My average ex balanced at least two women for a year, and I lived with him for six months of that. There were probably more ladies, but I only met the one. Sadly, we did not comport ourselves in the way these ladies did. I am all the more impressed giving their young ages. I was mid-20s and was a horrible cliche.

That was my assumption. Of course, that was my assumption about a lot of countries until the Hungarian guy I dated in college talked about the Jamaicans in Budapest, and then I had to rethink immigration patterns completely.

Every single nation you list here with the exception of Canada — Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan — are also extremely homogenous populations. You're talking about groups of people who are all working within the same cultural framework.

Thanks for expanding on this. I also read the part about no black dancers in Russia as kind of odd, as that's not a large minority population there. Your take makes a lot of sense (and is no less frustrating).

"She tried to get me into it..." Does this mean you still haven't seen the show?! It's so worth losing a weekend. The eps are only 30 minutes long, so you can tear through it pretty quickly. Warning: It will make you cry and you will feel embarrassed that you did.

Yes. This. It's gotten so bad when I go to bed I play just one more episode on my phone.... God. I didn't realize how pathetic that would look in type.

Right?

I love that you are so sweet you believe this woman has any friends. My guess is no one can make it past the first round of interviews.

If she had only seen the "Dawson's Creek" episode warning her about the dangers of raves and ecstasy, we wouldn't have to suffer through this.

Oh! Wait! My British Tom has a soft-spot for sarcastic Midwestern American girls. Totally different man. We can be friends. :-)

OMG I just choked on my soda. WE DELUDE ABOUT THE SAME MAN.

I also "dress up." That is, if dressing up is a pair of nice leggings, boots and a tunic sweater or tee shirt and scarf (depending on the weather) or an easy dress with leggings/tights and boots. I feel less "chaotic traveler" if I look like I've got my shit together. And I still have the delusion of a meet-cute with…

What is this fab gif from?

I had not read any of the text from this book until now. What the... What the hell was I reading? The author has no problem writing the word "fuck" every three sentences, but when referring to the female body "there" in italics is the best she can come up with.

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I didn't notice until I moved to New York and the kids in class were giving me a really bad time about it. (Ugh. Mean Girls!) I worked to consciously avoid saying it. When I moved back to Kansas several years ago, I heard it everywhere and embraced it as a Kansas-ism. I would guess it is also an Oklahoma-ism, but I'd…

Y'all is an excellent gender-neutral word EVERYONE should use. Keep it!

I have random words pronounced with different regional intonation because I moved around. Louisville is LOO-i-vul and Nashville is NASH-vul from living in Kentucky. (I have finally eradicated the verbal tick of saying I'm "fixing to" do something.) I have a lot of upspeak and slang from late 1990s Southern California.…

Ahhh, that helps. I didn't know she was from Texas. I DO know she is flawless and I have a renewed sense of love for her after seeing that film. :-)