Whaaaaat... How can one find out if that would be a side effect they'd get? My IUD debate just got real.

I've been considering moving to an IUD - I'm going to talk to my doctor about it. The only thing I'm a little concerned about is not being about to skip/delay periods. I've been on the pill for almost 10 years so I'm very reliable about taking it and I usually run three or four packs together. Buuuuut I'm also so…

Hahahahaha.... bluff-diving. I almost wish this were a common enough occurrence for that phrase to become mainstream.

I totally agree with this. It's not race so much as nationality for me - my parents are Canadian, I grew up in New Zealand and now I live in Canada again. To me I'm a New Zealander, but to most New Zealanders the fact that I still have a mixed accent means I'm not. It's not nearly the same as racism - at least I don't…

I'm in Toronto and I was shocked last week when I was on the subway and a man with a walker got on and no one near him gave up their seat to him. I didn't object to giving up my seat, which I did, but I was across the busy car from him so he had to navigate through the crowd of people, whereas there were five people…

Total myth - I've been an avid vibrator user for five or more years and have never had any issues with reduced sensitivity. In fact, I'd say sex got better because I became more confident about my needs and fantasies. To each their own, for sure, but if the myth of desensitization is holding you back, fear not!

I was 100% for this until you said the clothes link to plus size. I'm a size 10 and would be much more likely to shop at H&M after seeing their clothes on someone who looks like me (Bigger boobs, but yay for thighs that touch. Thigh gaps creep me out.) However, as others have said, she's pretty normal sized so why is…

I go to Planned Parenthood and one of the nurses would only give me three months birth control at a time until I booked my pap, but one of the other nurses got angry about that because, as she said, women are much more likely to suffer an unexpected pregnancy than cervical cancer, and withholding contraception isn't…

Wait, what? People are spending more than $1000 on prom? I think I spent $90 on Dress A and $15 on Dress B. Add to that the tickets at about $50 each, and I guess I wore shoes (I'm sure I did, I just don't remember) and I must have topped out at $200. I know there was one girl who spent $500 on her dress for her…

It's very Canadian, too. When I first moved here two friends were discussing, in total seriousness, how humid it was for November. I'm not at that point yet, but I'll know I'm 100% assimilated when I can enjoy an in-depth half hour conversation about the weather.

As someone who lives in Toronto I can assure you that along with The French Part there are many other important regions in Canada: The Flat Part, The Stoned Part, The Really Cold Part and "Out East".

I'm not a lispophile, but I do love a stutter. I used to interview a guy who had a stutter... I'd call him for a statement every time I could and try to drag out the call. I think it's the perseverance aspect - overcoming obstacles, bravery etc. - that's the actual turn on.

There are advantages to both. Labour laws in NZ are better - four weeks holiday compared with two, five days sick leave - and in my opinion Pharmac is amazing, even with benefits prescriptions in Canada are expensive. BUT if you're in a city in Canada you get better events, it's more ethnically diverse, easier to…

I'm a dual citizen of NZ and Canada and am so proud to be from two of the short list of countries that have acknowledged everyone's right to love whoever they want :)

I'm from NZ and moved to Toronto, and it's quite common to not have a washing machine in your apartment, but usually (not always) there's a shared laundry room in the building. It's really not related to income, even in nicer apartments there might not be a washer/dryer. It's a pain but you get used to it.

In Enchantment by David Soto he wrote that she didn't have the stamina to be a professional dancer and attributed it to her starving as a child. The book might be inaccurate, but that's where I was getting my information from.

Oh man, that sucks. People are so shitty sometimes. Also, it amazes me how much people will let go for 10% off. Like, really? $6 was all you wanted? That's not even lunch. At the book store I worked at it'd often be less than $2 off but people would jump at the offer.

God, yes. I hated those people. I worked at a DVD store for a while and we had a sale which was "Three for $30 on stickered product". The stickers clearly said only stickered product counted, but two weeks after the sale ended a woman found one stickered DVD and started screaming when we wouldn't give her the three…

At least you cared enough to try to do something. I don't think I was consciously a little jerk, but I definitely didn't have that kind of empathy before I got to about 12 or 13. I moved when I was a kid so I had an accent, which made me a bit of a target. Instead of making me empathize more (which would have been the…

Me too! I wanted a TV movie moment where a great teacher stops her and says "Be proud of who you are" and then all the mean little white girls want their hair braided. Kids can be so cruel. (Sadly I was one of those cruel kids, I think...)