I agree. Sometimes when I wonder about what life would be like if all STDs were a thing where if you knew you had one and knowingly exposed someone else and they were infected, nobody could sue you or name and shame you, you just got a small fine or warning or something, like you do for littering or walking your dog…

I've had a fair few one night stands, and it's been eye-opening how many times it's been me who's initiated the condom action, or once I've brought the issue up they've said "Well I know I'm clean, are you not?" or similar. There were a few years there when I was only having sex with one person so I know I may have…

Part of me feels a little bit bad for the guy, because I can empathise with the idea of having a horrible secret I don't want to share or act on. But then again I feel worse for the woman because, well, now she has herpes.

Maybe because the jury thought there was some kind of onus on her to be absolutely certain that he was STD-free before having sex with him, and that by consenting to sexual activity with someone you are by default partially responsible for whatever the outcome may be. :/

Maybe I misread that, but if he didn't know it's odd that he then told her after they'd done the deed. Occasionally part of me wishes that knowing you have or having good reason to suspect you have any kind of STD, not just HIV, and having unprotected sex with someone without informing them of that knowledge, and…

For a good few months there I really had to keep reminding myself of the reasons why one of those potbellied pigs was not a suitable pet for me.

'Mean Girls' is the only example I can think of of a self-help book being turned into a movie and it actually worked.

"Running on a treadmill is pretty much the definition of an exercise guaranteed to make me feel like I'm being punished for something."

I always think of the line from the first Bridget Jones book. "Because underneath my clothes my entire body is covered with scales."

Absolutely. Depending on how I'm feeling from day to day, it's either "Hurray! life is busy and/or shit but I still got this done, am a functioning adult!", a robotic "I did this today because it's just what I do" or "Blergh! one more fucking thing to do today and will get tired and sweaty and sore, DO NOT WANT."

If you're going by the original defintion rather than "conventionally pretty girl with quirky habits who annoys the audience", then no. If she's complicated and troubled then she's not a MPDG. The thing about the MPDG trope as originally defined, was that she was a character who had no meaningful interior life or…

I was in a four-year relationship with a guy who was very conventionally attractive (I'm not) and one of the reasons - not the only one, there were others - he broke up with me was because of the looks factor, as in he'd managed for four years to love me despite how I look but because of varying factors it wasn't…

I've started watching Mad Men from Series 1 because I liked Aaron Staton's performance in the video game 'LA Noire' so much.

Hahaha, I was just about to post this!

(Back story: I have a bad cold and blocked sinuses.)

5'9".

One of the reasons I heart 'She's All That' is because it was pretty much the basis for the 'Teen Movie' spoof which brought the "oh no! she has GLASSES! and a PONYTAIL!!" thing under the spotlight.

At dinner the other night someone brought up the "slobby guy/conventionally hot wife" Hollywood/sitcom convention, and we sat around for about five minutes trying to come up with something where the genders were flipped and the fact that an "ugly" woman was with a "hot" guy wasn't being treated as a joke in and of…

If you want relatively inexpensive but short-lasting fragrances that smell exactly like what it says on the bottle, Demeter is your perfume-making business. They don't have great staying power but the smell is exactly what they say it will be. I've only ever seen Demeter on the shelf in a couple of stores in my…

At one point I had, like, 10 different Demeters. Sad, I know. But I just couldn't get over the OH MY GOD IT SMELLS EXACTLY LIKE WHAT THEY SAY IT WILL.