Yep, that makes sense. The Outlets are definitely hit or miss. Very weird places.

The latter is not really my experience; my long term monogamous boyfriend has turned me down for sex way more often, but I'm also probably inclined to do it even if I don't really feel like it (which is most of the time, honestly). That seems contradictory, but I honestly think I mostly want sex for validation (which…

What high end store? Bealls the full department store is not particularly cheap and has stuff I've never seen elsewhere or has items of equal or higher prices than competitors. It's billed as "the Florida Store" and tends towards a lot of Roxy/Billabong/Hurley/Tervis Tumbler/Guy Harvey/fishing shirts/golf attire. They…

The explaination I've seen is that if you're going though a negative life event you see black and blue. Otherwise, it's gold and white. Anecdotally, I saw gold and white until I started freaking the heck out and then started seeing black and blue. Now it seems to switch for me.

Bealls Outlet does, like Ross or Marshall's. Bealls itself is a regular department store. Maybe that's what you meant. I find that Bealls Outlet gets more than the brands they carry at Bealls though.

I haven't been in "real" winter weather in them (they've done temps in the teens and snow but not a blizzard/below zero/etc) but I have waterproof hiking boots that I pair with wool hiking socks for my cold weather boots. Sure, they're not cute, but they've kept my feet warm and dry.

Possibly important point: down is no bueno if it gets wet. If you're looking for winter gear that can also be outdoorsy gear, go with something synthetic instead of down for your shell.

This is one of the most frustrating realities for me. I used to do a good bit of strength training but I was never going to be able to fight off even an average male due to sheer size alone.

Yep. Shapes is a pretty big chain of women-only gyms.

That's actually a thing that police departments recommend to anyone doing any development. They call it "hostile vegetation". There's also the school of thought that you can put things like gravel under window areas because that would make noise and an intruder would, theoretically, want to avoid that.

All I've ever seen about Ted Bundy losing weight was to try to escape jail. I get your point but out of general interest I'm wondering if you have a source for that (it doesn't fit the MO I've read about for him).

Yep, I volunteer with a rescue and they do Iams unless the foster specifies otherwise. It is what it is in this case.

Maybe it's because I played on a PS3, but I interpreted that as a layered tank top that was there so they could show rips in the darker shirt without showing skin. The straps don't have the bit to adjust, but maybe they really were going for a light support sports bra (which would explain why it follows the full front…

Yeah, I have a FB friend who works there and also loves it. She also fosters pit bulls and is obviously an animal lover on top of a Purina employee. It'll be interesting to see if she posts about this.

I personally don't think the 'roided out thing is supposed to look "cool", but it looks STRONG. Big exposed breasts honestly just look vulnerable, which is confusing to me.

I was kind of annoyed playing Tomb Raider recently because her breasts looked well supported/not jiggly but there was no sign of a bra. I get that she wouldn't have been able to put on a sports bra while stranded on an island, but couldn't they have just illustrated on a bra strap?

It's not my fantasy. I'm not necessarily "offended", I'm just not into it. Perhaps the word I would use is annoyed. I've made my own SC character and I try to make it look somewhat like me/with things I just like but it seems like the skimpiest outfits have the best advantages (I honestly don't play much so maybe…

It's interesting. I think there's also, with all the sexual marketing and things like bikini calendars and the commonality of attractive, often scantily clad people as decor (mostly women if we're honest but I'll be broad) that kind of enforces the idea that everyone feels strong sexual attraction. I'm not sure if…

I still think the notion of attraction is different. I'm not saying the average person would just have sex with any stranger given the opportunity. I'm saying that an asexual person would not see a person at a bar, think "they're sexy" and go talk them up on that basis because they're not going to have the thought…

Celebrities? I just know that I've spent my life, even in high school, trying to shirk questions like "is he cute?". The best I can give is a "they weren't unattractive". I've never felt like I experience sexual feelings like my peers. Maybe it is more normal than it feels. *shrug guy*