How this plays out is going to be completely determined by how well individuals, and local and state governments prepare. I predict the morons at the federal level will only react by providing the resources needed AFTER it has become a major crisis at the nation level, and then they will fuck that up too.

Not sure of your medical credentials, but I can assure you that face masks do next to nothing to protect the wearer of the mask from anything. At best, they may prevent the wearer from spreading their own germs, but even that is limited.

Doctors wear face masks during surgery so that their mouth germs won’t get into the patient’s open wound. Not to protect themselves from airborne viruses. If they’re dealing with patients with certain dangerous contagious diseases, they wear filter mask or respirators so that they won’t get sick. A simple face mask…

I am an old who has a CD player in my car, and every now and then I will put in the Rockferry album. “Warwick Avenue”, in the right mood, will turn me into a puddle behind a steering wheel. I had always read vague things about her leaving the industry because of “stress”, and I wish her all the happiness and healing…

Same. I’d always assumed it was because she broke around the same time as Adele, and that she fell by the wayside because her work seemed a bit more perfunctory than Adele’s. But now I feel badly for even critiquing her in retrospect. I hope she pursues music again to the extent that she desires.

I often wondered why she dropped off the face of the earth. I’m so glad she’s recovering.

I’m speechless.

Holy hell, that’s brutal man. I wish her the best and I hope airing this out helps her continue to recover. 

I probably have a couple of glasses of wine most nights while cooking and eating dinner, so 5pm on weeknights.

Good job! I have fourteen years now. The people who get bent out of shape are the ones secretly worried about themselves. I never hit bottom, but I was sure an alcoholic, and luckily I could admit it, even if others had a problem with my decision. Like I care! I’m happily sober but I’m not going to take away their…

I have quite a few friends who started with a sober month and now still don’t drink months or years later. They don’t even decide not to drink, it just doesn’t happen because they aren’t interested and prefer the way they feel.

Yup. I’m one-drink or no-drink depending on my mood, but one guy at work (who drinks at work), got super weird about me not going for after work beers every week. He was so offended. I dgaf about other people drinking, but some people get so defensive about it when you don’t drink.

People’s reaction to my sobriety (507days!) have ranged from being nosey to being downright pissed off about it. Like I cant stop drinking if I’m not an alcoholic or haven’t hit rock bottom. But remember, people’s reaction to your sobriety is 100% about their relationship with alcohol, not yours.

It happens. I am not a big booze and wine drinker, it was beer. I just got tired of beer for the most part and quit. Morning afters were a small part but I would feel like crap the next morning after 2 or 3 beers at happy hour the evening before. I decided to quit for a while and it ended up a year no problem, for me.…

I should quit drinking. Not because I drink too much, I almost never drink, but because after having a baby I’m such a lightweight that even one glass of wine gives me a hangover. I can’t hang with the cool kids anymore without wanting to die the next day.

The other one sells knitted dreidels made out of rat fur and lost eyelashes. 

But which one of them is the professional butterfly tickler, and which one of them is the part time tortoise wrangler? 

I’m seeing some confusion about the whole bisexual vs. pansexual thing, so I’m pasting my response here too in hopes it’ll be a bit more visible.

As someone who has watched what some might classify as a disgusting amount of House Hunters (both domestic and international), approximately 75 percent of the heterosexual couples you see on the show make it clear within the first five minutes of their episode that they should not be together.