My best guess is to stimulate the area enough to engorge it. It probably looks better, and I would imagine it gives a tighter opening to the toy.

I've tried to refute it, but all it did was piss off the person I was trying to communicate with. You're right, that is the line they use. You're also right in that if you dig a little bit, it's complete and utter crap. Intelligent design is creationism when you look at it with any type of critical eye (which is an…

Exactly. What gets me is when some of the people I know who do this are in research fields and claim to "love science." I know one who eats up everything the Discovery Institute puts out, but a scientific foundation started at MIT and supported by hundreds of Nobel Laureates obviously only spouts propaganda. It scares…

I feel so badly for her. At least it does show the extreme disconnect from empathy that these people have.

I'm really sorry, y'all. I did what I could to try to get him out in 2012, but you see what we're up against here.

I am also not a lawyer, but from what I understand, @ThisSpaceForRent is correct.

Heh, no need to feel weird. Different strokes for different folks! I've actually felt weird for years and years because I just cannot keep trig straight in my head.

I was in an accelerated track starting in middle school. I took alebra 1 in middle school (8th grade), then geometry (9th, high school), algebra II (10th), trig (11th), and AP calculus (12th).

Algebra wasn't harder than stats. The stats that most non-mathematics majors do is actually basically just algebra, but it's…

I'm not sure I really have any input at this point, but I'm a kinda mathy sort. I'm currently at the end (just need to do thesis and comps) of a quantitative psych degree, which is basically just applied statistics. If you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer.

My brain. It is broken.

Keep an eye out on Black Friday specials. I got a Pro 500 for $199 and free shipping from Sears this past year. You may not get to pick the color, but the price was good for the model. My mom got me a cover in the color I wanted for Christmas, and it holds my accessories and junk to boot.

Seems like all the legislators in that room should take a gander outside the room and building. They might want to think a bit more about making illegal votes.

Nope, it's almost odorless (I just rubbed some on my arm to check).

For my fellow chafers: Chafing Gel

I have to kind of agree more with Juhyiklop on this. One, the US is definitely not overpopulated in terms of density or food availability. We produce FAR more food than we need as a country. Also, the only reason corn is so cheap is because we subsidize it hugely as animal feed. It's unfortunate, because it makes…

This is the reason I haven't been brave enough to try them yet. I'm afraid I'm way too lazy.

Nah, I wouldn't call it silliness. :) I imagine it would be a pretty common sentiment here in the US. Like she said, we've kind of pushed death away from our lives into these little niche places, and that's made embracing and accepting death as an aspect of life and not some scary, "other" thing seem more morbid than…

I don't find her idea is overly morbid. It's more of a return to how we dealt with death in our culture for a long time, where it was a part of the life of the family. I can imagine that, for some people, the personal involvement allows a better sense of closure and safety in not turning the body of a loved one over…

Very good point. Hopefully soon I'll be able to read the full study to see what all was actually considered and measured, as well their full statistical methodology.

That's kind of the sticky point for me; neither the study's abstract nor the article discussing it shows that there was a statistically significant difference between the married/unmarried cohabitating groups for similar amounts of time. There may have been, but I don't have access to the full text at the moment.