Yep, gave it a watch with the nieces recently. It’s only awkward for the childishly repressed. The people freaked out by it are the guys who can’t stand to be seen buying tampons at CVS.

Fair point

If you’re getting your tires changed anywhere that is vaguely aware of the world around them, they are going to check all this for you and re-inflate your spare. They’re about as high margin of an item as you can sell and not call it gouging, they love it when they get to sell you a new spare.

The first half sound like boring job interview questions and the second half sound like job interview questions from the “fun,” manager, who “wants to see how you think.”

Yeah, I’m not exactly ancient and, the popularity of the movie Clueless asside, I feel like “stepsister porn,” would have felt insanely creepy when I first started regularly seeing adult material. Now it’s in the top few genres on pornhub.

Hmmm, fair enough. Definitely an interesting take.

True, asexuality can’t account for, or at least I don’t think it can account for, the whole difference. I was more pointing out the joke that the number of people not masturbating must be zero was a bit dismissive of the asexual crowd.

I completely get you were joking, and no doubt there are some solid lies told on any survey, but don’t go forgetting the very real group of people out there who are asexual.

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.

Meh, there’s a lot of good ideas in there, but it doesn’t really have to be either/or.

“Risks alienating audience members who can’t find a way into the story.”

I’m finishing up an MA in linguistics right now, with one of my responsibilities being teaching a couple of English classes, so I feel at least somewhat qualified to speak on this topic. I hate this conversation. Context matters, and any judgement for or against any word/usage that doesn’t include it is pointless.

On the Roman lunar calendar, “ides” refers to the first new moon of a month, which usually falls between the thirteenth and fifteens. The “Ides of March,” though, refers specifically to March 15, no matter when the new moon rises.

The person making the claim provides the evidence. I feel like that is exceptionally basic 101 level stuff. When you say metal straws do a thing with no evidence or support other than “I really think it’s probably that way,” it’s your job to provide at least basic backing for that. Shouting out random nonsense and…

Fun list, but I think considering this “kid stuff,” may date us all.

I said research, not what one guy “recently noticed.” All it would take is one bit of actual research and I’d absolutely eat my words, but you can find a few people in any profession who think pretty much anything, hence all the anti-COVID-vaccine doctors out there.

For some reason parent’s abandon all sense of what the people around them might be comfortable with the second their kid pops out. (I know, I know, not all parents . . .) 

The very first thing I thought when I saw your comment was “I’ve been using metal silverware my whole life and have yet to have an issue.” But, I figured I’d give it a look, and after a decent amount of searching, I can’t find one bit of research supporting the idea that metal straws are bad for your teeth.

Metal straws would be just as good for your lipstick and also wouldn’t contribute to the slow-motion ecological car crash we’ve engineered for ourselves.

Yep, I felt a million when I got asked this. Granted, the person who asked me is still in high school, but I was definitely the old in the conversation.