does make it easier to evade taxes, but I stopped doing that shit once I became an adult and realized I didn't like people who didn't fucking render unto Caesar. People with cards tend to tip more generously on average, though whether…

Yeah, sexual harassment is rarely about desire/getting the other person to desire you. It's a power trip. It's supposed to feel bad to the person being harassed.

I think this stuff is important to spell out, so thanks. While I wish more people knew their rights with respect to employment law so they could stand up to their bosses who were breaking the law, I also hear from people every day who think they have more rights than they really do. I worry about what's going to…

Omigod. THE STRIPES.

I guess in one way it's genius because he doesn't slip up and talk about one souvenir to the wrong woman

I suspect those women actually want to get pregnant.

Yup. Facts are much more persuasive than conclusions.

I've never heard of this. What's the idea? Will you get sick if you eat sweets while drunk? Do they just not taste good?

I am totally stealing this for everything.

Nah, even in our 20s we don't like assholes; we're just more likely to get duped by those who hide their assholery well around women they wanna fuck.

I would still recommend not talking about the first two on a date.

All the guys who say women only date assholes are themselves assholes who don't realize it and are bitter that they aren't getting any. In my experience.

I had almost exactly the same experience at Planned Parenthood in Boston in 2007, except I had a medication abortion so there was no anesthetic (just Percocet!), and I did all my suffering at home. I never had any doubts that I wanted to do it, but I was worried I might have feelings afterward.

You've got it backward. The first pill is the one that ends the pregnancy; the second is the one that gets your body to expel it. Any reputable abortion provider will tell you there's no going back after you take the first pill, so don't do it until and unless you're committed to following through (which includes…

Exactly! I remember seeing one clandestinely anti-abortion website that purported to give pregnant teens "all the facts" about their options, and in the section on abortion, under a couple horror stories, were the words "Abortion is SERIOUS and PERMANENT" in big, bold, type. I chuckled a little because duh, I sure…

Do thin people really have more types of clothing look good on them? Or is it just that the industry tends to make clothes that look good on thin people? Or even that our idea of what looks good is heavily influenced by our culture's obsession with thinness?

the clothes end up wearing them

I KNEW IT.

Dying at the image of a man slurping his coffee like a giraffe.

Can we have a feature on bridesmaid expenses? I just got asked to be a bridesmaid for the first time. Bride isn't getting married for over a year. In the first week after she asked us, she went from "here are my colors; wear your own dresses!" to "let's plan monthly brunches between now and the wedding (which, again,…