It could be either, actually! If you mean how the camera alters the look, it’s “affects,” but if you mean how the camera creates the look—which is also a legit way of framing it, given what we know about lighting, about the difference between a static pose captured in a still image versus a dynamic real-life look,…

I think I’ve got Shitty Apology Bingo!

Oh for fuck’s sake. She acknowledged her privileged position and the fact that not everyone shares it. She kept it strictly personal, without ever suggesting or implying that everyone who hates their job can or should just up and quit. Yes, not everyone is in a position to do what she did, but not everyone would be…

Straight up = shaken with ice, then strained (usually into a martini glass, if the place has them), meaning it’s cold and diluted

Cat litter with ammonia would be a really shitty product, as it would already smell dirty to the cat, who therefore wouldn’t want to use it. Everyone who’s had a cat with litter box issues knows you don’t even use ammonia-based cleaning products on the box, lest you discourage kitty from using it after it’s been…

Scotch and Bourbon have pretty distinctive flavors (smoky and sweet, respectively), and usually when someone orders “whiskey” in the U.S., they mean a type of whiskey other than those—something more neutral-tasting, like Irish or Canadian. If they don’t specify a brand, it means they want whatever’s cheapest—usually…

So is the combination more effective than cleaning with bleach first, then cleaning with ammonia? Asking because I won’t try it, obviously.

She was just SO FIRM and unwavering, for a moment I doubted math and the universe.

Disclaimer: I am NOT defending the bartender, just piling on with my own stories of idiocy.

You might actually be better off if your weight gain is due to pregnancy, because pregnancy discrimination is illegal. Weight-based discrimination, in most states, is not.

It appears that’s the case, and that’s maybe the only way these servers are going to get justice. If they had enforced the standards equally against men and women, that would be legal.

Actually, legally, that’s not even necessary when you’re talking about a prohibition on weight gain. At-will employment means you can hire and fire on whatever basis you deem fit, so long as you don’t run afoul of specific antidiscrimination laws that prohibit different treatment on the basis of such protected classes…

Needs moar starz.

Love it! But to be fair (sorry!) I know of at least one place that gives you a choice like that in the drive-thru: In-N-Out. You can get your food bagged the usual way, or you can get it in a wide, shallow cardboard box so you can immediately start stuffing your face as you drive away.

Do you have issues with intercourse, tampons, etc, or is it just pap smears? Have you ever looked into the possibility that you might have vaginismus? It can be induced by trauma (physical or emotional) or by something like an infection, as was the case with me. Sex was getting more and more painful, despite several…

This is exactly why I’m wary of dating short men, at least those I meet online. I’m somewhere between 5’9 and 5’10; had a date with a perfectly average guy several years ago, didn’t think anything of the fact that he was shorter than me, wore boots with heels because it was cold and they were sexy, and he could. not.…

try not to use phrases like “body goddess” unless it’s absolutely necessary.

Preach! I also had debilitating periods as a teenager, to the point where my doctor prescribed Vicodin and even Vioxx (back in the day, before they yanked that shit off the market because it killed people), and only when those weren’t enough did she put me on the pill. Looking back, that seems kind of messed up.

Actually hormonal BC lowers your cancer risk. The main risk you face from taking it is blood clots, which are no fucking joke, but neither is cancer. Even taking the “convenience” of not having to gestate a human out of the equation, for some women (especially those whose risk of cancer is high due to family history…

Everyone’s different, but I find orgasm does wonders for my cramps.