I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that stealing something from someone's home is illegal even if the person doesn't have an advanced security system. The police aren't going to say "Oh, you don't have a guard dog? Well then, we can't press charges. You should have known better."

This. My left boob is a D, but the right is a DD. Righty behaves itself in the 32D bra at first, but after an hour it starts trying to make a break for it. It starts sneaking up over the bra, then under it, then peeking out the side. It's like a slow-motion game of boob whack-a-mole.

It always amazes me how many women know next to nothing about their own reproductive systems. We're just not taught this stuff in school, so if you don't read or hear about it somewhere, you don't know it. Even a lot of liberal, well-educated women don't know about fertile fluid, their ovulation cycle, pregnancy…

Even if you do have DNA evidence and video footage, the victim's testimony is still often the most compelling evidence. I served on a jury for an attempted murder trial, and the video footage and DNA were essentially worthless. There was a video of the shooting, but it was so dark that all you could just make out…

I'm with you. I work with kids with special needs, and I'm happy working with that population at any age. I also love hanging out with really little kids. But typically developing children from the ages of 10-15? That's no fun at all. My kiddos with autism might be tricky sometimes, but they're never intentionally…

I understand the distinction you're making between thinking someone's attractive and wanting to date them. I think for many women (at least the ones I know), men below a certain age are not even on our radar. It's not like we think "oh, he's cute but too young for me," it's more like those guys don't even register.…

I think many women view it as creepy because most of us don't find younger men sexually attractive. I'm only 28, and I wouldn't be at all interested in a 22-year-old guy. I might think he was pretty the way a sunset is pretty, but it would be no more sexual than that. At 22, the frontal lobes still haven't finished…

I tell some people in my life that I'm thinking about my work (or "prewriting") when they ask how my project/paper is going. It's a complete lie. I'm just trying to avoid making them explode with anxiety. I think they just cannot fathom how I could pull it all out at the last minute, and the idea that I'm planning it…

CREAM cheese. The first syllable of a compound noun in English is always the stressed syllable. Think of compound words like BLACKbird, HOT dog, GREENhouse, BASEball, SNOWman, etc. The same goes for virtually all 2-syllable English nouns, with the exception of words that are actually French (balLET, soufFLE, etc.)

I think there are plenty of men and women that stay in abusive relationships. Women are typically less physically violent than men, but verbal abuse is still abuse. I'm sure you can think of some men who stayed with women who treated them badly. It happens.

I just used a random word generator and determined that my future child's name will be Pyramid Garlic Mattress. Now I just have to figure out if Pyramid is a boy name or a girl name.

Maybe they do this to both boys and girls, but it's still ridiculous. Students that violate the code accidentally are probably mortified by even being reprimanded at all (embarrassing a 15-year-old is not hard to do, generally), and then it gets prolonged and intensified by having to wear the shame suit. Students that…

But "gif" basically sounds exactly like "gift." And as we all know, a good gif is a gift to us all.

Huh. I've always thought he was a jerk. I couldn't watch the British version of the Office (even though I typically love British comedies) because Gervais' character was so mean and lacked the good intentions of Steve Carell's version. I've never found his comedy "humane," he's always just been the British version of…

I find the position I call "lazy doggie" (doggie with me lying flat on the mattress) very stimulating. I think it's G-spot, not clitoris (though I do enjoy the hand accessibility as well). I think a lot of this stuff is so individual, though. Height difference between you and your partner, shape and size of each…

Absolutely. Simultaneous orgasms happen for my husband and I fairly often, but I'm sure that if we tried to focus on it, we would immediately stop having them. Worrying about when/if/how an orgasm will happen during sex usually guarantees I won't have one at all.

I have definitely had this sort of inside joke before about creepy rooms/places. It's not even really a joke, it's primarily just a way of coping with fear. Calling the creepy back room of the bar "the rape room" is more about expressing discomfort and subtly reminding each other to be careful than it is about actual…

I do the same thing. I figure that most people have at least one thing that they're sensitive about or find offensive. But I have yet to meet someone who's offended by the joke about George Washington keeping his armies in his sleevies.

I think the issue isn't really about whether you can or cannot make rape jokes. No matter what you're joking about, if someone in your workplace is offended, you should stop. And no one should be fired for saying "hey, this one thing really bothers me."

Thanks for the info! I can't believe I didn't know about this technology. I work with people with special needs and am generally pretty aware of assistive technology, so that was a pretty big gap in my knowledge! I'm going to go look this up and learn more about it now. Thanks!