Thanks, maybe I finally will! The third book was my favorite too, followed closely by the fifth. The introduction of Lupin and Black as adult mentor/parent figures really took the whole series up a notch. You don't even realize how much you need those characters till you get them, then you can't go back. :P

I'm glad to hear that, because I also stopped watching the movies after the first one for the same reason. And I don't want to be That Guy who says to all her friends that "Oh the books are just so much better, I don't know how anyone could like the movies!" But really, it was not great.

Yeah, . I don't think that phrase means what he thinks it means. I'm pretty sure if I did a GIS for "Nature's God," I'd come across a whole lot of pictures of satyrs doing things decidedly outside the bonds of "traditional" marriage.

"It smokes cigarettes, grew a beard..."

I loled at Starbucks, then showed this to the dude at the next table who wanted to know what was so funny. Thank you for the awesome conversation starter.

I actually had a guy smugly tell another guy, in front of me, that you can always tell "what's really going on" with a woman's age by looking at her hands. I just nodded and said, "I'll add that to the list of things to worry about guys judging me on." He didn't catch the sarcasm.

My jaw dropped when I read that you were asked if you were some professors daughter. Then I remembered that over the years I've been learning Arabic, I have been asked at least 3 times if I was learning because I was dating/married to an Arab man. Two times, it wasn't even asked so much as assumed.

Seconded. I think this is spot on, but it never even occurred to me to think about it like that.

sigh To run away and spend a few years living in a pasty factory, and then go right back to your old life, fatter and happier. I just want to hold that dream in my head for a while.

An ex-boyfriend of mine is Indian, and still regularly argues with his parents about his future - between the religion and caste and age and every other requirement, he reckons there are maybe 50 women or less in the entire world that they would approve of his marrying, many of whom he's already distantly related to.…

Wait, that's a thing? whut

I kinda thought that too, but then I thought about what a creative person could come up with after a long time of telling this story and/or trying to come to grips with it. :P Maybe it's exaggerates, but... That could totally happen, so I'm guessing not.

We need to bring back that comment award so everyone can see this.

...So, um, does anyone rub deoderant on the inside crotch of their jeans when they know it's going to be a really hot sweaty day?

Yeah, that's my favorite too. It immediately reminded me of a Barbie doll dress though. But prettier.

That showed up on my brother's Facebook page a while ago. This is why I only skim it every couple weeks. It's pretty much: beer and guns and libertarianism = good, Obama and liberals and most women = bad. The occasional cute pic of my nephews is the only reason I steel myself and click every now and then.

Eh, I'm kind of ok with this. Science is the reason we're also fat anyway... Companies pour money into tweaking their formulas to make them as tasty and addictive as possible. Science might as well provide the solution.

I really like that bike metaphor in the third reply. I need to use that one for myself when I'm learning a skill that it seems like everyone else can do but me and I'm frustrated at not getting it "right."

shrug every time you respond to a troll, someone who doesn't know how to respond to the arguments made by Real Life trolls reads it and gets some ammo. I guarantee someone who didn't make the connection that this argument is a rehashed version of a very old and tired one can now mention that fact when some blowhard in…