I kind of think cell phones play a role. I was born in '86 and didn't have one until I left for college. For teenagers in the pre-cell phone era, it was often easier to deal with minor issues like a forgotten lunch or a scheduling change ourselves, rather than finding a phone to ask our parents for help.

The pods debuted at my grocery store a month after I moved out of a fifth floor apartment with laundry in the basement and no elevator. I was so angry that they couldn't have brought them to market just a year earlier!

I've seen some friends trip over the PUA rabbithole (thankfully they all pulled themselves out again). It "works" in that men who learn to see women as predictable, interchangeable objects become less frightened of approaching women. They'd get into PUA and spend a semester reciting stale lines to women in bars. They…

Analytical Chemistry was always considered vastly amusing at my school. Or at least by the students who didn't have to take the class. Chemistry majors got pretty tired of it.

I'd be interested in seeing this kind of stuff compared city to city as well as state to state... I have a pet theory about the relationship between car ownership and heels. I never considered wearing heels to work in Boston, where I took the T every day. I moved out of the city, bought a car, and suddenly heels seem…

Americans use bug screens, but the ones we have here are really flimsy, just a very thin mesh. You could easily cut or tear a hole in one. They're meant to be removable/replaceable, because around here you take our your screens windows at the end of summer and put in storm windows for better insulation in the winter.…

I am The Ghost of Smoothies Future, sent you to enlighten youuu...oooo....ooo....

A banana slicer. Not exactly the one with all the funny Amazon reviews, but similar enough. My boyfriend's mother gave it to us as a joke. But I use frozen bananas in my breakfast smoothies every day (I like the texture of the frozen ones and I'm picky about banana ripeness), and it turns out this thing is really good…

My boyfriend does the yawn thing! I hate it. But I do the Tolkien quotes thing, so I guess it works out...

I guess it depends on how you're defining STD- is HIV still an STD if you get it from a needlestick or blood transfusion? You can definitely acquire diseases that are commonly thought of as STDs in a non-sexual manner.

It's the Daily Mail.

They're billing it as a comprehensive health tracker, not as a standard 'diet and exercise" app. It's supposed to be able to replace/combine all the individual health apps and devices someone might have- blood sugar and blood pressure, pedometer, food journal, sleep tracker, medication reminders, etc, as well as…

Yup. I'm on the other side of this, and got some flack when I started dating a shorter guy with some extra weight (even though the chemistry was always there) at 24. Now that we're hitting our late twenties, more of my friends are in/seeking long term relationships instead of fun flings, and attitudes are changing.…

My mother is one of five children. All of them like to tell a story about jumping over a little ditch while playing follow-the-leader, only for the last child in line to look down and discover a rattlesnake in the ditch they'd all jumped over. Only problem- each of them is absolutely convinced that they were the last…

The hospital tests annually, which is a lot safer than only testing new hires. The employee tested negative for TB in 2013 and positive in 2014. Testing negative for a disease once doesn't mean you're guaranteed to never ever get it for the rest of your life. It means you didn't have the disease on the day of the…

When I was 9 one of my friends chipped another kid's tooth in a playground accident. The replaced part of his tooth was the wrong color and it was really obvious. Even though she wasn't at fault and the other kid forgave her, my friend felt awful about it for a long time. Kids at that age understand what it means to…

My guess is that the average age on these sites has gone up. My mom freaked out about me using a dating site in 2009 and she had no idea what OKCupid was. Now, a lot of her divorced friends are on dating sites.

This may sound weird, but have you tried reading on an e-reader or your phone? One of my friends started reading again after several years off when her sister gave her an old kindle. She has no idea why- maybe she just had a hard time carrying around a physical book, or she needed to read in short bursts while waiting…

I bet this was less of a "let's go get nachos" thing and more of a "placate the cranky 5 year old who is refusing to eat anything except nachos" thing. My family did a lot of restaurant hopping when my brother was at his pickiest.

It sounds more like this was a contract between two men, and both of whom had to sign it. If that impression is wrong and the contract only applied to one partner, the creepiness level goes waaayyyy up.