He also lived through the Depression. Those can be some frugal folks.

Anytime someone says "female bodies are designed to do X" it's almost guaranteed they've never studied biology and certainly have no real medical training.

Good, your friend avoided being on the bad side of the statistic. That's awesome for her.

You obviously have no knowledge about late term abortions. First, it's only 3% of all abortions performed. Second, most women realize that they don't want to carry the pregnancy much earlier. However, some are pushed into abortion after 20 weeks because of all the stupid laws that make obtaining abortion more…

A friend and I call it "torti-tude".

My dad wrote letters on 20+ year old notebook paper left over from my school days.

The schmuck I was married to justified tackling me to the ground, getting on top of me, pinning my wrists to the floor and screaming in my face because I threw a plastic bic pen in his direction. It landed 2 feet from him, didn't come close to touching him, and wasn't thrown with enough force to hurt him even if it…

First, it would look like a fake. Second, the Stolen Valor act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Third, there's a new law, Stolen Valor 2012, that can bring criminal charges if someone PROFITS from the claim.

I'm not even sure his time traveling self would meet his requirements since there could be a good chance he'd had a different timeline that would have led him to doing something like looking at cat pics on the internet.

This should be part of an entire figurine collection of dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. When I reach the age of having to collect something, I want those to be an option.

Street harassment seems to be more common in certain areas. I had more street harassment in downtown Augusta, GA, as a young woman than I did in the suburbs of the town I grew up in (though it happened a few times there too, but mostly guys yelling from cars as I walked along major streets outside my neighborhood). …

I use a glass quart measuring cup and bring the water to boil in the microwave. By the time I get it out of the microwave and to the counter it's usually not quite boiling. So times, when I'm particularly lazy, I'll leave the tea bags in the water for an ungodly amount of time. I'm sure that would raise the hackles…

The first person I knew who made sun tea was from the NW and we were in AZ at the time. I grew up in the South and didn't know anyone who made sun tea.

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That is not how one makes tea either. Bring a quart of water to boil, plop in some tea bags, add about a cup of sugar to gallon pitcher, pour in brewed tea, and fill pitcher with cold water. Now, THAT is how tea is done properly! :)

As a Southerner who keeps a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge, I also don't understand why anyone would think sun tea was a good idea. Is it a Yankee thing?

Eeeeewwww! Of course, how exciting he is to you doesn't matter. Just lie back and think of England!

What else is he doing or not doing in the relationship? I always had a higher sex drive than the schmuck I married, but nothing put me off of sex faster than him being an abusive ass. The marriage ended and I got my sex drive back.

I'm a tarantula hawk wasp myself.

Sure, but sometimes that ONE mistake is life altering. I really envy the alternate me who decided not to marry a schmuck at 18.