Were you applying for a white collar job or for retail/restaurant work? I don't know many people with low-skill jobs who itemize their deductions.

Oh, I hate that!

Agreed. Especially since many of these trains don't look that full. Spreading out a bit and getting comfortable is fine when everyone has room to do it. It's only a problem when one person is making themselves more comfortable at the expense of someone else's space.

I'd guess it's like any other kind of BDSM thing. Some small minority are going to pursue activities that are legitimately dangerous (to their bodies or their financial stability), but a lot more are looking for the financial equivalent of a spanking and fuzzy handcuffs. Even the guys who enjoy role-playing a total…

I don't like the idea either, but it's not really something I can opt out of if I want to keep my job. I don't mind that much- I work in a lab, so it's a safety reg that I need to be reachable in case something goes wrong with an experiment. But a lot of my friends are required to have cell phones for their retail…

Have you tried to apply for a job recently, or worked at a job where you might be required to cover someone's shift? For a lot of people, cell phones are necessary because our employers or potential employers say they're necessary.

At my old gym, the 'limited space' thing worked because most of their members joined in the first two weeks of January as a New Year's resolution, which happened to be the only time the gym was ever close to full.

I think this is suspicious primarily because of her actions and statements, not because of the way he died.

YES! This was how my school did it. All the students got half a year of home ec and half a year of shop. And our home ec focused heavily on health and personal finance skills- reading nutrition labels, evaluating portion sizes, comparing unit prices, drawing up a budget, understanding checking accounts, savings…

THIS. My partner is pretty good, but good god did I want to throttle some of my roommates' parents. If your 19 year old kid doesn't know how to wash a dish, you have majorly screwed up as a parent. That's not an exaggeration- I had to show my roommate how to get the sponge wet, squirt dish soap on it, rub the sponge…

Maybe get two twin size duvets and give up on the top sheet?

I have a small apartment (two people, two rooms, no space for extra furniture in the bedroom), so the bed is usually where I go to study or catch up on work. Making the bed helps prevent me from falling asleep while I work or getting insomnia. Sitting on the comforter= worktime, lying under the comforter = bedtime.

I think you can largely offset whatever message your own division of labor sends by making sure that gender doesn't affect the skills and chores your kids have. Your sons won't see cooking as women's work if they're in the kitchen with you, helping (or "helping") you measure and stir the ingredients.

My theory is that it's because women's outfits generally take a little more work to put together, so women often have more of an incentive to keep their clothing organized.

I am so afraid of being a 'nag', even though I know it's a ridiculous concept to begin with. Of course I have the right to politely remind my partner that, hey, you said you'd do task X by date Y, and it's now date Y+1 and you haven't done task X.

I think you've got to tell her more than that, because otherwise she'll ask her friends why they pay less, and that might also lead to hurt feelings.

Poor kids *whose parents fill out their paperwork* get free lunch. Poor children whose parents are too apathetic/illiterate/dysfunctional to fill out a lunch form would go hungry under this kind of policy.

I thought you were referring only the presence of older brothers in the home, which the study found was not directly correlated with an increased rate of homosexuality. I (apparently incorrectly) assumed the statements about parenting style were background info, for people who were unfamiliar with the nurture…

It would only happen with males because a woman who has an immune response to female hormones is probably not going to live long enough to reproduce in the first place. There are actually a ton of safeguards that normally prevent the mother's immune system from attacking the fetus, and also a ton of ways that that can…

No, because they controlled for the presence or absence of older brothers in childhood. Having older adopted brothers doesn't have any effect, while previous male pregnancies have an effect even if the boy was raised as an oldest/only child (due to adoption or to the previous pregnancy not coming to term).