I agree we shouldn't be fear mongering, but the risk is mitigated only by taking HPV seriously - get tested, get pap smears, and don't assume the vaccine is a magic bullet.

That's an excellent question Setzer. I honestly don't know the answer - the guy might be infected, might not, hard to say. I guess just keep using condoms like we all should be doing, but I know that's not the greatest answer. Anyone have any better ideas?

Fuck you, I hope you have a broken leg and no one lets you sit in the handicap seats either.

To those who think HPV is NBD: the CDC is calling you a fucking idiot.

If I had to guess from my online dating experience s/he (I'm guessing he) uses lots of sexual terms in his profile, looks for same, sexy pics, etc. I'd be curious about the questions and success rate. When I see that in profiles, I get skeeved out and always wondered if that ever actually worked.

If she was in kidney failure, she could have swollen up massively from fluid retention, causing her to be substantially larger and be less mobile than she was when she flew to Hungary. I don't know why she didn't seek treatment in Hungary, but someone below noted that might not have been as obvious an option as it…

I'm curious, how do you know in advance that you're asking out someone who likes sex "early and often"? Do you make that part of the initial chitchat "Hi, I'm Fred, and I like sex early and often", target people who look or act a certain way, or through specific "casual encounters" type sites?

Finally! Now go buy me tampons, and this time you better bring home the right ones!

Capntim, we'll make a perfect apocalyptic couple because I have a motorcycle and you'll be wearing the assless chaps that BricKilledAGuy is fantasizing about. I hope you like pussy, er, cats, since he's also fantasizing about mine, though calling it an army is a bit militant :)

I love aikido. It's principles of using the opponent's force against them is brilliant, especially when facing a larger opponent. I've been to good dojos and bad, and generally dislike the ones that focus so much on belts. In general, for all styles, I prefer the ones that really ground the lessons in the fundamental…

+100. I really don't understand wearing shoes that don't fit. Don't get me wrong, I wear seriously tall, fashionable heels often, but I buy ones that accommodate five toes on each foot. I thought that was a basic fundamental of shoes?

Oh my. I just turned 40 and look younger, but I'm really beginning to notice the jowls coming in. Looking at my older sister and mom and hearing how much they complain about them, I'm contemplating doing something about them surgically since I know substantial jowliness is in my immediate future regardless of weight,…

I guess you just read more about the college educated because they tend to have more developed writing skills? I might be an exception seeing as how I initially wrote "righting skills".

Well, that was my point - women's health and prenatal care in the US is pretty shitty, judgmental and regressive compared to most of the civilized world. I'm truly sorry that Ireland makes us look progressive. Hopefully yours is at least cheaper.

Let's see, in my country, the pill was available 50 years ago and women were not being hacksawed open to turn their birth canals into a baby conveyor belt. You know Ireland is in bad shape if it makes the US look progressive, both then and now.

I can't even imagine what it would be like to be the focus of all that Harry Potter AND generations of Doctor Who fan obsession. I think Comic Con would just implode from the hysteria.

I wear my iPod nano as a watch. It's pretty awesome.

MS State alum here, I'm glad to hear Oktibbeha went blue. The four years I lived in MS were a lifetime's education in racism, but the school itself was pretty great, the best education I had despite going to elite private schools for grad programs later.

Yeah, I agree. I don't like the attitude that someone's help isn't good enough because their motivation isn't up to some altruism standard. Mocking people trying to help now demotivates anyone to help ever.

Thanks, that's what I vaguely remember, too. It didn't seem "normal" until sometime in the 90s even. But, many of these ladies were probably in careers that were enhanced by such cleavage, so were early adopters.