Being attracted to conditions similar to your parents, perhaps?

"here is one that mainly affects men do let's try and deal with it"

What's the gender-split on this? I've heard a few more cases of men living-like-pigs surround by pizza and big gulps but there are still lots of women who sink unhealthy amounts of time into WoW (also farmville) etc

So in other words, I expect neither Xena the warrior princess, nor a supermodel, but can expect decent hygiene and fitness/bodily-upkeep.
Decent intelligence, and an interest in further learning.
Good employability, with a good job and willingness to help foot the bills.
Some interest in games, electronics, etc would be a plus, but otherwise just a willingness to put up with my odd hobbies.

Now... good luck finding it. Yes, there are those that fit said profile, but the reality is that most women are just as shallow as the guys, just in different ways. For some reason, it's been found to be more socially acceptable... and expectations of men have gone up (just look at the body-types of male actors).

There's a huge backlash against female body-image, but frankly few people want a partner with a body like a dumpling and acne, and that applies to both genders. At the same time, somebody with an average build and decent attitude - who cleans up nicely - will do fine in most cases. Yeah, the guys with 6-packs and the women shaped like a bottle with double-D's get noticed, and they're probably going to be more visible in movies and pr0n, but that's all fantasy stuff.

The ones that are pushing the generally unrealistic body image? Well other than magazines/hollywood it's actually NOT the opposite sex. WOMEN are more likely to get catty and demean other women who don't manicure bi-weekly, dress in $100 clothes, and/or spend an hour putting on makeup. Similarly, MEN are more likely to harass other men for being too big, too small, or otherwise not spending 3 hours a day hitting the gym.

Seriously. Yes, women will notice a "hot" guy. Guys will notice a "hot" girl. But for 90% of us that's not what makes a perfect match, it's just something that attracts the eye might like any other form of window-dressing.

My wife is pretty good looking. Neither of us will be on a magazine but we both try to take care of ourselves. She doesn't make as much as me - though she has a high "level" of paper education it's not a great field - but she does have drive to improve. She has zero interest in games/electronics, but for the most part she leaves me my time so long as I do the same for her and we still have time together as well as keeping the house in order. She still notices hot guys (Chris Hemsworth seems to be a favorite), and I still notice hot girls, but we both recognise that it's just eye-candy.

Looking back historically though for both genders, I'd say that the rule runs both ways. Women tend to get treated like toys, and men tend to get treated like walking wallets. If you can, avoid those types of relationships but frankly it's still pretty common and rather painful to go through.

Yeah, it's just comparably better than the other place, where the thermostat is set to 200f.

Actually, it sounds like a lot of the choices we're given these days, be it employment or political party...

It's also because if you roll over, they screw you on the benefits. "Let go" becomes "quit" or "fired", which can impact unemployment payments, and they often also threaten your severance or even pension (if there is one).

This isn't going to do well for the stigma already suffered by ebola survivors. I believe that the survivors are generally thought to be immune to further infection as well, so it's a bit scary that the virus can still find repositories in the body where it can hang out for longer periods of time.

In many cases, you're probably goes to have a wheel that is better at some things, possible worse at others, and fails completely in situations you hadn't though of that the original wheel has already gone through :-)

The trade-off being that your older workers may not NEED to knock their brain out with late hours in order to solve many of the same issues. Plenty of stuff I spend *hours* figuring out in the past I now know how to do in minutes.

Re-inventing the wheel tends to come with two big issues
a) You didn't need to do it, somebody already did but you lacked the knowledge of existing methods/utilities. Time wasted
b) You decided to invent your own wheel anyways, because in your opinion it's "better". You then miss a bunch of bugs that have been fixed since the invention of the original wheel. Your wheel turns faster, but falls off the wagon on the first pothole.

First time in a long while I've seen intelligent commentary about testes on the internet. I have to admit that it's well written, though the thought of a "bell curve of average testicular temperature" did make me giggle internally a bit. I suppose at some time a group of scientists had to have mapped that out, but I wonder what the sample diversity was.Google actually comes with up an an interesting article regarding the curve of temperature in rat scrotums (wider ranging than humans by quite a lot, but then rats are fairly large in that area) and the thermal receptors therein

'The page "Mircowaves" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered.'

So I'm guessing you still meant microwaves, which - in the case of the oven - are emitting radiation sufficient to cook food within a rather short'ish period of time. I suppose there's not enough heat in a short time to cook ones testes but I'd rather not be standing there when the door opens.

Enough radiation to be measured on the outside equipment? While I'm sure the equipment is - by necessity - quite sensitive, that still doesn't sound particularly healthy for anyone in front of the microwave when it was opened.

The guy that works in the local corner store also has a non-zero probability of getting shot when he goes to work in the morning. Yes, it's terrible when bad things happen to cops, but it doesn't mean that we should ignore that a not insignificant number of bad things are committed by cops. Keep in mind that 1.4% is just reported incidents, and that there are probably plenty of "better keep quiet or you'll get a worse beating" situations out there.

I saw one mock-up where a phone-type screen was projected onto the wrist of the wearer. That might be a bit much, but perhaps something like this with a basic keyboard - projected onto the wrist/arm - might be doable.

Not sure how well it will work for us guys with hairy arms though.

Or shooting abortion doct... or wait.