1. The bike thing is unrealistic for a lot of the year - in winter it’s too cold, there’s snow, etc. In summer it’s too hot, you can’t show up to work dripping in sweat.

Trying to apply Dave Ramsey to the very poor is bullshit. There’s a difference between being “broke” and being “poor.” Broke means you’re living above your means - spending more than you’re making. Poor means you’re not making enough to begin with. Poor means you get to decide whether to pay the electric bill or the…

If you’re poor, you actually might not be better off drinking tap water - getting enough calories is often a problem, and especially if you’re malnourished (as most of the very poor are) your body is going to crave sugar like you wouldn’t believe.

Depends on where you are. back when I was taking the bus, I lived about 3 miles away from my workplace. Guess how long it took me to get to work? An hour and a half each way. To go three miles. Because the bus didn’t have a direct route from my home to the office I had to go miles out of the way, change buses, then go…

$40 a week just in meat is a lot for the very poor. In college, working two jobs, my food budget was $20 a week, and this wasn’t that long ago, so you can imagine how much food $20 gets you (about one bag of groceries. Per week.).

You might think stuff like meatloaf and stroganoff is cheap, but when I was a very poor college student, stuff like ground beef was a luxury. It was hot dogs and canned tuna and lots of bread. Can’t really make a lot of healthy stuff with those ingredients.

That’s why this story - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m… - was so informative. Congrats, Gwyneth, you got healthy food. But human beings can’t survive off of 1/2 cup of rice and beans a day. If a pound of apples costs as much as two boxes of mac and cheese, which are you going to buy? You gonna live off…

“CHARLIE MURPH-AYYYY!”

I hope he and Khloe can rekindle their relationship. I don’t really keep up with the Kardashians (ha) but they always seemed like a pretty nice couple until he started struggling with addiction. Hopefully he can recover and get the help he needs.

Adding lots of water with green tea and lemon + raw fruits and veggies to your everyday routine will help get rid of water weight quickly (and this is coming from experience, not some fad diet tip). Hang in there. I’ve been trying to lose weight forv the last year. I’ve lost 20 pounds and then stopped losing. If I…

I once had a guy unfriend me after he made a rape joke and I called him out on it. Wish I was joking.

It applies everywhere, I think. I live in an area (not TX) where whites are in the minority, and when I go vote, it’s mainly old white people. I was genuinely freaking out in 2012 during the presidential election that Romney would be elected based on what I saw at the polls...

I love the “sex as a weapon thing.” We never hear from the wife in these situations:

It seems to me (disclosure: I’m straight) that lesbians seem to be the least shallow group of people, as a whole. I wonder if this is inherent (MRAs would argue, but I think women are less shallow than men, at least when it comes to appearance) or if it is cultural (men are taught that they are entitled to a certain…

I think it has to do a lot with the person’s self-esteem, maybe even more to do with self-esteem than with a real “preference.” For example, I’m married and have been out of the dating pool for a long time, but prior to that, I was uncomfortable dating shorter guys not because they were short, per se, but because for…

Oh, yeah, me too. All. The. Time. But I live in dry environment and have dry skin and hair too, so it’s no surprise that I need to slather it on every couple hours. I’ve been “addicted” since childhood and will probably remain “addicted” forever.

“The problem is women serving with our soldiers” = “We don’t trust our soldiers enough to not rape their own comrades.”

I don’t know if I find him attractive, per se, but there is something very...I dunno, charismatic?...about him. He’s not particularly good looking, but when he speaks, he’s electrifying.

Don’t be so sure. I don’t think the GOP will ever run Trump - in all likelihood, it will be Bush, who is far more conservative than independents. Even if they’re right-leaning independents, their viewpoints are likely closer to Sanders than to Trump. He’s had bipartisan support from Vermont for a long time now, too.

Does anyone really prefer black coffee, though? I take mine black because I’m on a very restrictive diet (*ahem* - excuse me, “lifestyle change”) and don’t want the calories. If I could drink a Frappaccino every day and not gain 100 pounds, I probably would. The men I know who take it black seem to do so because it’s…