But my husband has nightmares about me being unfaithful and I have ones about the zombie apocalypse! So that study is wrong!
(*that's how science works, right?*)

Oh that sucks so badly. I think I get what you mean. It's easy to say "oh, but it's an illness and they deserve our compassion" when you're not the one waiting for the phone call in the middle of the night or visiting the hospital or making them appointments with mental health professionals that always somehow get…

Yes, I've been amazed to learn how many people there are out there who are so much better than him or me or any of the rest of us who have ever made bad decisions in our lives. How nice it must be to be such a superior human being.

This makes me sad. I watched Catching Fire last night and I was thinking that he's so good at being kind of creepy - I still can't shake off his Freddie from The Talented Mr Ripley.

While I applaud your safety consciousness, I'm assuming you don't really have a medical condition characterised by muscular spasticity - so that word is not really cool to use.

"Move shelving unit away from wall; dust thoroughly with Pledge (esp. back and legs)"

I'm in a generous mood - but I think that commenter made a misplaced point sound worse than it was meant to. I think what she was trying to say was that while formula can be empowering for a lot of women, there really was (and this is very well documented) a formula company campaign (Nestle being the most egregious…

I suspect we all look a bit weird from the outside. Well, all of you anyway. We're totally normal in New Zealand.

You wonder right!

For me it's because my hair has become thinner as I have gotten older - my mum, in her 60s is quite bald. I just don't have enough hair to rock it long any more, I assumed that was the reason most women did it. I would love to have long hair again if I thought I could carry it off - I am terrified of getting an old…

And (at least in NZ) the differences in pay are already evident if you look at what men and women earn 6 months into their first job. For the vast majority of people that is before children enter the picture.

Am I the only person who thinks this one is awesome?

I know I've already said this once today, but I think your commenting manner is so cool. I love how you single-handedly turned this whole thread from increasing levels of rage into a civilised discussion where people learned some stuff without being unnecessarily mean.

Ahh, so it should be

This is a great video about all the articles telling girls and women what they shouldn't wear. It might be a good thing to show your friend. My 15-year old niece, who, like you, feels like she has more important things to worry about that what people think of her clothes, really liked it. I do too for that matter.

So basically he says "I find how you look right now unattractive. Let's do this". That is the definition of lady-boner-killer. You are well shot of him.

Ooh shall I try?

It really does seem to be a cultural difference. I think (and I mean this in an observational way, not a judgemental way - it might be totally fine in your culture) that your approach would be seen as quite full on to most NZ men. Depending on age and on how full on the "courtship" is, I wouldn't really expect the "is…

That's exactly what I thought when I saw that name. It reminded me of the Kath and Kim episode when the pregnant Kim goes to hospital and overhears some new words and starts considering the names Lupis for a boy and Enema for a girl.

I just hope the politicians can address the yogurt problem before it ferments.