People don’t visit the US and say “I hope I don’t get sick or injured while I’m there”.

why not go?

The thing is, I really don’t think being “best” feels as good as highly competitive people imagine it will, you know what I mean?

Sometimes when I get really anxious/stressed out I start to hear that song in my head, only the lyrics are “Everything is TERRIBLE”.

Valid criticism is not “this country sucks”.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, if you can’t accept valid criticism and anger about the United States, maybe you’re the unpatriotic one.

Seriously go live somewhere else if you think this country fucking sucks.

It’s always ironic to me how much the AV Club hates kinja. I enjoyed AV Club for years but never commented because I found the old comments section (disqus, right?) overwhelming and difficult to use. Whereas I’ve been commenting on Jezebel for quite some time, and I find kinja pretty easy to use and navigate.

Most conservatives I know are stupid in at least six different ways and would probably think soy farmers going belly up is a hilarious way to stick it to vegans.

I honestly listen to those albums all the time, Griffin really made some bangers.

It was an amazing read, I highly recommend it.

Sometimes I feel silly or self absorbed....but I do really wish I had a nice photo to look back on when I’m 80 and be like “damn.”

Ah, I meant opposite in that people want to take your photo and you wish they wouldn’t, whereas people don’t want to take my picture and I wish they would.

That’s very valid.

For the most part, it looks like the guests all dressed for completely different occasions.

Of the people accused of rape, 994 out of 1,000 will walk free. So no, people are not being arrested, tried, and convicted with certainty on the sole basis of someone’s word. They’re not even being arrested, tried, and convicted on the basis of hard evidence.

I mean, I also think detention is useless bullshit, so it sounds like you were underserved by your teachers in a myriad of ways. I’m sorry that happened to you.

Interestingly enough, this situation came up today.

As an educator, I really hate this philosophy, and I really wish parents would stop telling their kids this. I’ve had some really bad experiences with parents who believe this, including one of them physically intimidating me.

Right, I agree. I’m just saying the LW needs to be careful in how he approaches this with her. Ideally one of her other friends would be the one to suggest George needs to back off, because LW is new here and he’s gotta be really careful about seeming controlling about her friendships.