:( I’m so sorry it didn’t work for you. I JUST moved in with my BF, like, this week. I’m terrified this will happen to us. I’m thinking we’re old enough now (38 and 43) that we know better and are committed to making it work, but ahhhhhhhh complacency terrifies me!

Because everybody was raised differently, and “mine” and “yours” mean different things to different people. Hence the variety of responses between all the commenters :)

Based on my experiences and potentially the OPs as well:

Everybody’s upbringing was different. Therefore, our ideas on what constitutes privacy, trust, responsible spending, etc etc etc, may not overlap for some couples as well as others. For some people, 100 % shared accounts makes sense. For other couples, 1 shared…

The ice can totally get below 0C. It freezes at 0C, but if you put solid ice (water ice, dry ice, doesn’t matter. It’s still a solid) in a -40 freezer, the solid itself will drop in temperature to the conditions.

Another way to make ice baths with water ice that are colder than 0C but warmer than the most common dry…

Yeah, see, blonde hair takes Purple Haze Manic Panic much better than darker hair.

It’s not just unprofessional, it’s named after a strain of MARIJUANA.

And yet, my ability to produce quality work is never questioned.

I concur it’s probably a religious/atheist divide.

Plus, of my relatives who were close enough i’d want to visit, i know all were cremated and scattered on family land. So, i go to our cabin in the woods every few years and watch a runrise or a sunset with a beer, and remember them as they’d want to be remembered.

I…

The Dawnser’s Lee light was her as well, correct?

Oh yeah. I think about that every damn sporting event i attend!

It wasn’t until this article that i realised how angry i got as a child when i was treated as a child. Even now, when i think back to when all i wanted to know was WHY? Not, “I am challenging your decision” but “please explain to me your decision so i better understand the world” and be told “because we’re the adults…

Research chemist. Used to be medicinal chemistry (lots of small reactions to make many related compounds per week) but now it’s process chemistry (doing known reactions many times on increasingly larger scales and looking for exotherms, unknown side reactions, precipitation events, or other unexpected potentially…

The last time i worked 60-80 hour weeks i did so for 32 days in a row, without a break. By the last day, i was hallucinating there were other people in lab with me.

Frankly i’m surprised i didn’t blow myself up or melt half my body off with acid. I have a lot of respect for people who CAN survive these kinds of hours.…

My favorite part of having an uncommon name is it self-selects for people i’d bother to get to know. At bars, for example? Also deliberately unclear, so if the creeper tries to google/FB stalk me later it’s nearly impossible :)

Then there are the douches i’ve worked with, mostly boss types, who after 5 years would…

Fuck that guy sideways with a chainsaw.

I am so sorry for your experience. Good luck and stay strong.

Has the designer of this ever actually witnessed the human form?

Seriously, this reminds me of what Deep Dream would design based on the 1999 Blair catalog.

I tried and made it maybe 2-3 months before i cracked. I have to use some sort of shampoo/soap every few weeks, just around my forehead hairline. Nowhere else, or else it dries out and gets brittle and crunchy :(

Yes, exactly. I thought i was SO CLEVER for noticing that, and then immediately felt dirty.

We all deal with the unthinkable in our own way.

Overall i enjoy the heck out of my work, but that’s how i approach the parts i don’t: If i don’t do them, i don’t get to go home. So procrastinating is absolutely not worth the time or energy, because at 6pm when i’m starving and alone in the building, my regret is orders of magnitude larger than the discomfort of…

Obviously everybody is different. But for about 10 years now i’ve been on the “shower only after workouts and when actually dirty” plan. I haven’t used soap on my entire body in much, much longer than that, since i used to have incredible itching and rashes. I went through years of trying to find the right lotion and…

Children get whatever their parents/family buy them, regardless of gender.

I wanted star wars figures and tonka trucks, so that’s what i got.

Next time i demand you do a body charge and agitate for 1 h before filtering, using the following substances at 50 wt %:

Silica
Alumina (basic and neutral)
Celite
Activated charcoal