SuburbanLegend

What a terrific and nuanced answer, thanks for the AMA!

Dude. This just gave me a BRILLIANT idea! You know how girlfriends/wives sometimes ask you if you think a hot girl is hot? Of course the only answer is something about 'she's ok but not anything compared to you' etc etc. Well thanks to this post I have a much smoother way of dealing with it -- make your girlfriend the '10' and grade on a curve. So you say something like "Hmm if Ursula from Little Mermaid is a 0 and you're a 10, I'd say she's about a 7."

It's smoother, plus it seems like you might honestly be answering the question, which all the other ways are just desperately trying to avoid it by talking about how beautiful your girl is. It ASSUMES that your girl is the most beautiful in all the world to you, she's the standard by which all others are judged!. Thanks Mr. Lock Guy!!!

edit: this is, of course, for earlier in a relationship. Hopefully a couple years in you can say honestly who you think is hot. They should know you well enough to know anyway.

I'm sorry, do not make it harder to bump or do not bump?

Besides, who wants gold when the banks are all dead?

You just cut to the heart of why a bunch of libertarians led by Ron Paul and Glenn Beck are completely wrong about gold.

I hope you feel like all those horrible experiences were worth it.* I certainly believe they were.

*Realizing that sounds sarcastic, but it's not!!!