Yeah, I agree. I'm still a big reader as an adult and I still love reading, but none of the books that I've read as an adult, no matter how beloved and influential they have been, have overtaken me with that mad sort of obsessive passion I had for my favourite books as a child and and adolescent.

I know that this is a hard concept for some people but from a sociological viewpoint poverty, like so many other things, is relative. The fact that there are poorer people elsewhere in the world doesn't actually change the fact that most people who are living on $9 an hour without any family money to back them up are…

I wish I could like this more than once.

That's really interesting.

I think it was my favourite of the night!

Exactly! Why so much? It's like a midlife crisis mother-of-the-bride.

Perfect! I always love her styling.

Is it just me or does this dress look a bit matronly?

I guess that was my point? It makes sense to me that "regular" inseam in a size 14 or 24 etc. would be an inch longer than it would be for a size 6. Although I guess it would be frustrating if you really wanted a 32" inseam. (Now find me a store that will sell me a 34" or 35" inseam and I will love you forever- even…

I don't know... I'm kind of on the other end of the spectrum in that it drives me nuts that a lot of companies DON'T start making their pants/dresses/skirts longer as the sizes go up. I mean there are a lot of tall women (myself included, although at 5'10" I'm hardly towering) who wear larger sizes largely by virtue…

Am I the only one who when they put their body in there doesn't get any results? I mean I could upload my own photo but that doesn't help me much.

That is a much better story as I was walking home from work.

I am 27 and just had that turning point... I wonder what it is about that age?

I agree with what you are saying, he is definitely trying to portray the argument that way but I would argue that the actual problem has nothing to do with "hip-ness." He is trying to say that relying on scientific research and statistical analysis is a sort of trend that everyone on the left is hopping on because it…

Ok, but here's the thing. If a baby has a father or a second mother they would not have to (but 100% should, and should be allowed to) have any time off because he or she doesn't actually have to undergo any of the physical/medical side of having a baby. He or she still made the choice to have a baby but it doesn't…

My university decided, for whatever reason to completely do away with roommate questionnaires altogether (all they asked was smoking or non-smoking) and my first year dorm turned into a year long fight that could have EASILY been avoided: I was on the Varsity Swim Team and had to get up at 5:15 every morning and my…

Sounds exactly like me! I think they interpreted my ADHD as being lazy, if that makes sense? They wanted me to pay better attention in class- even if I already knew the material and they wanted me not to forget things. I think that without the context of ADHD it was really hard for them to understand how I could ace…

Eh, just sharing from personal experience but you can go way too far in the other direction on this one. My parents were always telling me that intelligence is just luck and that you can't take credit for it because hard work and effort is what really matters. They then constantly badgered me to try harder and not be…

Hey! It took until I was in my late twenties for a diagnosis of ADHD- a diagnosis that most people still believe is "fake" and "an excuse", but which has really changed my life. Good for you for pushing forward with it and working past it. It can be really hard to come to terms with it as an adult- and to try and…

This is obviously a silly choice- but it does remind me. Has anyone else done the NHS Couch to 5k running podcast? There are all sorts of prerecorded complements throughout the run, and no matter how grumpy I tried to be about them I could feel myself perking up slightly whenever I got one. The brain is truly a…