The Boy who Wanted to Feel his Flesh Creep

I never had the NuvaRing, but Mirena was superb for me — probably happier all round than when not on BC. (This was not my experience with the Pill.) And my gyno said she recommended it be pulled about 6mo before trying to conceive, and that that was very cautious, but AFAIK the five years' rule isn't *medical*, it's…

The other half of that is that we need to make reasonable accomodations for parents to also work or study. (I'd like an *actual 40 hour work week*, something that would do all of us good. F)#$ this 60+ expectation.) I'm glad your engineering dept. is good!

And that doesn't happen where you are? Wow.

My boots and handbag are Python. Butches up a string of Perls, you know.

I'm pretty sure a family history detailed enough to cover all risk factors would have enough information to identify most donors (pretty sure because it repeatedly turns out that it takes *very little* information to identify people in any system).

This question only asks for our bad tempered shots at easy targets. Ask for the wild examples of terrible fashion that mysteriously worked, or ask us to remember how good our wierd clothes a decade ago made us feel at the time.

I think these women look great! Especially second-from-the-right, who doesn't particularly have a flapper figure. Great smile. Great carriage. Nice little tum.

The hobble is said to have `made up for' giving up the tight corset. Her posture is pretty natural, aside from the hobble.... come to think of it, fewer underpinnings and a hobble probably made her look like Jessica Rabbit to her contemporaries.

Outerwear was made of wool and brushed clean (or daubed with solvents); the three *inner* layers were usually cotton or linen, and linen is superbly washable. Boilfast.

Now, unless you were rich, the lack of a drying machine was a problem — clean linens, dank kitchens.

I think — I very faintly remember — that the slightly Western, slightly rural, slightly folk look actually was supposed to signal being mellow and getting along and enjoying the simpler things in life. Which was just as well, given the transition from civil unrest through stagflation. It goes with spaghetti…

Good enough for a goddess (Venus callipyge):

It would have been impossible to do this study in 1954 because casual sex was less acceptable then. We need to have it be socially acceptable enough that men and women can try it *and admit it* to figure out what its effects are, independent of the effects of social stigma.

If that actually worked, bald men would be head-frotting each other daily.

yes! I moved from a 95% African-American school to a half-Scandinavian one at nine, and my mother swears my comment the first day was a despairing `I can't tell them apart, they're all blonde.'

The tendency to be prejudiced does seem to be innate, IIRC, but the in-group is determined by experience.

Isn't the current evidence now that we do tend to be prejudiced around people who aren't like who we grew up around? Which makes it advantageous to have mixed neighborhoods. Eventually.

Here's an example of trying different ways of making a *single adjustment* for *one person* on a T-SHIRT. That's the simplest thing we wear!

Different ways to adjust the bust in a T-shirt

I don't understand marketing or price psychology at all! I can say that middling-expensive boutique clothes seem to do a much better job of fitting a range of customers, but they aren't bound by the cheapest price around. Note that a lot of comments here think a semi-custom dress for less than $100 is expensive;…

Oh yeah! Did you notice the design for this years' World Cup soccer ball? Brilliant, looks crazy hard to sew. Probably done with glue or robots or I know not what.