I used that line once and the guy said "Oh, he doesn't let you have hot friends?" and I said "Yeah, that's really not the issue here." and didn't realize until after I said it that it was actually a Clever Response, implying that he was not hot!

While I understand your obsession (been there, felt that) I think if your goal is to be thoughtful then it's better not to ask. If you care more about satisfying your own curiosity than someone else's comfort then, sure, ask away. But as a woman who reads almost constantly "What are you reading?" is the preferred…

God, that's terrifying. The number of adults who told me through formative years that being bi was "greedy" and they should just "make up their minds" was crazy. I remember getting to my (rather horny) late teens and thinking "Greedy? Who WOULDN'T want to be bi if we got to choose?" It just seemed like literally the…

It's not even like my life has to be really shitty to be not smiling. I always want to turn to these guys and ask "When's the last time you walked down the street grinning? There's a reason 'smiling like an idiot' is a phrase."

When I was in graduate school a guy in my class slid a note to my friend that just said "You smell good today." Weird compliment in their natural habitat: overeducated white boys.

All chin and cheekbones.

Yeah, it's a good way to still show what was produced but not seem to be approving of the attitudes. Almost the exact same warning was on The Jazz Singer (the first "talkie", which includes a blackface performance) that was re-released a few years ago so I think there must be some a new-ish policy at WB that's being…

"What?!? They cast a white man with an accent to play a white man with a different accent?"

What I understand even less is people from an oppressed group who question their peers' experiences. I have a female friend who insists that sexism is over and women just need to "toughen up" if they want to get ahead, and I've heard a gay (white, upper-class) acquaintance say on multiple occasions essentially "I know…

Is this the kind of thing you can start a Kickstarter for? Asking for a friend.

Yeah, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and Newfoundland. Anything past Quebec, really.

Yeah, I have ever heard Alberta described as Canada's Texas, though.

At least you didn't only learn about Toronto. That's most of Canada's complaint. To be fair, about a fifth of the population does live in the Greater Toronto Area... The rest are split between The Stoned Part, The Flat Part, The French Part, The Really Cold Part and "Out East".

If a whole province is being mocked it's probably Alberta or Saskatchewan. Scarborough is the low-income, high-crime, probably-not-actually-as-bad-as-its-reputation suburb of Toronto.

A rather silly looking traditional English folk dance involving bells and hankies:

Yeah, that's true... and I guess they maybe weren't as aware that HPV was often asymptomatic and could have longterm health consequences. It still makes me laugh that she saw AIDS and accidental pregnancies as the only possible negative consequences of casual sex.

My mum: "I was in my 20s in the golden era between the invention of the birth control pill and the advent of AIDS so you need to be more careful than I was."

Me, 10 years later upon realization of the weirdness of that statement: "Um, you know there are OTHER sexually transmitted infections, right? And those existed in…

That's okay - I learned something new today! I had to look up the difference so now I am smarter... or at least more knowledgeable.

Love this - it's such an easy mistake! I recently saw a waiter carry a chalkboard out that said "Welcome Ontario Morse Dancers" and said to my boyfriend "He must mean Morris, right?" And yes, on our walk home we passed many white-clad people wearing bells and carrying hankies. Homonyms are hard.

Is it worth buying a new frame? I know it's expensive, so not always an option but if you're likely to keep it for many years then the several hundred dollars might be worth it. Otherwise I know they sell lifts that go under each leg, but I don't have any personal experience in how sturdy they are.