Yep, not even grilled cheese! I would say the sandwich is not as big a deal in my culture as in America, but other kids certainly had sandwiches... I think I may have had honey sandwiches (literally two pieces of bread with honey in between) for a little while in elementary school, but eventually I moved on to raw…

That is so awful! I'm sorry you had to deal with that. And his friends helped him too? Ugh, good riddance to bad rubbish.

One can mess you up, especially if it's at the beginning or end of a pack... I was always told not to worry too much if I missed a pill or took one or even two late in the middle of a pack, but if I skipped one at the end or the beginning, just before or after the 7/4 days of sugar pills (depending on your BC!) I…

I can't think of a way you could sabotage implanon or an IUD, unless you are your girlfriend's doctor. However, it seems like this isn't just about men poking holes in condoms or handing out dummy birth control pills... it's controlling men saying "please, let's have a baby, I love you so much," etc. etc. and women…

Me too! We had a rewards thing where you got a pizza hut voucher or something for every ten books you read. My teacher basically accused me of lying because I was claiming so many vouchers... so my awesome mother came in and told her that all I did all day at home was read, she'd personally seen me reading all the…

I am 28 and have never had a sandwich or burger. The whole concept just doesn't do it for me. Same with casseroles or stews... unless I made it myself and know exactly what's in it, random brown slop with lumps in it is not going in my mouth. I realize this makes me odd but I genuinely have no desire to ever try a…

Michael Cera is 34? I live next door to him (we're not besties, I just see him taking the trash out sometimes) and I'm pretty sure he's 24. Unless all his friends are really, really young-looking thirty-somethings or he's a creeper...

I remember a case about this in Australia before I left - so at least six years ago. A Chinese family bought a house where a terrible family murder-suicide had taken place, and they were not told by the agent. Their cultural beliefs meant the house had terrible energy and they did not want to live there when they…

Yes. The FDA are frankly the last people I trust on anything. Take bupropion... it was originally marketed in the United States as Zyban, to help people quit smoking. Now it's Wellbutrin, the wonder antidepressant that doesn't make you gain weight and might even help you lose it! Only in basically every other country…

This is something that drives me insane about American culture. My husband is a TV producer on a hit crime show (hence why I'm here in Los Angeles and not home in Australia) and they can show grisly murders, shoot-outs with huge body counts, any amount of violence they want.... but any hint of something sexy has to be…

God I love Garfunkel and Oates. For what it's worth, when I was pregnant I found myself holding my stomach at various points pretty much because sometimes it felt like I could take a load off my back by "supporting" my stomach. Also, the baby is constantly moving, and especially past 20 weeks mine had one hell of a…

I see your point, and I appreciate it. I have the same experience being an Australian in the US... people have a stereotype of Australians and I guess I don't fit it - apparently I'm too well-spoken, I sound posh, I don't sound like the yahoos like Steve Irwin who make it onto American television. It's a big country…

Yes. He got the title in 2007. I suspect Bourne attracts a wider audience than these speedos!

Yes. Especially in Californa - I remember reading a story about a while back about how many chihuahuas were ending up in shelters and there's even an organization that flies them to other states where there isn't such a "surplus." Ooh, found it... so sad. A puppy is for life, not for Christmas, people... http://article…

I spent a summer taking a class in Iowa City with the intention of applying to a graduate program there... I couldn't even deal with the crazy lightning and thunderstorms. One tornado siren went off while I was there (for a month) and I was terrified. Of course, they have this amazing magic system... so somehow they…

Because I'm a grammar nut and for some reason my edits wouldn't save - yes, I know that "you're dad" should be your dad. I truly hate bad grammar, especially when I'm the responsible party. Maybe that's an illness in itself?

I owe you an apology. I admit I stopped at your original comment and replied, I didn't realize the conversation had continued far long after that. I have an immense amount of experience with mentally ill people - my dad is bipolar and I lived with him as his sole carer for five years when he was untreated…

In my experience (and sadly, I've had way too much) involuntary commitment is no longer a "thing." You have to wait for the person to be an immediate, imminent threat to themselves or others (by which time it's usually too late, the person either commits suicide or commits a crime) before they can be committed against…

Weirdly enough, I have had this conversation with my parents... they're cool parents. It had come up somehow or another that most straight people of my age and younger (I'm 28 now) think of oral sex as less than "real sex," meaning penetrative sex, and it's definitely not sex that counts towards "your number." They…

Just for the record - it's a downward trend... for the first time in a long time, US teen pregnancy rates are dropping. Seems like we might actually have to give some credit to "Teen M0m" and "16 and Pregnant" after all for showing that teen pregnancy isn't all cute onesies and boyfriends who'll propose to you.