If I understand things correctly, both types can land on both places on the body. It all has to do with the skin-to-skin contact at the time the virus is shedding. The virus can shed with no visible outbreak or irritation, and well outside the condom area, which is how people can have it and pass it on despite their…

There is a whole family of herpes viruses. Most people have at least one and usually more, though they may not know it.

Was sex definitely involved? E.g. last I checked, HIV made the jump from a simian virus to a human one via hunting and eating bushmeat. I imagine something similar happened with HSV.

Maybe Tracie can dismiss this guy's comments?

(# of days away from home X 2) + 3 extra just in case = correct # of pairs for trip

What was her deal with the black bras under white shirts? She wore that often on the show and I could never figure it out, what with all the other colours of bras available.

My great aunt had a sort of buddy-system with another woman in her building, but kept her own apartment. I think that is the way to do it. I *really* do not want to be wiping up someone else's crumbs when I'm 70. Screw that noise.

It does. I missed it the first time around. When things reach the window-breaking stage, it's already well past time to leave.

It's not really about entitlement or laziness for me, just the thing about going straight to my boss about it without attempting to talk to me first. And then totally cutting me off afterwards, so I have no chance to say anything at all, even just to explain. That's just generally a shitty thing to do, and I doubt…

Disagree. You have to actually do something harmful/non-consensual to the person's physical body to consider it physical abuse.

Don't even think about it...too sad.

Yeah like an app that pings my phone whenever I'm in the vicinity of goats I can pet. Like Grindr, but for goats and their admirers.

Gross. Can't believe that got past the licensing people or whoever it is who vetoes raunchy plates.

People are self-centred assholes.

I'm going to be blunt: He is an abuser. He is definitely abusing you verbally and emotionally, and it sounds like he could escalate to physical stuff. At any rate, this is a VERY unhealthy relationship and I think you should walk.

That suuuuucks. Been there (not the sexuality part, but the rest of it). I'm an old bitch so I think these friends should have been more sensitive to your feelings, and DEFINITELY should not have talked about you behind your back. But, they've done it, they're besties now, so it's all about how you react. …

Can you email the restaurant for the recipe?

What about Celine Dion? I know she doesn't dance in her shows, but she moves around a lot.

This. I always point out in discussions like these that a couple generations ago, it was the norm for one income to be enough to support a family *including* a stay-at-home adult who managed childcare responsibilities. Yes, the income was earned by a man and a woman did the childcare in most cases, and there were…

I had this too. I must have spent literally hundreds of hours over the years, waiting in doorways etc for my mother. She kept it up well into my adulthood too, at times when we were supposed to meet. But it wasn't absent-mindedness, she just doesn't give a shit about her kids. And yeah, I have some abandonment and…