I once dated the sweetest young man who had such trouble communicating clearly, especially about things he thought I might not like to hear. I'm a big believer in ASKING when I want to know what someone's thinking and I can't suss it out. But if he didn't feel comfortable answering, I'd get an "I don't know." Now,…

I'm not ashamed to say I learned something from this video. She's absolutely hilarious—and pretty too!

Oh, he's such a gorgeous boy. I hope he can find a good home. It doesn't sound like the one he had was a very good one. Poor kitty. For a cat to lash out like that, he had to be in quite a bit of distress for a long time.

Holy COW. I hope he ended up learning before he sent his whole bank account to those guys. Thanks for looking out for him. You were the bank teller he needed AND deserved.

I didn't know that. What happens if you tell the clerk you've never met the person or if you've only met them online? Does the clerk refuse to process the transaction? That's actually really cool, either way, but what do they do?

Wow, that really is spot-on.

Well, this definitely didn't quite go the direction I'd thought it would, but neat all the same. Also, I'm glad I'm not the only tuna/egg salad purist in the room. I knew a woman who put GRAPES in hers. WTF I don't even

Minus the death part, I think Jason Lee did a series about that, didn't he?

"Preacher eyebrows." See also: Ted Cruz.

He pulled his first face!

Er just to clarify: he'd gotten polio in the Philippines before moving to the States.

Religious whackjobs here in Idaho have brought whooping cough back to the area. The local news covered some previously-gung-ho anti-vaxxer nutjob parents who said that they'd changed their mind about the idea very quickly when they got to stand at the side of their toddler's bed listening to her gasp and struggle for…

My mom had secret sympathies for nudism and knew how to macramé and make her own yogurt, so I guess I'm half-hippie-scum on my mother's side.

Holy fucking shitballs, that sounds just awful, and I really really really am glad your kid came out okay. I cannot believe what a pair of entitled twits those were to bring their disease vector of a child into the ER and risk another child's life like that. My stomach did a flip-flop when I read what you wrote.

Oh yeah, I totally have made up for all that lost time and unpleasantness. I knew you didn't mean anything unkind by it, and I'm just as unable to think of anything else as the rest of us are. Maybe we should ask the Germans or the Dutch or something; they seem to have words for absolutely everything.

Thanks, I truly appreciate that you took the time to explain a little more. I guess sometimes folks resonate with this or that and I'm very happy that what I was seeing wasn't the intention.

Yep, because we're not tolerating their intolerance. Heard that a bazillion times.

AMEN. Purity is to be fought against and rejected. Virginity is just a state of not having done something. It means only what its possessor thinks it means. I've never gone water-skiing, so I guess I'm a water-skiing virgin, but that doesn't ascribe a moral quality to me any more than being a sex virgin would.

I'm curious about why you equate "respect" with "waiting to have sex." See, I'm in my 40s. I've been married (cough) times and have had double digits of sexual partners. The man who has shown me the most respect as a human being is the man I am married to now. We're coming up on our 12th year together and the flame is…

Hey, thanks for sharing that. I know it was really personal. And thank you, as well, for recognizing that other women's choices about when/if/with whom to have sex are valid for them, just like yours was valid for you, and not slamming those who made different choices (or who made very similar ones to the ones you…