When he was in his 90s, my grandpa sent hundreds of dollars, over time, to his "psychic girlfriend" who kept promising that if he bought her little "good luck" charms he would come into a huge sum of money. My mom got wind of it when he asked her for a loan and she got him to confess what it was for. She put a stop to…

I don't disagree; I was just pointing out that ignorance and stupidity are not the same thing.

Oh, I realize eggs and astrophysics represent different levels of knowledge - my point was that there is a difference between saying someone is ignorant and saying they are dumb or stupid, that's all. I, personally, think the guy who doesn't know that eggs can be cooked a variety of ways probably IS stupid.

But it doesn't say he's dumb or stupid. It says he was ignorant of the fact that there is more than one way to cook eggs. Ignorance is not stupidity. It's just a state of not knowing something. I, for example, am ignorant of most of the details of astrophysics, but I am neither stupid nor dumb. I just don't know.

Nothing. I've done nothing crazy to get laid. The closest I get is driving 5 hours to Las Vegas on the spur of the moment to spend a weekend with a hookup - but it was a whole weekend, not just a night. In fact, I haven't done much of anything crazy in my life ever. Now I'm depressed.

And it's not just about treating adults like kids. Just imagine if a man wrote in to say "my GF is wonderful in every way and we are sooooo compatible, BUT she wears nothing but pants and long sleeved shirts. Sometimes I want my woman to show some skin. How do I get her to wear sexy clothes sometimes?" and the answer…

Right on - and I think this is sexist, too. If you reversed the genders and had a man treating a woman this way, I'd react with horror. It's not okay to infantilize and manipulate people. Just communicate. Tell the guy you'd like to do some fancy dress occasions occasionally. Either he'll do it or he won't, and the…

Your use of the word "traditional" to describe birth control and STD prevention is kind of ironic here, since the potato method sounds more akin to a "traditional" method (in the sense of a culturally-based home remedy of sorts). Maybe the potato is supposed to act as a sort of barrier method and this young woman's…

That is just about one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. For God's sake, where does it end???

Thank you for pointing this out so I didn't have to. At 43, I am still considering breast implants sometimes. I go back and forth all the time. I'm single, have no kids and don't want them, have a great job and great friends and family, and I'm generally happy, yet I still sometimes believe (irrationally) that bigger…

I guess this isn't that gnarly but it's the best I've got. I was road tripping 800 miles home from college for the summer. The only snack I had left in the car was baby carrots and I was starving, but didn't want to stop for more snacks. So I ate a pound of baby carrots. Soon after the stomach began rumbling. I was…

Thanks. Sadly I have experience with this sort of thing through an ex, who went all the way to the suicide attempt as a way to get me to respond. That's when I read "The Gift of Fear" and got some great insight that helped.

If you haven't already, read the book "The Gift of Fear." It's generally about abusive partners but everything it says can be applied to other people in your life. I don't recommend getting the police involved because that can cause the person's behavior to escalate. Contact her only one more time, via text or email…

I love the spelling and grammar errors. I especially love Jessamine's spelling of crummy as "crumby." Is that Gumby's foodie cousin?

Believe it or else, that's what happened to me. Boyfriend since I was 15 and he was 18 and I got married at 20 and 23 without ever having done more than share ONE dry kiss on the lips in those 5 years. He said we needed to wait until marriage to do anything for religious reasons (not Christian, incidentally - he…

I have no followers :( I just started commenting recently. How do I get out of the greys? I only started commenting recently because the few times I commented with the grey system my comments never made it out, so I just figured it wasn't worth it.

Eye of the beholder, my friend! To me it is not dissimilar from other compact hatchbacks like the Mazda 3. I think it's cute. If I thought it was Aztek abomination ugly, believe me I never would have bought it.

Thank you so much for bringing these articles to my attention, especially the second one. I'm going to use it in the anthropology classes I teach.

Here's an excellent BBC article from last March that address the difficulties women in some countries face when it comes to obtaining supplies for their periods. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-…

That's above my pay grade for car knowledge, ha ha! I love the exterior and interior so I have no complaints there. And it's comparable to the Mini I had for power - which isn't saying much, but power doesn't mean a lot to me. It's the efficiency that got me coupled with the hatchback. I'll never drive a non-hatchback…