Am I the only person who, if considering buying a house, would pay LESS if it had been lived in by a celebrity? Even a D-grade one?

"No, seriously, I'll go another twenty K if you can find me a place with no interesting history whatsoever. But I better not find out in five years that it used to belong to Oprah's hairdresser or something."

People assuming they're helping emotionally by saying encouraging things which are at the very least completely unverifiable ( Read more... )

So WHOA, my flist is introvert central. Which makes me wonder if it's the same across LJ, or just that introverts tend to friend other introverts. Hmm. There's probably a research paper in there somewhere ( Read more... )