Still mandatory for certain professions, even if you're in a graduate program, as I am.

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus , I'm right there with you. I turn 32 in a month and the gray is really starting to show. I haven't had a date in months. Most guys I chat with online are really interested until they see a picture of my face, and then they're not interested at all (no, I'm not a burn…

Find a suitable man and make out with him in front of her. With any luck, she'll spontaneously combust (fuck you, Disqus, that is most definitely a word).

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus Some valid points. Upon further reflection:

Oh, no! I'm now a childish, pompous moron, and "a big ol' meany on the internet" thinks I'm shallow! It's really unfair of you to remind me that I said I'd disengage from the discussion, because the entertainment value of your posts keeps going up by the day. I know I shouldn't be taking your bait, but c'est la vie.

Skill is only part of it, so you can forgive me for thinking you lucky. I think we can all agree that the proper equation for appreciating a blowjob is as follows:

As I said previously, we've been talking past each other for some time, and I don't see a point in engaging further. You've made your view quite clear, with all the limits it imposes as to who is worthy of your time. Your desire to keep harping on about the absolute superiority of your intellectual and literary…

Curse you, @avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus! Some guys have all the luck.

Depending on how far into puberty he is, and how much you've talked about these things, "What's Happening to Me?" is a good book to get him. It targets the 11-14 age range, but it's appropriate for younger kids, too, if you're comfortable talking about it. It's very matter-of-fact. The cartoon drawings are a bit silly…

@persia2:disqus , it's true that driving is a risk, but we all make choices about how we manage risk in our lives. I have friends who've gone skydiving. I have other friends who think me mad for climbing Mount St Helens. I don't think my non-hiking friends are bigoted against climbers.

@avclub-da496e2db2e50a068b4ae5549d4ae1b0:disqus  Speaking just for myself, one of the best points about a long-term committed relationship is that you don't *have* to use protection, which makes sex more enjoyable and spontaneous. I'm not an idiot, and I know that people cheat, so it's not a non-zero risk. Still,…

I was going to be done with this fruitless discussion, and even let you have the last word, but this is a bit much.

@avclub-1d04064d540beb34e0cc414561bc6f35:disqus  "Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about." I knew that already.

@avclub-1d04064d540beb34e0cc414561bc6f35:disqus  Wow. I do not think condescension means what you think it means, because your last post is dripping with it. If you really think that you have to be a "pretty fucking stupid adult" for a lesson of a children's book to resonate or have relevance, then you are the…

@avclub-1d04064d540beb34e0cc414561bc6f35:disqus  I won't call you a fool for not reading them. I reserve the option of calling you a fool for saying "Plus, it says for 7th grade and up, which, I'm sorry, no 30-year-old should be reading unless s/he's a junior high teacher." If a story is well-plotted, with engaging…

Then it would give a whole new bedroom meaning to the quote, "I have hurt you, and I wish to go on…hurting you."

@avclub-64ad8f3af92ef8d9a1c7dfd7265e577d:disqus  "I was crap at hiding stuff into my early 20s."

The funniest part of the Garfield assassination, if there's any humor in it, is that they used a metal detector to find the bullet, then probed and probed to find it, making everything worse with unsterilized tools and — yes — fingers, because someone forgot that beds have METAL BED SPRINGS.

@avclub-c099e468717d7f2501b9538dd6bdf97b:disqus You and I both. I thought about adding such a thing to my post, but it was long and spiky enough. :) I'm gay, and I freely admit that I tend to find the twink look alluring, but only in twinks old enough to vote. I'd never write — or even think — of 6-year-olds as being…

It's not just the talking heads, unfortunately.