Thanks! I'm glad I asked this, because otherwise I'd be going through life wearing pads, too scared to try tampons.

OOOH, thanks, that really does help.

Oh, erm. Thanks. That certainly helps. It'll be good to use tampons because I can go swimming even with periods, so that's a definite motivation.

Thanks. I'll try that. I'm just (can't believe I'm saying this) scared I won't be able to tell the difference between the urethra and the vagina. I am a physicist, I've always hated bio, is that a legit excuse for a 21 year old? :(

Psh, novices. This is how I rock when Aunt Flo comes a knocking.

Sadly, I am one of those people. (I get off on imagining sex, so it doesn't exactly affect masterbation) Well, I'm not so much squeamish as just sort of scared of hurting myself.Any ideas on how to, erm, get used to using tampons? I mean, what does one do the first time around?

I think patience (specially if you are not a US citizen, the lines are longer for them than for US citizens/green card people) is very useful. Don't complain, they know it's annoying to stand in lines four times as long as those for the citizens. I travel all over the place, but I don't usually see much difference in…

Thanks! It'll be my graduation gift to myself. :P

In all fairness, the MiC has not ever campaigned against women's rights in India, have not picketed in front of family planning clinics or insisted that condom/UID/morning-after pills/birth control pill ads be removed from TV/Newspapers/billboards, have not tried to get abortion banned, prevent passing of laws of…

Did you give him the finger? I would have gone, "You losing motherfucker, go boil your head and fry your neck while you're at it too!" I am quite foul-mouthed when insulted.

Oh, thanks. I cannot afford Photoshop right now, even with my college's student discount, so I use GIMP. But I agree with you, I should probably not be photoshopping my images (I'm just a hobbyist, I don't intend to earn from my photographs, just to take better ones for pleasure) because if I keep doing that, I'll…

I was confused for a while, I'm Indian and I've never eaten a bug dish. But, yeesh. Kudos on your ability to control reactions. I'd have jumped up from the table, yelled "EEEEEEEEEEE" and sprinted off.

I don't know why you think the Aryan Invasion theory should be so foreign to most Indians, because in high school, we were taught that as part of our history classes. It's only after going back to the US that I realized that it's not entirely accepted. Indians seem to be quite okay with accepting the whole…

The coloured stuff could either be chemicals or made from leaves and flowers. Traditionally, they're supposed to be made from flower petals and such like.

It's also very hard to do any of the advised steps in the article with your old parents, because if you completely cut them out of your life when they were good parents to you, then you'd just feel like a jerk. *

VOTE: Sony Walkman NW-E03 MP3 Player (the "lipstick" player, it literally looks like a lipstick) At the time I bought it, it was one of the smallest mp3 players on the market. I think it only stores 1 GB, but I only use it for travel anyway. Plus, mine is purple!

"garlic, oregano, paprika, rosemary, and ginger" are not exactly very hot spices. They're not talking about people ingesting a metric tonne of chili peppers or something here. Just mild spices.

If you choose to use netvibes, change it to the "Reader" view, and the setup is actually very similar to GReader (with name of site on the side and the threads on the right once you click on the site name). It updates a little slower, though. And sometimes feeds stop updating, and you have to email the support staff…

Well, the way I took it was it telling us to abandon self-improvement only when it we detested doing the self-improvement, and instead spend the time doing self-improvement that one would actually enjoy.But maybe I'm reading it wrong.

Is this any different from syncing GMail with Outlook/ [Mail.app] Thunderbird/ Sparrow/Postbox/what have you ? They save attachments and download all your mail too, don't they? (At least [Mail.app] does)