Ah, and therein lies the truth; I like a bit of an old-fashioned gentleman. Chances are if he's wearing a watch, he knows enough not to be staring at his cell phone during our date. Also, people wear watches because they are beautiful.

I live and work in a small, government-employee kinda town. I don't get to see many watches that nice. My husband wears a Michael Kors runway (I know, so trendy) and my dad wears his father's vintage Rolex. And those are some of the nicer watches I've seen in town. You're right, I probably wouldn't judge a man for…

She looks like a corpse that bobbed up in the lake 3 weeks post mortem. Pale, bloated and almost unrecognizable. Gross.

Awesome. I will start bitching to the republican GOP right away.

I'll agree with you on that point. I wish everyone made enough money to comfortably make good purchases (and ultimately save money in the long run). I'd love to see cheap, fast fashion come to an end.

Right. It's so much better to go through five pairs of $50 shoes in five years ($250), rather than buying one good pair for $200 that, with care, will last at least that long.

My husband suffered severe and painful UT infections and eventually a kidney infection as a young boy; he was circumcised at the age of 4 and has had no problems since. Since he remebers it, he can say without a doubt that it was not painful, though the infections certainly were! If we have a son we will be…

Am I to understand the doctor has suffered injuries while serving overweight patients? She does have the right to refuse unsafe work.

Whoa.

While I'm at it...

Power to you (to us!) Hey, somebody has to have superficial standards and enforce them ;-)

I would think the smell they seem to cultivate would be more than enough reason to run screaming from any man wearing them.

" If a guy is wearing loafers with out socks, that's usually a "no" (smelly feet)..."

It isn't? It's a well-known adage that you can't get a really good quality pair of shoes for less than $200. For $50 all you can get is some crappy glued shoes made by kids in China. No thanks.

Consider: do you think there's a chance you could give him a makeover? You have to consider all possibilities. There are so, so many nice but poorly dressed gents out there that could use a little help. It's like buying a fixer-upper home.

YES. I care about footwear. I can't take you seriously if you're wearing rubber garden shoes or beat-up sneakers. But I'm sure there are lots of other ladies who are willing to overlook that, so I don't feel bad.

Agreed; I don't have kids yet (first on the way), but I let my colleagues bitch about their kids. I listen carefully because a) I know this will be me soon b) I'm trying to learn something and c) one day they can return the favour by listening to me.

Okay, so what are the rules about bitching about pregnancy? 'Cause I am really fucking sick of this whole schtick.

Really? I love it. To each their own!

I'd wager it's not that we get "fat," but what we're getting fat on. I suspect our toxic food supply (BPA, hormones, preservatives, transfats) is fucking with our hormones and our ability to lose the baby weight like our ancestors did.