Just because the couple has discussed it doesn't mean that the guy is tuned in to what she would like proposal wise. Like in this case, they probably discussed marriage before the proposal but his method of asking was kinda tone deaf and took away from her moment of discussing her cause. I agree with you that people…
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I think everyone's different. For me the best way to lose weight is to build muscle and not doing a ton of cardio (cardio is still important just health wise, but if I just lift weights I will lose inches, not so if I only do cardio).
Am I alone in thinking that these proposals are super manipulative on the man's part? Because so many women would say yes just to avoid humiliating the guy (and yes, I've seen the videos on YouTube of women who do say no).
"I'm sure the kind of work performed by electrical engineers does not greatly overlap with the kind of work performed by civil engineers or environmental engineers or mining engineers or whatever"
They do it here in Canada - if you have to go through chemo under a certain age (35 I think, don't quote me) because of a cancer diagnoses, the extraction and freezing process is covered under medicare. You do have to pay a few hundred dollars every year to the hospital, I think for storage fees? Like you said, it's…
Same thing happened to me, but switch genders. I grew up with a single Mom, I'm the youngest and a girl with an older brother. I was expected to do it all on my own (I'm assuming because she had to and thus so did I? That's my theory anyway), whereas she still babies my brother even though he's married, in his…
In the province of Quebec, where I live, women (or men) cannot legally change/assume their spouses name. Name changes have to be for extenuating circumstances and marriage is not considered one of them.
People in many spanish speaking countries all have hyphenated names. When two people with hyphenated names get married, they each choose one of their names and hyphen them for their child. So Joe Smith-Jones marries Jane White-Brown and their kid is Janey Jones-Brown or whatever other permutation they choose. It's…
Lindy - you may never get to this comment but I wanted to say:
I don't farm myself at the moment, but I grew up around strawberry farms. I'm doing my PhD in Agricultural Engineering, I design tractor controllers and sensors for my research (hence my name :-) We grow mainly alfalfa and corn large scale at our experimental farm at my University, and the plant science students…
Thanks for the link! Yup, this is exactly what I'm talking about. It's happening here in my city and it makes me want to yell at people.
OK, you've just confirmed that you definitely aren't the types me and lunchcoma and talking about, if you understand that you can use the poop for your flowers :)
I just roll my eyes whenever someone starts on "we want to live in the country and have an organic farm and get some chickens" and all I can think is "yah, good luck with all the MASSIVE MANUAL LABOUR that's needed with organic farming" along with everything you outlined. Oh yah, and regularly working from 4 am to…
Like lunchcoma said, you don't sound like the type referred to, but my personal pet peeve is clueless (usually urban) people who buy chickens. We're starting to have chickens show up in SPCA shelters here in my city. People think "hey, we'll raise some chickens and have eggs and it'll be fun!"...um no. Having…
I cried too, and also lose my patience with the fetishizing/romanticizing of rural and agricultural lifestyles. Farming is incredibly difficult - labour and time wise as well as financially. Plus all the expensive equipment (tractor - 400-500K, combine - 800k, etc) that these people have to buy on their own (i.e.…
I use an couple of expedit bookcases from Ikea: http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/…
I find myself envying them too. The status thing is something many people only understand if they've been single for an extended period of time in an age group where most people are married or living together. For instance, I'll be graduating with a PhD in a few years, which is a huge accomplishment. However, if I…