Two people can't handle all that much more than a 35-ft boat properly, I think. 45? In a storm? Fuuuck. When my grandad used to sail us around on the east coast, like down from Maine to Long Island, two adults and two kids were fine, but to race from Block Island to Bermuda he had a crew of 7 in that tiny thing. I say…

+100. I BLAME THE PATRIARCHY. No, but really, though.

Thank you! I should say that I'm a member of both NA and AA, and I found that these 12-step programs were the only way for me to get and stay clean and sober. This isn't really violating anonymity because I'm only violating pseudonymity ;-) Like a lot of people, I started drinking before anything else (I got drunk for…

That's really funny. Not in an "I'm mocking your existential despair and regret over time's unswerving arrow" way, but you really thought they were all single? LOL.

Wow, that sure didn't happen. Good call, bro.

My sister has been wearing liquid liner since she was 12 and was sort of in the girl's auxiliary of a Mexican gang at her public school? I don't know, it was a thing she did for a while (our family is not Mexican, but her boyfriend was). Anyway, she wears it every. Day. It is perfect. She has giant beautiful,…

Hey, how's tricks, TheAdlerian? How fare ye?

It can also be "going on the nod." As a currently-clean (for 17 years) heroin addict I can testify that this woman was unquestionably high as fuck (or low, depending on how you like to phrase things. I personally liked to get low.) I was nodding out one time in a motherfucking Classics graduate seminar on Aristophanes…

a) I have been clean 17 years and I don't recommend anyone run out and try heroin. b) I started using because I was a miserable, abused fucked-up person. But on the third hand, c) it is fucking fantastic. I've said, it feels like all your insides and glowing warm with the banked chemical fires of love, and you are…

Hi again, official actual heroin addict who used to shoot up speedballs after taking MDMA (who has been clean for 17 years now and is not planning to get high today.) THAT WOMAN'S TOTALLY ON THE NOD EVEN THO SHE'S WHITE! Yep. Just wanted to re-contribute to the discussion here. People who've never seen junkies nod out…

Thank you! I'm going to a 12-step meeting today.

I am a heroin addict who has been clean for 17 years now (you kind of crash early). This woman is 10,000% on the nod. Really. But really really. I wish I could find a way to tell you more convincingly that she just got high before getting on the bus, but being on the nod like that is just a heroin thing that doesn't…

Hi, former junkie here. Used to get high and then get on the bus in Oakland. So, yeah.

Err. Err on the side of caution when correcting other people's (genuinely quite mistaken) spelling errors, by looking things up in the dictionary. That's my advice.

WORD.

I was about to suggest the same thing—if there are people who don't meditate at all and who suddenly switch to 20 minutes a day of mindful attention to their bodies and to the present moment, then they'll probably get most of the health benefits you are quite well-reputably meant to get from daily meditation. Which I…

Thanks for sharing your experiences here.

LOL dude, we know how sperm are produced and what the prostate gland is and what the refractory period is (sorry about how yours has been getting longer; that's just the aging process)? Why the fuck don't you pick up a 6th grade biology book sometime if you're straight and, one imagines, interested in the interior of…

Yes. You can bleed through a super or extra tampon in an hour during your heaviest flow and not change the smallest size for four hours at the the end of your period.

If I am wearing thong panties, my buttocks are exposed when my skirt is removed from someone's line of sight by their creative positioning efforts, even if my skirt is ankle length. Exposed buttocks are stipulated to constitute nudity under MA law. If someone succeeds in taking a photo on a day on which I have chosen…