As an Old® I do remember an old time actress named Hermione Gingold who would pop up in old afternoon movies on TV like Gigi and The Music Man.

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel as though the “Ugly American” traveler has grown less common over the last 20 years. The stereotype remains, but overall I think I’ve seen less of it as Americans grasp two basic principles that make them less likely to stand out: Lower the volume of your voice and dress the part. If we…

Also, to be confident about telling creeps and blowhards to leave them alone (and how to report them to gym management).  

The most important thing for teens to learn about the gym is how to send a letter in the mail since damn near every gym makes it near impossible to cancel membership without getting a member of congress involved.

Scanning local marketplaces might net you the original hardware. A few years ago, I grabbed a SNES with a bunch of classics and two controllers off Craigslist for a virtual robbery of $30, from a mom just trying to unload her grown kids' old stuff

Longtime group fitness instructor here. As I say frequently in my classes, this is your workout. I’ll show you various modifications for all the moves, feel free to use them (and if an exercise hurts, don’t do it and feel free to ask me for another suggestion).

I’ve never experienced what you describe. 

I work at a gaming company in the Silicon Valley. None of these tips apply.

Kind of/sort of/I guess/just: We use these type of “hedging words,” according to speech trainer and author John Bowe, “to seem reasonable, approachable or the opposite of bossy.” But not only are they distracting, they also convey a lack of clarity and self-assurance.

Counterpoint: sounding “Professional” at work is gatekeeping. Your linguistic patterns are not a meaningful measure of your qualities as a worker.

Profanity

Yeah, I’m much more of a fan of the double and thirty method, personally. Memorizing two numbers to get a close-enough guess for human habitation is significantly easier than memorizing, effectively, eight numbers that only give you good benchmarks.

For Celsius, I use a poem:

This is a good one! Unfortunately for me, I am definitely going to forget the 4, 16, 28, 40 and someone is going to tell me that it’s 12 degrees out, and I’m going to try to remember this and figure out how to back into 12 —> 21 Fahrenheit - even though I know that’s definitely wrong.

Wow. Don’t feel guilty! That is amazing.

People who might not identify explicitly as either and may have aftermarket equipment down there?

The one thing you do hear women complaining about is occasionally men start to think sex should actually go like porn with super aggressive sex preluded by zero foreplay. I realize masturbation does not necessarily require porn, so it’s a tangentially related thing.

They're not listed so they're not myths, duh.

But will it still make you go blind, or have hairy palms?

Unfortunately my ex (we were together for 3 decades) considered masturbation cheating, forcing me to hide it more carefully than I did when I was a kid living at home. Not fun.