Exactly. This is the same as if he had broken the landlord's bed by jumping on it. No one is saying you can't jump on the bed, but if you break it you have to cover that cost.

I love stripey clothes, so I'm extra excited to see stripes that are arranged artfully!

As someone who works in a museum myself, I couldn't disagree with your position more strongly. Museums are for the general public - and for research, of course, but forgetting that the general public keep the doors open (either directly through admission fees or indirectly through taxation) is short-sighted and naive…

So you're trying to suggest that long-term hormonal contraceptive use and/or IUD implantation is equivalent to vaccination? I'd say that's completely unfounded - medically, ethically and in basically every way.

This is not some slight against women, this is the most basic means of empowerment, to control your own reproduction.

Yep, that's an excellent book. Long, but one of the best history books I've ever read.

Yep, that's an excellent book. Long, but one of the best history books I've ever read.

I like United's Economy Plus also. Having just flown Edinburgh to Newark and back, where I booked too late to get an outbound E+ seat like I normally do, I don't think I'll ever make that mistake again. You don't get the same benefits as Air France, but just the extra room itself makes a HELL of a difference. Plus…

Being happy on your own also doesn't mean that you never need other people or never miss your family. It doesn't mean that you have to be surrounded with people all the time to be happy.

I don't know why everyone's giving you a hard time about this - I agree it would be great if they offered a better veggie selection. Restaurants in the UK (including fast food chains) manage to offer decent veggie options and the country hasn't crumbled. Every time I go back to midwestern American where I grew up I…

Hahahaha, yes sadly that doesn't surprise me. I don't know why so many people think that doctors are evil but naturopaths and vitamin shills are altruistic, but it's infuriating.

Oh yeah, this. My husband died from cancer and along the way there was lots of terrible 'advice'. As it happens, we were juicing, but for medical reasons - he had more than half his large bowel removed so had to be on a low fibre diet while he healed. Juicing allowed him some variety (otherwise it was veggie stock and…

I find that this is true for me. I get fed up of trying to track every little thing so I give up and then loose track completely. So I have two accounts: one account that my salary is paid into and my direct debits (I'm in the UK, I think they're the equivalent of direct deposits in the US?) come out of, and another…

Good to know!

Is it acid-free? If not, it seems like contact paper would speed up the yellowing process.

Not really. Asian people do have a very different kind of ear wax (it's one of the ways that we know that most Native American populations travelled to North America via the Bering land bridge, for example), which is dry and flaky and more easily removed by tools such as the ear spoon. I'm merely pointing out that a…

Do you happen to live in an Asian country? These are really common in countries where the inhabitants tend to have dry ear wax (mostly Asian and Native American populations):

Well, I know there's a lot of stuff on the internet right now about vinegar being a cure-all, so I wanted to make sure that good info was there for people who want it! It can be hard to tell between hokum and real treatments sometimes, but like you say there is a difference and it's important to make that distinction.

I think that's my problem - straight alcohol makes my ears extra dry and itchy, which is when the ENT recommended the alcohol/vinegar solution. And I'm glad she did! The "Swim Ear" brand costs about 500% more than making it myself, and I go through the stuff pretty quickly when I'm swimming 4-5 days a week.

Vinegar is an acid, and helps to prevent the growth of bacteria and fungi in the ear. The Mayo Clinic recommends using acidic solutions to treat swimmer's ear:

As a life-long itchy ear sufferer and a swimmer I can say that hydrogen peroxide in my ears is heavenly. Apparently it doesn't actually dissolve earwax (the fizzing action just works mechanically to break up loose bits of wax), but it feels great and is basically the only thing that keeps me from stabbing myself in…