I wish men would look at that graph and realize that even if they want young women, they can’t have them.

I got so many OKcupid messages from old guys that I stated “noone over 30” on my profile. After that I still got messages. Normal ones and angry ones telling me that at (then) 22 I was too old anyways. Okay.

And here’s Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, signed in 1796 between the USA and Tripolitania in North Africa:

As a physician, didn’t Ben have to take the Hippocratic Oath? A text that has its origins in Ancient Greece — a civilization where people believed that a guy with a rake had dominion over the sea and a dude with a thunderbolt controlled the weather.

Weren’t people afraid of this when JFK was elected? that he’d force everyone to eat fish on fridays and make the pope king of america or something?

Yes! Helen and Emma Thompson!!! That’d be amazing!

Oh, Helen. You can’t live your life with regrets. Get out there and make up for lost time! I smell an awesome road trip documentary in which Helen Mirren and some friends go tell everyone who ever wronged them to fuck off. I would love to be involved in this endeavor somehow.

I am 30 today. I’ve decided my birthday resolution is to be Helen Mirren.

That wasn’t just a bullet dodged. You dodged a damn surface to air missile.

Honestly, I was 2-3 years into my Ph.D. program before I realized I was happier and healthier if I just took 1 day a week completely off from studying, class prep, and research. I also had a great group of people in my cohort, though, so even when I was in “working every day” mode, we would still plan day trips or do…

With that life insurance payout? Hell yeah.

Guys, how do I make friends in grad school? Is it possible? I feel like I have a bunch of acquaintances, but no one who’s actually my friends and I feel like everyone else is making friends and I feel so lonely. Ugh, sorry, making friends outside of undergrad is hard, even if you are back in school.

Like that Southern thing where if your name is Melissa people call you Miz Melissa no matter who you marry/don’t marry? I can live with that.

Yes, and older ladies, with whom you’re familiar, become Miss Rhonda, Miss Sharon, etc. Oddly, though, Mr. with a first name seems reserved for quite elderly men only.

These kinds of pieces come up from time to time and they always miss the most important part: teach your kids to ask what someone wants to be called, then call them that. They prefer Mrs. Snoghorn you call them Mrs. Snoghorn. They prefer Fat Amy, you call them Fat Amy. True etiquette is not calling someone something…

Southerner here. So yeah it’s Ms. This and Mr. That or Sir or Ma’am. That’s just the way it is. Not creepy at all.

I’ll bite.

Lauren is an idiot. I was raised by parents who didn’t have any savings in their twenties, and you know what? They didn’t have savings in their thirties, or even their fourties. Granted, this was because of a lot of circumstances - job layoffs, significant injury after an accident, having a child. But I’ll tell you…

Also, 20- somethings, do NOT spend a bunch of money (yours, or your parents) on your “dream wedding.”

Yeah, wait until her kid, Turf or Slack or whatever, goes to school and they won’t let him/her bring its gun in.