I dunno. Maybe he’s not too bright, and/or maybe he goes in for women he is a little intimidated by—what if that’s his *thing,* that women who scare him a little turn him on?

I have straight, fine hair as well. I have a lot of it, so with time, skill, and “product” I could probably get it to look pretty decent, but more often than not I’m pretty sure I’d walk around looking like a drowned rat.

I’m not ready for another season of resisting the urge to cut all of my hair off a la Claire...

I hear you! Between the totally weird shape my small-even-when-nursing boobs would get squished into in the flanges and the huh-wwHAA—huh-wwHAA of the pump, *I* didn’t even like being around myself when I was pumping...

God damn it.

I had the “connected together” idea, too! For me, though, it was via some sort of plastic...tubing? Like an IV tube, maybe? And it was connected all the time. I distinctly remember wondering how that would work at the grocery store...

This is the best fucking thing I have read all day. I love the details about having to defrost them! I mean, logically I get it, but I just never actually thought through the process.

I had my second baby at a military medical facility, in an area where there are lots of military families. Since my baby was healthy and had no identified special needs, I had the option of having my one-week postpartum baby check at home. The military offers the option here ostensibly to reduce the loading on the…

Heh, I have a couple of ankle-biters so I give a little more slack to the crying babies these days (as long as the parent is at least trying to comfort the poor thing), but I hear you on the seat-kneading.

My middle school home ec class taught budgeting, how to balance a checkbook (pre-internet, so now that would likely need to be replaced somewhat with something like “how to read and use your online banking statement”), things like that. I’d like to see those taught regularly. Practical math.

I fucking loved his character in Spy. MrWebs and I have made the “Face-off Machine” reference to each other about a hundred times since we watched it.

Ugh. I have one of those, too. He also immediately modifies people’s names, but only for those he deems himself superior to. He’d never call his boss “Stan,” always “Dr. Johnson”, but he’ll shorten “Robert” to “Bob” without even asking as long as Robert is perceived as his junior (usually based on age; don’t even get…

So shortly after college I went to a U2 concert with a loosely-connected group of friends. I didn’t know the guy who had the seat next to mine—he was a little awkward but it didn’t matter, I was wasted and by the end of the concert so was he. U2 did NOT play With or Without You at that concert, and he and I got into…

Regarding “who knows?”: women and men can be battle buddies. Some of my closest friends from my military days are men.

I love it!

Haha uh-oh, I think I found my one degree of separation from a fellow commenter...

That message stuck out to me as well. For me it’s less creepy and more of the same old same old “women all want to be mothers; some of them just don’t know it yet” nonsense.

It’s interesting for me to see the hierarchy of alcoholic beverages that are deemed “appropriate” for mommies, too. Wine is, of course, #1. Beer is for fun days (ball games, outdoor neighborhood parties). Liquor drink in a cooler cup? Lush alert. . .

Is there a site that compiles all of the information on this or should I just search for publicly released police reports?

I love noise-cancelling headphones for when I want to hear other things (watching movies, listening to music), but when I’m napping or reading and not listening to anything else, I find that even just using foam earplugs combats the engine noise well enough that I’m not exhausted at the end of the flight.