I didn’t realize you could get out of the army without your wife knowing. Maybe that’s why it was gf at the beginning and suddenly switched at the end, so you don’t realize the incongruity.

And is expensive as fuck. As is the downgrade, .40 cal.

Maybe it’s changed since I last had to purchase any, but it was twice as expensive as .45 bullets, and the guns always seemed subpar to other calibers anyway.

It’s not so bad. There are several new songs that are easy to remember to 100 beats per minute.

Just to echo dozzi, I’ve investigated quite a few deaths and had people die and we did cpr… I think I can only remember one that voided the bowels after death, and a few right before (old people die on the toilet surprisingly often).

In narnia, specifically. Was there a moses in narnia?

flappy bird? Pssh, look at you modern gamers and your graphics. I play missile on a TI-83, like god intended.

Okay, so that was a wild story, but… ‘not having a head’ doesn’t really make me think of ‘has most of the brain stem and an ear.’ It’s not much different than humans that have no higher brain functions and are on feeding tubes.

That one was always hilarious. I’ve never actually finished it though, always stalling after the first few episodes.

Well, jesus. I don’t think we ever actually see god in the books.

Mostly normal. There is some good research and theory about the topic out there. They refer to the trait as ‘self-monitoring’ and rank people as high or low in the trait. High self-monitors are “alert to social cues that suggest what they should do, and they are ready, willing, and able to tailor their behavior to fit in… low self-monitors are both less attentive to social norms and less flexible.”

High self monitors are activity specialists, who have friends for specific things, like a “ballet friend” or “tennis buddy,” and they avoid disputable topics.

There are a few trends that can be seen, with the high self-monitors having higher intimacy in relationships to start, but the relationships are less committed and shorter.

Some papers to look at: Nezlek & Leary, 2002; Fuglestad & Snyder, 2009; Leone & Hawkins, 2006; Snyder & Simpson, 1984; Wright et al., 2007). Quotes from Miller, 2012

I negotiate boundaries with people individually.

Yeah, I think you nailed it there. I am perfectly happy talking about certain parts of my life with certain individuals, while completely walling off those parts with others.

Was this an ad? Then yes. Is it a crappy phone picture ad? Then maybe. Is this a crappy phone picture of someone’s measly deep dish? Then no.

It’s a no pasta lasagna.

Guess it’s time to go start up that computer game I’ve been putting off.

It’s silk, because apparently it’s the least likely material to rip out fine hair when sleeping. As for the pillow being trash, it’s what I like. I can fold it, double it, squash it, twist it into a bowtie inside of the pillowcase, and it works great and I don’t have to feel like I’m messing it up.

eeesh. I have a $70 pillowcase, but the pillow itself is still just trash.

Oh god, the high protein fad is even making its way into hair care! Ruuuun!

Oh, lol, I remember the shampoo with menthol I had. I loved how it actually brought feeling back to my life.

People.

If you’re going to tell people to look into the lens of romantic*/companionate (and all the other ones you didn’t mention: nonlove/liking/infatuation/empty love/fatuous love/consummate love) you should at least give them some starting points.

• Triangle theory of love: Robert Sternberg (1987, 2006)
• Brain regions; attachment/commitment vs sexual desire: Diamond (2004), Aron et al. (2005), Xu e al. (2011)
• Lust/attraction/attachment, dopamine/serotonin influences: Helen Fisher (2006), Aron et al. (2008),
• More influence of dopamine/serotonin: Ackerman (1994, p. 165)
• Critiques of simplifying love: Fehr (2006)
• Some more neurotransmitters and hormones: Macdonald & Macdonald (2010), Hill et al. (2009), Gouin et al. (2010), Ditzen et al. (2009), Theodoridou et al. (2009)
• Loves sternberg didn’t consider: Berscheid (2010), John alan lee (1988),
• Decreases in romantic love: sprecher & regan (1998), Tucker & aron (1993), Gupta & Singh (1982) and the followup D. Myers (1993), Walster & Walster (1978), Abhmetoglu et al (2010), Call et al. (1995), Klussman (2002)
• Non-decreases in love: Acevedo et al. (2011),

Personally, I would really, really recommend the textbook Intimate Relationships by Rowland S. Miller to anyone who is curious about the subject. I had to go pull my edition off of the bookshelf to quickly throw out all the references above.

*because passionate love isn’t the category. The proposed idea was the triangle theory of intimacy, passion, and commitment, which led to the eight above categories----