Argh, can't get the porn ad pop-up to close down.

I used to think this way. But my shift over to the (pricier) dark side started with going from, say, Cover Girl to OPI nailpolish. Drugstore polish stayed on three days, OPI went a week without peeling. OK good, but the rest is the same, right? Then I started wanting dark, heavily pigmented eye shadow, and Revlon…

I know! I will put a tester on my hand, that's as far as I go. And nail polish I'll try out, because no bacteria can survive a second in that shit. But otherwise, no. My skin is iffy already, I don't need anyone else's bacteria in the mix. And I don't believe that swabbing lipstick for 2 seconds in rubbing alcohol…

It does nothing for me. I need a lot of pressure or friction to orgasm, and oral is just not enough.

Well, Elle Muliarchyk doesn't really seem like "most Americans". Is it only Americans who accuse people from other cultures as behaving like "typical Americans?"

Many people on this thread are scoffing at the connection between lupus and the show. But lupus is an auto-immune condition, and there is some speculation that breast implants can trigger inflammation, especially if they leak. And every woman on the show seems to get implants. There are apparently no studies that…

This is really just a conversation about social class, and "college degree" is a euphemism for "middle class". They want an office full of people who are more likely to share a set of values about how society functions, about definitions of success, and presumably (except for the occasional radical malcontent) how…

I love rum and ginger beer, or crown royal rye and ginger. Have you tried the new jack Daniels honey? I have only tried it straight so far (very sippable) but it would mix up well with something, I think.

"Wit, charm and intelligence" and also, I'm willing to bet, some amazing moves in the sack.

I don't think that legit scientific studies are usually intended to pressure people. It's the use to which the results are sometimes put, and the way media typically covers them, that generates the pressure. But we shouldn't stop doing studies just because they can be put to poor use by the less-informed.

When I was a kid our cats were mostly male and all un-neutered. So cat butt was synonymous with "giant fuzzy cat balls" and I got in the habit of trying to avoid them.

And sadly, the kids whose parents aren't willing or able to do that will be like the kids whose parents can't feed them breakfast. They'll get a crappy unhealthy free lunch that is better than going hungry but doesn't come close to making up for what they're missing. Kids whose parents aren't doing anything for them…

It must have been - I just IMDB'd her and that was the only period piece she was in. I remember her character was part of the entourage of some horrid snobby minor duchess or something, so perhaps she was actually meant to be a bit repellent and vulpine. Maybe good casting after all.

I remember seeing Elle McPherson doing a small part in some Jane Austen movie. The other actresses were well-cast, soft and smallish and delicate, and there was Elle, with her bony collarbones and giant Chicklet-tooth smile, and she looked so out of place, you realize that for that era she wouldn't have been…

Mannerisms (as well as performed femininity, of course) do change a lot over time, but up until film we had no way of really seeing this. Apparently in England, pre-industrial era, people employed a wide range of faces and gestures in ordinary conversation that we'd find bizarre today. The wink is a holdover from…

I am just reading a novel set during WW2 in England, and I wonder if the fallout of the wars and the rationing and general shortages that went on for a long time after had a big impact on British food, on peoples' cooking and shopping habits as well as other country's perception of it. I'm thinking of all the fillers…

I agree. I mean, his characters certainly can be, but I don't feel his writing is. And he is an amazing, beautiful writer. However, I know little about him as a person, or any of his writings beyond his fiction.

"Premature aging" is another popular meaningless term. Maybe it's supposed to freak you out and flatter you at the same time, somehow? You're still too young to have wrinkles? But you are getting wrinkles so there must be something wrong with you? I once told a salesgirl in a skincare shop that, actually, I thought I…

My mom is a stoic Ukrainian. We had no OTC drugs in the house growing up. None. I took my first pain reliever when I was 21 — I had menstrual cramps and my roommate had some Tylenol. I felt so guilty for being such a wuss about some natural, everyday pain. I'd been smoking pot since I was 14, but I felt waaaay more…

I find so much diet advice and theory boils down to "this behavior will make you eat more at your next meal / snack on unhealthy foods". For example, "skipping meals (or breakfast) doesn't help you lose weight." You'd think it would, right, cuz fewer calories? How puzzling. Why? Oh, because "most people eat more at…