My boyfriend and I are having a huge fight over pop/soda... we've gone to bed angry at each other twice in the past week because of this issue.
He drinks an average of 5 cans of pop a day, and he says that's not bad at all because it's both diet and caffeine free.
He's already overweight and is pretty sedentary, not to mention that we don't exactly watch everything we eat. Every time he goes to the fridge for a drink he always gets 2 cans of pop, so it's 2 cans per meal. He thinks it's stupid that I will no longer get pop from the fridge for him. If he wants to drink it, he's going to have to get off his ass to get it himself.
I told him stuff like it lowers bone density, increases chance of diabetes, etc. but his counter-argument is that everything we eat is harmful in some way. I'm not asking him to completely stop drinking pop, I just don't like that he drinks almost 2L a day.

What are some good arguments for me to get him to drink less?
Vailate me TQC: am I being the stuborn one because I don't see why he has to drink so much pop everyday?

If someone handed you $100 right now, what would you buy with it?

ETA and the stipulation was that you had to SPEND it on something, not put it into savings/towards bills

Is the job market really dead around the nation or am I just in the wrong town/state?
(i.e Bay Area California)


I've been jobless for 2 months now (going on 3), ab solutely no one has e-mailed me, called me back, been hiring, or interviwing me at all. I've been jobless for a month or so before but I at least had interviews =/ I feel like somehow no one's getting my resume or applications *bah*

Any ideas on what I should do with my best friend before she goes on vacation? She's leaving in less than a week and we haven't hung out in a while.

What do you hate that the general public likes?
And what do you like that most people hate?

I hate beer and American Idol.
And I like the smell of cigarette smoke and I LOVEEEEEEE Lindsay Lohan.

Hullo, community!

Well, we had two interesting pieces for this challenge, Natural Disasters. kirschreich  wrote a very heavy hearted piece on the volcano erruption's aftereffects that I found very well written. The last few sentences of it really made me think, too. spazzyjazzy81 , on the other hand, wrote a bittersweet drabble with a smattering of onesided Tokka. The last sentence of it was like a dark humored punchline.

They were very hard to choose between, but the winner is The Father of War, by kirschreich ! Read it here.

I can't wait to see what prompt we get next!

Should I get a Facebook acct?
Why did you?
What's the point of drinking one beer?

If you were to go out into public in what you are currently wearing, looking exactly like you currently do, what impression do you think strangers would have of you?

What ARE you wearing/looking like at the moment?

According to ANN, the Junjou Romantica anime has officially been licensed by Kadokawa USA!

We have an adult cat and we just brought home a kitten. She eats cat food, he eats kitten food. We're running into an issue of them eating each other's food. I see this as a problem for two reasons: 1. She'll gain weight faster eating kitten food. 2. He won't get the nutrients he needs if he eats cat food.

We've tried putting the kitten's food in a separate room, hoping we could teach him that's where his food is, while her's remains, as it had been in the past, in the kitchen. Doesn't work. Any ideas on how to make this work? My boyfriend thinks we just give them each half cat food half kitten food, but I think this too is a bad idea.....

Will you post a link to your Myspace profile?

oh come on i know you have one

The Salmonella outbreak has now been extended to green onions and cilantro as well as the tomatoes.

There is an E-Coli outbreak with certain hamburger meat now.



TQC, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH OUR FOOD?

WHO IS POISONING US?

What does this macro say? I can't imagine anything could make a pic of a rusted.. thing funny.

( In soviet Russia.. )

TQC, my friend just uploaded a new FaceBook pic in which his tan makes him look BRIGHT YELLOW. Should I leave a comment along the lines of, "Wow, I love the new pic, I think it's awesome that you go out even though you seem to be so heavily afflicted by jaundice"?

What are you doing in your FaceBook pic?

For those of you that are married:

Do you like your in-laws? If not, why not? If so, do you like them more than your own parents?

Any in-law horror stories out there?

1. should i ask my boyfriend to get me video games or jewelry as a graduation present? i know blahblah you know yourself better but i really can't decide. any other options are welcome.

2. if you graduated from HS, did you rake in the cash? about how much did you make? my b/f had his party today... he managed $800 IDGI.

3. if you don't care... doesn't lobster sound really good right now?

TQC-

I bite my nails regularly, but its not so severe that my fingers hurt and bleed and its disgusting. It's an old habit but its nothing like Im hurting myself.

BUT-
Whenever I watch a movie, ANY MOVIE, I tear away at my fingers/nails to the point where it DOES hurt and once in a while, bleeds. It can be any type of movie, action, scary, comedy, drama, sucky movies, movies I've never seen before, movies I've seen millions of times, movies on tv, movies on dvd, or in a theater. Always happens.

Why do I do this?
I love movies, movies are my life, what's going on?
Why am I reacting this way?

Do you think it's possible to miss someone you've never met?

( Read more... )

Would you go poop/take a dump/do a Number 2 in a public bathroom?
If not, would you do so if you had to go really, really badly?

Me, I would only poo poo in a public bathroom if I knew I was going to have a long day away from home so I wouldn't have to deal with the pressure or if say, my stomach were killing me.

I have this neighbour (whom I have complained about before) who believes he has the "right" to play his loud stereo at any volume, at any time of day or night he pleases, even if he keeps me and his other neighbours awake (he told me this; he says he won't stop playing his music loudly late at night because he believes he has a "right" to do so).

After he kept me awake literally all night (started his noise at 10:00 p.m. and was still going on when I left for school the next morning) I finally complained to the building owners, who sent him a warning. The next time he played his music at top volume in the middle of the night, I complained again, and the building owners sent him another warning. if the building owners get another complaint, neighbour gets an eviction notice.

Now, however, he wants to get back at me for complaining about him, so any time I make the slightest sound in my apartment he either bangs on my wall or turns his stereo up very loudly to bug me. According to him, I am not allowed to do any of the following because they make too much noise:

-- Open or close the curtains in my bedroom;
-- Flush the toilet;
-- Take a shower;
-- Use my microwave oven;
-- Put clothes in my dresser drawers or take clothes out of my dresser drawers;
-- Have my alarm clock go off in the morning to wake me up for school;
-- Use a fan, even when the temperature is more than 30 degrees Celsius;
-- Talk to anyone in my apartment, whether in person or on the phone.

Except for one or two occasions, he's not breaking any rules by turning his music on late at night, so I can't make another complaint about him to the building owners. The police have told me that they do not deal with noise complaints. What can I do to either make my neighbour stop behaving this way or to get back at him for behaving this way?

If you could change one aspect of your personality, what would it be?

Is there anything-- a hobby, a particular genre of music or literature, an academic discipline, etc.-- in which you wish you could take an interest, but don't seem to be able to?

Wouldn't it just be like, awesome, if we could only rub food across our bodies and have it be absorbed as nutrients and feed our hunger?