I call BS to 135k first year out of college. Pray tell, how were you making that much? Even the big 4 don't pay Ivy League grads that much straight out of undergrad. I know, I work for one of them as a 3rd party consultant. They work 10-12 hour days and even if they DID make 135k straight out of college it…

I'm with you on this one. State school, cost $6k/year which was largely covered by state available scholarships provided you kept a 3.0 or higher, met and married my wife there and I was cracking 6 figures at 30. Yeah, I'm not some high money roller, but I work at an engaging job that usually only requires 7.5 hour…

Japanese people live there now. If it were 300 years ago then my opinion would stand but pertain to a different set of people. When Japan is no longer 98.5% Japanese then my stance will no longer be relevant. So, what's your point again?

Oh come on, most people in America, while not "halfs" aren't anywhere close to "pure." I am 1/8 Native American and the other 7/8 are from various European nations. I'm not "pure" by any stretch of the imagination.

Like an American... since our country is a country of immigrants, it's whomever places first in whatever "regional" pageant is the predecessor.

Seriously, this woman doesn't look Japanese in the slightest. She's gorgeous, but for a country that reports 98.5% Japanese in ethnicity, she doesn't exactly match her native…

Because manipulating people in any way form or fashion is shady? It doesn't really matter what you do, if you have to manipulate to get it, you're disgusting.

Really? You don't see the difference between telling a car dealership you have a better price at another dealership vs. showing them a written quote? This is the closest thing to a written quote a player can get, it's not like the Browns were going to fax over a copy for him to share with the world while they…

That's why contracts have guaranteed money in them. Did the Browns/Colts get their guaranteed money back from Trent Richardson even though he sucked? No, that's the point of guaranteed. If you're good enough (or a high draft pick), you get guaranteed money, if you're not you have to play for a chance to get…

I guess, but I'm not the thrill seeker type, so that wouldn't work on me. To each their own.

Except you know how long the movie is and what it's ultimately about. You could be killed inside of 30 seconds in a game like this. If the gameplay was balanced so you got a guaranteed amount of time then sure, I'd pay $5 or more, but without that guarantee you might as well literally flush $5 down the toilet,…

The difference is the one time experiences you listed have a known value. You could hop in this game and be dead inside of 2 minutes. Yeah, if I knew it was going to last an hour I'd pay $5, but what if I lasted 30 seconds? Not gonna happen.

Big Mike, is that you?

Needs to offer gambling on teams by the audience with the house taking a cut and the winners of the gamble splitting the winnings. Free to play, but the audience covers the costs (along with advertisement of course.)

Add gambling on outcomes by the audience and you could have a real money maker. House takes 10% of each "round" and the winners split the remaining amount.

I never said that women don't know rejection. I stupidly rejected more than one good girl in my younger days and passed asking a few out that were interested. Part of it was shyness, part of it was stupidity. Both could have been avoided if grown up me could have given notes to teenage me, which was the whole…

I agree, I combined the reply to you with the OP who was saying sex ed needed to be taught earlier in schools. It's not sex ed, it's being a good person (which is in line with what you are saying.)

That's not an apples to apples comparison though: you know as well as I do the power that "love" and the hormones that drive it are.

Teenage me would like to have these notes. Of course teenage me would also like to have the notes on how to know a girl likes you, because I never could figure out their "signals." Why can't this crap be straight forward?

I agree, but do parents really never come across this? My 5 year old has already had this problem with kids in his class not wanting to play with him and he's in freakin' Pre-K. I mean, either you actually never talk with your child in detail, or you've had this conversation multiple times by the time they are a…

That's not sex ed though, that's just basic human decency and can be applied to all areas of life, not just sexuality.