Then ignore it I shall! Thanks. (Consider this a thanks to all three of you!)

Can someone tell me what this "toggle star" command on some avatars means? Even now, I'm still trying to figure out the ins and outs of the comment system.

I'm not even 5'4, and something about my build allows me to acquire and shed 10 pounds without so much as a shift in how my clothes fit. I don't know where the weight hides... my tongue and eyes? My hair?

I remember when the centre of the poppy was green, though. I'm glad it changed to black, both for aesthetics and accuracy.

I didn't think it sounded defensive at all. It came across as politely educational. (And makes perfect sense, although I never thought about the why. I simply assumed that the US didn't do it because they weren't part of the Commonwealth.)

Whispering almost anything makes it sound far creepier than saying it.

From what I understand, IQ can be affected by a great many factors, and is not constant over time. I think it may be a measure more of... functional intelligence than inherent intelligence? Depression can change it, too.

Just a couple? It's a really common style in Canada; I noticed it in California as well. I've gotten used to it, but I don't think I'd ever dare to wear it...

I think it's still a 'new' fashion (or, y'know, cyclical...), so it's taking real adults some time to come around. I see women of every age pulling them off with great panache here, though, so don't let some dumb nay-sayers throw you off if you want to experiment. If you're colourful already, they'll get used to the…

The code word in our family is "hockey gear". Hockey pads, hockey sticks. This worked great until my mother married a hockey fan who knew neither of us played or cared outside of the Olympics.

"Comments"? As in... disapproving comments? :\ Don't they know that 30s is far too young to banish colour and fun from your wardrobe?(!)

No! No no no. You can't eat kittens!

Those socks are like wearing PANTS. I love them.

I think if you're worried about being too out-there, you could pair loud tights with more muted garments overall. Like vivid scarlet tights with a grey skirt and an ordinary blouse, perhaps. Or if you wear boots with a skirt, that tones down the punch of the tights as well, while still being fun.

To be frank, I don't recall any sexual harassment in junior or senior high (nor before that), but that might be in part due to highly tuned selective hearing and general obliviousness.

I have had my name changed enough times growing up. I'm done. But the biggest deciding factor in my not taking my husband-to-be's name is that I don't like how it will flow. My name becomes the exact same syllable pattern in every name, all ending on the same consonant. DAH-dun DAH-dun DAH-dun. And it's silly, I know,…

My problem since moving to Montreal is that it is ALWAYS light out, to my eye, because it's a big city. It made it really different to get to sleep in the beginning.

Yep. Yep, they do. That's the one I was trying to say without saying it.

Definitely. But, although very fond of the South myself, I do wonder if people aren't more... loose with their tongues in the South. I knew a lot of small-town folks (I didn't notice it as much from the city kids) in university who, while not expressly racist themselves, still managed to let slip some horrible turns…

No one seems to be offended by "gypped" because no one seems to know of its origins anymore. Someone used it in my English class in high school, and our teacher immediately corrected us, explaining it was just as bad as "Jewed"...which none of us had ever heard before.