Patrick Chung did break his arm. He TRIED to entertain you.

I know exactly what you mean. I’m also a longtime Patriots fan, and usually I get very anxious and aggressive during games, even during the regular season. I yell at the TV a LOT, and have been known to sometimes hit my ottoman hard enough to give me a little “Superbowl Scar.”

I think that Brady, in particular, couldn’t get very excited about this victory because he knows he didn’t play well. If the Patriots defense hadn’t stepped up, Brady would have lost that game. Everyone always asks, “Which Superbowl win is your favorite?” and Brady looked pained, and even while celebrating, he…

I was watching my team in the Superbowl a few years ago, and I was a grad student and TA at the time. Professors just LOVE making all their assignments due simultaneously, and thus I got stuck grading massive piles of essays all weekend, including during the game itself.

I was also thinking about Bundy’s victims versus those of other serial killers such as those you mentioned. Many people in these comments have pointed to Bundy’s “white privilege,” but I think the fact he killed his peers—wholesome young college girls who were also white—may have hastened his capture in the long run.…

He’s actually listed as 5' 10" and in one of his mugshots, he had his hair kind of poofed up and he looked like he hit six feet then. He definitely would not have been viewed as being a short man, even though he did have a smallish build.

Like Homer Simpson!

Many people have mentioned that men need a space to interact with other men in a manner that promotes empathy and emotional intelligence—a place to be vulnerable without the fear of sacrificing masculinity. I have been wading into some frightening corners of Reddit lately and reading some comments from some toxic…

Thanks! I do my best with the circumstances that are given me. 😉

I do sympathize regarding the height issue, especially because it is something that you can’t do anything to change. I think that IS a somewhat prevalent prejudice among women—definitely culturally constructed to a large degree—but a prejudice nevertheless, and I think it is something a lot of women don’t think they…

The good news about the IUD insertion is that it is only done about every three years, depending on the brand of the IUD. You can get it done right in a doctors’ or clinics’ office, and the procedure itself is quite short. Most of the sensations you would notice would actually be just from the use of regular…

No ideas for question 2, but for the elderly relatives with hearing issues, is Skype or something similar a possibility? Then they could see you physically and observe that you were doing okay, and they might have an easier time hearing you if they could watch your lips at the same time. Perhaps they could also crank…

Does the carpool duty fall on you now?

It was horrifying when I watched my family’s behavior at my grandfather’s and great-grandmother’s funerals ten years ago. The deaths happened very close to one another in time and both deaths had been drawn out for awhile, leaving the whole family just emotionally wrecked. But at the funeral, everyone ran around…

Ski lessons as a gift for someone who just broke his leg.  It's a shame the gift-giving pissing contest from last week is over.

The problem is that I get legit sick all the time. Last Christmas I was hospitalized, then this past April, then I was in the hospital three weeks ago, had surgery a week after that...

If I could just give you a bit of unsolicited advice regarding your birth control (I SWEAR I am not a man!), I was in a similar situation to you where I didn’t want kids and needed to stop menstruating due to endometriosis.

I’m so sorry to hear that. It will be tough for a while but I hope this ends up leading you to a better place in your life as soon as possible!

Believe me, I’d love to get away with that! I’ve even told everyone repeatedly that I could handle checking in more frequently if I could just text them.  My hope is that several of the people I need to call actually end up at the same place and the same time,  hopefully RIGHT when dinner gets served, because then I'd…

I always say about my family members, most especially my mother: I don’t hate them, but I don’t really love them and even trying to LIKE them is difficult. All that is left is a feeling of obligation, but even that is a false feeling because they all took so much from me and I owe them NOTHING!