Got it. I think some of it is a way to one-up friends, too: "I gave coffee!" "I gave up chocolate!" "I gave up hot showers!" Who the fuck knows. The whole thing is nuts.

Oh, my god, if you guys turn out to be neighbors I will love the internet forever.

I would disagree. I think that it tends to be high-achieving affluent educated gals who fall for more of this shit. But I'm not talking from a study or anything, just from anecdotal evidence and my "gut feeling" (notoriously reliable).

A book that we bought about saunas (how to build them, their history, etc) said that women in sauna countries (Scandanavia, duh) sauna throughout pregnancy and traditionally would deliver in the sauna (this is many years back). I've heard of American women taking only cold showers during their pregnancies. People…

Lindy, I am pleased to see that you treat your Dirt Bag responsibilities with the seriousness they deserve. I am enjoying. Don't stop. Stop.

If being unscrupulous and an asshole is a medical condition, get ready for the cost of health care to skyrocket even further.

Yep. She will bury us all.

Thank you for saying what I would have said, only way funnier than it would have been if I'd said it.

Samantha Irby, to you all I can say is, YES. You are awesome.

Maybe we're doing it wrong, and Miley is having magical sex and we're just having mehgical sex.

Good call. And I think her own family has an adopted kid in it, doesn't it?

Read "Nightingales." Not only is she/was she cooler than you (and me), her whole family was cool. It's a great book.

Florence Nightingale kept one as a pet (until she went on vacation and it died in her sister's care). If FloNi can do it, so can I.

You sound good.

Ho.Lee.Shit.

I agree. As a nurse, I can see and stomach a lot of stuff, but spit/sputum/mucus...*shudder*

you: "But how can I be addicted so something so boring?"

What, you think heroin is fascinating? Anything you're addicted to is boring, because the element of choice has been removed and it has become just another "time to make the donuts" thing in your life.

Anna Breslaw, you are cordially invited to be the new all-the-time Dirt Bag writer. Of late, DB has sometimes been, um, how you say, not funny. Fire all the other DBs and take over.

I guess I meant "borderlines are the worst to have to deal with." Not a judgement on borderlines as people, just that they are awful to encounter (I'm an ER nurse; borderlines are everyone's least favorite type of patient).