Okay, I've read this and your other replies and I really think you're coming from a good place...but it's a lot easier for some people to say "you shouldn't care what other people think" or "everyone knows they'll look messy at the gym" than it is to put that into practice.

I didn't say it was gross for you, I just said I would feel uncomfortable with it. It hits one of my personal insecurities. I don't think I look nice when I sweat- my face gets flushed like a St. Paddy's Day drunk. If you don't feel the same and are blessed with good sweating genes, great, but I know I'm not unusual…

So are they "denim illusion," so to speak on the outside and just printed to look like denim? Or are they double-layered with sweatpants material on the inside? Because if it's the latter, those would be the comfiest, warmest winter jeans ever.

I've heard of things like this happening for years. It's straight-up voyeurism- I think we just hear more about it now, is all.

Clearly they did know that filming people in the bathroom was illegal- they turned the camera into the police as soon as they could find it. The point is, I believe, that the situation could have been ended much, much faster had the ladies been aware of a way to report the manager before they found that concrete…

Until a few weeks ago, yes (graduate school, different state)! Honestly, it's not something I can practically avoid, but I do dislike it a lot.

Yeah, I'm working on that level of confidence! But honestly I don't like exercising with other people, period; it find it very distracting and the urge to compare myself with what they're doing is overwhelming. I work much better if I can pound away by myself and focus on improving my own performance.

I don't know your wife, obviously, but personally I would never, ever want to go to the gym with my husband precisely because I wouldn't want him to see me sweaty. Many ladies are brought up to try desperately to avoid appearing sweaty or breathless because it's "unattractive" (and I don't mean sweaty in a music…

Yep. Oh, you occasionally like staying in with a bottle of wine and Netflix on a Friday night? Must be because you're an introvert.

That's what I wonder. I suspect that part of it is more about "discipline" than common sense.

I'd agree. I think the shared language thing has lot to do with it too (Australians and Canadians also seem to have little trouble here); not exactly logical, but that's never stopped anyone!

Well, according to the above apparently 7% of Americans would find it uncomfortable for their relative to marry someone "born and raised outside the United States." But I'm willing to bet that really only applies to certain countries i.e. the less white ones.

I tend to agree- I just used the term "active" to describe those who do consume atheist writing and advocate for the atheist viewpoint because it seemed to the most appropriate term. Although I'd say it's perfectly possible to be an inactive atheist, simply because it's a perspective that really doesn't require any…

I think his all-round prattish behavior and language is off-putting to a large number of people within the atheist movement, and certainly to those who are just agnostic. I've met a lot of active atheists who really can't stand him and think he gives atheism a bad name.

SO BAD. I used to work as a GTA and when one of my lecturers recommended Dawkins to students as an example of an atheist philosophy it was all I could not to wail "No no no no no no no no!"

I often wonder how my husband's family feels about this. They're all solidly Christian (I think Presbyterian?) to the extent that my MIL has served as an interim pastor and my husband's aunt and uncle have Christian rock playing whenever we visit them at Christmas. I was raised in a completely non-religious…

Yeah, a friend of mine phoned in a very physical, public fight between two drunken frat boys from a bar patio and when the police showed up they promptly began grilling him about how much he'd been drinking (a beer) and how he was planning on getting home that night (he lived two blocks away). One of them said "I'm…

I would totally buy the lower-cut version. I'm guessing they wouldn't sag at the knees or butt after you wear them more than once, which is what I really look for in a more expensive jean.

Honestly, that was my first thought too. I mean, she clearly looks enough like Elsa to satisfy the Frozen-crazed appetites of 5 year-olds, so good for her, but her face is a little too Romanesque, I think, to really pull it off. The eyebrow arch is good though.

"Prince Charming" is definitely public domain- he's in the Fables comic books series, and they only use the characters they don't have to pay for.