I’m going to be honest.... I take Metformin and it gives me explosive diarrhea... every single day at about the same time. It just keeps going and going—- once it gets started there is no stopping it.

Besides personal shame... I’m trying to bestow mercy on my co-workers so they don’t have to hear and smell that…

Obvious etiquette breach here.

See, I feel like people are being pretty judg-y about this. I have health issues that mean my digestive system occasionally just shuts down and my food basically just rots in my intestine. Once I start pooping again, that shit is unbelievably foul. But I’m pooping wherever I am because holding it in can trigger the…

Once I was in the loo at the airport and I farted. A woman in another stall said loudly, “That’s disgusting! Who did that?”. I laughed so hard that I farted again and she declared, “I do not have to listen to this!” and stormed out.

When I transitioned female to male, the bathroom thing that shocked me the most is how much shitting goes on in the men’s room.

Yeah, men face this with juvenile humor. Once at my last employer, A and B were in adjoining stalls, and A was noisily taking care of business. To which B responded, “Light a match and I’m a dead man.” Raucous laughter from A, likely devolving into a coughing fit. (I wasn’t there. Yes, B shared this story later.)

I see you shiver with antici

I have political beliefs that run counter to my employer. I could get on a podcast and espouse those beliefs in public and and my employer could conclude that I am using my position to advance an agenda and fire me. I make a conscious choice to express my opinion via my vote, my donations, and my private…

Well we’re seeing it play out on the other side with transgender people in the military. In this case, people were told it was okay to be openly transgender and serve, and that the military was going to figure out how to work with them. We all think, great! Obviously these people were trans before they were given…

Seriously. Do I need to post this every day?

Your right to privacy (this isn’t a free speech issue, numbnuts) ends when you parade your idiocy in public.

All my online dating profiles say “I hate coffee dates” in them (well, nicer than that). Of course, this may partly explain why I’ve only had one date in about a year, and I only trawl for female partners on dating apps.

If I were still dating, which thank God I am not (married!), I’d start calling them appointments I think.

It saddens me that women honestly feel like they can’t go out for a drink or dinner with a guy, whatever they choose to call that outing, without having to worry that they’ll be expected to have sex. That truly sucks.

I disagree. Don’t you have friends that you go out with sometimes? Even one-on-one? I’ve gone to a fancy dinner and a show with just a friend, even on their dime (they really wanted to go and I didn’t really have the funds). I admit it’d be a bit much for the first time hanging out, but people are all different. …

Just as a general reminder to all: some people don’t drink.

How is coffee fuzzier? My first dates are almost always coffee dates. It’s a great low pressure setting and the gal doesn’t worry about me trying to drunk her up. It sets up a low pressure environment where either person can peace out relatively seamlessly, but of course that never happens because I am too good a…

“As for coffee though, I say yes, and I guess I can kinda see how one might differ.”

So what is the difference between a date and a pre-date? Or do people not use the term “pre-date” anymore? I think coffee, or even a drink after work, for 15-30 minutes is a pre-date date. 1-2 hours is a date date.