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Dealbreaker: The Self-Help Book
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How DIY therapy can ruin dating.
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Savage Love
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by Phil Nugent
Perfect for curling up with the last man (or woman) on earth. /entertainment/
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by the Nerve Editors
Toasts from around the Nerve family table. /entertainment/
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by Scott Von Doviak
These clans will make you appreciate your own. /entertainment/
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My First Time
by You
"I remember the zip of the door, and our naked dash across the dark campground to his tent..."
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Things Drunk People Say
by Kathleen Go
"Get the duct tape. You have dropped your last beer."
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Miss Information
by Erin Bradley
So many women, so few decision-making skills. /advice/
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Hosting Your Own Hedonistic Thanksgiving
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Drinking, smoking, and gorging with your friends: this can be the best holiday of the year.
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Culture Wars: Will James Cameron's Avatar live up to the hype?
by Andrew Osborne and Scott Von Doviak
Worthy successor to Aliens, or the world's most expensive Smurfs movie?
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The Confessies
by You
The Robert Pattinson Award for Twilight Devotion
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Platinum Goddess
by Kim Weston
Forget gold: these women are striking in silver, and not much else.
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Sex Advice From . . . Dungeons and Dragons Players
by Eric Larnick
Q. What has D&D taught you about dating? A. Some days you're the knight, some days you're the dragon. /advice/
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Nerve Made Me Do It: New Moon Midnight Screening
by Jack Harrison
We send a professor of medieval literature to face 1,000 screaming Twilight fans.
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Mutual of Omaha
by Rachel Shukert
In my Jewish Nebraskan youth group, they taught more than Hebrew.
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Planet 51
by Scott Von Doviak
The premise is Pixar-caliber; the execution is strictly terrestrial. /entertainment/
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Everything I Know About Love I Learned From... Pedro Almodovar
by Phil Nugent
Five lessons on romance from Penelope Cruz's favorite director. /entertainment/
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Talking to Strangers
by Sean McGurn and Meghan Pleticha
Nerve asks deeply personal questions to people we just met.
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Awesome Advice, Way to Go!
by Erin Bradley
Always pepper your column with a healthy dose of slut-shaming. /advice/
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Reader Feedback on "Group Groping"
COCKBLOCKING
Ethan Watters is totally misusing the word "cockblocking". Cockblocking is what your platonic male friends do when they go out with you in public and pay so much attention to you (either talking or flirting or whatever) that everyone assumes that the 2 of you are going out. This scares away potential mates (i.e. "blocks" potentially desirable "cocks"). Typical usage: You are at a party where you don't know a lot of people. Platonic male friend is standing too close. "Step back" you whisper, "You're cock-blocking like crazy" Typical response: oh, shit, I'm sorry.
If platonic friend is a good platonic male friend, he will promptly put his arm around another female, any female, or do something [anything] to indicate that you, the female, are NOT NOT NOT spoken for.
This colorful and useful term has been in common circulation in NYC since at least 1997, and I've always heard it used the same way. Watters, that fucking solipsist, is clearly on crack.
--AP
10/28 |
Aren't labels great? You can make even the obvious and inane sound like a great new idea! *yawn*
--PWC
10/08 |
nice to see friendship given the credit it deserves...
--tca
10/08 |
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