Do you assume the guy is a creep or do you assume he doesn't want to miss an elevator? I've rushed to get an elevator.

Interestingly, no one has suggested what would be my main reason for not wanting to be watching pissing, at least not most of the time. I don't have the kind of independent control of my sphincter and kegel muscles to make sure I don't fart when I piss. Typically, the two are connected. It's possible the guy doesn't…

You shouldn't flush paper towels (duh). It's a bad backfire when the "mess" is come-towels and toilet water all over the floor. You can throw them away but then you have semen towels in the trash. The stuff has a pretty characteristic smell, too, so you either have to throw it in the bathroom trash or parade it…

Your analogy that "not liking porn" is like "not liking movies" is pretty apt. Lots of people say they don't like porn but they mean they don't like cheesy mass-market filmed porn; which is understandable but in this day and age irrelevant when people can explore and find whatever they want. And there are a lot of…

I remember liking Night on Earth but it's been a long time since I saw it.

Eh, you kind of open yourself to bullshit attacks when you say that humor you don't like is an attempt to "kill comedy". That's an attempt to make people feel bad for liking it.

I didn't actually laugh at a lot of what Andy Kaufman did, but I certainly thought he was important to comedy and has an iconic place in its development. He was pretty far from trying to "kill" comedy but giving it an occasional enema seems like a good thing. I feel pretty similar about Tim & Eric. (I enjoy Steve…

I… don't think so. I kind of made them up as I was typing. I've been spending a lot of time looking at people's relationship problems and advice online, and establishing a new relationship of my own (and trying really hard to do it "right"), and I'd been thinking about these categories but they just sounded right.…

Opinions, styles, values and tastes. Two people are going to have pairings of these things that fall into one of four categories: congruent, complimentary, coincidental or conflicting. If you have too many things in the "conflicting" category it can overload the conflict control mechanisms, and I don't think it's a…

I think one of the things that becomes super-clear after a long-term marriage and divorce (at least it did for me) is that there's this huge list of things to make sure of long before getting married.

This is pretty insightful. I don't think it's restricted to younger people at all. My attempts to live up to being the man my SO sees me as has made be a better father, for example.

They're actually not very good, as drugs go, it's hard to even establish in efficacy studies that they have any (good) effect at all. They definitely have side effects, though.

Oh god, for some reason, it was the fourth "dipshit" that made this really funny.

I don't really agree. Or I agree that it's a factor, but only when combined with motivation. I and most of the people I knew moved out as soon as we could, and it wasn't because we got some great job or started a career. The minimum wage in 1989 was $5.87 in 2011 dollars, whereas now it's higher, at $7.25[1]. Although…

I'm so with you on the thinking too much. It's like it never stops!

For my own self, it would be a huge red flag that any life challenge was somehow easier to overcome or deal with without your partner than with them.

Yeah!

There's not that many of them, actually: Virginia is four lovers.

I'm a single dad, and greek yogurt is almost the only perishable I buy that I can count on using up. After reading these columns I feel kind of effeminate, though, since yogurt is apparently the exclusive province of women. Who knew?

As George Carlin said, on TV you can prick your finger but you can't finger your prick.