Lenticular_J

I can, you probably can too. Not asking you to act your age here.

If you ever disrespect a woman's friends, male or female, she will forever remember and scorn you for it. Better to play dumb and friendly.

You just described the girl I was talking about. Tay. Don't think she's ex-anorexic, but she'd probably do that for attention. I would just leave her alone, since I've had that experience. But it's your life.

Depends on if I could know how I would die. Because I would fight the [cabbage] out of it. Not dedicate my life to fighting it, but start fighting it when it really starts coming up.

If you're lucky, it might be a real job instead of an internship. I'm sure there are lots of little suburbs around Columbus (right?), and it might be easier to find a job there.

Weights are easier, take longer, but will give you pretty muscles. But, if you want muscley muscles, go out and get a job where you spend a lot of time lifting awkwardly shaped things. Or, at least mix up your workouts. Next best thing. And, really, pushups and situps are great. They're very underrated. I'm sure there are resources on the internet for using your own body and not much else to get in shape. Don't need weights, muh [bleep]a.

A good place to look is internships at the IT departments of actual cities. My brother worked at one, sixteen dollars an hour and amazing experience - he's going into a Computer Science degree now at Texas Tech. The only downside was that it's around 20 hours a week, so that's just barely enough to live on. But you're paying low rent, and your uncle sounds like a cool guy.

I don't understand this ridiculous, obsessive need with sex. Sure, it's good and all. And it's interesting to talk about, and sometimes it's fun (if rude) to see how long it takes someone to get uncomfortable. Maybe I'm just not sexually aggressive. I haven't been with a girl in months, and it's generally the last thing on my mind. I don't have that much need to get my rocks off or whatever. There's a difference between allowing yourself to enjoy something and forcing yourself to enjoy it so much that you need it. I'm a [bleep]ing weird teenager.

I don't know about that. A lot of people work to maintain their class here. At least, the middle and upper classes. Few strive to reach new heights, because most are just worried about keeping their way of life as it is. Which, I guess basically, means maintaining their class. Or at least the STATUS QUO. I like that term.

The stereotypes take it more to an extreme in an attempt to follow fads and extreme trends.

To a degree, although I see it more as her saying that men don't try as hard in the looks department, particularly with clothes. They dress the same as they did when they were ten, whereas women are more likely to understand that people are judged by their looks constantly. Might as well put your best face forward. Calling it sexism is a step too far. Really just laziness.

Oh, yes, of course. But once you've stayed the same height and all for a year, stop buying clothes with growing room. Not too long ago I overheard my brother talking to himself about needing growing room in his clothes. He's 23. Then again, he did get kind of chubby the past few months.

Thank you. Many people take the whole gender equality thing as making the genders exactly the same. This is wrong. There are men and women. They're equals, but they're also different.

Adults rarely do. It shows that you need to get back to working out.

You're at camp. Odds are, you'll never see any of them again. Pull out all the stops. Having a memorable gimmick would have helped you at the beginning, but now you can only hope to save yourself.

This New York Times article was being discussed in another forum I frequent. I found it extremely interesting, especially since it's a woman who believes the idea of gender as a social construct is ideological at best and detrimental at worst. At the very least, it's a good read, eh?

Buy quality; it'll last forever. Especially a classic style and classic color from a great brand. Those'll last more than a decade unless something disastrous happens.

Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Judging Strength of the preferences % 78 38 38 22 Makes sense.

I've always found maturity as a vessel for pretentiousness in my experiences. If you're going to be pretentious about something, it shouldn't be as stupid and ever-changing as maturity. It should really be based upon your own merits, rather than others' faults. Harrinator, had a similar situation with one of the most needy girls I've ever met. Possibly the most needy. We thought we were helping her break her uncontrollable need to use guys for attention by treating her nicely, but, nope. Now she's getting a random quote about kissing tattoo'd above her lady parts. I feel really bad for her sometimes, but she likes to freak out at people she's already used. I feel worse for one of my friends that actually liked her ...

Yeah, runs in the family. Height, anyway. My branch has always been relatively scrawny, at least in comparison. And I'm pretty tiny when you look at other people at my school. Cheeseater, if you like her, just go for it. Your situation kind of confuses me, but I'm assuming you live somewhere I wouldn't be familiar with the customs. But, if you get on a very base level, people are similar. Rsautohater, you know what they say about twins, buddy!

If you have a glass of water with every drink, you'll notice a huge difference in your sobriety (and how bad of a hangover you have the next morning). And if you're going out every night, you might want to start working out even more. My brother made that mistake, and now he's having a lot of trouble working off more than twenty pounds, mostly from alcohol. And the eating that often follows.

I'm 6"2 and 160 lbs. But I'm fifteen, and gotten my fat % down pretty low lately.

I'm going to take everything I said back. I've decided. A man is someone who understands the importance of good gloves ... Especially if he buys for his son.

Actually, it does. Well, depending on your idea of "perfectly good". A single blade shaves much better than multiple - which you've obviously figured out. There are people that are downright rabid about it. But learning how to shave properly is generally a skill that comes far later in life, so I have the added bonus of being younger than most folks that know this stuff. My grandfathers and dad and brother all shave badly. It's, unfortunately, become one of my pet peeves. And there are real shaving creams that cost five dollars - the aerosol stuff is so full of chemicals and just nasty-nast stuff that it doesn't actually protect your skin as a shaving cream (or soap) should. And with multiple blades, the theory is that the first pulls the hair up and the second cuts it, which more easily leads to ingrown hairs and razor burn. But even when I didn't shave like I do now, I never had razor burn ... Then again, you have to remember that no matter what you use, it's best to shave with the grain (for your first pass), and then on the next passes go against the grain and then the other two major directions. That will get you a good shave no matter what you use, yes. Perhaps you do that and that's why you say that. But if you head into a barber sometime and enjoy a straight razor shave from a professional, I guarantee you'll enjoy the closest, most luxurious shave of your life. It's an attempt to replicate that, although it's never quite the same at home. Personalization can make it better or worse.

It isn't so much that. It's that they don't shave well. Knowing what a good shave a safety razor or, even better, a straight razor, can get you makes me contemptuous of the bad shaves most guys go around sporting. It doesn't help that most guys I know just decide, I need to shave, and walk to their bathroom and spread some aerosol cream and scrape any which way along their face. It physically hurts me. I've also never seen a movie that even really mentions shaving, at least not one that was memorable.