Turtle sex videos? Is that a thing? I'm too scared to find out for myself. I once accidentally got a "monkey masturbates with a frog" video from a coworker, so I think this may actually be A Thing.

I can't decide how I feel about knowing only half these people (which is actually a high estimate). I think "old" is winning out.

Ah. Yeah. So location played into it. :) I grew up in suburban Texas, but I had an amazing sex ed class in high school, mostly because I lived in an area with a really large Mormon and Baptist population. Even as a naive kid, I appreciated the frank, matter-of-fact approach to contraception, human reproductive…

Anyone else wish we could set up fake "medical" crisis centers for other things just to give people a better idea of just how WTF all this is? Like sitting down a man and telling him very earnestly that Viagra increases a man's chance of developing penile gangrene by 53.2%, and that it'd ruin all future relationships…

Wow. Just wow. Where did you grow up? Or did location not play into it?

That made me snort water. It may not be a thing, but I'm making it a thing now. Too funny!

Ha! There's an "Orange is the New Black" joke in there somewhere, but I'm too brain dead today to find it.

You just articulated everything I couldn't figure out how to say. Agree 100%.

I agree. Admittedly, I'm still a novice gamer, but I've been easing my way into it for a few years now. There's a few reasons why I just haven't jumped in and started paddling, but one of the biggest is seeing the reactions so many male gamers have to the depiction of women. To me, that's worse than the tropes…

Never thought I'd say this about a turtle, but that picture is totally adorable.

No, I thought the same thing. And what about the lucky women like me who don't usually have issues with their periods? Why would I get those days off when other folks don't? Privilege associated with gender can cause all sorts of problems. Which we know already. :)

At the same time, though, is not acknowledging that being in constant pain, even a faded version on pain killers, falls back on the female trope of "I have to be amiable and helpful at all times"?

I have to admit, I also enjoy the irony that so many people freaked out about Jane Austen being printed on their money and then other people (or the same people?) freaked out about items once belonging to her leaving the country. Is she a historical icon or isn't she?

I had no firm opinion about Kelly Clarkson until recently. Between obviously wanting Jane Austen's ring and the bridal portrait of her reading in a library, I have decided that she is awesome.

IMHO, you get bonus points for even being *able* to run.

Thanks! I actually typed that as an aside at the end, whether it was "make do" or "make due", but I don't know what happened to it. Tried to add it in as an afterthought, but it must've gotten lost somewhere, and I'm too lazy to figure it out and/or google it.

My current mattress was a freebie I got from a friend of a coworker, so I never actually met the person who gave it to me. But it was a freebie, and I inspected it pretty close before I slept on it. A couple of mattress covers and some sheets, and I never actually touch something that may have once touched someone…

*Shrug* I've only ever had used mattresses. It's not ideal by any stretch of the imagination, but when you have hard wood floors and no money, the air mattress gets really old, really fast, and you end up making due. (Did I say that right? Is it "due" or "do"?)

*Shrug* I've only ever had used mattresses. Not ideal by any stretch of the imagination, but when you have hard wood floors and no money, the air mattress can get really old, really fast and you end up making due.

Ah! I do see. Gracias!