But see, to me the point to take away there would be "not every meal needs to end in dessert", or "cake is not something you eat for breakfast"*, rather than "rice is horrible, nobody should eat it".

For people with insulin resistance, or even a family history of it, I can see where low-carb might make sense for them. It's the idea of low-carb as being automatically the best thing for everyone, and statements like "white rice is poison", that I find ridiculous.

Kind of hard to tell from the pictures! But yeah, I don't consider it in any way equivalent to Hooters unless the guys are in 70's-style short shorts and tank tops.

I'm not seeing anyone scantily clad in those pics, just guys in knee-length shorts and aprons.

They're also worn by men, not women.

On behalf of my people, the Scots, I would like to point out that it should not be ladies wearing kilts. "Tilted Kilt" is false advertising - all the people who went there expecting to perform the traditional true Scotsman freeballing test should sue them.

One more ticket, please!

Yikes. I'm glad you got out too. When you start thinking "oh yeah, I could see my ex doing something like that" and the something is assault plus cannibalism, you definitely made a wise choice in getting away from that person.

There is no "abuse". I already saw your comments downthread, and you're so far off base with this one it's not even funny.

Oh, so the comments have turned into yet another example of a bunch of mostly-white Americans freaking out because other cultures do some things differently? And we're going to worry about that rather than the baby who was inadvertently kidnapped, and call the baby's mother (nothing to say about the dad, I notice) a…

The British version of this is "cheer up, love, it might never happen". Which of course makes the best answer "it already did".

Yep. The bit that really raised my eyebrows and made me praise progress was "unseasoned fish". That's just cruel and unusual punishment.

My mother was molested by her stepfather. She never told anyone, except me and a couple of very close friends, and her sister. To this day I'm not sure if she told her mother and my grandmother didn't believe her or if she never said anything, because she made me promise not to talk to my grandmother about it because…

Sigh at all the "omg white rice is the devil, how could they make people eat that?" comments. Hey, you know how people keep bringing up Japan, with its high life expectancy and its average BMI of 22, as the dietary wunderkind of industrialized nations, and wondering how people there manage to stay so thin and healthy?…

Outrage really would have been more appropriately directed at the "I'll comfort you any time, baby" comments on the story about what happened to that poor young man, but apparently kind of insulting people's hobbies but not really is considered far more offensive than jokes about how hot victims of sexual coercion are.

Hey, that works. It can be the new "santorum".

Exactly. Good for him for improving his attitude towards women a bit, but I'm not seeing the need for cookies in the form of media attention just because he's started to act like a decent human being.

I'm not seeing why I should be feeling all that supportive towards this guy. Granted that his behaviour towards women seems to have greatly improved, but when your history is "convicted rapist and domestic abuser" then the only way to go is up, really.

There is one - Yolandi from Die Antwoord. And notice that nobody says things like this about her, because she (and Die Antwoord overall) has carved out a credible niche for herself. The trend of cutesy white American girls performing a racist little minstrel show of what they think black culture is, though? It's…

As long as the Man Scents are of the masking unpleasant smells variety we're all good. If they start to produce candles designed to imitate rather than mask, however, we have a problem. The moment that "Sweaty Balls" hits the market I'm organizing a protest outside their corporate office.