It is very, very much about what you make. People aren't choosing between newish car or older car, they are choosing between car or rent. They are choosing between food or electricity. They are forced to choose which critical element to survival they are best able to go without. No one is talking about vacations…

Highrise, Docks, and Arabstreets will always be among my favorites.

Agreed - there is a big difference between Dust and Dust2. Switching back and forth in this article is a little confusing.

Software engineers that are "afraid" of anything but basic scripting are not, in fact, software engineers. I have hired many developers that didn't go to college. Of the ones I can recall off the top of my head, three of the four were the most brilliant engineers I've had the pleasure to work with. Great developers at…

The best thing is, renting is WAY cheaper than buying in many locations. But the trillion dollar industry around house "buying" has successfully sold an awful lot of people into believing fervently that renting is throwing away money. It isn't. It's paying for a service.

Hurrah for you making responsible family decisions based on realistic expectations, by the way. There are an awful lot of folks who have kids without really thinking about how much they're going to cost (particularly in the USA, where my sister is).

I am REALLY confused as to why you folks put up with that. Shouldn’t any sort of co-habitation be a partnership? If chores are split beforehand, that’s one thing, but I don’t get the imbalance other people talk about. Why would you be OK with that? I do the dishes, but my husband breaks down and hauls all the…

That is... that is the best comment that has been made on this site that I’ve seen so far.

Using real smoked salmon is a much tastier dish, though. I don’t really think I’m a snob, but I would prefer to use smoked salmon too. Weird liquid smoke is just bleah.

There is no doubt in my mind that we get it far, far worse than men do. But a childfree friend of mine went in for a vasectomy and they did try to talk him out of it saying that he would probably change his mind. They kept telling him it was a bad idea for him to go through with this before he had at least one kid.

I would kill to have a normal name like Chloe. I’m saddled with an ugly, uncommon name that I hate. My name is the name of a fat Russian babushka with armpit hair down to her knobby knees, stomping down the stairs.

We shall overcome.

Pretty much, yes.

Tommy Lee Jones (from 20 years ago)?

Her music got me through some Times when I was young.

I make a phenomenal kale and spicy sausage soup, and I'll have words with anyone who calls my soup trendy :mad:

I give up.

FIFA is evil? What the heck are you even talking about?

MadamS. - I recommend going to a dermatologist. I, too, had bad acne when I was a teenager, and back then, I was blamed ("You must be eating fried food!" "You must not clean your face properly!" "You must be pigging out on chocolate!"). When I still had acne at 25, I said enough was enough and I went to a…

I love that response.